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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 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 BouchardOCT 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
It isn’t very often that we get the opportunity to study systems from other galaxies, considering they’re so ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 07, 2016Space & Astronomy
While we understand that planets can form relatively close to their host stars by way of generating a core first and the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using the tried and true Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have reportedly found another exoplanet orbiting two stars ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
Throughout the last five years, China has been working on a new radio telescope called the Five-hundred-meter Aperture S ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 30, 2016Plants & Animals
It’s long been documented that birds are smart critters, but Dr Damian Scarf from the University of Otago’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2016Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health. Researchers have begun to look for novel ways to fight ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
In a nearby star system dubbed TW Hydra, astronomers are keeping their eyes on a disk formation of dust and gas particle ...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
OCT 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It isn’t very often that we get the opportunity to study systems from other galaxies, considering they’re so
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While we understand that planets can form relatively close to their host stars by way of generating a core first and the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using the tried and true Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have reportedly found another exoplanet orbiting two stars
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Throughout the last five years, China has been working on a new radio telescope called the Five-hundred-meter Aperture S
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 30, 2016
Plants & Animals
It’s long been documented that birds are smart critters, but Dr Damian Scarf from the University of Otago’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2016
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health. Researchers have begun to look for novel ways to fight
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In a nearby star system dubbed TW Hydra, astronomers are keeping their eyes on a disk formation of dust and gas particle
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard