01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
A young double-star system in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, imaged with the Very Large Array. This pair would fit within the orbit of Neptune in our solar system. [Image 1 of 4 related images. See Image 2.] More about this image A ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
"Walking in Color," by Daniel M. Harris and John W.M. Bush. Quantum physics measures movements of the tiniest particles in the universe, which not only happen incredibly quickly and on very small scales, but also defy physicists' intuition. Analogies from the macroscopic world can help ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
"American lobster larva," by Jesica Waller, Halley McVeigh and Noah Oppenheim. As a master's student in marine biology at the University of Maine, Jesica Waller spent the summer taking pictures of baby lobsters. Increasingly warm and acidic oceans affect many marine species, and so Waller ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
Duke University scientists have discovered a new class of inexpensive and long-lived molecular tags that enhance MRI signals by 10,000-fold. To activate the tags, researchers mix them with a newly developed catalyst (center) and a special form of hydrogen (gray), converting them into long-lived ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
Composite image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 showing the distorted Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) image of the more distant galaxy (red arcs) and the Hubble optical image of the nearby lensing galaxy (blue center object). By analyzing the distortions in the ring, ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
"Weedy seadragon life cycle," by Stephanie Rozzo. During her time volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, freelance science illustrator Stephanie Rozzo helped clean the seahorse exhibit. Over time, she found herself enchanted by their colors and movements. Rozzo knew she had her next ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
In this artist's conception, a widely-separated pair of young, still-forming stars is in the background, forming by fragmentation of material in the larger cloud in which they are born. In the foreground, companions in a multiple-star system are forming through fragmentation of a dusty disk that ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
"The FtsZ ring: a multilayered protein network," by Jennifer E. Fairman. When her colleague Jie Xiao approached her to make an illustration for a journal article, Jennifer Fairman didn't know just how challenging the assignment would be. Xiao was studying E. coli bacteria. Her team had ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
Disks of material surrounding young stars in the Perseus molecular cloud, imaged with the Very Large Array. Arrows indicate the direction of outflows from the young systems. [Image 3 of 4 related images. See Image 4.] More about this ...
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01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST
A young triple-star system in the Perseus molecular cloud, imaged with the Very Large Array. [Image 2 of 4 related images. See Image 3.] More about this image A detailed study of young stars and their surroundings has produced dramatic ...
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