The superclouds probably produce star-forming clouds of gas, since most nearby stellar nurseries are located within the giants.
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Seven superclouds sit just beyond the solar system
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Burloak and MDA Bet Big on Additive Manufacturing, Fueling Next-Gen Satellite Constellations
For decades, metal additive manufacturing (AM) has promised to revolutionize aerospace by offering lighter, more complex, and faster-to-produce components. But for much of its history, AM in the space sector has struggled to move beyond…
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Scientists Detect Unprecedented Energy ‘Tidal Wave’ from the Sun
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that boiled my blood, warmed my heart, and got permanently inked into my memory.
First, a new look at some very old tattoos. Then: a posthumous discovery from a beloved…
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Starlink mission marks SpaceX’s 450th flight-proven Falcon booster launched – Spaceflight Now
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update Aug. 4, 4:30 a.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on its droneship.
SpaceX…
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This star survived its own supernova and shined even brighter
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. NGC 1309 is situated about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
This stunning Hubble image encompasses NGC…
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Hubble Sees Dusty Clouds in Tarantula Nebula
A striking new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows incredible details in the Tarantula Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula, a…
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National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resources
The United States’ national parks have an inherent contradiction. The federal law that created the National Park Service says the agency – and the parks – must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the…
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If everyone in the world turned on the lights at the same time, what would happen?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to
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Fetal autopsies could help prevent stillbirths, but too often they are used to blame mothers for pregnancy loss
About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth.
The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these procedures are performed in only 1 in 5 of the over 20,000 stillbirths that occur each year. As…
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How Earth, Venus, Mars, and a Lost Planet Once Formed a Perfectly Synchronized Dance
Recent simulations and research have unveiled a fascinating new insight into the history of the solar system’s terrestrial planets. For years, scientists speculated about how the rocky planets—Earth, Mars, Venus, and the mysterious long-lost…
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