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"Ant lions were the likely inspiration for one of the most frightening scenes in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), in which Jabba the Hutt feeds his captives to a sand-dwelling Sarlacc whose lair in the Great Pit of Carkoon lies just beneath Jabba’s floating ship."

Britney Schmidt, Research Scientist Associate, Institute for Geophysics

NASA's Dawn mission launched September 27, 2007. It travelled to the asteroid Vesta, where it remained in orbit from July 2011 to July 2012 before heading to Ceres. It is slated to spend five months studying the dwarf planet, though Schmidt expressed hope that the craft would continue working beyond the nominal mission, allowing the team to study the icy body even longer.

The central galaxy, NGC 1275, has the black hole at its center, and produces radio waves, x-rays and huge filaments of glowing gas as matter enters the black hole. The filaments are preserved by strong magnetic fields without which they would not withstand the collisions happening all over the galaxy. As with any neighborhood, there's lots of drama here. 

"Suddenly, a flash of light: Out of one eye, he catches motion, quickly turns, and to his astonishment sees an expanding cloud of white vapor in the far distance. He grabs a camera with a telephoto and starts snapping. What could this be? he thinks."

"Under the theory, grains are spun, propeller-like, by photons. Their alignment is modified by magnetic fields, which orients them with respect to the field, telling an observer its direction. Impurities and defects on the dust grains produce catalytic sites for the formation of hydrogen molecules, which are subsequently ejected, creating miniature 'rocket engines'"

"It's so strange. We look out into our universe and see such wonderful and mysterious sights. It invokes just awe and mind expanding thoughts that these things and so many others occur unseen and unnoticed."

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These brightly colored blocks may look like child’s toys, but watch out: These adorable cubes are actually spinning robots that can connect to build modular machines. There’s no assembly required: The blocks, built at MIT , will do it themselves.

Gotta love Disney. No need to follow the rules.