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Supernova factory discovered 250 million light years away
Astronomers at Chalmers and Onsala Space Observatory have discovered seven supernovae – previously unknown – in a galaxy 250 million light years away. This is the first time so many supernovae have been discovered in the same galaxy, acting as supporting evidence for the long-suspected theory that the universe’s most efficient star factories are also supernova factories.
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Reading the Stellar Spots
Nikolai Piskunov of the Dynamics and Structure Formation in Stars and Stellar Environment project, explains why stellar and sun spots not only hold revealing clues to the internal workings of the stars but also may be key to regulating the effects for sustaining life on near planets
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Next generation of superstars in ‘Dragonfish’ cluster
The most numerous group of young supermassive stars to be observed in our galaxy has been discovered by astronomers. The stars number in their hundreds of thousands and include several hundred blue stars dozens of times heavier than our sun. The light emitted by these newborn stars pushes out and heats the gas that gave them birth, creating a glowing hollow shell a hundred light years wide.