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Interesting fact: Titan is the only place in the solar system, other than Earth, that has lakes and oceans on its surface.
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This stunning close-up of NGC 4941 (a galaxy 67 million light-years from Earth) captures the dynamic forces of star birth and a central black hole shaping its evolution. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker)
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Interesting fact: Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass trough your body while you read this sentence..
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Interesting fact: A tortoise that Charles Darwin collected died at age 176 in 2006
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Mysterious levels of methane on Enceladus not explainable with known geochemical processes:
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Is some sort of life form responsible for the methane plumes on Saturn's sixth-largest moon?
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Fascinating: The Murchison Meteorite, one of the oldest rocks in existence. It is approximately 4,600,000,000 years old and likely existed before the Earth itself had completely formed! (Credit: ArtBrom/Basilicofresco)
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Planets Could Travel Along With Rogue 'Hypervelocity' Stars, Spreading Life Throughout The Universe:
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Back in 1988, astronomer Jack Hills predicted a type of “rogue”star might exist that is not bound to any particular galaxy. These stars, he reasoned, were periodically ejected from their host galaxy...
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Gorgeous: NGC 1841 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, 162,000 light-years away. The Milky Way hosts multiple satellites, with the LMC being the most visible (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, F. Niederhofer, N. Bartmann)
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Why Taping Your Mouth at Night Could Be Dangerous Doctors Warn:
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A recent social media trend involving taping one's mouth shut at night to prevent mouth breathing has sparked considerable debate. But according to new research, this popular sleep hack may be less...
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The beautiful remains of a stellar explosion: Supernova remnant SNR 0519, left behind by a white dwarf’s cataclysmic demise. (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/B. J. Williams et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI)
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Fascinating book by David Attenborough! Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness: https://t.co/HNbKxhTz9v -AmazonAfflink
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Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet—the one which shapes the land we live on,...
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Spectacular: the open star cluster NGC 6520 and the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86 (Credit: ESO)
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What would happen if the Earth’s core went cold?
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The Earth’s core is cooling down very slowly over time. One day, when the core has completely cooled and become solid, it will have a huge impact on the whole planet. Scientists think that when that...
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The spectacular Dark Wolf Nebula If you think darkness means emptiness, think again. Dark nebulae are cold, dense clouds of cosmic dust that obscure the light of stars and other celestial objects behind them. (Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team - Video by Universal-Sci)
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This gorgeous image shows part of N11, a star-forming region in the LMC, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years away. Bright young stars illuminate gas and dust, shaping the clouds with powerful ultraviolet light. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, J. Maíz Apellániz)
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When you look up, how far back in time do you see?
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Our senses are stuck in the past. There’s a flash of lightning, and then seconds pass until we hear the rumble of distant thunder. We hear the past.
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Galactic Tranquility… Though NGC 976, about 150 million light-years away in Aries, appears serene, it once hosted a supernova that briefly outshone the galaxy. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al.)
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