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Star 20 times the Sun’s mass caught gorging on gas in cosmic birth ritual
Weighing in at 10 to 20 times the mass of our sun, HW2 is a rare example of a massive protostar caught in the act of ...
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Stretched in a cross pattern: Our neighboring galaxy is pulled in two axes
Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...
Space.com1d
From Leaping Leo to the Big Dipper: Here's how to see the bright stars of spring rising in the east this season
Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...
Space.com1d
Giant young star is growing by 2 Jupiter masses every year, new study shows
The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...
Hubble captures the Large Magellanic Cloud
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a ...
Stretched in a cross pattern: Our neighboring galaxy is pulled in two axes, new evidence indicates
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...
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'Largest structure in the universe' is even bigger than astronomers imagined and still a huge mystery
Astronomers have spotted something that appears to stretch around ten billion light years across. This so-called ...
Philadelphia museum unveils largest exhibit of Revolutionary War flags in more than two centuries
About half of 30 flags known to exist from that time are on display at the Museum of the American Revolution. It's the ...