New Clues About Eta Carinae – The Star That Wouldn’t Die
What happens when a star behaves like it exploded, but it’s still there? About 170 years ago, astronomers witnessed a major outburst by Eta Carinae,…
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What happens when a star behaves like it exploded, but it’s still there? About 170 years ago, astronomers witnessed a major outburst by Eta Carinae,…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers compare two seemingly similar “hot Jupiter” exoplanets, finding that WASP-67 b and HAT-P-38 b have very different atmospheres. Is…
A team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope measure the average motion of hundreds of individual stars over a seven-year period, revealing for the…
Kepler data has led to the discovery of Kepler 413-b, a planet that wobbles wildly on its spin axis and in its orbit around an…
In an effort to test the technique of using the moon as a mirror, scientists will use Hubble to observe the transit of Venus across…
According to a recently completed statistical study by an international team of astronomers, our galaxy has at least 100 billion planets. Gravitational microlensing was used…