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Siberian Smoke Reaches U.S., Canada

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Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World

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This diagram shows the layout of the GJ 357 system. Planet d orbits within...

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New Recipes for Taking Salt Out of Seawater

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The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination...

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Siberian Smoke Heading Towards U.S. and Canada

Fires in the Siberian area of Russia are usually quite severe by this time of year and 2019 is no exception. This NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP image taken on July 30, 2019 shows dozens to hundreds of fires burning across a large expanse of this mostly...

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Siberian wildfires

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Siberian wildfires.

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Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

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M2 Coating Completed

If shiny things get your attention, prepare to be dazzled by the newly coated LSST Secondary Mirror (M2)! The mirror received its first reflective coating on July 16, 2019, at the LSST summit facility building on Cerro Pachón. The 3.4-meter M2 mirror...

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A Stellar Stream in the Milky Way Provides Evidence of Dark Substructure

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A model of the stars in the GD-1 stellar stream overlaid on data collected by the Gaia spacecraft. The color of each stat...

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