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Death and Birth of Stars


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Stars Need a ‘Kick’ to Get Started

Posted on January 7, 2002April 4, 2017

Star formation is a longer process than previously thought, and is heavily dependent on outside events, such as supernova explosions, to trigger it, a team of astronomers has concluded. The scientists reached their conclusions after making a detailed study of a number of the dark gas clouds in which new stars are formed.

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The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.

Newly Commissioned GBT Bags New Pulsars

Posted on January 4, 2002November 15, 2019

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s newly commissioned Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a windfall of three previously undetected millisecond pulsars in a dense cluster of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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Planetary Nebula K3-35

Star Caught in the Act of Planetary Nebula Formation

Posted on November 15, 2001April 4, 2017

A team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope has caught an old star during the very brief period of its transformation into a planetary nebula, a shining bubble of glowing gas with a hot remnant star at its center.

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Orbital Path of Black Hole and its Companion Through the Milky Way Galaxy

Ancient Black Hole Speeds Through Galaxy

Posted on September 12, 2001April 4, 2017

Astronomers find an ancient black hole speeding through the Sun’s Galactic neighborhood, devouring a small companion star as the pair travels in an eccentric orbit looping to the outer reaches of our Milky Way Galaxy.

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VLBA station

Best Detail Ever of Star-forming Cloud’s Magnetic Field

Posted on July 19, 2001April 4, 2017

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope to do a very detailed map of the magnetic field within a star-forming cloud.

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G28.17+0.05

Gas Cloud to Make its Star-forming Debut

Posted on June 6, 2001April 4, 2017

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s 140-foot radio telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va., have discovered a highly unusual, massive interstellar cloud that appears poised to begin a burst of star formation.

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