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breakingnews: Italy’s Nobel winning ‘Lady of the Cells’ dies at 103 AP: Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research during World War II in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years. Photo: Rita Levi Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986 for her discovery of nerve growth factor, the first substance known to regulate the growth of cells, in a Feb. 23, 2007, file photo. (Fabio Campana / EPA file)
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Italy’s Nobel winning ‘Lady of the Cells’ dies at 103

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Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research during World War II in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.

Photo: Rita Levi Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986 for her discovery of nerve growth factor, the first substance known to regulate the growth of cells, in a Feb. 23, 2007, file photo. (Fabio Campana / EPA file)

thephysicalisanillusion: The Hubble Extreme Deep Field The Hubble Extreme Deep Field is most distant image of the Universe ever created.  Its diameter is one tenth the width of the full moon, its area is one 30 millionth of the entire sky.  Within this field of view there are more than 5000 galaxies, 600 trillion stars and 50 quadrillion planets and moons. The light from the most distant visible objects was created more than 13 billion years ago, when the Universe was only 5% of it’s current age.  This photograph is a slice of infinity, proof of the immense scale of reality.
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thephysicalisanillusion:

The Hubble Extreme Deep Field

The Hubble Extreme Deep Field is most distant image of the Universe ever created.  Its diameter is one tenth the width of the full moon, its area is one 30 millionth of the entire sky.  Within this field of view there are more than 5000 galaxies, 600 trillion stars and 50 quadrillion planets and moons. The light from the most distant visible objects was created more than 13 billion years ago, when the Universe was only 5% of it’s current age.  This photograph is a slice of infinity, proof of the immense scale of reality.

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