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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be turning bright green, surprising new photos revealNew photos captured during the recent "blood moon" total lunar eclipse show that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be turning green as it gets closer to the sun.
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NASA spots bizarre 'turtle' on MarsNASA's Perseverance rover has photographed a peculiar rock formation that looks eerily like a turtle poking its head out from its protective shell.
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Gigantic 'letter S' spotted on the sun just before a 'dark eruption' hurls a fiery shadow at EarthA giant S-shape structure, around 10 times wider than Earth, recently appeared in the center of the sun, moments before our home star unleashed an even larger plume of plasma that later crashed into our planet.
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Giant 'chessboard' surrounds Idaho river in bizarre astronaut photoEarth from space A 2017 astronaut photo shows an unusual checkered pattern surrounding a river, just south of the Canadian border. The unique sight is the result of a forest management initiative dating to the 1800s.
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New photos of comet 3I/ATLAS reveal its tail growing before our eyesNew images reveal interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS beginning to grow a signature tail as it zooms closer to the sun ahead of a close encounter with Earth this fall.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #9: A 'royal' snake that wears a hood — 14 acrossScience crossword Test your knowledge on all things science with our weekly, free crossword puzzle!
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The universe's first magnetic fields were 'comparable' to the human brain — and still linger within the 'cosmic web'New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — containing the equivalent magnetic energy of a human brain.
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Dozens of mysterious blobs discovered inside Mars may be the remnants of 'failed planets'"Marsquake" data collected by NASA's InSight lander have revealed dozens of mysterious blobs within the Red Planet's mantle. The structures may have been left by powerful impacts up to 4.5 billion years ago.
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Newly discovered bus-size asteroid will zoom close past Earth today — and will not return for exactly 100 yearsAsteroid 2025 QV5, which was first spotted in late August, will make a close approach to Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 3). It will not get this near to us again until Sept. 4, 2125.
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Giant sandy 'slug' crawls through floodplains in Kazakhstan, but it could soon be frozen in placeEarth from space A 2022 astronaut photo shows a peculiar, slug-shaped dune field in the heart of the Kazakh Steppe. Signs of vegetation among the sand suggest these dunes are in the process of being fixed in place.
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'Cannibal' solar storm could paint auroras above 18 US states this Labor DaySpace weather experts warn that a "strong" geomagnetic storm will rock Earth on Sept. 1-2, potentially lighting the skies with vibrant auroras across large parts of North America. The disturbance is being triggered by a rare, cannibalistic ejection from the sun.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #8: Lowest possible temperature in the universe — 3 down
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NASA reveals the dwarf planet Ceres had a hidden 'energy source' that may have sparked alien lifeNew models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #7: NASA mission that redirected an asteroid — 8 across
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Rare milky plumes paint stunning swirls in world's largest 'soda lake'Earth from space A 2016 astronaut photo shows surprising plumes of milky material swirling in the waters of Turkey's Lake Van, the largest alkaline lake on Earth.
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Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may be long lost siblings, JWST hintsNew data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent".
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Scientists think they detected the first known triple black hole system in the universe — and then watched it dieChinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in a never-before-seen triple system.
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Supervolcanic 'hell' caldera in Japan is home to 17 different volcanoesEarth from space A 2012 astronaut photo shows the striking beauty of Japan's Aso Caldera, a "supervolcanic" structure home to more than a dozen volcanoes and "hellish" hot springs. It was formed by several major eruptions spanning more than 200,000 years.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #6: Planet with a 'Great Red Spot' — 6 down
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Giant, cosmic 'Eye of Sauron' snapped staring directly at us in stunning 15-year time-lapse photoResearchers have combined 15 years' worth of radio data to peer through the cone of a high-energy jet and unravel the magnetic mysteries of a "blazar" billions of light-years from Earth. The new findings also shed light on the origin of elusive "ghost particles."
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Ghostly 'spiral' photobombs Perseid meteors over several US states — and experts are unsure what caused itThe ghostly light, which was triggered by a rocket reentry, sailed across the night sky as skywatchers across the U.S. looked up to see "shooting stars" streak across the heavens. However, experts are confused over which spacecraft is responsible.
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A real-life Pandora? Newfound 'disappearing' planet in our neighboring star system could have a habitable moon, just like the Avatar moviesThe recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be orbited in turn by a habitable moon that could support life, just like in the "Avatar" movies.
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10 bizarre 'dark voids' appear in the skies over uninhabited island near AntarcticaEarth from space A 2016 satellite photo shows nearly a dozen swirling dark spots that emerged in the clouds over Heard Island in the Indian Ocean.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #5: Substance with a pH value less than 7 — 2 down
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