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These stars challenge astronomers in their understanding of stellar evolution
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There is a huge amount of room for improvement in women’s hockey attitudes, says Ismo Lehkonen – Canadian and US stars answered whether the sport belongs to the Olympics
The position of women in hockey at the Olympics has spoken a lot during the Beijing Olympics. Since being a women’s hockey player from Nagano in the 1998 Olympic program,…
The stars ski with the family
In winter, the stars like to take a breath of fresh air and take the opportunity to spend time with their family! As soon as a few snowflakes begin to…
Dark Matter ‘Asteroids’ Revealed in Collisions with Stars
The detection of dark matter has proven more difficult than expected, but astroparticle physicists still rely on natural giant detectors, the stars, to compensate for the weakness of terrestrial detectors.…
Surprising: planets form around dying stars
The illustration of what researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) observed. A disk of gas and dust around a binary star system. A disk with a void that…
The stars that swallow other stars under Alma’s gaze
One of the most misunderstood stellar evolutionary pathways is that of co-enveloped evolving binary systems, when the envelope of a giant star engulfs the orbit of a companion. Observations made…
10 stars affected by Alzheimer’s disease
10 stars affected by Alzheimer’s disease Diseases 10 stars affected by Alzheimer’s disease © sudok1 – 123RF The most common neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a progressive loss…
You can look like movie stars! Smooth nails and thick hair are not impossible
There are various treatments that help increase the health of tissues in the body such as hair growth, skin and nails. Among these, PRP using the person’s own blood, mesotherapy…
Surprise! A giant black hole makes stars
Black holes are often perceived as cosmic ogres, destroyers of stars. And yet, observations carried out thanks to the high resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope show that sometimes they…
Astronomers have tracked a star’s dying agony until it exploded into a supernova
We had never had the chance to monitor a star to the point of seeing it explode into a supernova. It’s done and at least in the case of SN…