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March 14, 2024
Spotlight

Women of Influence: Anat Shahar

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March 29, 2024
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April 30, 2024
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JWST enables research team to map the weather on an exoplanet 280 light-years from Earth

Yellow needle-like crystals of the mineral rutherfordine. Photo is courtesy of The RRUFF Project @RRUFF.info.
May 25, 2023

Predicting where to find valuable minerals

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Alycia Weinberger and one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. 

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This artist's concept is based on Hubble Space Telescope images of gas-and-dust disks around the young star TW Hydrae. Hubble Space Telescope photos show shadows sweeping across the disks encircling the system. Credit: NASA, AURA/STScI for ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI).
May 04, 2023

Peek-a-boo disk shows evidence of a previously unseen baby planet forming around young star

Water close-up courtesy of Unsplash
April 12, 2023

How did Earth get its water?

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, 2014. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
March 15, 2023

Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? Not Melted Meteorites.

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