Thursday, 24 December 2009

Hubble Finds Messier 30 Harbors ’Rejuvenated Stars’

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered two distinct kinds of "rejuvenated" stars in the globular cluster Messier 30. A new study shows that both stellar collisions and a process sometimes called vampirism are behind this cosmic "face lift".

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1802999/hubble_finds_messier_30_harbors_rejuvenated_stars/index.html?source=r_space

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