... Week of August 30, 1999 . Last week I talked about why stars twinkle. ... packets of air bend the light from stars in random ways, making the image dance ... is measured by how much the light from a star is smeared out, and the usual unit is ...
... the other day, trying to find an image of an isolated star for an unrelated project ... the images in it, and all I could see was the star at the top, and maybe a hint of a ...
... This is a bright, massive star that explodes after fusing all the light elements in ... other kind is called Type I, and we believe the precursor is a binary star system ...
... Some of these stars turned out to be a special kind of variable star; a star that allows its distance to be measured if only ... Whole stars can explode, and their cinders can wrap space around them so tightly the stars disappear forever. ...
... As the star gets tugged back and forth by a planet, the little circle it makes affects the light emitted by the star (this effect, regular readers know, is called the Doppler Shift ). ...
... the Milky Way, is a vast collection of gas, dust and about a half trillion stars ... the solar system on an immense scale, the stars and other denizens slowly orbit the ... As it does, the Milky Way will strip more and more stars from it. ...
... I work with a database of over 30,000 images many of which have hundreds or even thousands of stars in them (and one project on which I am working is trying to catalog all those stars!) ...
... February 18, 1997) . Why are dwarf stars colored? . (February 21, 1997) . ... What would the sky look like near a red dwarf star? . (March 3, 1997) . ... March 14, 1997) . How many stars are in the constellation Orion? . (May 23, 1997) . ...
... an average distance 40 times that of the Earth, yet the nearest star (the Alpha Centauri system) to the solar system is a mind ... Between us and that star is a vast, empty desert of interstellar space. Or is it? ...