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Photo: A losing mass star and its nebula
Explanations: The foggy formation around this cool star is light reflected by the surrounding dust particles. The dust was formed from the material of the star itself and is believed to consist mainly of the silicon found in its outer layers. The mass loss rate is much higher than usual for stars of this type and is sufficient to form the reflective nebula IC 2220. The fact that the central object in the image is a star can be seen at least by the cruciform "spikes" emerging from it. These are artifacts that have arisen due to the design features of the telescope.
Copyright:(c) 1980 Anglo-Australian Telescope Directorate, photo by David Malin
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Photo: The Wolf-Rayet star in the NGC 2359 nebula
Explanations: Wolf-Rayet stars are massive, extremely hot, and matter from their surface is ejected at a speed of several thousand kilometers per second. As for the star NGC 2359, the solar wind interacts with the gas and dust around it, creating a cosmic "bubble" visible in the photo. The shell-like layers are formed by the single star HD 56925, which loses a significant proportion of its outer layers' material, ejecting it into a part of our Galaxy rich in interstellar gas. Such stars are unusual mainly because such an existence cannot last long.
Copyright:(c) 1979 Anglo-Australian Telescope Directorate, photo by David Malin
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Photo: Beta Painter (optical image from Earth)
Explanations: Beta Painter is a 4th magnitude star that radiates strongly in the infrared range. It is surrounded by a disk of matter of the kind believed to eventually lead to the creation of the planetary system.
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Photo: Faint Nebula NGC 6164-5
Explanations: Very hot, massive stars rapidly lose mass from their surface during their brief lives. Mass loss is usually a fairly stable process, but some stars sometimes have violent flares. The star HD 148937 has ejected large amounts of matter at least twice in its life; the brightest and most recent ejection is observed as the nebula NGC 6164-5 (in the center of the image), while the much fainter and older "rim" of the nebula, visible at a considerable distance from the central star, indicates another strong ejection that occurred significantly before.
Copyright:(c) 1984, Anglo-Australian Telescope Directorate, photo by David Malin
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Photo: Double nebula NGC 6164-5 around a bright star
Explanations: The bright central star seen in this photograph is simply known as HD 148937. But as the hottest component of the young triple system of stars orbiting each other, it is a rather unusual object, albeit a planetary nebula in appearance. The star itself loses mass from its outer layers continuously, but from time to time, energetic flares cause the appearance of symmetrical shells visible in this image. Both stellar shells are cataloged as separate objects under the numbers NGC 6164 and NGC 6165,
Copyright:(c) 1981 Anglo-Australian Telescope Directorate, photo by David Malin
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Photo: Young stars in the Orion nebula
Explanations: The Hubble Space Telescope image shows a small portion of the Orion Nebula (0.14 light years across) and five young stars. Four of them are surrounded by masses of gas and dust, which were captured by the forming stars. It is possible that they are all protoplanetary disks ("proplids") that can evolve into planetary systems. Formations closer to hot stars appear brighter, while distant ones appear darker.
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Reproduced with permission: SRO Dell and NASA
Photo: The first images of a real brown dwarf
Explanations: The images show a magnitude 8 red dwarf (Gliese 229) in the constellation Hare, about 18 light-years away. Its much weaker companion, Gliese 229B, was discovered on October 27, 1994. The semi-major axis of the companion's orbit is 44 AU. The mass of this object is about 20-50 masses of Jupiter, but its density is so great that it has the same diameter as Jupiter (128,000 km). The companion has a low surface temperature and a methane atmosphere, proving it to be a substellar brown dwarf. The image on the left is captured in far red. light range using a coronagraph with adaptive optics of the 1.5-meter telescope of the Palomar Observatory (October 1994). The Hubble Space Telescope image on the right (November 1995) confirms that the faint speck, named Gliese 229B, is indeed an object orbiting its parent star.
