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Ticking stellar time bomb identified

— 18 Nov 2009 12:30 | Astronomy

'One of the major problems in modern astrophysics is the fact that we still do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova,' says Patrick Woudt, from... — full story

Mini-comets within a comet lit up 17P/Holmes during mega-outburst

— 16 Sep 2009 00:02 | Astronomy

Astronomers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Hawaii have discovered multiple fragments ejected during the largest cometary outburst ever witnessed.... — full story

Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star

— 17 Jun 2009 05:56 | Astronomy

An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories,... — full story

The image shows a young sun-like star encircled by its planet-forming disk of gas and dust. The silicate that makes up most of the dust would have begun as non-crystallised, amorphous particles, (c) NASA/JPL-CaltechSpitzer catches star cooking up comet crystals

— 14 May 2009 08:01 | Astronomy

Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar... — full story

An artist's impression of the binary star system RS Ophiuchi: hydrogen-rich gas transferred from a red giant onto the surface of a white dwarf has just exploded, (c) David A. Hardy http://www.astroart.org and Science and Technology Facilities CouncilA peanut-shaped stellar explosion

— 22 Apr 2009 15:17 | Astronomy

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), an international team of astronomers have taken the first optical images of a dramatic stellar outburst and discovered a peanut-shaped... — full story

M87 Nucleus and Bright Knot - ACS - 9 May 2005, (c) NASA, ESA, and J. Madrid (McMaster University)Hubble witnesses spectacular flaring in extragalactic jet from M87's black hole

— 15 Apr 2009 03:27 | Astronomy

A flare-up in a jet of matter blasting from a monster black hole is giving astronomers an incredible light show. The outburst is coming from a blob of matter, called HST-1, embedded... — full story

Artist's impression of the optical outbursts observed from the presumed new galactic magnetar, (c) Alexander Stefanescu, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsSurprising flashes from a possible magnetar

— 24 Sep 2008 17:00 | Astronomy

By means of the high-speed photometer OPTIMA of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), a team of MPE scientists might have detected an unexpected new sub-category... — full story

On 9 January 2008 Swift caught a bright X-ray burst from an exploding star. A few days later, SN 2008D appeared in visible light, (c) NASA, Swift Science Team, Stefan ImmlerSwift observes a supernova explosion in real-time

— 21 May 2008 17:00 | Astronomy

UK astronomers are part of an international team that has used the Swift satellite to observe the first moments of a supernova explosion as it happens. The results are presented in... — full story

On 4 November, Comet 17P/Holmes was about 2nd magnitude and spanned approximately 20 arc-minutes on the sky, (c) M. Ashby, N. Caldwell (CfA)A last look at Comet Holmes

— 27 Nov 2007 01:34 | Astronomy

Comet 17P/Holmes, which dazzled sky watchers with a dramatic outburst that made it visible to the unaided eye, now is fading from sight. However, before it returns to the obscurity... — full story

The Hubble image, taken 4 Nov. with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, shows the heart of the comet, (c) NASA, ESA, and H. Weaver (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)Hubble zooms in on heart of mystery comet

— 15 Nov 2007 14:00 | Astronomy

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of comet 17P/Holmes, which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a millionfold in a 24-hour period... — full story

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