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Subaru Telescope Observations and the CoRoT Mission Unveil the Future of the Sun
May 17, 2013
A team of astronomers has found the farthest known solar twin in the Milky Way Galaxy-- CoRoT Sol 1, which has about the same mass and chemical composition as the Sun. Spectra from the High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) on the Subaru Telescope showed that CoRoT Sun 1 is about 6.7 billion years old while space-derived data from the CoRoT satellite indicated a rotation period of 29 +/- 5 days. This newly discovered, evolved solar twin allows astronomers to uncover the near future of the Sun...
Discovery of a Blue Supergiant Star Born in the Wild
April 10, 2013
A duo of astronomers has discovered a blue supergiant star located far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Over fifty-five million years ago, the star emerged in an extremely wild environment: within the long trail of gas stripped from galaxy IC 3418 as it sped rapidly into the Virgo cluster and interacted with the hot plasma of the surrounding intra-cluster medium. The research revealed unprecedented views of the star formation process in this intergalactic context and showed the promise of future investigations of a possibly new mode of star formation, unlike that within our Milky Way...
Science Results
- Subaru Telescope Observations and the CoRoT Mission Unveil the Future of the Sun - May 17, 2013
- Discovery of a Blue Supergiant Star Born in the Wild - April 10, 2013
- Gravitational Lensing in the Peculiar "Magatama" Galaxy - March 31, 2013
- Soccer Balls in Interstellar Space - March 5, 2013
Topics
- Subaru Telescope's Bright and Shiny AstroDay - May 15, 2013
- Subaru Staff -Part 22- - May 9, 2013
- A Brilliant Merrie Monarch Parade - April 23, 2013
- At the Right Place at the Right Time to See a Rare Green Flash - April 18, 2013
