Biggest Stars Form in Dark Cosmic Clumps
Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. Infrared observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope of…
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New Image Processing Technique Uncovers Previously Unidentified Planetary Disks
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around young stars…
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Magnetism Explains Mystery of Planet-Forming Disks
Astronomers say that magnetic storms in the gas orbiting young stars may explain a mystery that has persisted since before 2006. Researchers using NASA’s Spitzer Space…
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Citizen Science – Search for New Planetary Nurseries Using “Disk Detective”
NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 494: T Tauri Stars Observing Campaign
AAVSO Alert Notice 494 T Tauri Stars Observing Campaign December 20, 2013 Darryl Sergison (University of Exeter) has requested AAVSO assistance with a campaign he is…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 493 Request to monitor BP Tau in support of Chandra X-ray observations December 18, 2013 Dr. Hans Moritz Guenther (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)…
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New Adaptive Optics System Allows Telescope to Take Images Twice as Sharp as Hubble
Thanks to new technology developed in part at the University of Arizona, astronomers can now view objects in the sky at unprecedented sharpness in visible light.…
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Newborn Star Revealed by Light Reflected Onto Plumes of Dark Cloud
The mysterious, almost mystical bright light emerging from these thick, ominous clouds is actually a telltale sign of forming stars. Here, a very young star is…
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M101 in Ultraviolet Light
The face-on Pinwheel spiral galaxy seen in the image below is at ultraviolet wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. Also known as…
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New Stars Bloom in Milky Way’s More Barren Territories
Dozens of newborn stars sprouting jets from their dusty cocoons have been spotted in images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. New views from NASA’s Spitzer Space…
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