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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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NOV 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 BouchardNOV 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
Have you ever seen the Martian moon Phobos before? If you have, you’re probably well aware of how funky it looks. ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after observing a stellar flare-up with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ESA’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
The closest star system to Earth’s own is the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over four light years away. Ast ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 08, 2016Videos
Isn't time travel cool? It's pretty much the stuff of science fiction movies. Being beamed backwards or forwards into an ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
A Saturn-like exoplanet in another system is currently making astronomers based out of both Japan and the Netherlands sc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 04, 2016Videos
According to the geologic time scale, Earth has already experienced five mass extinctions. The most famous mass extincti ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 02, 2016Videos
Researchers were interested in creating a hopping robot that would be able to maintain a stable jump up and down, but th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
There’s a new kind of star in town, and apparently it's not nice and round like our Sun. Using data obt ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 01, 2016Earth & The Environment
By unanimous vote, the first committee on the Navajo Nation Council voted down the bill to authorize the Grand Canyon Es ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 01, 2016Space & Astronomy
Supermassive black holes are just one of those things in space that even the most renowned astronomers and physicists ha ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
Earth seems to have an unusually high abundance of precious metal elements, such as gold and platinum, when compared to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
While observing a distant binary star system known as IRS 43 with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in northern ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2016Videos
The peak of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii, is nearly 14,000 feet (4,207 meters) above the sea lev ...OCT 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
Every year, at around this time, something spectacular happens for late-night sky-gazers. A meteor shower known as the O ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Typically, we find supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, just like we find other entities of space in cer ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 14, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found something really strange inside a star system 1,200 light years away. The host ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The mysterious world from the nearby system Proxima Centauri that we know as Proxima b was recently announced to be very ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
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
NOV 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Have you ever seen the Martian moon Phobos before? If you have, you’re probably well aware of how funky it looks.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after observing a stellar flare-up with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ESA’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The closest star system to Earth’s own is the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over four light years away. Ast
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 08, 2016
Videos
Isn't time travel cool? It's pretty much the stuff of science fiction movies. Being beamed backwards or forwards into an
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A Saturn-like exoplanet in another system is currently making astronomers based out of both Japan and the Netherlands sc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 04, 2016
Videos
According to the geologic time scale, Earth has already experienced five mass extinctions. The most famous mass extincti
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 02, 2016
Videos
Researchers were interested in creating a hopping robot that would be able to maintain a stable jump up and down, but th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There’s a new kind of star in town, and apparently it's not nice and round like our Sun. Using data obt
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 01, 2016
Earth & The Environment
By unanimous vote, the first committee on the Navajo Nation Council voted down the bill to authorize the Grand Canyon Es
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 01, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Supermassive black holes are just one of those things in space that even the most renowned astronomers and physicists ha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Earth seems to have an unusually high abundance of precious metal elements, such as gold and platinum, when compared to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While observing a distant binary star system known as IRS 43 with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in northern
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2016
Videos
The peak of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii, is nearly 14,000 feet (4,207 meters) above the sea lev
...
OCT 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Every year, at around this time, something spectacular happens for late-night sky-gazers. A meteor shower known as the O
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Typically, we find supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, just like we find other entities of space in cer
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 14, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found something really strange inside a star system 1,200 light years away. The host
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The mysterious world from the nearby system Proxima Centauri that we know as Proxima b was recently announced to be very
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard