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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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DEC 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
Have you ever wondered what’s going to happen to the Earth in the distant future of the Solar System? You’re ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 22, 2016Technology
Getting a deep enough look into the depths of space where all of the known exoplanets are is a tough task, but new advan ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 22, 2016Space & Astronomy
Because it’s costly and difficult to always have the amount of computational power scientists need to run data che ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 19, 2016Neuroscience
Robotic appendages that do the work of lost limbs are the rock stars of neuroscience research. New ways to control ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have spotted a beautifully tangled mess about 150 million light y ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 14, 2016Infographics
With the recent passing of the great John Glenn, a man who will forever be remembered as the first American to orbit the ...DEC 14, 2016Cancer
A new study of glioblastoma implicates a gene that helps the brain cancer to survive and proliferate, even in the face o ...DEC 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The Milky Way, our very own galaxy, is not alone in space. There are as many as 50 companions orbiting our own galaxy, a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
When you think about the universe today, you probably think about an infinitely-expanding dark bubble filled with light ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
There are a ton of stars in the universe, so many in fact that we can’t really count them all, but the ones we are ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 08, 2016Space & Astronomy
Quasars are really interesting celestial bodies that scientists still don’t fully understand because of how diffic ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Stephen Hawking has long had the attitude of a doomsayer, suggesting that humans will inevitably cause their own demise ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not exactly easy to find perfectly round spatial bodies anywhere in our universe, and that has to do with the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 01, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are always looking for Earth-like exoplanets outside of our Solar System because they may hold the key ingre ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s no real mystery how stars in space form, but perhaps what still is a mystery is how those supermassive stars ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Many people who think of the Sun quickly imagine a ball of fire in space, but the Sun isn’t fire at all. It’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 27, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists that study molecules in cells use a common tool to spotlight the proteins they are interested in - they mark ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that astronomers get the chance to see stars forming in space, but it goes without saying that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 22, 2016Neuroscience
It’s not quite Christmas Eve yet, but everyone has heard the line from the holiday poem “ while visions of s ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 20, 2016Immunology
Two body systems thought to be functionally separate have been found to be connected through gut bacteria. From Oregon S ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 18, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
For people who hate to swallow pills or just can’t remember to take their mediation as regularly as they should, s ...NOV 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers had the rare opportunity to view the photons from a source of gamma ray emission from an explosion that happ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 16, 2016Videos
Air pollution is something being addressed all over the world as we realize the effects of climate change on the environ ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using the MUSE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, international astronomers h ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
DEC 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Have you ever wondered what’s going to happen to the Earth in the distant future of the Solar System? You’re
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 22, 2016
Technology
Getting a deep enough look into the depths of space where all of the known exoplanets are is a tough task, but new advan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Because it’s costly and difficult to always have the amount of computational power scientists need to run data che
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 19, 2016
Neuroscience
Robotic appendages that do the work of lost limbs are the rock stars of neuroscience research. New ways to control
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have spotted a beautifully tangled mess about 150 million light y
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 14, 2016
Infographics
With the recent passing of the great John Glenn, a man who will forever be remembered as the first American to orbit the
...
DEC 14, 2016
Cancer
A new study of glioblastoma implicates a gene that helps the brain cancer to survive and proliferate, even in the face o
...
DEC 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The Milky Way, our very own galaxy, is not alone in space. There are as many as 50 companions orbiting our own galaxy, a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
When you think about the universe today, you probably think about an infinitely-expanding dark bubble filled with light
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There are a ton of stars in the universe, so many in fact that we can’t really count them all, but the ones we are
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 08, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Quasars are really interesting celestial bodies that scientists still don’t fully understand because of how diffic
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Stephen Hawking has long had the attitude of a doomsayer, suggesting that humans will inevitably cause their own demise
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not exactly easy to find perfectly round spatial bodies anywhere in our universe, and that has to do with the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 01, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are always looking for Earth-like exoplanets outside of our Solar System because they may hold the key ingre
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no real mystery how stars in space form, but perhaps what still is a mystery is how those supermassive stars
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Many people who think of the Sun quickly imagine a ball of fire in space, but the Sun isn’t fire at all. It’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 27, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists that study molecules in cells use a common tool to spotlight the proteins they are interested in - they mark
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that astronomers get the chance to see stars forming in space, but it goes without saying that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2016
Neuroscience
It’s not quite Christmas Eve yet, but everyone has heard the line from the holiday poem “ while visions of s
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 20, 2016
Immunology
Two body systems thought to be functionally separate have been found to be connected through gut bacteria. From Oregon S
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 18, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
For people who hate to swallow pills or just can’t remember to take their mediation as regularly as they should, s
...
NOV 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers had the rare opportunity to view the photons from a source of gamma ray emission from an explosion that happ
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 16, 2016
Videos
Air pollution is something being addressed all over the world as we realize the effects of climate change on the environ
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using the MUSE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, international astronomers h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard