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Simon's Cat in 'Hidden Treasure'
Switzerland 2011
Photo Album ‘Switzerland 2011’
X-raying a Supernova Factory
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Each of the 14,370 pinpricks of light in this x-ray image is a hot, young star in the Carina Nebula - a giant cloud of gas and dust some 7500 light-years from Earth where new stars are being born.
A Moon on Fire
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The jovian moon Io harbors a globe-girdling pool of molten rock beneath its volcano-riddled surface. That’s the conclusion of a reanalysis of decade-old data from the Galileo spacecraft that once orbited Jupiter, reported online today in Science.
Tulpenroute
Photo Album ‘Tulpenroute’
Simon's Cat in 'Hop It'
New! Gmail Motion
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Introducing a new way to interact with Gmail - using your body! Gmail Motion can help you improve the way you interact with your email. Learn how
Long-Awaited Titan Rains Arrive
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On descending toward the surface of Saturn’s haze-shrouded moon Titan in early 2005, the Huygens lander spied all manner of channels and canyons that had to have been carved into the ice of the deeply frigid satellite by rushing liquefied methane.
Mars Crater Gouged by Multiple Impacts
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High-resolution images released today by the European Space Agency reveal new details about an unusually elongated crater on Mars that may have been blasted by several objects striking the planet’s surface at a shallow angle.
Simon's Cat in 'Sticky Tape'
The World's Biggest Cave
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In 2009, a team of British cavers investigated a recently uncovered cave in a remote Vietnamese jungle. The Son Doong cave is enormous; can it be larger than the current world-record holder?
Ana Somnia
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Ana Somnia or lights out!