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By Robert Anthony If you have not been fortunate enough to watch the documentary “Let My People Go‚” follow this link to purchase and/or watch online. The man behind the film‚ professor David…

In the early days of telescopic astronomy‚ you could only focus on one small region of the sky at a time. Careful observations had to be done by hand‚ and so much of the breakthrough work centered around a particular object in the sky. A nebula or galaxy‚ quasar or pulsar. But over the years we’ve been able to build telescopes capable of capturing a wide patch of sky all at once‚ and with automation‚ we can now map the entire sky. Early sky surveys took years to complete‚ but many modern sky surveys can look for changes on the order of weeks or days. This ability to watch for changes across the sky is changing the way we do astronomy‚ and it is beginning to yield some interesting results. As a case in point‚ an infrared sky survey is revealing hidden stars we hadn’t noticed before. In a series of papers published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society‚ the authors have analyzed data from a decade-long survey called the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope (VISTA). VISTA allows astronomers to keep an eye on hundreds of millions of stars at infrared wavelengths. In these works‚ the team combed through the observations to focus on about 200 stars that showed the most dramatic shifts in brightness. These transient changes are important because they can reveal the subtle dynamics of stars. Artist’s impression of an eruption in the disc of matter around a newborn star. Credit: Philip Lucas/University of Hertfordshire One goal of the studies was to look for very young stars. Stars in the earliest moments of transition toward becoming true fusion-powered stars. And within their selected stars they found 32 erupting protostars. All of them experienced a rapid increase of at least a factor of 40‚ and some brightened as much as a factor of 300. The outbursts lasted for months or years‚ and they seem to occur within the disk of matter surrounding the young stars. Based on the dynamics‚ these bursts can accelerate the growth of young stars‚ but they could also make it more difficult for planets to form. They refer to these turbulent protostars as squalling newborns. The team also found a surprise. Deep within the center of our galaxy‚ they found 21 red giant stars with dramatic brightness changes. They turned out to be a new type of red giant known as old smokers. The center of our galaxy is rich with heavy elements‚ so these red giants have a high metalicity. As they age‚ they can cast off clouds of dust that can obscure the star for a time. So the star temporarily fades from view and then re-brightens as the clouds disperse. This discovery could change our understanding of how heavy elements are released into the galaxy to be used by new stars. Reference: Lucas‚ P W‚ et al. “The most variable VVV sources: eruptive protostars‚ dipping giants in the nuclear disc and others.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 582.2 (2024): 1789–1822. Reference: Guo‚ Zhen‚ et al. “Spectroscopic confirmation of high-amplitude eruptive YSOs and dipping giants from the VVV survey.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 582.2 (2024): 1769–1788. Reference: Peña‚ Carlos Conteras‚ et al. “On the incidence of episodic accretion in Class I YSOs from VVV.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 582.2 (2024): 1823–1840. Reference: Guo‚ Zhen‚ et al. “Multiwavelength detection of an ongoing FUOr-type outburst on a low-mass YSO.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 582.2 (2024): L115–L122. The post New Types of Hidden Stars Seen for the First Time appeared first on Universe Today.

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India is seeking to distance itself from its largest arms supplier after Russia's ability to supply munitions and spares was hobbled by the war in Ukraine‚ but must step carefully to avoid pushing Moscow closer to China‚ Indian sources said. The world's biggest arms importer is slowly turning West as the United States looks to strengthen ties in the Indo-Pacific region‚ hoping to contain an ascendant China by weaning the South Asian nation off a traditional dependence on Russia.

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