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Fascinating! The evolution of the Moon (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

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A segment of the Veil Nebula, the magnificent remains of a colossal star (once around 20 times more massive than our Sun) that exploded in a supernova some 10,000 years ago. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit)

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A comparison of the potential liquid water volume of Earth, Europa, and Titan to scale. (Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo/NASA)

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Magnificent: Cep OB 3b, a fresh gathering of stars in the Cepheus constellation. Numerous young stars withing this cluster may be giving rise to new worlds! Credit: WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) & T. Allen (University of Toledo)

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Stunning: Star forming nebula G035.20-0.74 This star-forming region produces B-Type stars: Young, blue stars up to five times hotter than our Sun! (Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Tan Processing; Gladys Kober)

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Amazing Discovery Paves The Way for Stamp-Sized Hard Drives with 100x Data Density: www.universal-sci.com/article/new-...

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Spectacular: NGC 1651, located 162,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This image showcases a stretch of space about 120 light-years in diameter (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Girardi, F. Niederhofer)

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Is alcohol bad for you? It depends on the drink and how you drink it: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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Why do we always fall asleep in cars? Here's the science: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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This amazing image reveals a dense region near the Milky Way’s centre, previously hidden by dust. Astronomers have discovered over 100,000 solar masses of young stars there... (Credit: ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al.)

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This incredible infrared image shows Monoceros R2, a star-forming region about 2,700 light-years. It features young, massive stars lighting up reflection nebulae within a vast molecular cloud (Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

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Fascinating: Did you know that the Sun's energy output per cubic meter is only about the same as that of a compost heap? ☀️🍂 About 277 watts per m3 (277 watts per m3 doesn't seem very impressive. But the sheer volume of the Sun generates an immense output.)

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Fascinating: The glowing red clouds in this image reveal dense regions of gas in the RCW 106 area, where new stars are forming. However, just 1% of this gas will ultimately become stars. (Credit: ESO/M. Mattern et al.)

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How climbing four flights of stairs can help in assessing your heart health: www.universal-sci.com/article/clim...

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These delicate filaments are the remains of a massive star that exploded in the LMC, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's the brightest supernova remnant in that galaxy and lies about 160,000 light-years from Earth (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Kulkarni, Y. Chu)

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Why are most people right handed? The answer may be in the mouths of our ancestors: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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Fascinating: Spiral galaxy IC 4709, 240 million light-years away, features a swirling disk of stars and dust around a bright core that hides an active supermassive black hole 65 million times the mass of our Sun. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Koss, A, Barth)

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You can tell if someone is attracted to you by their voice: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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Spectacular: Colourful 'candyfloss' gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. The colours, created using different light filters, reveal details invisible to the naked eye and highlight the cloud's structure (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray)

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Amazing: Four exoplanets (super Jupiters) orbiting counterclockwise with their host star (HR 8799) This footage is composed of images of HR 8799 captured by the Keck Telescope over a span of seven years. Credit: Jason Wang (Caltech)/Christian Marois (NRC Herzberg)

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A brilliant face-on image of NGC 3596, a spiral galaxy in Leo, 90 million light-years away.. Young stars light up its arms, where gas, dust, and stars gather, shaping its bright spiral form (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker)

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Gorgeous: A vibrant, rose-like nebula with red, orange, and yellow layers surrounds the open star cluster NGC 2040. (Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA - Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez, T.A. Rector, M. Zamani)

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How to generate oxygen on Mars? www.universal-sci.com/article/how-...

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Incredible! A Solar eclipses on Mars caused by the moon Phobos, as seen from the Perseverance Mars Rover! (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI)

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Gorgeous: IC 2631, also known as the Chamaeleon Cloud, is a bright reflection nebula located in the southern constellation Chamaeleon. (Credit: ESO)

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Stunning: The Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) in the constellation Serpens is a rich star-forming region featuring the iconic Pillars of Creation, surrounded by numerous stars at different stages of evolution and distances. Credit: ESO/M.McCaughrean & M.Andersen (AIP)

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What Is The Wettest Place On Earth? www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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Should you immediately throw away a pan when you scratch its coating? www.universal-sci.com/article/shou...

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You don’t need to build a rocket to prove the Earth isn’t flat Here’s the simple science: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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Arp 263 might look ragged, but its chaotic charm hides an epic tale of two galaxies merging. Even though the glitzy star BD+17 2217 hogs the limelight, the true star story is Arp 263 (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, A. Filippenko)

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A gorgeous phenomenon called solar rain Solar rain occurs when super-heated plasma rises up the sun's looping magnetic field lines, then falls back to the surface (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO)

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How strong your grip is says a lot about your health Here's why: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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Stunning: The Eagle Nebula This soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers high! (Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)

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It turns out that the T. Rex must have been even more terrifying than previously thought: www.universal-sci.com/article/tyra...

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Gorgeous! Messier 77, or the Squid Galaxy, 45 million light-years away, was long mistaken for a nebula until advances in astronomy revealed it as a distant galaxy with tentacle-like filaments inspiring its modern nickname... (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker)

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What Processed Red Meat May Be Doing to Your Brain Health: www.universal-sci.com/article/the-...

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When one plus one (eventually) equals one... These two galaxies dance through chaos and gravity, destined (over millions of years) to become a single, transformed whole. (Credit :ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, L. Shatz)

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About 95% of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy, which are invisible to conventional instruments and can only be measured indirectly They influence the universe’s structure and expansion, but their true nature is one of the biggest mysteries in existence...

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Why are most people right handed? Here's the science: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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A dynamic duo! In R Aquarii, a dense white dwarf orbits a cooler red giant star The white dwarf pulls material from the red giant onto its surface, and with time, the build-up causes combustion. (Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/STScI, Palomar Observatory, DSS; NSF/NRAO/VLA LCO/IMACS/MMTF)

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Stunning: NGC 685, a barred spiral galaxy 64 million light-years away, ablaze with young blue stars and glowing pink H II gas clouds—signs of ongoing star birth (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee, F. Belfiore)

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Remarkable: NGC 2775, a flocculent spiral galaxy 67 million light-years away, reveals delicate, feathery arms that point to a tranquil star formation history. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team /Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

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Mesmerizing: This is a fragment of the Fukang meteorite, a 1,003 kilogram meteorite discovered in China It’s a pallasite, a class of meteorite known for its striking olivine crystals, and believed to be about 4.5 billion years old! (Credit: Wolfgang Sauber)

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Astronomers think there could be trillions of these mysterious objects roaming our galaxy Read more: www.universal-sci.com/article/what...

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How to get rid of mosquitoes according to science: www.universal-sci.com/article/how-...

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NGC 5037, a captivating Spiral Galaxy in the constellation of Virgo! (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario / L. Shatz)

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Intriguing: the region of the sky around the Cone Nebula The nebulous area at the center of the image is NGC 2264, an area of the sky that includes the Christmas Tree star cluster and the Cone Nebula below it (Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: D. De Martin)

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This Amazing Breakthrough in Plastic Recycling Could Change Everything: www.universal-sci.com/article/new-...

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Believe it or not, Uranus has rings! (Credit: NASA/Hubble Team/Kevin M. Gill)

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