The small suns, known as HE 2359-2844 (artist's representation shown) in the constellation Sculptor and HE 1256-2738 in Hydra, were among nine identified as being helium-rich in a previous survey of stars.
Researchers had long assumed that the small suns (artist's conception above), which make up about three out of every four stars in the Milky Way, were too dim to provide enough light to any photosynthetic organisms on planets that orbited them.
Last month, scientists announced that the green-hued meteorite NWA 7325 shares many chemical similarities with Mercury, suggesting it may be the first known visitor from the small, sun-scorched planet.
"Anything that can be done to fight that is worth trying". The small, sun-scorched neighborhood of Itaberaba in this city in Bahia state is the leading testing ground for a controversial effort to combat dengue fever, the harrowing disease that kills 22,000 people a year worldwide.
The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and the smaller Sun Herald in Gulfport, Miss., were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for public service yesterday for their coverage under difficult circumstances of the same catastrophic event, Hurricane Katrina, which devastated their areas along the Gulf Coast.
The Clippers were out-rebounded by the smaller Suns, 43-35.
Winos sprawl in the few small sun traps along the embankment; the homeless sometimes camp there briefly, before the wind and cold drive them away.
We see the blue copperish haze of a Martian sunset — not the invention of a painter of a child's bubble-gum cards but the actual scene from the planet's surface, a small sun penetrating the atmosphere's powdery dust.
"$4,000 for a six day advance in the Virgin Islands is not a small sun [sic] and will draw the OIG's attention.
State wildlife officials concluded last fall, for example, that the city's pesticide program, then using the pesticide malathion, was responsible for the deaths of several hundred small sun fish in Clove Lake on Staten Island.
The surrounding forest is home to eight species of hornbill and mammals such as the small Malaysian sun bear.
