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Devourer of Planets? Astronomers Dub Star ‘Kronos’
Sun-like star Kronos shows signs of having ingested 15 Earth masses worth of rocky planets, prompting Princeton astronomers to nickname it for the Titan...
Measurement Promises Complete Picture of Milky Way
Astronomers directly measured the distance to a region on the far side of our Milky Way Galaxy, past the Galaxy's center.
Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF;...
Intense Storms Batter Saturn’s Largest Moon, Scientists Report
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, behind the planet's rings. The much smaller moon Epimetheus is visible in the foreground.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Titan, the largest of...
Star Dust Helps Explain Mysterious Dimming Star
This illustration depicts a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting a mysterious dimming star about 1,000 light years from Earth.
Credit: Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech
Massimo Marengo's...
Solar Research: On the Generation of Solar Spicules and Alfvenic Waves
In the image above obtained with the NASA's spectrograph IRIS, can be seen in the bedge or limbo of the Sun the multitude of...
Astronomers Find Potential Solution Into How Planets Form
This image shows V1247 Orionis, a young, hot star surrounded by a dynamic ring of gas and dust, known as a circumstellar disc. The...
Solar Research: NASA Sounding Rocket Instrument Spots Signatures of Long-Sought Small Solar Flares
The NASA-funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket. Nanoflares...
Powerful optical imaging technology catches DNA naturally fluorescing
A powerful Northwestern University imaging tool is the first to measure the structure of isolated chromosomes without the use of fluorescent labels.
Credit: Northwestern University
Many...
Heart Tissue Grown on Spinach Leaves
In this sequence, a spinach leaf is stripped of its plant cells, a process called decellularization, using a detergent. The process leaves behind the...
Scientists engineer sugarcane to produce biodiesel, more sugar for ethanol
Researchers extract juice from sugarcane that has been engineered to produce oil for biodiesel in addition to the plant's sugar that is used for...
Synthetic Biologists Engineer Inflammation-Sensing Gut Bacteria
Synthetic biologists at Rice University have engineered orally ingestible gut bacteria capable of sensing colitis in mice.
Credit: J. Tabor/Rice University
Synthetic biologists at Rice University...