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Reproduced with permission: T. Nakajima (Caltech), S. Durrance (JSU) (left image); S. Kulkarni (Caltech), D. Golimovski (JSU) and NASA
Photo: Protoplanetary disk
Explanations: An image of a very young star (its age is from 300 thousand to 1 million years), surrounded by matter left over from the period of star formation. The cool, reddish star has a mass equal to about one-fifth the mass of our Sun. The dark disk, silhouetted against the Orion Nebula, is possibly the protoplanetary disk from which planets are formed. The disk contains at least seven times more matter than our Earth, and has a diameter of about 90 billion km, which is 7.5 times the size of the solar system. The Orion Nebula is about 1,500 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Orion. Image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Reproduced with permission: K.R. O "Dale / Rice University, NASA
Photo: Planet at the Star Beta Painter
Explanations: The Hubble Space Telescope image shows for the first time the interior of a 320 billion km diameter disk of dust that surrounds the star Beta Painter. Above: A visible-light image of a disc in which the disc is seen almost edge-on and is therefore spindle-shaped. It consists of microscopic dust grains formed by ice and silicate particles. One or more planets are located in the disc lumen. The light from the bright star in the center of the disk is blocked in this frame. Bottom: A false color image processed to reveal the details of the disc structure. You may notice that the pink-white inner edge of the disc deviates slightly from the plane of the outer red-yellow-green disc (shown in dotted lines in the image). The simplest explanation for this phenomenon is that part of the disk is attracted big planet... The planet itself is impossible to see, because it is close to the star, and its brightness is perhaps a billion times less.
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Reproduced with permission: K. Burroughs, Space Telescope Research Institute (NIIKT), European Space Agency (ESA), J. Christ (NIIKT), WFPC-2 KTH group and NASA
Photo: Ejections from a young star
Explanations: This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals new mysteries of star birth by showing a couple of spectacular bursts of gas erupting from the young star. Above: Emissions extend over a light year. The source of this structure - a young star - lies in the middle between the ejections and is obscured by a dark cloud of dust. Nearly symmetrical bubbles of gas at either end of the ejections form where they collide with interstellar gas. Bottom left: A close-up of the region around the star shows a luminous chain of gas clumps ejected by the star as a trail of automatic fire. Bottom right: This wedge-shaped structure is a classic example of a shock wave that occurs when a fast moving material collides with a slower medium.
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Reproduced with permission: J. Hester (Arizona State University), KTH WFPC-2 Team and NASA
Photo: X-ray buster (artist drawing)
Explanations: This painting conveys the artist's idea of a binary star in the globular cluster NGC 66224, which is the source of powerful flares of X-rays. The object consists of a neutron star surrounded by a disk of matter, and a companion, a white dwarf, whose matter flows to this disk through a narrow bar. The object's ultraviolet radiation was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993.
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Photo: Matter Surrounding the Star Eta Carinae (HST)
Explanations: The rapidly expanding envelope of matter surrounding the star Eta in the constellation Carina was ejected during a strong outburst in 1841. Image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in January 1994. Eta Carinae is one of the most massive and brightest stars known; its mass exceeds the mass of the Sun by 150 times.
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Reproduced with permission: J. Esther and NASA
Photo: New Swan in May 1993 and January 1994 (HST)
Explanations: The development of the gas envelope surrounding the Novaya Swan after the explosion on February 19, 1992. Images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 31, 1993 and after the system upgrade in December 1993 are shown. star system.
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Reproduced with permission: F. Pareske, R. Engjewski and NASA
Nothing gets talked about during various awards ceremonies like the outfits of the stars. Celebrities love to show off their splendor in front of the lenses of photojournalists and attract the attention of the public. But sometimes their very original outfits cause frank bewilderment. See the weirdest celebrity outfits in 2015.
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1. Madonna in a very original, if not strange, outfit at the 2015 Grammy Awards. (Photo: Jason Merritt / Getty Images; Startraks Photo / REX). 
2. The famous supermodel Irina Shayk at the Vanity Fair After Party in Los Angeles. On Irina, with her perfect figure This highly controversial dress looks perfect. But if you choose a similar dress for the 2015 prom, you may be very disappointed to see yourself in the mirror, provided, of course, if your figure is not an exact copy of the beautiful Irina. (Photo: DANNY MOLOSHOK / Newscom / Reuters; Evan Agostini / Invision / AP). 
