Science

How long will a volcanic island live?

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An aerial view of Las Tintoreras, Isla Isabela in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

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Hubble Views a Galaxy with an Active Center

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Hubble Views a Galaxy with an Active Center

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The billion-year belch

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Giant cavities in the X-ray emitting intracluster medium (shown in blue, as observed by NASA's Chandra X-...

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Image Release: Distant Milky Way-like Galaxies Reveal Star Formation History of the Universe

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Composite view of an observation showing thousands of galaxies in radio light and the MeerKAT radio telescope array in the South...

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NASA’s SDO Sees New Kind of Magnetic Explosion on Sun

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Forced magnetic reconnection, caused by a prominence from the Sun, was seen for the first...

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Methane leak visible from space

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Methane leak visible from space

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ESO Telescope Images Stunning Central Region of Milky Way, Finds Ancient Star Burst

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HAWK-I view of the Milky Way’s central region.

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Hubble’s celestial peanut

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Hubble’s celestial peanut

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