Comets May Hold The Secret To The Origin Of Life On Earth

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on Nov. 28, 2013, comet ISON will fly through the sun’s atmosphere little more than a million km from the stellar surface. If the comet survives without breaking up it could emerge glowing as brightly as the Moon, visible near the sun in broad daylight.

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Jupiter and beyond the Infinite…

This animation shows how fast a rocket must go to leave every planet

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Scientists slow the speed of light

By Kenneth Macdonald

A team of Scottish scientists has made light travel slower than the speed of light. 

They sent photons - individual particles of light - through a special mask. It changed the photons’ shape - and slowed them to less than light speed. 

The photons remained travelling at the lower speed even when they returned to free space. 

The experiment is likely to alter how science looks at light.

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Hubble has been 27 years in space, being launched in April 24, 1990. The first image it shoot was the star cluster NGC 3532.

NGC 7023, Ghost Nebula