This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from two neutron stars just before they collided. Within this ne...
Showing posts with label stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stars. Show all posts
Monday, December 4, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Star Wanders Too Close to a Black Hole
This artist's rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too close to a 3-million-solar-mass b...
Monday, February 8, 2016
NGC 6357: Some of the most massive stars known in the galaxy
Massive stars lie within NGC 6357, an expansive emission nebula complex some 6,500 light-years away toward the tail of the constellation ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star
Does the closest star to our Sun have planets? No one is sure -- but you can now follow frequent updates of a new search that is taking ...
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Prominence on the Sun
This eerie landscape of incandescent plasma suspended in looping and twisted magnetic fields stretched toward the Sun's eastern horiz...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Star Colors and Pinyon Pine
B eautiful, luminous decorations on this pinyon pine tree are actually bright stars in the constellation Scorpius and the faint glow of the...
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