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Star Clusters of Unimaginable Size Exist in the Universe

Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, September 19, 2013, In : Star Astronomy

Understanding how large star clusters form could tell us more about star formation when the universe was young

Tonight we’ll journey to the truly titanic 30 Doradus nebula (also called the Tarantula nebula), 170 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a smaller satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, where astronomers recently discovered something they suspected about the formation of larger star clusters.

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Magnetars as Massive as Black Holes

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, December 30, 2011, In : magnetars

Can be viewed in the pulsar zoo

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Thursday, December 29, 2011 – Astronomers once believed that stars with a mass over 25 times that of our own sun would eventually become black holes. Astronomers are presently reassessing this belief in light of new evidence suggesting magnetars with a mass as much as 40 times that of our sun exist amidst the pulsar zoo. Magnetars are neutron stars with magnetic fields a million billion times as powerful as the one surrounding Earth. Presently a...

Blaze Your Name in the Night Sky

Posted by Warren Wong on Monday, November 22, 2010, In : naming stars

Celestial bodies in the night's sky are often named after their discoverers

Take a look at the night sky above you and name a few of the celestial objects you know in your head. Would you like to leave your name written in the annals of astronomy and human history? One of the greatest honours for an astronomer is to have their name adorn a celestial body in the night sky. Look up into the night sky and many of the stellar bodies you see will have been named in honour of their discoverer, a f...

Galaxies Collide in Colossal Collisions

Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 18, 2010, In : galaxies

Oldest stars in Milky Way Galaxy appear to be captured parts of other galaxies

: The stellar halo of the Milky Way contains older stars astronomers believe were captured during a collision with another galaxy about 5 billion years in the Milky Way's past

Astronomers studying the oldest stars in the Milky Way Galaxy think that the most ancient stars in the Milky Way Galaxy could be parts of other galaxies that have been transferred or captured by the Milky Way Galaxy during gigantic coll...

Star Light, Star Bright

Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 11, 2010, In : supernovas

Supernova SN 2005E Says Hello to the Universe

: Supernova SN 2005E shines bright on the edge of spiral galaxy NGC 1032

A supernova is one of the most spectacular and massive events astronomers journeying backward to the beginning of space and time view, and can often be billions of times as bright as Sol, or shine brighter than an entire galaxy. Take a journey to a supernova, like SN 2005E, which astronomers became aware of when it lite...

Collisions Between Objects in the Solar Sytem is Absolute

Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 11, 2010, In : asteroids

Locating asteroids traveling through the solar system

Hebe 6 should be viewable in for the patient star-gazer

Locating smaller celestial objects in the night sky is harder and time-consuming, but with a little patience and perception all star-gazers, both amateur and professional, can journey to a nearby asteroid traveling through the solar system to view these smaller travelers through time and space.

How do astronomers locate small and distant celestial bodies traveling throu...

The Biggest Bang of Them All?

Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, November 6, 2010, In : Star Astronomy

: Television and the universe will never be the same

: Did the universe begin in the biggest bang of them all?

The "Big Bang Theory" Hits Home

Ever heard of the "Big Bang Theory", the television show starring Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons as two nerdy physicists being taught the meaning of a big bang by the sexy and memorable Kaley Cuoco as Penny. We'll astronomers have a theory about the biggest bang of them all, they call the "Big Bang". A theory about the beginning of space and...

Searching the Night Sky for a Supernova

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : supernovas

Astronomers are looking at NGC 3982 and other galaxies for a supernova to study

: If you see a supernova, it could be your big moment in life? NASA photos.

The Milky Way use to be thought of as a spiral galaxy, but recently collected data seems to suggest to astronomers that the Milky Way could in fact be a barred galaxy. Either way, the human journey to the beginning of the universe has revealed to astronomers a seeming infinity of galaxies beyond the celestial horizon we view from Ear...