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Anne Pommier

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This artist’s concept shows what a thick atmosphere above a vast magma ocean on exoplanet TOI-561 b could look like. Measurements of light captured from the planet’s dayside by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest that in spite of the intense radiation it receives from its star, TOI-561 b is not a bare rock. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

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This 500-million-year-old trilobite from Utah has an organic-rich carapace that preserves a record of the original biomolecules. Credit: Robert Hazen.

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