Shields up, Captain! There's an unidentified entity ahead! On
second thoughts, no need to take evasive action -- this
particular space blob is just the glowing remains of a sun-like
star, 3,300 light-years away. -> Alpha Centauri A has been seen
to have a cool layer in its atmosphere, just above it's surface
-- the first time this has been observed in a star other than
the sun. -> A neutron star has been discovered orbiting its
binary partner every 93 minutes -- a record. A cool brown dwarf
has been detected through the radio waves generated by its
magnetic field -- could the method be used to detect exoplanets
with magnetospheres? If a large gas giant drifts too close to
its star, it might have its thick atmosphere stripped, leaving
its bare, rocky core. Despite our best search strategies, are
signals from E.T. manifested in anomalous flashes of radio
energy from our galaxy that are missed, or dismissed as natural
phenomena? The Herschel Space Observatory has spotted a young
star blasting a cavity out of a n