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Orphan stars found in long galaxy tail
Astronomers have found evidence that stars have been forming in a long tail of gas that extends well outside its parent galaxy. This discovery suggests that such "orphan" stars may be much more prevalent than previously thought.   view more (2007-09-21)

Inauguration of the 1st International Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs
"The development of orphan drugs for treating rare diseases is completely dependent on an active interaction between academic research and industry," says Jan Carlstedt-Duke, dean of research at Karolinska Institutet.   view more (2005-02-15)

Record: fastest flashing star
Dutch researcher Steve van Straaten set a record during his doctoral research. The researcher registered the fastest ever change in the X-ray emission originating from a binary star. The record-breaking binary star consists of a neutron star and a lighter companion star. Astronomer Steve van... view more (2004-05-07)

Star on a Hubble diet
How heavy can a star be? This conundrum has haunted astronomers for decades. Theory indicates that there should be an upper stellar mass limit somewhere between 120 and 300 solar masses. Even though heavy stars are very bright, measurements of their masses can be complicated.   view more (2006-12-12)

Hospital star ratings are misleading the public
The Government's star rating system for hospitals is misleading the public, say researchers in this week's BMJ, who found that seriously ill adults fared just as well in trusts with zero stars as in three star hospitals. Comparing data from 102 acute hospital trusts, researchers found that the... view more (2004-01-23)

Key mechanism for star formation found?
The team, led by Dan Clemens, from Boston University Institute for Astrophysical Research, examined a distant cloud of gas and dust called GF9, located about 1300 light years away. It shows a filamentary or wispy appearance, with dark "globules" distributed along its length. The new observation... view more (1999-06-03)

A Vanishing Star Revisited
Reinhold H'¤fner of the Munich University Observatory (Germany) is a happy astronomer.   view more (1999-07-20)

Invitation to the Press - Science Minister to launch Star Tiger Project
Science Minister Lord Sainsbury will be officially inaugurating the European Star Tiger project on Monday 24 June at 2pm, and you are invited to attend the ceremony and talk to team members and guests. The ceremony will take place at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, where... view more (2002-06-13)

COROT finds exoplanet orbiting Sun-like star
A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50 000 stars and is adding significantly to our knowledge of the fundamental workings of stars.   view more (2008-07-28)

The colourful demise of a Sun-like star
A brand new image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 shows the planetary nebula NGC 2440 - the chaotic structure of the demise of a star.   view more (2007-02-15)

The case of the neutron star with a wayward wake
A long observation with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed important new details of a neutron star that is spewing out a wake of high-energy particles as it races through space.   view more (2006-06-02)

First view of a newborn millisecond pulsar?
Combining Hubble Space Telescope images with radio observations has revealed a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star. The existence of the system is something of a mystery - the best explanation so far is that we have our first view of a... view more (2002-02-13)

SMART-1 'star tracker' peeks at the approaching lunar surface
While ESA's SMART-1 mission is running on its last orbits around the Moon before its planned lunar impact on 3 September 2006, the spacecraft 'star tracker' - or attitude camera-is taking exciting pictures of the ever approaching surface.   view more (2006-08-30)

Glasgow astronomers explain hot star disks
Astronomers have been puzzled for decades as to how the rings of hot gas surrounding certain types of star are formed. Now a team of scientists from the Universities of Glasgow and Wisconsin believe they have found the answer. The team studied a type of young, hot star, known as a "Be star", that... view more (2002-11-01)

Chandra discovers cosmic cannonball
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.   view more (2007-11-29)

Magellanic gemstones in the southern sky
Hubble has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud-two sparkling sets of gemstones in the southern sky.   view more (2006-04-18)

Supernova radioisotopes show sun was born in star cluster, scientists say
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.   view more (2006-10-05)

UI researchers discover star orbiting a 'medium-sized' black hole
University of Iowa researchers have found a star orbiting a "medium-sized" black hole - about 1,000 times more massive than the sun - in the nearby starburst galaxy M82, a development that may help explain how medium-sized black holes form and evolve.   view more (2006-01-06)

Astronomers report mysterious giant star clusters
An international team of astronomers reported evidence for the formation of mysterious "super star clusters" Jan. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C.   view more (2006-01-11)

New assessment system for elderly patients
Recent reports have expressed concern that some elderly patients may miss out on treatment because they are assumed to be too old to benefit from it. In the May Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Margaret Farquharson and fellow surgeons from the North Hampshire Hospital describe their simple... view more (2001-04-26)

NASA's Swift Sees Double Supernova in Galaxy
In just the past six weeks, two supernovae have flared up in an obscure galaxy in the constellation Hercules. Never before have astronomers observed two of these powerful stellar explosions occurring in the same galaxy so close together in time.   view more (2007-06-27)

Global Telescope to observe Ringing Star
Over the coming weeks an international team, led by Professor Ulrich Heber of the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, will use over fifteen different telescopes around the world to make over one hundred nights of observations of just one star to learn about its internal structure. The... view more (2002-05-17)

Creating linguistic resources for automated translation
A major difficulty in developing automated language translation is that you need a system with a fairly extensive vocabulary from which it can learn, before any degree of reliability or accuracy is possible. The LC-STAR project developed just such a vocabulary.   view more (2005-02-10)

HealthGrades study: Bariatric surgery patients have fewer complications at high-volume hospitals
Bariatric surgery patients had 64 percent fewer complications and a 26 percent shorter hospital stay if they went to a five-star rated hospital compared with a one-star rated hospital.   view more (2007-07-31)

Food peptides activate bitter taste receptors
Researchers from the Monell Center and Tokyo University of Agriculture have used a novel molecular method to identify chemical compounds from common foods that activate human bitter taste receptors.   view more (2008-01-23)
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