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NASA's Hubble Finds Sizzling Details About Young Star FU Orionis

November 21, 2024Release ID: 2024-037 Missions: Hubble, STScI

Ultraviolet light reveals new information about the eruptive star's mechanisms.
How NASA's Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars

April 04, 2024Release ID: 2024-203 Missions: STScI, Roman

Roman will separate young, quickly rotating stars from older, more slowly rotating stars.
Visualization Explores a Massive Star's Great Eruption

January 25, 2022Release ID: 2022-004 Missions: Hubble

The Violent Star Eta Carinae Model Is Based On Multiwavelength Observations
Hubble Celebrates Halloween With A Glowering, Dying Star

October 28, 2021Release ID: 2021-059 Missions: Hubble

Creepy Look At A Star Weaving A Dust Web
Hubble Captures Giant Star on the Edge of Destruction

April 23, 2021Release ID: 2021-017 Missions: Hubble

Petulant Star Ejects Spectacular Bubble of Glowing Gases
Hubble Solves Mystery of Monster Star's Dimming

March 04, 2021Release ID: 2021-009 Missions: Hubble

The red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris is enshrouded in huge clouds of dust
Hubble Finds that Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst

August 13, 2020Release ID: 2020-44 Missions: Hubble

Hubble Detects Dense, Heated Material Moving Through the Star's Atmosphere
Hubble Captures the Galaxy's Biggest Ongoing Stellar Fireworks Show

July 01, 2019Release ID: 2019-18 Missions: Hubble

Observations in Ultraviolet Light Uncover New Surprises
Mystery of the Universe's Expansion Rate Widens with New Hubble Data

April 25, 2019Release ID: 2019-25 Missions: Hubble

New physics may be needed to rectify the universe's past and present behavior.
Astronomers Uncover New Clues to the Star that Wouldn't Die

August 02, 2018Release ID: 2018-33 Missions: Hubble

Brawl Among Three Rowdy Stellar Siblings May Have Triggered Eruption
Hubble and Gaia Team Up to Fuel Cosmic Conundrum

July 12, 2018Release ID: 2018-34 Missions: Hubble

Most precise measurement yet adds to debate over universe’s expansion rate
Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star

October 06, 2016Release ID: 2016-34 Missions: Hubble

Great balls of fire! The Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star. The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space that...
Gluttonous Star May Hold Clues to Planet Formation

June 14, 2016Release ID: 2016-21 Missions: Hubble

In 1936, astronomers observed signs that the young star FU Orionis had begun gobbling material from its surrounding disk of gas and dust with a sudden voraciousness. During a three-month binge, as matter turned into...
NASA's Hubble Finds Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected

June 02, 2016Release ID: 2016-17 Missions: Hubble

When astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered nearly 100 years ago that the universe was uniformly expanding in all directions, the finding was a big surprise. Then, in the mid-1990s, another shocker occurred: astronomers...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies

January 06, 2016Release ID: 2016-01 Missions: Hubble

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10...