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A pair of comets partially melt as they collide in an inset image, lower right, with the system’s young star and accretion disk in the background.

Photo Credit

Thomas Müller (MPIA/HdA)

Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.

July 11, 2016

Entanglement : Chaos

May 18, 2016

May 17, 2016

We’ll Leave the Lights On For You

May 11, 2016

A Quasiparticle Collider

May 10, 2016

A Distinction at the Cosmic Level

May 2, 2016

Making Invisible Physics Visible

April 25, 2016

Rare Earth Atoms See the Light

photo of Joseph Incandela

March 23, 2016

UCSB Professor Joe Incandela Named 61st Faculty Research Lecturer

March 14, 2016

The Einstein Revolution

March 10, 2016

Sensing Potential

February 24, 2016

The Dance of Atoms

February 3, 2016

The Universe in the Heel of a Sock

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