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Spitzer Takes Family Portrait of Stars Amid Another "Celestal Geode"

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals generations of stars amid a cavity carved from a colorful cosmic cloud. The striking infrared picture shows a region, called W5, which is similar to N44F, or the "Celestial Geode" that was discussed in a Universe Today article last week. The gas cavity, which looks similar to a geode-like cavity found in some rocks, is carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from hot stars. W5 is studded with stars of various ages, and provides new evidence that massive stars – through their brute winds and radiation – can trigger the birth of new stars.

European Stars Bonus Available For Disaster: Day of Crisis

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Stars Could Shine In Many Universes

A commonplace of cosmologists who argue the anthropic principle is the assumption that if any or a few of the constants of nature took on an even slightly different value, life could not have evolved — perhaps even stars and galaxies would not form. Science News reports on a new calculation showing that, to the contrary, star formation could happen in up to one-quarter of universes with different values of three important constants. "In fact, all universes can support the existence of stars, provided that the definition of star is interpreted broadly," said the researcher, Fred Adams. "...calculations suggest that, contrary to some previous claims, stars are not only common in our cosmos but are also ablaze in myriad other universes, where the laws of physics may be drastically different.

Globular Clusters Like to Be Near the Center of the Action

Globular clusters are gravitationally bound, dense concentrations of stars. There can be hundreds of thousands of stars in a cluster, and they are so close together that it's hard to distinguish globular clusters outside of our galaxy from stars within our own galaxy just using ground-based telescopes: in other words, these big bunches of far away stars can look like a single, nearby star. But astronomers recently used the Hubble Space Telescope's sharp eyes to identify, incredibly, over 11,000 globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. And in doing so, they also noticed something interesting about where the globulars are located. Globular clusters don't seem to form uniformly from galaxy to galaxy; instead they like to be where the action is near the center of galaxy clusters.

Astronomers Simulate the First Stars Formed After the Big Bang

What were the first stars like that formed shortly after the Big Bang? We don't know much about the conditions of the early universe 13 billion years ago, but a new computer simulation provides the most detailed picture yet of the first stars and how they came into existence. The composition of the early universe was quite different from that of today, said Dr. Naoki Yoshida, Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan and Dr. Lars Hernquist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. An article that will be published to the August 1 journal Science describes their findings from the computer model that simulates the early days of the universe, the "cosmic dark ages," where the physics governing the universe were somewhat simpler.

Patent Battle Brewing Over Videotaping Stars Signing Autographs

Reuters is running an article about the launch of a new company, Live Autographs, which has stars like William Shatner (who's an investor in the company) signing autographs for customers, while filming a short video of the signature. As part of the video the stars are supposed to say aloud something in reference to what they're signing. It's basically no different than standing in line to get an autograph and telling the person what you want them to sign -- except that it takes place over the internet, and the end result is both the signed product and the video. Who knows if it's a good idea or not, but given the lengths some people will go (or the amount they'll pay) to get an autograph, it's hardly a surprising extension of the autograph industry.

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More star births than astronomers have calculated

The "birth rate" for stars is certainly not easy to determine. Distances in the universe are far too great for astronomers to be able to count all the newly formed celestial bodies with the aid of a telescope. So it is fortunate that the emerging stars give themselves away by a characteristic signal known as "H-alpha" emissions. The larger the number of stars being formed in a particular region of the firmament, the more H-alpha rays are emitted from that region.

Scientists See Moon as Research Outpost, Training GroundPhoto Shows Stars Born in Huge Cosmic WombsMelting Glaciers Sculpted Mars GulliesGiant Galaxy Cluster Seen in Early UniverseHow Stars Form Amid Black Hole Chaos

NASA Ames scientist Chris McKay likened a lunar outpost to the permanent research bases in Antarctica. In this aerial view, the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is shown (at upper right) along with its predecessor (lower left), which has been in operation for over 50 years. Credit: NSF/Ethan Dicks.

Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare

KentuckyFC writes "Astronomers have discovered some 250 planetary systems beyond our own, many of them with curious properties. In particular, our theories of planet formation are challenged by 'hot Jupiters,' gas giants that orbit close to their parent stars. Current thinking is that gas giants can only form far away from stars because gas and dust simply gets blown away from the inner regions. Now astronomers have used computer simulations of the way planetary systems form to understand what is going on (abstract). It looks as if gas giants often form a long way from stars and then migrate inwards. That has implications for us: a migrating gas giant sweeps away all in its path, including rocky planets in the habitable zone. And that means that solar systems like ours are likely to be rare.

