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When a Star Screams

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Ever heard a star scream? Astrophysicists have detected the oscillating signal that heralds the last gasps of a star being sucked up by a previously dormant supermassive black hole.

The "screams," scientifically known as "quasiperiodic oscillations," occurred steadily every 200 seconds, but occasionally...
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We've Discovered a New Kind of Shooting Star

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
One that is shooting water! A geyser of water is spurting up from the poles of a star that is 750 light-years from the earth at a rate of 124,000 mpg, creating "water bullets" that it shoots deep into space. If it has other planets around it, the...
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How to Create a Star

Thursday, July 29, 2010

And WHY - In their unending search for extraterrestrial life, astronomers have discovered a new way to search for planets as small as the Earth that are in orbit around distant stars.

PhysOrg.com reports that this is something called Transit Timing Variation (TTV). Transits take place where a planet moves in front of...

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Canopus Reveals Itself

Saturday, January 21, 2006

The southern pole star, Canopus, is rarely visible in thenorthern hemisphere, but it can be seen tonight south of theapproximate latitude of Los Angeles or Birmingham. It willbe the second brightest star after Sirius. By a seeming coincidence, this week's Dreamland and subscriber interviews discuss Canopus and the ancient Egyptian belief that...

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Was There Really a Christmas Star?

Tuesday, December 24, 2002

Was the Star of Bethlehem described in the Bible real? Using new knowledge about old astrological beliefs as well as computer planetary tables, astronomers have speculated that it could have been a group of planets, a meteor or comet, or a supernova. One problem is the uncertainty of Jesus' birth date?the only thing scholars are sure of is that...

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