Latest S-type star Stories

[WATCH VIDEOS: A Close Look At NGC 6752 | Zooming In On NGC 6752] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online An international team of astronomers published a paper today in the journal Nature detailing the role sodium plays in determining how stars evolve and how they end their lives. Astronomers believe that stars like the Sun will blow off much of their atmospheres into space near the ends of their lives, which is known as asymptotic giant branch (AGB). However, new...

A team of astronomers led by graduate student Naslim and her supervisor Dr Simon Jeffery from Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland has found what at first sight appears to be the most zirconium-rich star ever discovered. Zirconium, the material used by jewelers to make false diamonds, glitters in clouds above the star's surface. The scientists publish their results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The team made the discovery while looking for chemical clues...