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A star is a glowing, spherical astronomical object. Stars are held together by their own gravitational forces. The star closest to the Earth is the Sun.
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JUN 11, 2017Space & Astronomy
Cygnus A is a famous radio galaxy found around 800 million light years away from Earth, and it's known for being one ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 10, 2017Cancer
Multiple recent studies found adverse links between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. Now a new study may have iden ...JUN 08, 2017Videos
A supernova is the violent and gigantic explosion of a star as it dies during the final stages in stellar evolution, and ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 07, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are stumped by the unexplained Houdini act of what was once a distant star dubbed N6946-BH1. Originally foun ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 04, 2017Space & Astronomy
It previously made headlines that NASA is planning a mission for 2018 to launch a probe closer to the Sun than we ever h ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 02, 2017Videos
The Sun is the closest star we have access to, and for that reason, most of what we know about stars today is based off ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 01, 2017Plants & Animals
Scientists exploring the deep sea off of Australia’s Eastern seaboard have discovered a bevy of interesting new se ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 01, 2017Videos
During the many decades of space exploration and manned missions to the ISS one of the main jobs of astronauts, in addit ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 01, 2017Neuroscience
Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? In the summer of 2014, Pete Frates, a former Boston College basketball star, came up ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA is planning to announce an unprecedented mission some this week in which the space agency will validate its interes ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 29, 2017Videos
Did you know that a three-planet alignment, called a conjunction, is actually quite common? It happens every two years o ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 27, 2017Space & Astronomy
The seemingly-endless search for extraterrestrial life in our universe continues on, and while we haven’t found an ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 25, 2017Neuroscience
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism are terms that are used interchangeably to refer to a range of symptoms, disor ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 21, 2017Space & Astronomy
About two years ago, astronomers noticed that an abnormal amount of light was being blocked from a star system dubbed KI ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 14, 2017Space & Astronomy
Before something like the Solar System can be born, things in the general neighborhood start out as something known as a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
While studying distant exoplanets from other systems, astronomers sometimes come across surprising discoveries about the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
Some 1,500 light years away in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), an explosion resembling the colorfulness and shape o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 08, 2017Space & Astronomy
The formation of our Solar System leaves a lot of unanswered questions, but as we continue to study it in more detail wi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 30, 2017Plants & Animals
Goldfish are among some of the world’s most popular species of pet fish, but despite popular belief, it’s ge ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 27, 2017Space & Astronomy
You’ve never seen a black hole before. Everything you’ve come across on the Internet so far has only either ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 23, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been studying the mysterious breakup of asteroid P/2013 R3 for over three years, and while the reasonin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 20, 2017Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our universe, anywhere else besides Earth, continues to be a long and drawn-out process. So far, ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 16, 2017Space & Astronomy
The Kepler Space Telescope helps astronomers locate distant exoplanets, but they still appear fuzzy in the viewfinder be ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 10, 2017Space & Astronomy
The long-standing idea is that dark energy makes up at least 68% of the universe. It’s believed to help drive its ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
JUN 11, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Cygnus A is a famous radio galaxy found around 800 million light years away from Earth, and it's known for being one
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 10, 2017
Cancer
Multiple recent studies found adverse links between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. Now a new study may have iden
...
JUN 08, 2017
Videos
A supernova is the violent and gigantic explosion of a star as it dies during the final stages in stellar evolution, and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 07, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are stumped by the unexplained Houdini act of what was once a distant star dubbed N6946-BH1. Originally foun
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 04, 2017
Space & Astronomy
It previously made headlines that NASA is planning a mission for 2018 to launch a probe closer to the Sun than we ever h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 02, 2017
Videos
The Sun is the closest star we have access to, and for that reason, most of what we know about stars today is based off
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 01, 2017
Plants & Animals
Scientists exploring the deep sea off of Australia’s Eastern seaboard have discovered a bevy of interesting new se
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 01, 2017
Videos
During the many decades of space exploration and manned missions to the ISS one of the main jobs of astronauts, in addit
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 01, 2017
Neuroscience
Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? In the summer of 2014, Pete Frates, a former Boston College basketball star, came up
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA is planning to announce an unprecedented mission some this week in which the space agency will validate its interes
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 29, 2017
Videos
Did you know that a three-planet alignment, called a conjunction, is actually quite common? It happens every two years o
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The seemingly-endless search for extraterrestrial life in our universe continues on, and while we haven’t found an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 25, 2017
Neuroscience
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism are terms that are used interchangeably to refer to a range of symptoms, disor
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
About two years ago, astronomers noticed that an abnormal amount of light was being blocked from a star system dubbed KI
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 14, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Before something like the Solar System can be born, things in the general neighborhood start out as something known as a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While studying distant exoplanets from other systems, astronomers sometimes come across surprising discoveries about the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Some 1,500 light years away in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), an explosion resembling the colorfulness and shape o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The formation of our Solar System leaves a lot of unanswered questions, but as we continue to study it in more detail wi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 30, 2017
Plants & Animals
Goldfish are among some of the world’s most popular species of pet fish, but despite popular belief, it’s ge
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
You’ve never seen a black hole before. Everything you’ve come across on the Internet so far has only either
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 23, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been studying the mysterious breakup of asteroid P/2013 R3 for over three years, and while the reasonin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 20, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our universe, anywhere else besides Earth, continues to be a long and drawn-out process. So far,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The Kepler Space Telescope helps astronomers locate distant exoplanets, but they still appear fuzzy in the viewfinder be
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 10, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The long-standing idea is that dark energy makes up at least 68% of the universe. It’s believed to help drive its
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard