Stars News
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A new planet has been found orbiting within the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. This has triggered much media frenzy. However, many of the statements in the media take liberties with the evidence.
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Brown dwarf stars are rare and remain a mystery to astrophysists. The stars are "brown" when viewed through a telescope because they cannot burn enough nuclear fuel to shine as brightly as other stars. A new study sheds a little more light.
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Houston -
NASA engages in serious science but it needs to engage in outside-the-box thinking in order to generate new ideas and overcome problems. New Scientist recently looked at some of these, and the best are presented here.
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Sometime ago, the Milky Way stole a star cluster from one of its neighbors. This act of interstellar theft has come to light from data gathered from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Astronomers have discovered a system of five connected stars that is 250 light-years away. The system is the first known system of its kind.
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Scientists are scratching their heads following the discovery of unusual galaxies in distant space, which contain only one percent of the stars found in normal galaxies.
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"In space no one can hear you scream…", it’s a better movie line than "in space no one can smell you." That aside, space probably does smell a little. If this is the case, what’s it like?
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The country music world lost one of its finest entertainers yesterday, Little Jimmy Dickens, and many of country's biggest stars recall the legend with their fondest memories.
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Scientists are trying to detect ripples in space-time in the hope of finding so-called "strange stars." They believe that these cosmic bodies are not made of any ordinary matter, so far known to exist in the universe..
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Scientists are mystified because a huge group of stars aren't where they're supposed to be and they don't know where they've gone.
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A nearby galaxy contains the remnant of a dying star that shines with the intensity of 10 million suns, which is brighter than anyone could have ever imagined.
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A group of porn stars in Japan are preparing to have their breasts squeezed by fans for a charity event called “Stop! AIDS.”
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By Reuters
Dallas Stars center Rich Peverley had successful surgery on Tuesday to correct an abnormal heart rhythm but no decision has been made as to whether he will resume his National Hockey League career.
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By Reuters
Dallas Stars center Rich Peverley, who collapsed on the team bench during a recent game, is out for the rest of the season and will undergo a procedure to regulate his heart rate, the NHL team said on...
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By Reuters
Dallas Stars center Rich Peverley is resting comfortably and being monitored at a local hospital following his collapse during Monday's NHL game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, the team said on Tuesday.
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By Reuters
Kyrie Irving and Carmelo Anthony set aside the unrest with their respective teams and put on a dazzling show that vaulted the Eastern Conference to a 163-155 comeback win over the West in the highest scoring NBA All Star game ever on Sunday...
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Australian astronomers have discovered the oldest known star in the universe through what the lead researcher describes as a "needle-in-a-haystack" situation.
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A new exoplanet, about a third the mass of Jupiter, which circles a sun-like star in about five days, has been discovered. The planet is of great interest to astronomers.
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A graduate student in astronomy at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, has made a stunning time-lapse video depicting the Milky Way over Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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A petition, promoted by fans of the television show Doctor Who, to name a recently discovered planet Gallifrey has received more than 60,000 supporters.
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Toronto -
The Toronto Maple Leafs played host to the Dallas Stars on Thursday night at the Air Canada Centre, beating them 3-2 in overtime finally snapping the losing streak.
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Photo manipulation of such music movers and shakers as Elvis Presley and John Lennon reveal startling images of how they would appear if they were still alive.
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The Kepler space telescope has been retired from its planet-hunting mission after NASA engineers failed to find a fix for its hobbled pointing system.
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New York -
Scientists have devised a way to measure the internal properties of stars. The method also provides more accurate assessments of a star's orbiting planets.
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Researchers reported Wednesday that that the glimmering precious metal may have formed thanks to the collision of dead stars.
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A new, more advanced technique for measuring the ages of large numbers of stars like the sun has been proposed by astrophysicists.
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Toronto -
If it’s March it must be tax time fun time. Sorry, that’s CMW time fun time, when a gazillion bands and the people who love them descend on the T. Dot for your amusement and to party like they’ve never been here before.
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When it comes to the Harris Poll of favorite actors, one thing is constant - John Wayne. The Duke is always on the list and this time around, he is No. 6.
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Crystal River -
An oddly-shaped cloud of gas and dust will be officially nicknamed after the endangered sea creature on Saturday as part of a local Florida festival.
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Today NASA released a stunning photo of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362, made up of stars 10 billion years old. The photo shows a high concentration of stars with different colors, found 25,000 light-years from Earth.
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A bright star during the perseid meteor shower in Toronto.
Zoomed-in detail of astar-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy on a larger photo that captures 1 billion of the Milky Way's stars. Mike Read (WFAU), UKIDSS/GPS and VVV
Photo of globular cluster NGC 6362, showing stars as old as 10 billion years NASA
This faint, unremarkable-looking star SDSS J102915+172927, visible in the constellation Leo (The Lion) through only the largest amateur telescopes, was found by European Space Agency astronomers to contain the lowest amounts of elements heavier than helium of all stars yet studied. ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
Artist’s impression of the planet around Alpha Centauri B ESA/European Southern Observatory
There is a simple explanation for the missing stars. To show stars requires a time exposure. You can't shoot moving people with such an extremely slow shutter speed. You can shoot either the astronaut or the stars. It's awfully difficult to capture both. NASA JSC Media Services Center
Picture of the oldest known star. Space Telescope Science Institute
A bright star during the perseid meteor shower in Toronto.
The pulsar wind nebula nicknamed the "Hand of God" NASA/JPL-Caltech/McGill
Close binary stars are unlikely to be good places for life to develop. Artist's impression of such a system Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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