3. Rihanna seems to be very happy with her voluminous dress, which she chose for the 2015 Grammy Awards. (Photo: Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP). 
4. American singer Toni Braxton in a very original black dress (especially at the back) at the Grammy ceremony. (Photo: Jason Merritt / Getty Images). 
5. British singer Rita Ora in a very revealing dress at the Vanity Fair After Party in Los Angeles. (Photo: Evan Agostini / Invision / AP). 
6. Joy Villa in a mesh dress at the 2015 Grammy Awards. (Photo: Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP). 
7. Famous model Alessandra Ambrosio at the InStyle and Warner Bros. Golden Globe Awards. It seems that fashion designers have decided to save on fabrics. (Photo: Matt Sayles / Invision / AP). 
8. Famous for the TV series "Game of Thrones" British actress Gwendoline Christie in a "superhero cloak" at the Elle Style Awards in London. (Photo: Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images). 
9. Celebrity Kim Kardashian in a "robe" at the 2015 Grammy Awards. (Photo: Jason Merritt / Getty Images; Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP). 
10. British singer Charlie XCX most likely forgot to wear a dress to the NME Awards at the Brixton Academy in London. (Photo: Tim P. Whitby / Getty Images). 
11. FKA Twigs at the Brit Awards in London. It is difficult even to describe in words this intricate outfit. (Photo: Brian Rasic / REX; Ian Gavan / Getty Images). 
12. American pop singer Jordin Sparks at the Grammy Awards. Just a terrible dress. (Photo: Jason Merritt / Getty Images). 
13. Actress Rose McGowan at the Elton John AIDS Foundation After Party after the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, either in a dress or a jacket. (Photo: GUS RUELAS / Newscom / Reuters; Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP). 
14. Selita Ebanks, Victoria's Secret model and angel, wore pajamas at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles. (Photo: Jim Smeal / BEI / REX; Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP). 17. Australian singer Sia (Sia Furler) at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills. Her outfit raises only one question: what would that mean? (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images).
But it turns out that this is not all. Who knows why they suddenly do strange things: to attract attention or simply obey the impulse. Today we decided to recall a few more ridiculous and strange situations in which the stars fell. Even the meat dress is not a competitor here!
Naomi Campbell (45)
Black Panther always had an explosive character. And if today her ardor has cooled down a little, then earlier it was very risky to be near the star. She threw herself at her assistants, disrupted screenings and quarreled with reporters. Naomi also loves to bang people with her mobile phone, for which she has paid a fine three times. And she somehow kicked her driver in the head, so much so that he smashed his face on the steering wheel.
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During a performance at Hollywood Film Awards the actor could not connect two words. He looked confused, spent a long time looking for a microphone on the stage, vaguely expressed himself. "Oh, this is one of those nights," joked Depp but no one understood him ...
After that, a discussion broke out in the press and the Network, whether the actor was drunk or just played in public. The first version is supported by the fact that during the speech Depp began to swear, although the ceremony was broadcast live.
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Let the fans forgive everything to the king of the Russian pop scene, we believe that his behavior towards women was, to put it mildly, very questionable. First at one of their press conferences Kirkorov insulted the journalist, and after a while hit the girl - the second director of the Golden Gramophone award.
Chuck Berry (88)
Even behind the legendary Chuck Berry there are sins. Once upon a time in his club in California Chuck installed video cameras in women's restrooms (right inside the toilet bowls). Several women sued the singer, and he paid them one and a half million dollars.
Solange Knowles (29)
Well, how can you live in peace if your sister is (34)? New york ball Met gala ended with Solange Knowles pounced on Jay Z(45). The incident was recorded by a surveillance camera installed in the hotel's elevator. The girl hit him with her hands and feet, and even in the presence of Beyoncé! When they went outside, Solange and Jay Z did not try to hide negative emotions, but Beyonce smiled. Later, a hotel worker sold the tape to the press. These are such strong family relationships.
Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991)
We used to hear the famous hit Je t "aime ... Moi non plus("I love you, I love you too - no") performed by Serge Gainsbourg and his wife Jane Birkin... But initially the song was intended for another partner of the artist - Brigitte Bardot, with which the first version was recorded. However, Bardo forbade the release of this recording, since she was married at that moment and tried in every possible way to disown the connection with Serge... The song was so frank that it was banned on radio stations in many countries. Europe... And this is one of the most modest episodes.
