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Eccentric pulsar system challenges theories of binary formation

May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | User comments: 1

An ongoing sky survey using the Cornell-managed Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has turned up a massive, fast-spinning binary pulsar with a mysterious elongated orbit, researchers say. The pulsar and ...


Strange star stumps astronomers

May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 40 vote(s) | User comments: 10

An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ...


Astronomers use new model of dust in galaxies to remeasure the total energy output of stars in the universe

May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | No comments yet

Anyone gazing up on a dark clear night is greeted by the spectacle of thousands of powerful fusion reactors - the stars. These balls of extremely hot gas are generating unimaginably large quantities of energy. ...


A molecular thermometer for the distant universe

May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | No comments yet

Astronomers have made use of ESO’s Very Large Telescope to detect for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away, a feat that had ...