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The Waxing Crescent moon is seen from Panama City on March 25, 2023. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images)

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People are silhouetted against the sky at dusk as they watch the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, in Edgerton, Kan. The two planets are in their closest observable alignment since 1226. Appearing a tenth of a degree apart, the alignment known as the "great conjunction" has also been called the "Christmas Star." (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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wolverine spotted near Portland

Cascadia Wild

A wolverine was spotted by two people that were fishing on the Columbia River near Portland on Monday, according to Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW). This is the first confirmed report of a wolverine outside of the Wallowa Mountains in over 30 years, according to officials.

A wolverine resembles a small bear with a bushy tail. They are rare and listed as threatened in Oregon, according to ODFW.

On Monday, the two anglers snapped photos of the animal and submitted the information to Cascadia Wild, a non-profit wildlife conservation group that focuses on wolverine tracking, along with ODFW. On Tuesday, the groups verified that the animal in the image was a wolverine and discovered a set of wolverine tracks near the river.

No other signs of the animal were found.

"Given the proximity to Portland, we were very surprised when this report came in and elated when we were able to verify the sighting,î said ODFW District Wildlife Biologist Dave Keiter in a press release on Wednesday. ìWe really appreciate the people who reported this rare occurrence and Cascadia Wild who helped us confirm the report and begin monitoring efforts.î

ODFW and Cascadia Wild have installed non-invasive monitoring stations in the area in hopes of capturing more evidence of this elusive creature. But they arenít hopeful that the animal will make an appearance again.

ìIt is likely that this animal was dispersing as the habitat in the area doesnít meet the life history requirements of wolverines,î reads the press release. ìWolverine can travel over 30 miles in a day, so it is likely the animal is already long gone from where it was sighted.î

For wildlife enthusiasts this sighting only made their day:

ìA WOLVERINE, a freaking WOLVERINE in Western Oregon week, month, year made!,î ODFW tweeted.

They are asking anyone who captures images of the animal to please submit the evidence to them.

ìSome of the best information

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This artist's illustration shows the wayward interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah) racing toward the outskirts of our solar system. The object, heated by the Sun (lower right), is venting gaseous material from its surface, as a comet would.

Researchers suggest this outgassing is one possible cause for 'Oumuamua's slight acceleration, as detected by several telescopes. The irregularly shaped object is only a half-mile across. It is now farther from the Sun than Jupiter and traveling away at about 70,000 miles per hour. The orbits of the major planets are included for scale. The box-shaped constellation Corvus is in the background near image center, and the bright blue star Spica is at upper left of center, in the constellation Virgo. The stars at bottom left belong to the constellation Hydra.

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Relativity Space's Terran 1 rocket is seen during its third launch attempt of a mission called "GLHF" (Good Luck, Have Fun), from Launch Complex 16 in Cape Canaveral, Florida on March 22, 2023.

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A woman poses by a painting of the Houses of Parliament by French artist Claude Monet during a press preview for the exhibition French Artists in Exile (1870-1904) at Tate Britain in London on October 30, 2017 / AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE'N / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit should read NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images)

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This photo provided by NASA shows Emerati astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi during an interview at the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The first Arab astronaut assigned to a long spaceflight is still adjusting to life off the planet, five days after rocketing to the International Space Station. (NASA via AP)

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Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820.

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This artist's illustration shows the ejection of a cloud of debris after NASA's DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos. The image was created with the help of the close-up photographs of Dimorphos that the DRACO camera on the DART spacecraft took right before the impact. The DART spacecraft collided with Dimorphos at a speed of over 6 kilometres per second (about 22 000 kilometres per hour). After the impact several telescopes observed the evolution of the cloud of debris, including ESO's Very Large Telescope.

Asteroid forms a debris cloud after intentional hit from spacecraft

Chief Engineer Jim Stein wears the new spacesuit during the Axiom Space Artemis III Lunar Spacesuit event at Space Center Houston in Houston, Texas, on March 15, 2023. - "Since a spacesuit worn on the Moon must be white to reflect heat and protect astronauts from extreme high temperatures, a cover layer is currently being used for display purposes only to conceal the suits proprietary design, " Axion said in a press release. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

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This satellite image, taken on March 11, shows blobs and strands of sargassum, some 12 miles long, in the Atlantic ocean. The image was outlined by CNN to clarify the locations of the sargassum.

