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Washington State Suffers from Williams Flats Fire Caused by Lightning

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Washington state endured a band of early morning thunderstorms
Washington State Suffers from Williams Flats Fire Caused by Lightning.

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Hubble Traces a Galaxy’s Outer Reaches

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NGC 3432.

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Shining (Star)light on the Search for Life

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The young Earth's atmosphere might have looked like this artist’s interpretation — a pale orange dot.

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The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits

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Conceptual illustration of permanently shadowed, shallow icy craters near the lunar south pole.

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Space data relay system shows its speed

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Space data relay system shows its speed.

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Hubble Uncovers a 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football

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Artist’s impression of WASP-121b.

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Is your Supercomputer Stumped? There May Be a Quantum Solution

Berkeley Lab-led team solves a tough math problem with quantum computing

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Is your Supercomputer Stumped? There May Be a Quantum Solution.

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LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light

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LightSail is a citizen-funded project from The Planetary Society to send a small spacecraft, propelled solely by sunlight, to Earth orbit.

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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 the star’s so-called habitable zone, the orbital region where liquid water can exist on a rocky planet’s surface. If it has a dense atmosphere, which will take future studies to determine, GJ 357 d could be warm enough to permit the presence of liquid water.

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