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Biggest Structure in Universe: Large Quasar Group Is 4 Billion Light Years Across
January 11, 2013 — Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. The large quasar group (LQG) is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross ... > full story -
NASA's GALEX Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
January 10, 2013 — The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now astronomers have crowned it the largest-known ... > full story -
Oxygen to the Core: Earth's Core Formed Under More Oxidizing Conditions Than Previously Proposed
January 10, 2013 — Scientists have discovered that Earth's core formed under more oxidizing conditions than previously proposed. While scientists know that Earth accreted from some mixture of meteoritic material, there ... > full story -
A Rock Is a Clock: Physicist Uses Matter to Tell Time
January 10, 2013 — What is the simplest, most fundamental clock? Physicists have shown that a single atom is sufficient to measure time using its high-frequency matter wave. Conversely, the frequency of matter can be ... > full story -
A Jumble of Exotic Stars: New VISTA Snap of Star Cluster 47 Tucanae
January 10, 2013 — A new infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope shows the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in striking detail. This cluster contains millions of stars, and there are many ... > full story -
Next-Generation Adaptive Optics Brings Remarkable Details to Light in Stellar Nursery
January 9, 2013 — A new image reveals how Gemini Observatory's most advanced adaptive optics system will help astronomers study the universe with an unprecedented level of clarity and detail by removing distortions ... > full story -
How Does Your Garden Glow?
January 9, 2013 — Nature’s ability to create iridescent flowers has been recreated by mathematicians. They have created a mathematical model of a plant’s petals to help us learn more about iridescence in ... > full story -
News from the World of Quantum Physics: A Non-Causal Quantum Eraser
January 9, 2013 — Whether a quantum object behaves like a wave or like a particle depends (according to the Copenhagen interpretation) on the choice of measurement apparatus used for observing the system, and ... > full story -
Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B
January 8, 2013 — Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary ... > full story -
NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
January 8, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The scientists used data from NASA's Spitzer Space ... > full story
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