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    Blast from the Past

    November 25, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    The enigmatic CK Vulpeculae nebula. The team of astronomers measured the speeds and changes in positions of the two small reddish arcs about 1/4 of the way up from the bottom and 1/4 of the way down from the top to help determine that the nebula is expanding five times faster than previously thought.

    Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
    Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Jen Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF’s NOIRLab), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin

    Gemini North observations enable breakthrough in centuries-old effort to unravel astronomical mystery...

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    When is a Nova not a Nova? When a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf Collide

    October 9, 2018, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This object is possibly the oldest of its kind ever catalogued: the hourglass-shaped remnant named CK Vulpeculae. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. P. S. Eyres (link to DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2554 below)

    This object is possibly the oldest of its kind ever catalogued: the hourglass-shaped remnant named CK Vulpeculae.
    Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. P. S. Eyres (link to DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2554 below)

    Astronomers have found for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a ‘blaze of glory’ that was witnessed on Earth in 1670. Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a ‘blaze of glory’ that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.

    Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the international team of astronomers, including workers from the Universities of Keele, Manchester, South Wales, Arizona State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Warmia & ...

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