For example, in 1986 Gainsbourg, who at that time was already 62 years old, invited Whitney Houston to have sex with him. Live. And more than once.
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In the end of August Lindsey dropped by the millionaire's wedding Justin Etzina, where I went through alcohol and arranged a striptease. But these are still flowers! One day, a list of Lohan's lovers appeared in the media, written by her own hand.
It featured (37), (34), (27) , (37), (38) and a dozen other famous men. The actress also ran naked in the store, fought with her mother and, of course, went to court because of drugs and drunk driving.
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The waitress of the restaurant, where Kendall once dined, reported that the star left the restaurant without paying the bill. According to Hailey, she had to run for Kendall, then Jenner threw money in her face. Sister
Today you will learn about the most unusual stars. It is estimated that there are about 100 billion galaxies in the universe and about 100 billion stars in each galaxy. With so many stars, there must be strange ones among them. Many of the sparkling, burning gas balls are quite similar to each other, but some stand out for their strange size, weight and behavior. Using modern telescopes, scientists continue to study these stars to better understand them and the universe, but mysteries still remain. Curious about the weirdest stars? Here are the 25 most unusual stars in the universe.
25. UY Scuti
Considered a supergiant star, UY Scuti is so large that it can swallow our star, half of our neighboring planets, and virtually our entire solar system. Its radius is about 1,700 times the radius of the Sun.
24. Star of Methuselah
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The star of Methuselah, also called HD 140283, really lives up to its name. Some believe it is 16 billion years old, which is a problem since the Big Bang only happened 13.8 billion years ago. Astronomers have tried to use more sophisticated dating methods to better date the star, but still believe it is at least 14 billion years old.
23. Object of Torn-Zhitkov
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Originally suggested by the theory of Kip Thorne and Anna Zytkow, this object is two stars, a neutron supergiant and a red supergiant, combined into one star. A potential candidate for the role of this object was named HV 2112.
22. R136a1 
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Although UY Scuti is the biggest star, known to man R136a1 is definitely one of the heaviest in the Universe. Its mass is 265 times greater than the mass of our Sun. What makes her strange is that we don't know exactly how she was formed. The main theory is that it was formed by the merger of several stars.
21. PSR B1257 + 12
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Most of the exoplanets in the solar system PSR B1257 + 12 are dead and bathed in lethal radiation from their old star. The surprising fact about their star is a zombie star or pulsar that has died, but the core still remains. The radiation emanating from it makes this solar system a no-man's land.
20. SAO 206462
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Composed of two spiral arms spanning 14 million miles across, SAO 206462 is certainly the oddest and unique star in the universe. While some galaxies are known to have arms, stars usually do not. Scientists believe this star is in the process of creating planets.
19.2MASS J0523-1403
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2MASS J0523-1403 is possibly the smallest known star in the Universe, and it is only 40 light years away. Due to its small size and mass, scientists believe that it could be 12 trillion years old.
18. Heavy metal subdwarfs
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Astronomers recently discovered a pair of stars with large amounts of lead in their atmosphere, creating thick and heavy clouds around the star. They are called HE 2359-2844 and HE 1256-2738, and they are located 800 and 1000 light years away, respectively, but you can simply call them heavy metal subdwarfs. Scientists are still not sure how they formed.
17. RX J1856.5-3754
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From the moment of their birth, neutron stars begin to continuously lose energy and cool down. Thus, it is unusual that a neutron star 100,000 years old, such as RX J1856.5-3754, could be so hot and show no signs of activity. Scientists believe that interstellar material is being held back by the star's strong gravitational field, generating enough energy to heat the star.
16.KIC 8462852
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The star system KIC 8462852 has received close attention and interest from SETI and astronomers for its unusual behavior in recent times. Sometimes it dims by 20 percent, which could mean that something is revolving around it. Of course, this prompted some to conclude that these are aliens, but another explanation is the debris of a comet that entered the same orbit with the star.
