STELLAR CHEMISTRY

News About Stellar Chemistry

4,992 articles

Earth's Milky Way neighborhood gets more respect
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
Our Solar System's Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm. Ne...
Kepler Provides Insights Into Unusual Dwarf Star
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomer John Gizis of the University of Delaware, working with data obtained by the Kepler mission, is studying a highly unusual dwarf star and its powerful ...
Galactic Knee and Extragalactic Ankle
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
It is obvious from the data of the KASCADE-Grande experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that the so-called "knee" of the cosmic rays, a bend...
Population Census of Galaxies Buried in Dust
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
A research team led by Bunyo Hatsukade, a postdoc researcher, and Kouji Ohta, a professor, both from the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, revealed ...
Music of the Spheres: Star Songs
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
Plato, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, described music and astronomy as "sister sciences" that both encompass harmonious motions, whether of instrument...
Astronomers call our location in Milky Way an 'upscale' neighborhood
Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)
Astronomers studying the Milky Way say the solar system is in a more upscale and important neighborhood of the galaxy than previously thought. Our solar system ...
Origin of the S-Star Cluster at the Galactic Center
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists Fabio Antonini, of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, and David Merritt, of the Rochester Institute of Technology, have developed a...
Leicester Astronomers Help in Discovery of Neutron Star Slowdown
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
University of Leicester scientists involved in international discovery of neutron star "anti-glitch" using NASA's Swift satellite. University of Leicester astro...
When Young White Dwarfs Do Not Fit The Mold
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
UBC astronomers Ryan Goldsbury, Jeremy Heyl, and Harvey Richer are studying the cooling rate of white dwarfs by looking for them in an old star cluster within o...
Super-dense star is first ever found suddenly slowing its spin
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
One of the densest objects in the universe, a neutron star about 10,000 light years from Earth, has been discovered suddenly putting the brakes on its spinning ...
Low-sodium 'diet' key to a stellar old age
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
Astrophysicists have found that contrary to decades of orthodoxy, stars with a high sodium content die before reaching the final, spectacular stages of life. In...
NASA's Swift Reveals New Phenomenon in a Neutron Star
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers using NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use to understand these extr...
Low sodium diet key to old age for stars
May 30, 2013 (SPX)
The way in which stars evolve and end their lives was for many years considered to be well understood. Detailed computer models predicted that stars of a simila...
Galaxies Fed by Funnels of Fuel
May 28, 2013 (JPL)
Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws. The result...
U Alberta teams with citizen researchers 370 light years from Earth
May 28, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Alberta physicist brought together back-yard astronomers and professionals to confirm the mysterious behaviour of two stars more than 300 light ...
A Hidden Population of Exotic Neutron Stars
May 28, 2013 (SPX)
Magnetars - the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation - are some of the most extreme objects known in the Uni...
Accurate distance measurement resolves major astronomical mystery
May 28, 2013 (SPX)
Sometimes astronomy is like real estate - what's important is location, location, and location. Astronomers have resolved a major problem in their understanding...
Hubble Sees a Swirl of Star Formation
May 28, 2013 (SPX)
This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather un-poetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf the galaxy, stretching out into...
Detection of the cosmic gamma ray horizon: Measures all the light in the universe since the Big Bang
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, almost every photon (particle of light) from ultraviolet to far infrared wave...
Galaxy's Ring of Fire
May 22, 2013 (JPL)
Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy's burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The "starburst ring" seen at center...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.