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NASA and Axiom unveil spacesuits astronauts will wear on the moon

NEWQUAY, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Cosmic Girl 747 sits on the apron runway surrounded by technical service equipment at Cornwall Airport on January 08, 2023 in Newquay, England. Preparations are being made for "Start Me Up", the first rocket launch mission to take place on British soil. The LauncherOne system will be carried under the wing of a converted Boeing 747 nicknamed Cosmic Girl for a horizontal launch over the Atlantic. It will take off from Spaceport based at Cornwall Airport in Newquay on the Southwest coast of England on Monday night. The historic rocket launch will carry satellites into space including a prototype factory for making semi-conductors. (Photo by Hugh Hastings/Getty Images)

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$Maat Mons is displayed in this computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus. The viewpoint is located 634 kilometers (393 miles) north of Maat Mons at an elevation of 3 kilometers (2 miles) above the terrain. Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the foreground, to the base of Maat Mons. The view is to the south with the volcano Maat Mons appearing at the center of the image on the horizon and rising to almost 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the surrounding terrain. Maat Mons is located at approximately 0.9 degrees north latitude, 194.5 degrees east longitude with a peak that ascends to 8 kilometers (5 miles) above the mean surface. Maat Mons is named for an Egyptian Goddess of truth and justice. Magellan synthetic aperture radar data is combined with radar altimetry to develop a three-dimensional map of the surface. The vertical scale in this perspective has been exaggerated 10 times. Rays cast in a computer intersect the surface to crate a three-dimensional perspective view. Simulated color and a digital elevation map developed by the U.S. Geological Survey are used to enhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. The image was produced by the Solar System Visualization project and the Magellan Science team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory and is a single frame from a video released at the April 22, 1992 news conference.$

Magellan spacecraft images reveal volcanic activity on Venus

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Wolf-Rayet stars are known to be efficient dust producers, and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows this to great effect. Cooler cosmic dust glows at the longer mid-infrared wavelengths, displaying the structure of WR 124's nebula. The nebula is made of material cast off from the aging star in random ejections, and from dust produced in the ensuing turbulence. This brilliant stage of mass loss precedes the star's eventual supernova, when nuclear fusion in its core stops and the pressure of gravity causes it to collapse in on itself, and then explode. As MIRI demonstrates here, Webb will help astronomers to explore questions that were previously only left to theory about how much dust stars like this create before exploding in a supernova, and how much of that dust is large enough to survive the blast and go on to serve as building blocks of future stars and planets.

Webb telescope spots a star on the brink of exploding

Observing the universe with the James Webb Space Telescope

The Exploratorium in San Francisco hosts an annual parade on Pi Day, where people make number signs and march in order of pi's digits.

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The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina onboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Saturday, March 11, 2023. Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina are returning after 157 days in space as part of Expedition 68 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber).

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Climework's Orca project in Iceland sucks carbon pollution from the atmosphere. Scientists say they have worked out a way to make this process much more efficient.

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Image of a honey bee waggle dancing (bee in center).

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these "sun rays" shining through clouds at sunset on Feb. 2, 2023, the 3,730th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. It was the first time that sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, have been viewed so clearly on Mars. Crepuscular is taken from the Latin word for "twilight," as these rays appear near sunset or sunrise.

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This artist's impression shows the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. In the outermost part of the disc water is frozen out as ice and therefore can't be easily detected. An outburst of energy from the star heats the inner disc to a temperature where water is gaseous, enabling astronomers to detect it. The inset image shows the two kinds of water molecules studied in this disc: normal water, with one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, and a heavier version where one hydrogen atom is replaced with deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen.

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 29: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - "ROSCOSMOS PRESS SERVICE / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Actress Yulia Peresild, Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (not seen) and film director Klim Shipenko (not seen) is seen ahead of the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, on October 05, 2021 in Moscow, Russia. For the first time in the history of cinematography, Russia sent its crew, which will shoot a movie in space, to space from the Baikonur base of Kazakhstan with the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. (Photo by Roscosmos Press Service/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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In the artist's impression, which is not to scale, Ganymede is shown in the foreground, Callisto to the far right, and Europa centre-right. Volcanically active moon Io is also shown, at left. The moons were imaged by NASA's Galileo spacecraft; Jupiter is seen here with a vivid aurora, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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Japan's H3 rocket lifts off at the Tanegashima Space Center on the southwestern island of Tanegashima, Kagoshima prefecture, on March 7, 2023.

