Astronomers View Shell of Escaping Material Around Sakurai’s Object
Using the Altair adaptive optics system with the Gemini North Telescope, two NOAO astronomers were able to observe the shell of escaping material around the…
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Adaptive Optics Improve Measurements of the Properties of Stars
Using a new instrument dubbed SAM, astronomers demonstrated the significant difference that sharp stellar images can make in our understanding of the properties of stars,…
Spitzer Helps Reveal the Mysteries of Young Cluster, Cep OB3b
Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers image the nearby rich young cluster, Cep OB3b. They found that some of the stars have lost their disks,…