The Orion Molecular Cloud Complex is a group of nebulae and stellar nurseries positioned some 1,500 light years away from Earth. This is a place where new stars are born, but also apparently where they meet an early end. New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile …
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At a time when terrestrial plant life was just beginning to take hold here on Earth some 466 million years ago, a massive asteroid collision happened someplace nearby. We don’t know much about the nature of the original objects that collided, except that one of them was about the size …
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For the first time, a team of scientists have captured all phases of a classical nova explosion — before, during, and after the event. The event took place back in 2009, but at first the astronomers didn’t even realize they’d captured such an unusual occurrence. After going back and looking …
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Stop pretending you don’t want a piece of this. (Well, it’s more appropriate to say “a scoop”, since it’s basically chocolate muck with hacked up pieces of candy bars in it. No- wait- it’s even more appropriate to say you want “a shovel” of it, because, it’s obvious. You can’t not use a …
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Photo: acappellasalon on Instagram While colour bleeding may be a popular artistic technique in graphic design, this strategy has also made its way over to the world of hair colour. As the latest variation on brightly coloured locks, colour bleed hair involves a type of balayage. In other words, the hair dye …
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