Star Formation
New Study Shows How Trace Elements Affect Stars’ Habitable Zones
[/caption] Habitable zones are the regions around stars, including our own Sun, where conditions are the most favourable for the…
Hitchcock Haunts a Nebula
[/caption] First impression after seeing this new image of NGC 3324? It’s Alfred Hitchcock, bulbous nose and all (see image…
Young Magnetic Star Possesses Precise Carbon Dioxide Ring
[/caption] Catching a ring - or accretion disk - around a star isn't unusual. However, catching a sharply defined carbon-dioxide…
Citizen Scientist Project Finds Thousands of ‘Star Bubbles’
[/caption] Remember when you were a kid and blowing bubbles was such great fun? Well, stars kind of do that…
“Proplyd-like” Objects Discovered in Cygnus OB2
[/caption] The well known Orion Nebula is perhaps the most well known star forming regions in the sky. The four…
Cooking Up Stars In Cygnus X
[/caption] Thanks to the incredible infra-red imagery of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, we're able to take a look into a…
A Psychedelic Guide to Tycho’s Supernova Remnant
[/caption] By no means are we suggesting that NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope can induce altered states of awareness, but…
In The Dragonfish’s Mouth – The Next Generation Of “SuperStars”
[/caption] At the University of Toronto, a trio of astronomers have been fishing - fishing for a copious catch of…
Massive Stars Start Life Big… Really BIG!
[/caption] It might be hard to believe, but massive stars are larger in their infant stage than they are when…
Cygnus X – A Cosmic-ray Cocoon
[/caption] Situated about 4,500 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus is a veritable star factory called Cygnus X... one…