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Exploding star shines brighter
“Our study shows that the luminosity declined until about 2001 owing to radioactive disintegration of compounds formed by the explosion. Over the last ten…
'Dead' galaxies aren't so dead after all, U-M researchers find
U-M research fellow Alyson Ford and astronomy professor Joel Bregman presented their findings May 31 at a meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society in…
Hubble Finds Blue Straggler Stars in Milky Way's Hub
The size and nature of the blue straggler population detected in the bulge will allow astronomers to better understand if the bulge is exclusively old stars,…
The Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic "Train Wrecks"
To understand our past and imagine our future, we must understand what happens when galaxies collide. But since galaxy collisions take place over millions to…
Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe
The star goes by the inauspicious name of Hubble variable number one, or V1, and resides in the outer regions of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, or M31. But…
NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris
“Collisions between asteroids create rock fragments, from fine dust to huge boulders, that impact planets and their moons,” said Dennis Bodewits, an astronomer…