15. Vega
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Vega is the fifth brightest star in the night sky, but that's not what makes it weird. The high rotation speed of 960 600 km per hour gives it the shape of an egg, and not spherical, like our Sun's. Temperature variations are also observed, with colder temperatures at the equator.
14. SGR 0418 + 5729
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A magnet 6500 light-years from Earth, SGR 0418 + 5729 has the strongest magnetic field in the universe. The strange thing about it is that it does not correspond to the image of traditional magnetars with surface magnetic field like ordinary neutron stars.
13. Kepler-47
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In the constellation Cygnus, 4,900 light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered for the first time a pair of planets orbiting two stars. Known as the Kelper-47 system, orbiting stars eclipse each other every 7.5 days. One star is roughly the size of our Sun, but only 84 percent as bright. The discovery proves that more than one planet could exist in the stressful orbit of a binary star system.
12. La Superba
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La Superba is another massive star located 800 light years away. It is about 3 times heavier than our Sun and is four astronomical units in size. It is so bright that it can be observed from Earth with the naked eye.
11. MY Camelopardalis
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MY Camelopardalis was thought to be a lonely bright star, but later it was discovered that the two stars are so close that they practically touch each other. The two stars slowly join together to form one star. Nobody knows when they will completely merge.
10. PSR J1719-1438b
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Technically, PSR J1719-1438b is not a star, but it was once. When she was still a star, her outer layers were sucked away by another star, turning her into a small planet. What's even more surprising about this former star is that it is now a giant diamond planet, five times the size of Earth.
9. OGLE TR-122b
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Usually, the rest of the planets resemble pebbles in the background of the average star, but OGLE TR-122b is about the same size as Jupiter. That's right, this is the smallest star in the universe. Scientists believe it originated as a stellar dwarf several billion years ago, the first time they have discovered a star the size of a planet.
8.L1448 IRS3B
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Astronomers discovered the three-star system L1448 IRS3B as it began to form. Using the ALMA telescope in Chile, they observed two young stars orbiting a much older star. They believe that these two young stars are the result of a nuclear reaction with gas orbiting the star.
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Mira, also known as Omicron Ceti, is 420 light years away and is rather strange due to its constantly fluctuating brightness. Scientists consider it a dying star located on recent years own life. Even more surprising, it travels through space at a speed of 130 km per second and has a tail that spans several light years.
6. Fomalhaut-C
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If you think the two-star system was cool, then you might want to see Fomalhaut-C. It is a three-star system only 25 light years from Earth. Although systems with triple stars are not entirely unique, this is because the arrangement of stars is far away, rather than close to each other - an anomaly. The star Fomalhaut-C is especially far from A and B.
5. Swift J1644 + 57
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A black hole's appetite is not picky. In the case of Swift J1644 + 57, the dormant black hole woke up and swallowed the star. Scientists made this discovery in 2011 using X-ray and radio waves. It took 3.9 billion light years for light to reach Earth.
4. PSR J1841-0500
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Known for their regular and constantly pulsating glow, they are rapidly rotating stars that rarely turn off. But PSR J1841-0500 surprised scientists by only doing it for 580 days. Scientists believe studying this star will help them understand how pulsars work.
3. PSR J1748-2446
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The strangest thing about PSR J1748-2446 is that it is the fastest rotating object in the universe. It has a density 50 trillion times that of lead. To top it off, its magnetic field is a trillion times stronger than that of our Sun. In short, it is an insanely overactive star.
2. SDSS J090745.0 + 024507
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SDSS J090745.0 + 024507 is the ridiculously long name for an escaped star. With the help of a supermassive black hole, the star flew out of its orbit and is moving fast enough to exit the Milky Way. Let's hope that none of these stars will rush in our direction.
1. Magnetar SGR 1806-20
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Magnetar SGR 1806-20 is a terrifying force that exists in our universe. Astronomers detected a bright flash 50,000 light-years away, and it was so powerful that it bounced off the moon and illuminated the Earth's atmosphere for ten seconds. A solar flare has raised questions among scientists about whether such a flash could lead to the extinction of all life on Earth.
