Tag: nova

• A new “star” in the southern sky (Science Advent 7)

  (Every day until December 25, I’m posting a science-related image and description.) Day 7 Stars seem like permanent fixtures in the sky. We know they move, evolve, and die, but that process is extremely slow on the scale of human history. Their relative stability has allowed for celestial navigation, discovered independently by many cultures, as…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 7, 2013

  Astronomy

  Advent 2013, nova, white dwarfs