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New High-Res Map of Antarctica Shows the Icy Continent in Astonishing Detail
September 11, 2018 | ArticleResearchers have released the most detailed terrain map of Antarctica to date.
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7 Quantum Particles Act Like Billions in Weird Physics Experiment
September 11, 2018 | ArticleJust seven photons in a mirrored trap formed a Bose-Einstein condensate, one of the more exotic particle states — and one usually reserved for matter.
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Mysterious Light Flashes Are Coming from Deep Space, and AI Just Found More of Them
September 11, 2018 | ArticleLast year's mysterious outburst of deep-space light flashes was even more frenzied than previously thought, a new study reports.
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Chinese Startups OneSpace, iSpace Succeed With Suborbital Launches
September 10, 2018 | ArticleChinese launch startup OneSpace successfully performed its first launch from a national launch site Sept.7, following a similar feat by competitor iSpace days earlier.
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Huge Hurricane Florence Looms Large in New Views from Space (Video)
September 10, 2018 | ArticleAs Hurricane Florence intensified into a major Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean today (Sept. 10), astronauts and satellites have spotted the enormous weather system from space.
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Is Pluto a Planet? New Paper Adds to Decade-Long Debate
September 10, 2018 | ArticleScientists have spent 12 years arguing over how to classify Pluto, and a recently published paper offers a new — but surprisingly old — reason for restoring the object's planetary status.
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Galaxy Punches Through Neighbor to Spawn Giant Ring of Black Holes
September 10, 2018 | ArticleA giant ring of black holes has been discovered 300 million light-years away, offering new clues about what happens when galaxies collide.
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The End is Near for NASA's Historic Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt
September 07, 2018 | ArticleAppreciate those gorgeous photos of the dwarf planet Ceres that NASA's Dawn spacecraft keeps beaming home, because that tap will soon run dry.
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Puzzling Swirls on the Moon May Come from Ancient, Magnetized Lava
September 07, 2018 | ArticleLight and dark markings swirl over the moon, looking like cream swirled into coffee or clouds against a slate gray sky. These lunar swirls may result from ancient, magnetic lava just below the moon's surface, according to one new study.
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Jupiter's Weird Magnetic Field Gets Even Weirder
September 07, 2018 | ArticleNASA's Juno spacecraft has mapped the powerful magnetic field at Jupiter, revealing a surprising asymmetry between the northern and southern hemispheres that could lend insight into what's going on within the gas giant.
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