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Sun: is a star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth.
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SEP 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
New images from Rosetta's Osiris instrument show Philae in vividly-clear detail on comet 67P's surface. Astronom ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists have had their eyes on an exoplanet dubbed Gj 1132b that was discovered last year and seems to resemble Venus ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 02, 2016Earth & The Environment
Last month, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago announced in the journal Science that they h ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists are in awe after having discovered a very strange trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is orbiting the Sun in a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 25, 2016Immunology
What the pharmaceutical industry calls “the key to obesity” is the only hormone known to enhance appetite, a ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 25, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
It seems that Zika cases are increasing daily. Amid this public health crisis, researchers are discovering new insight i ...AUG 23, 2016Videos
It isn't all that uncommon for objects to slam into the Sun, and when they do, the Sun's immense heat and gravitational ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 23, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA has announced this week that they’ve officially gotten back in touch with their STEREO mission following two ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 23, 2016Cancer
Blue and green eyes are exotic and beautiful, but researchers are finding that there’s a price attached to these c ...AUG 21, 2016Plants & Animals
Flowers like sunlight. With it, they are able to carry out photosynthesis, and it’s a necessary part of many plant ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
A very interesting binary star system subbed AR Scorpii some 380 light years away from our planet contains both a red dw ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of the brightest objects in the universe is a supernova, which is when a start collapses in on itself at the end of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
A lot of people like going tanning at the beach, or even in their own backyards. Some have tan-lines, and some don&rsquo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists are always out to learn more about how our Solar System formed, the only problem is, we don’t have a ti ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
Jupiter is rather distant from the Sun, found on the opposite side of the Asteroid Belt than our Solar System’s in ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 10, 2016Videos
While there was understandable concern about the water surrounding Rio de Janeiro leading up to the Olympics, now it see ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 10, 2016Space & Astronomy
There is currently no proof that a ninth planet exists in our Solar System, but there is circumstantial evidence that su ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 07, 2016Space & Astronomy
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a space-based mission that keeps a close eye on the Sun for changes in its surfa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
The Kepler mission has been going Rambo in discovering new exoplanets in other systems across the Milky Way galaxy. In t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA is all over the place in our Solar System with all kinds of spacecraft types. They’re trying to learn more ab ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 04, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of Jupiter’s moons, Io, is quite the interesting character. It turns out there are two sides to Io’s per ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 03, 2016Videos
Skin cancer cases are growing each year. Even though most people know the dangers of too much sun exposure, the rates co ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially closed contact with the Philae lander that resides on the surface of come ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
SEP 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
New images from Rosetta's Osiris instrument show Philae in vividly-clear detail on comet 67P's surface. Astronom
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have had their eyes on an exoplanet dubbed Gj 1132b that was discovered last year and seems to resemble Venus
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 02, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Last month, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago announced in the journal Science that they h
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists are in awe after having discovered a very strange trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is orbiting the Sun in a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 25, 2016
Immunology
What the pharmaceutical industry calls “the key to obesity” is the only hormone known to enhance appetite, a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 25, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
It seems that Zika cases are increasing daily. Amid this public health crisis, researchers are discovering new insight i
...
AUG 23, 2016
Videos
It isn't all that uncommon for objects to slam into the Sun, and when they do, the Sun's immense heat and gravitational
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 23, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA has announced this week that they’ve officially gotten back in touch with their STEREO mission following two
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 23, 2016
Cancer
Blue and green eyes are exotic and beautiful, but researchers are finding that there’s a price attached to these c
...
AUG 21, 2016
Plants & Animals
Flowers like sunlight. With it, they are able to carry out photosynthesis, and it’s a necessary part of many plant
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A very interesting binary star system subbed AR Scorpii some 380 light years away from our planet contains both a red dw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of the brightest objects in the universe is a supernova, which is when a start collapses in on itself at the end of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A lot of people like going tanning at the beach, or even in their own backyards. Some have tan-lines, and some don&rsquo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists are always out to learn more about how our Solar System formed, the only problem is, we don’t have a ti
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter is rather distant from the Sun, found on the opposite side of the Asteroid Belt than our Solar System’s in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 10, 2016
Videos
While there was understandable concern about the water surrounding Rio de Janeiro leading up to the Olympics, now it see
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 10, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There is currently no proof that a ninth planet exists in our Solar System, but there is circumstantial evidence that su
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a space-based mission that keeps a close eye on the Sun for changes in its surfa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The Kepler mission has been going Rambo in discovering new exoplanets in other systems across the Milky Way galaxy. In t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA is all over the place in our Solar System with all kinds of spacecraft types. They’re trying to learn more ab
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 04, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of Jupiter’s moons, Io, is quite the interesting character. It turns out there are two sides to Io’s per
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 03, 2016
Videos
Skin cancer cases are growing each year. Even though most people know the dangers of too much sun exposure, the rates co
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially closed contact with the Philae lander that resides on the surface of come
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard