Germangendra is like the earth surrounded, but the whole galaxy has been rinsed. A huge, high-velocity stream of gas is wrapped around the Milky Way, about 200,000 light-years away, most of the way. We know where it comes from, more or less. It is very closely linked to the large …
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Earth, with its convincingly familiar continents, arranged in a reliable configuration that you know and love, does not always look like it does today. The masses of its land, once closed together in the supercontinent, have broken and broken and drifted away from each other, and have come together again …
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The death toll in the United States through July 2020 is 8 percent to 12 percent higher than it would have been if the coronavirus pandemic had never occurred. That is at least 164,937 deaths above the number expected for the first seven months of the year – 16,183 more …
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The Arctic’s fast-melting ice is even more than our strongest predictions for the future, and that is not in line with the past. A new and improved model, based on the last warm period in the history of the Earth, now suggests shallow pools of rain and melt water could …
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A faint, ghostly galaxy 10 million light-years away has delivered one of black hole astronomy’s holy grails. At the bottom is a black hole that appears to belong to an elusive middleweight class of intermediate-mass black holes, a discovery that could help us understand how some of the more massive …
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