Rare Galaxy Found
There are myriads of galaxies nebulas and who know countless planets throughout the universe. Humans have been observing them for millennia. Ancient writings speaks of twinkling lights in the night
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Astroearth - by CMoreStars
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Imagine a planet made from a solid diamond. It’s not as silly as it sounds, we know Earth produced diamonds under immense pressure and heat. No sure that “Lucy” has
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Visual Occultation’s
Occultation’s can be a very rewarding pursuit. Occultations taken for the Latin meaning to hide or to obscure. Occultations are used in astronomy for scientific purposes to study the motion
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Unusual Stars
HST Hubble image taken of M31_V1 the first Cepheid Variable star in M31 discovered by Edwin Hubble, some eighty odd years ago. The stars called Cepheids are very unusual stars
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Supernova 2011DH Begins to Brighten.
When a star goes supernova the phenomenon gets the astronomers attention. The event itself is not rare it is very common the only problem is detecting them in the myriads
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“In Space no one can hear you Scream”
Someone asked me recently can you hear the sounds of the stars? I then the remembered the tag line form the movie Alien. It’s true that in space no one
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Unseen Worlds Orbiting Distant Suns
Ever wondered how many earth like planets are out there orbiting distant stars. Perhaps we are the only one in existence. That does not mean that our planet is the
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Tick Tick Boom
Star T Pyxidis is no ordinary star it was thought to be just one singular star instead the star is made up of two binary stars. The Binary star has
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Really Cool Stars
Generally when we talk about stars you think of them as being large objects giving out tremendous amount of heat and light we use our Sun as an example. Our
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Basic Stargazing
At times it is hard to know where to look when you are trying to finding constellations and planets. If you are just starting out the stars all look pretty
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A look at the Universe at 11 Billion years B.C.
Just imagine for a moment if we were placed in young galaxy our view of the night sky would be vastly different. If we take a step backwards to a
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The Birth of a Planet
Perhaps we are seeing the birth of distant planet around a young 7 million year old star located some 350 light-years from Earth. The research work carried out in astronomy
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