Scientist holds a vial with a glass bead (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientist holds a vial with a glass bead

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A team of scientists from nine institutions in government, academia and industry discovered that many kinds of glass have similar atomic structure and can successfully be made in space. This photo was altered to depict a bead of space glass.

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ORNL/U.DS. Dept. of Energy (Sumner Gibbs, photographer; and Phoenix Pleasant, graphic artist)

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