Tag Archive for 'Red giant'

This image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows a butterfly-like nebula around the red giant star L2 Puppis. Image credit: ESO / Pierre Kervella.

ESO’s VLT Spies Butterfly-Like Planetary Nebula around L2 Puppis

Jun 10, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the SPHERE-ZIMPOL instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have confirmed the presence of the circumstellar dust disk around...

Kepler-432b: Astronomers Discover New Super-Jupiter Exoplanet

Feb 12, 2015 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Kepler mission, two teams of astronomers, led by Mauricio Ortiz from the University of Heidelberg and Simona Ciceri of the...

This image shows the region around R Sculptoris. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Focuses on Red Giant Star R Sculptoris

Jan 21, 2015 by News Staff

The region around a red giant star called R Sculptoris has been captured in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This image shows the region...

This artist's impression shows the structure of our Milky Way Galaxy, including the location of the spiral arms and other components such as the bulge. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ESO / R. Hurt.

Scientists Discover Two Most Distant Stars Ever Detected in Milky Way Galaxy

Jul 18, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the Red Channel spectrograph at the MMT Observatory on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona has discovered the most distant Milky Way stars...

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