Monday 11 June 2018

Diamond dust shimmering around distant stars

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Some of the tiniest diamonds in the universe -- bits of crystalline carbon hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand -- have been detected swirling around three infant star systems in the Milky Way. These microscopic gemstones are neither rare nor precious; they are, however, exciting for astronomers who identified them as the source of a mysterious cosmic microwave 'glow' emanating from several protoplanetary disks in our galaxy.
via Science Daily
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Carving the cosmos

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Space Science Image of the Week: This star-circling bubble was spotted throwing out X-rays by ESA’s XMM-Newton, earning it entry to a select group of stellar objects
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/06/Star-circling_bubble_of_gas