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NASA Launches Online Game for Would-be Rocket Scientists
(Photo: NASA, M.Masetti) If you think you have what it takes to build a satellite, NASA has just introduced an online game that might appeal to you. With “Build It Yourself: Satellite!” the US space...
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Scientists Recreate the Big Bang
Taken from stills of a simulation of the universe’s evolution, this is a visualization of large-scale structures in the universe over time. (Photo: Habib et al./Argonne National Lab) Since they can’t...
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Hubble Looks Into the Depths of Space and Time
The farthest-ever view of the universe. Hubble’s “extreme Deep Field (XDF) is a composite made from 2,000 images, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 10 year period. (Credit: NASA; ESA; G....
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Science Images of the Week
The Z machine, the largest X-ray generator in the world, is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It concentrates electrical energy, turning it into short pulses of enormous power, which can then be used...
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Astronomers Discover Furthest Galaxy Ever
Composite image of the galaxy cluster which helped reveal the newly discovered galaxy – MACS0647-JD. The inset at left shows a close up of the young dwarf galaxy. (NASA) Scientists have discovered what...
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Scientists Discover Universe’s Largest Known Structure
Artist’s impression of a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. (Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser via Wikimedia Commons) Scientists have found the largest...
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Scientists Confirm Higgs Boson Discovery
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN (CERN) Scientists working with the world’s largest atom smasher say the mystery particle they found last summer was a Higgs boson, which is believed to give mass to...
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Hubble Spots Farthest Supernova Yet
Hubble Space Telescope view of supernova SN UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson. The small box in the image pinpoints SN Wilson’s host galaxy in the survey conducted by the CANDELS+CLASH Supernova Project....
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Data Shows Universe Could Collapse Any Minute
The European Space Agency’s ‘best map ever of the universe’. (Image: ESA and the Planck Collaboration) Our universe is at even greater risk of collapse than has been previously thought, according...
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Astronomers Capture 3D Images of Mysterious Intergalactic Matter
Lyman alpha blob in emerging galaxy cluster SSA22 imaged with Caltech’s Cosmic Web Imager. The arrows show the gas filaments of the IGM flowing into blob. (Christopher Martin, Robert Hurt) For the...
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Science Images of the Week
A customer in Santa Monica, California, purchases the popular digital currency, bitcoins, using one of two new ATM’s that were put into operation on June 21, 2014. (Reuters) An ESA ATV-5 spacecraft is...
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Science Scanner: Mapping an Asteroid; Why the Universe Didn’t Collapse; Spicy...
A sample of the new geological map of Vesta. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University) Scientists Create Geologic and Tectonic Map of Vesta the Asteroid A group of scientists used high-resolution...
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Science Scanner: Stars Younger than Thought, E-Cigarettes Not Really a...
A visualization of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s Planck satellite over the entire sky. ((C) ESA and the Planck Collaboration) Stars Are Younger than...
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The Best Science Images – February 2015
NASA released this composite of x-ray and infrared images taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory on Feb. 12. It shows the remnants of supernova G299.2-2.9, a type Ia supernova about 16,000 light years...
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Short Circuit Snags Giant Atom Smasher Restart
The Large Hadron Collider/ATLAS at CERN ((c) CERN) CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has run into a bit of a snag in its plans to have its upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the...
View ArticleT-Rex’s Teeth Structure, Lithium Found in Exploding Star, Is DC Sinking?
Structure of T-Rex’s Teeth Helped Make Them Terrifying Predators Researchers from the University of Toronto Mississauga have found evidence that one of the reasons carnivorous theropod dinosaurs, like...
View ArticleUniverse Dying?; Seals Use Voice Recognition; Bacteria Helps Smokers Quit
Astronomers Say our Universe is Dying Is our universe slowly dying? An international group of astronomers, who studied more than 200,000 galaxies and precisely measured the energy produced within a...
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October 2015 Science Images
This is the starburst galaxy Messier 94 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in an image released 10/19/15. Within the bright ring area, also called the starburst area, new stars are being formed at a...
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Phobos May Shatter; Study: Poles Won’t Flip; Webb Space Telescope
Color image of Martian moon Phobos (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) Mars May Shatter its Largest Moon Scientists in California have found that the largest moon of Mars, Phobos, is slowly...
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Zika Kills Cells Crucial to Brain Development; Did Volcanoes Cause Mars to Tilt?
In an image released on 1/18/16, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen drawing a blood meal from the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo’s University in Sao...
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