Stars that Eat Dark Matter Live Longer

A recent study indicates that there are stars in the proximity of the Milky Way's core that feed on dark matter, thus prolonging their lifespan with more than a billion years. Finding them would possibly help understanding what dark matter really is and how exactly it functions.

Stars, planets and brown dwarfs!

Washington, Aug 23: Researchers at the Argelander Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bonn in Germany have discovered that brown dwarfs, which may be ‘stellar miscarriages’, need to be treated as a separate class of celestial bodies, in addition to stars and planets.

MLS Stars Plug In for Panasonic

NEW YORK David Beckham and three other stars from Major Soccer League will be featured in a campaign for Panasonic and retailer Best Buy that breaks this weekend.

Opera, ballet stars from 10 countries join Maria Biesu Invites Festival

Opera and ballet stars from ten countries attend the 16th edition of “Maria Biesu Ivites” Festival to take place in Chisinau during September 20-28, Info-Prim Neo reports.

Mangled stars could reveal ejected black holes

A BLACK hole ejected from its host galaxy could be detected by bright flares emitted by a retinue of captured stars.

Rock Stars to Send DNA Into Space

Operation Immortality(TM), the project to create a digital time capsule of the human race, has joined forces with Planet Make-Over, an entertainment driven social network designed to demonstrably reverse the effects of Global Warming. This alliance aims to unite and mobilize the worldwide gaming community with Planet Make-Over's mission by sending the digitized DNA of rock stars Eric Johnson, Patrice Pike and Planet Make-Over's Musical Director, Stephen Bruton into space with video gaming luminary Richard Garriott as he travels to the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 12, 2008.

Privacyware and PC Stars Team to Deliver...

Privacyware and PC Stars to address the global rise in SQL Injection, cross-site scripting and other Web-based threats targeting vulnerable Web applications and host environments.

Detective to stars, attorney guilty of wiretapping

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A private detective who once worked for Hollywood stars and a prominent attorney were convicted on Friday of federal wiretapping and conspiracy charges in a case stemming from billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's bitter child support dispute.

Detective to stars, attorney guilty of wiretapping

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A private detective who once worked for Hollywood stars and a prominent attorney were convicted on Friday of federal wiretapping and conspiracy charges in a case stemming from billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's bitter child support dispute.

Detective to stars, attorney guilty of wiretapping

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A private detective who once worked for Hollywood stars and a prominent attorney were convicted on Friday of federal wiretapping and conspiracy charges in a case stemming from billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's bitter child support dispute.

Mystery of young stars near black holes solved

The discovery of hundreds of young stars, of high masses and making oval-shaped orbits around a black hole three million times more massive than the sun, and at the centre of our Galaxy, is described as one of the most exciting recent discoveries in astrophysics.

Navigating by the stars

This classic star trail image shows how stars move in our sky as Earth rotates. More than 150 individual one-minute digital images were stacked in Photoshop. A first-quarter moon illuminated the surrounding landscape for the duration of the exposures.

Navigating by the Stars

This classic star trail image shows how stars move in our sky as Earth rotates. More than 150 individual one-minute digital images were stacked in Photoshop. A first-quarter moon illuminated the surrounding landscape for the duration of the exposures. Credit: Peter Michaud, Gemini Observatory

News: Euro Stars Bonus For Wario, Make 10

Members of the Nintendo of Europe website can now register their interest in Wario Land: The Shake Dimension and Make 10: A journey of numbers to receive a Stars bonus.

Why Rap Stars Are Hating on the iPhone

At the Rock the Bells festival on Sunday I asked some of the most important hip-hop artists in the game—and my heroes since childhood—what they hated most about the iPhone. Whether they owned it or not, most of the stars had a good reason to dis the overhyped phone, and their answers ranged from the mundane (Trugoy from De La Soul says it's "too cute") to the slightly crazy (dead prez's M-1 brought up the Matrix and Big Brother). Only Wu-Tang's Method Man couldn't find a way to bring the pain—we expect a new single, "F-A-N-B-O-Y Man", any day now.

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