Astronomy
- Star R136a1is Massive Than The Sun
A group of astronomers from University of Sheffield,UK,have discovered a star which is about 300 times more bigger than the Sun using a Very Large Telescope (VLT) . The team of astronomers have found many stars which are seven times hotter, brighter and...
- Big Planet, Small Star
One of the smallest stars in the Galaxy has been found to have a planet orbiting it that is six times more massive than Jupiter. This gas giant is as far from its star as Mercury is from our Sun, but because the star is so small, it is like a scaled...
- Rocky Earthlike Planet Discovered
Researchers on 21.4.09 confirmed the existence of a rocky Earthlike planet with a mass of 1.9 Earth masses, orbiting in the Gliese 581 system. Another planet in the four planet system was also found to be lying in the star's habitable zone, the...
- New Candidate For Coldest Known Star May Help Blur The Distinction Between A Star And A Planet
An artist?s impression of the CFBDSIR 1458+10 star system. The star in the background is the candidate for the coldest known star. Image: ESO/L. CalçadaThere may be a new candidate for the coldest known star, an object classified as a brown dwarf with...
- A Large Planet Orbiting A Small Star
An artist's conception of the planetary system. Astrometry, a 50 year old technique used to find exoplanets, planets around other stars, has finally succeeded. Planets outside the solar system are nearly impossible to see, so the method relies on...
Astronomy
Gigantic bubbles boiling on the surface of star Betelgeuse
Giant star Betelgeuse shed the equivalent mass of the Earth every year but how do it does is not properly understood. Using state of the art imaging techniques, astronomers have revealed a vast plume of gas and gigantic bubbles boiling on the surface of star Betelgeuse. The new technique will provide clues to how they shed the mass?
The images show that the whole outer shell of the star is not shedding material evenly in all directions, which may be due to either large scale gas motions caused by heating, or because of the star's rotation. Betelgeuse's atmosphere is bouncing vigorously up and down in bubbles that are as large as the supergiant star itself, and could be responsible for the ejection of the massive plume into space.
Betelgeuse is the nearest star to Earth.
- Star R136a1is Massive Than The Sun
A group of astronomers from University of Sheffield,UK,have discovered a star which is about 300 times more bigger than the Sun using a Very Large Telescope (VLT) . The team of astronomers have found many stars which are seven times hotter, brighter and...
- Big Planet, Small Star
One of the smallest stars in the Galaxy has been found to have a planet orbiting it that is six times more massive than Jupiter. This gas giant is as far from its star as Mercury is from our Sun, but because the star is so small, it is like a scaled...
- Rocky Earthlike Planet Discovered
Researchers on 21.4.09 confirmed the existence of a rocky Earthlike planet with a mass of 1.9 Earth masses, orbiting in the Gliese 581 system. Another planet in the four planet system was also found to be lying in the star's habitable zone, the...
- New Candidate For Coldest Known Star May Help Blur The Distinction Between A Star And A Planet
An artist?s impression of the CFBDSIR 1458+10 star system. The star in the background is the candidate for the coldest known star. Image: ESO/L. CalçadaThere may be a new candidate for the coldest known star, an object classified as a brown dwarf with...
- A Large Planet Orbiting A Small Star
An artist's conception of the planetary system. Astrometry, a 50 year old technique used to find exoplanets, planets around other stars, has finally succeeded. Planets outside the solar system are nearly impossible to see, so the method relies on...