Posts Tagged ‘ Star ’

If you are one of the many people that are into the hobby of star gazing or astronomy, then chances are you have heard about astronomy laser pointer pens. What you may not realize is what these laser pointer pens have many great applications for this wonderful hobby and come in many different varieties,...
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The largest, most violent star forming region known in the whole APOD
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Question by hugepossum: Is there an equivalent term for ‘Solar System’ when referring to an arbitrary star and its satellites? I dislike it when people refer to a distant star and its satellites as a ‘Solar System’. I’m pretty sure there is only one Solar System, and we are in it. I guess I...
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Many stars form in APOD
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Article by Mosup001 WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” a region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface, the U.S. space agency announced on Monday. Kepler-22′s star is a bit smaller than our sun, so its habitable zone is slightlycloser in....
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Question by : How large was the star that went supernova from which our solar system formed and the object it left behind? How large was the star that went supernova from which our solar system formed? If a supernova always leaves something behind, a white dwarf for example, then what object did it...
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Fix your camera to a tripod and you can record graceful APOD
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A mere 12.5 million light-years from Earth, irregular APOD
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Question by Jane: Identify my really bright star? There’s a star I’ve been seeing consistently that I’m curious about. The only position I’m sure of is that it’s roughly halfway up in the southeastern sky on winter mornings, just before sunrise. I live in Florida, about 5 degrees north of the Tropic of Cancer....
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How do stars form? APOD
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The star near the top is so bright that it is sometimes hard to APOD
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Now appearing as planet Earth’s evening star, brilliant APOD
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