A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. ... Nicknamed the "Peony nebula star," the bright stellar bulb was revealed by NASA's Spitzer Space Teles...
Title: The Taurus Spitzer Survey: New Candidate Taurus Members Selected Using Sensitive Mid-Infrared Photometry ... Authors: L. M. Rebull (Spitzer Science Centre), D. L. Padgett (Spitzer Science Centre), C.-E. McCabe (Spitzer Science Ce...
Title: X-ray observations of SU UMa throughout six outbursts ... Authors: David J. Collins, Peter J. Wheatley ... ... We present RXTE observations covering six normal outbursts of the dwarf nova SU UMa, the prototype of its class. The ...
Title: Helium Nova on a Very Massive White Dwarf -- A Light Curve Model of V445 Puppis (2000) Revised ... Authors: Mariko Kato (Keio Univ.), Izumi Hachisu (Univ. of Tokyo), Seiichiro Kiyota (VSOLJ), Hideyuki Saio (Tohoku Univ.) ... ......
Title: The galactic unclassified B[e] star HD 50138. I. A possible new shell phase ... Authors: Marcelo Borges Fernandes (1), Michaela Kraus (2), Olivier Chesneau (1), Armando Domiciano de Souza (1), Francisco Xavier de Araujo (3), Phil...
Title: The periodicity of the eta Carinae events ... Authors: A. Damineli (1), M. F. Corcoran (3 and 4), D. J. Hillier (2), O. Stahl (5), R. S. Levenhagen (1), N. V. Leister (1), J. H. Groh (1), M. Teodoro (1), J. F. Albacete Colombo (6...
TX Piscium (19 Psc) is a variable carbon star in the constellation Pisces. It is amongst the reddest stars known, with a lovely reddish hue when seen in binoculars. ... ... Read more ... ... Position(2000): RA 23 46 23.5165, Dec +03 29 12.519
Zeta Aurigae is a star in the constellation Auriga. It has traditional names Haedus (also Hoedus) and Sadatoni (rarely Saclateri). ... Zeta Aurigae is an Algol type eclipsing binary, which varies from magnitude +3.61 to +3.99 with a period of 972 da...
Title: A Catalogue of Spectroscopically Confirmed White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4
Authors: Daniel J. Eisenstein, James Liebert, Hugh C. Harris, S.J. Kleinmann, Atsuko Nitta, Nicole Silvestri, Scott A. Ande...
Title: HAT-P-7b: An Extremely Hot Massive Planet Transiting a Bright Star in the Kepler Field ... Authors: A. Pal (1,2), G. A. Bakos (1,3), G. Torres (1), R. W. Noyes (1), D. W. Latham (1), Geza Kovacs (4), G. W. Marcy (5), D. A. Fische...
A dim star just 13 light years from Earth was born in a cluster 17,000 light years away. ... Discovered in 1897, Kapteyn's Star is the 25th nearest star system to our sun, but it is no local, says Elizabeth Wylie-de Boer of Mount Stromlo Observatory ...
Title: HST's hunt for intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters ... Authors: Julio Chanamé (1), Justice Bruursema (2), Rupali Chandar (3), Jay Anderson (4), Roeland van der Marel (4), Holland Ford (2) ((1) Carnegie DTM, (2) Johns H...
Two new planetary systems have been imaged in the Milky Way: a star boasting three planetary siblings and another harbouring one at a large distance from its star. ... Other candidate planets have been imaged near stars. But the new pictures are the ...
Discovery by astrophysicists to reveal size of neutron star ... An international team of astrophysicists, led by Sudip Bhattacharyya from the city-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), have made a discovery using 'thermonuclear ...
There is some evidence, though yet unconfirmed, that Sagittarius A*--the supermassive black hole at the Galactic centre--emits its radio waves modulated with a ~100-day period.
What is intriguing about this apparent quasi-periodicity is that...
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