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Scientists Believe Humans Will One Day Colonize the Universe 26 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
A new study from the University of Oxford looks at the possibility of human colonization throughout the universe. Scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan have long believed that humans...
Physicists Pinpoint Solid-State Triple Point in Vanadium Dioxide 26 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
In a newly published study, University of Washington researchers detail the first-ever accurate determination of a solid-state triple point in vanadium dioxide. It is well known to scientists that the...
New Herschel Image of the Orion A Star-Formation Cloud 26 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
This new composite image from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory shows the Orion A star-formation cloud. This new view of the Orion A star-formation cloud from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory shows the...
Asteroid 1998 KN3 Zips Past the Orion Nebula 26 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
This NEOWISE image shows asteroid 1998 KN3 as it zips by the Orion nebula. This image shows the potentially hazardous near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud of dense gas and dust near the ...
Astronomers Anticipate Comet ISON’s Close Flyby of Mars 26 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
This short ScienceCast video details the close encounter Comet ISON is expected to have with Mars. A new ScienceCast video anticipates Comet ISON’s close flyby of Mars on Oct. 1, 2013. Around the worl...
Astronomers Observe a Possible Planet-Forming Disk around the Young Star RY Tau 23 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to observe a disk around the young star RY Tau, finding that a “fluffy” layer above the disk appears to be a remnant of material from an earlier phase of stellar ...
5,000 Light Year Long Jet of Superheated Gas Ejected from a Supermassive Black Hole 23 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
Using more than thirteen years observations from Hubble, astronomers have created a time-lapse movie of a 5,000-light-year-long jet of superheated gas as it is ejected from a supermassive black hole i...
Hubble Views a Cosmic Optical Illusion 23 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
This newly released Hubble images shows irregular dwarf galaxy PGC 16389, galaxy APMBGC 252+125-117 and many other more distant galaxies. At first glance, this Hubble picture appears to capture two sp...
NASA Releases New Video and Imagery of Asteroid Mission 23 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
NASA has released new images and a three minute video showing the crew operations on NASA’s proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission. Concept animation showing the crew operations on NASA’s proposed Asteroi...
Researchers Transform Human Scar-Tissue into Heart-Muscle Cells 22 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
A newly published study from scientists at the Gladstone Institutes details how researchers transformed the class of cells that form human scar tissue into those closely resembling beating heart cells...
