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Newborn Stars Discovered in Dark Cosmic Cloud
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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A wave of massive star formation appears poised to begin within a mysterious, dark cloud in the Milky Way. (2010-07-08)
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Many famous comets originally formed in other solar systems
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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Many of the most well known comets, including Halley, Hale-Bopp and, most recently, McNaught, may have been born in orbit around other stars, according to a new theory by an international team of astronomers led by a scientist from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colo. (2010-06-11)
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Many comets originally formed in other solar systems: Queen's University astronomer
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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Many of the most well known comets in history, including Halley, Hale-Bopp and McNaught, may have been born in orbit around other stars and not the Sun, according to a new study by Queen's University astronomy professor Martin Duncan and an international team of astronomers. (2010-06-11)
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Hubble catches heavyweight runaway star speeding from 30 Doradus
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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A heavy runaway star rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at more than 400 000 kilometres per hour, a speed that would get you to the Moon and back in two hours. (2010-05-12)
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CSIRO telescope spots mega-star cradle
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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Using a CSIRO radio telescope, an international team of researchers has caught an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust in the process of collapsing in on itself - a discovery which could help solve one of astronomy's enduring conundrums: 'How do massive stars form?' (2010-05-03)
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'Survivor' Black Holes May Be Mid-Sized
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton strengthens the case that two mid-sized black holes exist close to the center of a nearby starburst galaxy. (2010-04-30)
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Rebirth of an icon: Hubble's first images since Servicing Mission 4
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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Astronomers today declared the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory ready for a new decade of exploration, with the release of observations from four of its six operating science instruments. (2009-09-10)
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Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way. (2009-04-30)
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Largest collection of anomalous white dwarfs observed in new Hubble images
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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Twenty-four unusual stars, 18 of them newly discovered, have been observed in new Hubble telescope images. The stars are white dwarfs, a common type of dead star, but they are odd because they are made of helium rather than the usual carbon and oxygen. This is the first extensive sequence of helium-core white dwarfs to be observed in a globular cluster, a dense swarm of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy. (2009-04-23)
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Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's 19 years of success, the orbiting telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains several galaxies along with a "cosmic fountain" of stars, gas and dust that stretches over 100 000 light years. (2009-04-22)
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Turbulence May Promote the Birth of Massive Stars
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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On long, dark winter nights, the constellation of Orion the Hunter dominates the sky. Within the Hunter's sword, the Orion Nebula swaddles a cluster of newborn stars called the Trapezium. These stars are young but powerful, each one shining with the brilliance of 100,000 Suns. They are also massive, containing 15 to 30 times as much material as the Sun. (2009-02-24)
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Hubble unveils colourful star birth region on 100 000th orbit milestone
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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In commemoration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100 000th orbit around the Earth in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot of a dazzling region of celestial birth and renewal. (2008-08-11)
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Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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A new discovery has resolved some of the mystery surrounding Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. Images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and data obtained by the GMOS spectrograph on the Gemini South telescope in Chile show that Omega Centauri appears to harbour an elusive intermediate-mass black hole in its centre. (2008-04-02)
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Planets forming in Pleiades star cluster, astronomers report
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, Mars or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades ("seven sisters") star cluster, the result of "monster collisions" of planets or planetary embryos. (2007-11-16)
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More Star Cluster Current Events and Star Cluster News
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09/09/2010 01:53 AM
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