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The fastest star ever observed

S4711 on its path around Sgr A *. Credit: arXiv: 2008.04764 [astro-ph.GA] A team of researchers has seen the fastest moving star ever. In her paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, the group describes their observation and study of stars circling near the black hole in the center of the …

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Greenlandic ice melt is past the point of no return

De Greenland Ice Sheet has reached a point of rapid retreat that it could not recover, even as global temperatures stopped rising immediately. This Arctic ice sheet is the second largest ice sheet in the world, after those with blankets Antarctica. It occupies the majority of Greenland and melts into …

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Why schools can be ‘a pretext for disaster’

People wear protective face masks in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai / Getty Images) Cases of COVID-19 are “slowly increasing” in children, according to new guidelines for health care workers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guide, which was updated on the CDC’s website …

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