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New Phenomenon: “Coreshine” Provides Insight into Stellar Births
[/caption] From the Max Planck Institut für Astronomie: Science is literally in the dark when it comes to the birth…
Near Earth Asteroids Vary Widely in Composition, Origin
[/caption] From the Spitzer website: New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth…
Tight Binaries are ‘Death Stars’ for Planets
[/caption] Astronomers studying double star systems where the two stars are extremely close have found a pattern of destruction. While…
Space Telescopes Team Up to Capture Spectacular Galactic Collision
[/caption] From JPL: A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies,…
Astronomers Witness Star Birth
[/caption] Astronomers have glimpsed into the birth of a star, and have seen what could be the youngest known star…
Spitzer Spies Earliest Black Holes
[/caption] The Spitzer Space Telescope has found what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black…
MN112 – A New Luminous Blue Variable Found From Its Nebula?
[/caption] Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) are a rare class of extremely massive stars that teeter on the very edge of…
Get the Big Picture of the Milky Way at the Adler Planetarium
[/caption] Astronomy is all about getting the big picture of our place in the cosmos, but some pictures are bigger…
Baby Brown Dwarfs Provide Clues to Solve Mystery
Why – and how -- do brown dwarfs form? Since these cosmic misfits fall somewhere between planets and stars in…