Ancient mariners aren't the only ones th... ...mariners aren't the only ones that used the stars to navigate. It turns out that the lowl... ...droppings, they shape a small ball and start pushing it away to a safe distance wh... ...f the BBC explains how beetles navigate using...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/26/Dung-Beetles-Use-the-Milky-Way-to-Navigate/
Photo: NASA The Vela pulsar is a ne... ...Photo: NASA The Vela pulsar is a neutron star . What's a neutron star you ask? Well, it's basically a compact star (like a white dwarf or a black hole) that results... ...hat results from the collapse of other gargant...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/08/The-Vela-Pulsar-Imitates-The-Phantom/
Babies got to eat to grow big, and a bab... ...bies got to eat to grow big, and a baby star is no exception. Astronomers studying a... ...exception. Astronomers studying a young star noticed that it is being fed a steady stream of g... ...hurtles across a vast gap towar...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/03/Eat-Up-Baby-Star/
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millim... ...pied something strange around the dying red giant star R Sculptoris: a spiral structure though... ...be made of gases being expelled by the star . By studying the corkscrewed exp... ..., the astronomers calculated that the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/11/Dusty-Spiral-Around-a-Dying-Red-Giant/
It's a mystery of cosmic proporti... ...a thick disk of dust swirling around a star named TYC 8241 2652 1, some 460 light-years... ...ct would be immense. Furthermore, the star
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/06/a-cosmic-mystery-planet-forming-disk-gone/
Ninja Star Handbag - $14.95 Are you looking for a clutch pu... ...ysteriously sassy personality? You need the Ninja Star Handbag from the NeatoShop. This great shuriken s...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/24/ninja-star-handbag/
Image: NASA Goddard Sp... ...m, said the black hole, which was caught eating a star by a team of astrophysicists:... ...ts: Usually when we get to see a star being swallowed by a black hole, we&#... ...ay’s central black hole), the fact that the *strong c...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/08/black-hole-eating-a-star/
How does a black hole grow... ...does a black hole grow larger? By eating stars , of course! That may sound like a joke tol... ...axies: they repeatedly capture and swallow single stars from pairs of stars that wander too close. Using new...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/21/black-holes-grow-by-eating-stars/
Image: Tamas Ladanyi The... ...Ladanyi shows Mira, his daugher, a very special star in Cetus constellation that she's named...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/17/mira-mira-mira/
Maybe we should have kept Pluto! A star 127 light-years away shows evidence of having a r... ...as we know) nine planets revolving around it. The star is designated as HD 10180, in the southern conste... ...by measuring their gravitational tugs on the host star using the High...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/11/distant-star-may-have-nine-planets/
