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Where stars are born

Some 300 young stars, hidden in visible light, shine through the dust in a new infrared portrait of the main cloud of a nearby star-forming region called Rho Ophiuchi.

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1. A galactic fossil
   05-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
   How old are the oldest stars? Using ESO's VLT, astronomers recently measured the age of a star located in our galaxy. The star, a real fossil, is found to be 13.2 billion years old, not very far from the 13.7 billion years age of the universe. The star, HE 1523-0901, was clearly born at the dawn of time.
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2. UBC astronomers discover how white dwarf stars get their 'kicks'
   12-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
   University of British Columbia astronomer Harvey Richer and UBC graduate student Saul Davis have discovered that white dwarf stars are born with a natal kick, explaining why these smoldering embers of sun-like stars are found on the edge rather than at the center of globular star clusters.
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3. Colliding galaxies make love, not war
   10-17-2006 · EurekAlert!
   A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.
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4. Supernova Radioisotopes Show Sun Was Born In Star Cluster, Scientists Say
   10-05-2006 · ScienceDaily
   The death of a massive nearby star billions of years ago offers evidence the sun was born in a star cluster, say astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being an only child, the sun could have hundreds or thousands of celestial siblings, now dispersed across the heavens.
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5. Black hole boldly goes where no black hole has gone before
   01-03-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
   Astronomers have found a black hole where few thought they could ever exist, inside a globular star cluster. The finding has broad implications for the dynamics of stars clusters and also for the existence of a still-speculative new class of black holes called 'intermediate-mass' black holes.
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6. NASA scientists detect spectrum of planets orbiting other stars
   02-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
   For the first time, scientists at Goddard have obtained a spectrum, or molecular fingerprint, of a planet orbiting another star. Using spectroscopy, scientists were able to identify silicon dust in clouds on a gas-giant planet called HD 209458b. That planet is located 150 light years from Earth.
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7. A jet of molecular hydrogen arising from a forming high-mass star
   03-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A team of European astronomers offer new evidence that high-mass stars could form in a similar way to low-mass stars, that is, from accretion of gas and dust through a disk surrounding the forming star. Their article, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, reports the discovery of a jet of molecular hydrogen arising from a forming high-mass star located in the Omega nebula (M17).
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8. New technology enables astronomers to detect two supermassive black holes in colliding galaxies
   05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Astronomers, including UCR’s Gabriela Canalizo, have used powerful adaptive optics technology at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawai‘i to reveal the precise locations and environments of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of an ongoing collision between two galaxies 300 million light-years away. Each of the black holes resides at the center of a rotating disk of stars and is surrounded by a cloud of young star clusters formed in the merger.
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9. Chandra discovers cosmic cannonball
   11-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
   One of the fastest moving stars ever seen has been discovered with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This cosmic cannonball is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed.Astronomers used Chandra to observe a neutron star, known as RX J0822-4300, over a period of about five years. During that span, three Chandra observations clearly show the neutron star moving away from the center of the Puppis A supernova remnant at over 3 million miles per hour.
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10. New stars shed light on the past
    01-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
    A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows N90, one of the star-forming regions in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The rich populations of infant stars found here enable astronomers to examine star forming processes in an environment that is very different from that in our own Milky Way.
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