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The festive season has arrived for astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in the form of this dramatic new image. It shows the swirling gas around the region known as NGC 2264 — an area of sky that includes the sparkling blue baubles of the Christmas Tree star cluster. This region lies about 2600 light-years [...]
The next Winter Solstice will took place on December 21, 2008 at 12:05 GMT. The event marks the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere, and summer in southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, the Winter Solstice is day of the year (near December 22nd) when the Sun is farthest south. The declination of the [...]
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing spectroscopic observations with NASA’s space-based Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) of the white dwarf KPD 0005+5106. The team of German and American astronomers who present these observations show that this white dwarf is among the hottest stars known so far, with a temperature of 200 000 K at its surface. It [...]
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