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What can a collapsed star form?

CurioCity23 January 2012

We Come From Stars! Nothing, aside from a few light elements, would exist without stars. Stars are giant element producing factories, and without them we couldn't exist.

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Entering a Solar Maximum

with Starting Points

Theresa van Vliet Wiegert 23 January 2012

“Hello?! Can you hear me?” Silence. The call has been dropped. Has this ever happened to you while trying to call someone? Bad connection, you might think. But could it be something else? The sun perhaps?

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Is the world really gonna end in 2012?

Rob Thacker 23 January 2012

Thanks to a number of sensationalized movies and documentaries, you might be wondering whether there’s any truth to the claims that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. The reality is that all these stories are just plain wrong!

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It’s raining Quadrantids!

Chelsea Nimmo 23 January 2012

This article is for all of you out there asking yourself where do meteoroids (pieces of space debris that become meteors when they burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere) came from.

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Why does the earth's magnetic field not cause a collision with another planet?

Rob Thacker 23 January 2012

The Earth's magnetic field is just like a bar magnet, which explains its effect on other planets.

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How do scientists measure a light year?

Derek Wasylenko 23 January 2012

The use of kilometers is no longer a sensible unit for measuring distances in space due to its vastness. To overcome this, astronomers came up with the light-year.

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What time of year is Hydra most visible?

CurioCity23 January 2012

Question asked by Halley, Grade 9, Toronto, Ontario

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Is Time Travel possible?

Francois-Alex Bourque 23 January 2012

Is time travel science fiction or science possibility, and why are there no time tourists from the future?

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Where in the solar system is the constellation hydra located?

CurioCity23 January 2012

This DNA Day question was answered by Isabel.

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Supermassive Black Holes

Rob Thacker 20 January 2012

Black holes are regions in space resulting from stars that have "died" and collapsed in on themselves. Their gravitational field is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light.

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