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Overview of the archaeological excavations in Malomirovo, Bulgaria

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The Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis, are seen in the late hours of Monday evening above Souter lighthouse in South Shields. The two day spectacle was seen as far south as Cornwall however it was cloudy for most last night.
Credit: Lewis Brown / Story Picture Agency
Northern Lights for second night in a row, South Shields, UK - 27 Feb 2023

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The gold-throated hybrid, center, with its parent species H. branickii (left) and H. gularis (right), in the Field Museum's collections.

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The tattered shell of the first-ever recorded supernova, as captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab.

New image captures a supernova first observed in the year 185

This image of the spectacular Sh2-54 nebula was taken in infrared light using ESO's VISTA telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile. The clouds of dust and gas that are normally obvious in visible light are less evident here, and in this light we can see the light of the stars behind the nebulae now piercing through.

Wonders of the universe

A digital reconstruction of a humpback whale trap feeding

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission, that includes NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Neyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, launches to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

SpaceX launches international crew of astronauts on space station mission

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from pad 39A for the Crew-6 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, early on March 2, 2023. - NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Didymos-Dimorphos system, from top: September 27, 1:06:21, T + 1.9 hrs; September 28, 17:06:51, T + 1.7 days; October 8, 19:62:10, T + 11.9 days

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Planet Jupiter, the Moon (C) and planet Venus (R) observed on the sky photographed near Salgotarjan, Hungary, late 22 February 2023.
Jupiter, Moon and planet Venus observed near Salgotarjan, Hungary - 22 Feb 2023

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company's Dragon spacecraft on top, is seen at sunrise on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-6 mission on February 23, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Opbouw kunstwerk archeologie, Noord /Zuidlijnstation Rokin, 16 januari 2018

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Artist's conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205.

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$The Neronian tiny points found in Grotte Mandrin were experimentally reproduced using the same flint and replicating the same technologies. These experimental tiny point were then used as arrowheads and shot by bow to analyse the categories of fractures appearing on these arrowheads and compare them with the scars found on the archeological material. Comparative studies show that the Neronian archeological tiny points were undebtedfully used as arrowheads. Experiments by Laure Metz, Toomaï Boucherat, Christian Trubère and Ludovic Slimak. Photo Ludovic Slimak$

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Webb captured images of the six massive galaxies. One of them (bottom left) could contain as many stars as our Milky Way galaxy, but it is 30 times more compact.

Webb telescope makes a surprising galactic discovery in the distant universe

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This Blue Marble Earth montage shown above — created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the Suomi NPP satellite — shows many stunning details of our planet.

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DISCARDED ROMAN ARTEFACT MAY HAVE BEEN MORE THAN A GOOD LUCK CHARM
• The artefact, discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in England, is thought to be the first known example of a non-miniaturized disembodied phallus made of wood in the Roman world.
• Phalli were widespread across the Empire and were commonly slotted into statues for passers-by to touch to protect against bad luck.
• Other possible functions include as a pestle for either culinary use or to grind ingredients for cosmetics or medicinal treatments, or as a sexual implement

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A silk satin dress decorated with a woven floral motif.

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The spiral arms of NGC 7496 are filled with cavernous bubbles and shells overlapping one another in this image from MIRI. These filaments and hollow cavities are evidence of young stars releasing energy and, in some cases, blowing out the gas and dust of the interstellar medium surrounding them. In this image of NGC 7496, blue, green, and red were assigned to Webb's MIRI data at 7.7, 10 and 11.3, and 21 microns (F770W, F1000W and F1130W, and F2100W, respectively).
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Lee (NOIRLab). Image processing: A. Pagan (STScI)

Webb telescope sees once invisible structures inside spiral galaxies

Interwoven pieces of silver in a dress from the Palmwood Wreck.

Stunning silver wedding dress recovered from 17th century shipwreck

This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) shown in blue; lower energy X-ray data from the X-ray Telescope (XRT) on the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hinode mission shown in green; and ultraviolet light detected by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shown in red.

New image of the sun could help unravel solar mysteries

The giant footprint left by a dinosaur was found on the Yorkshire Coast.

Record-breaking dinosaur footprint appears on the Yorkshire coast

$Astronomers estimate 50 000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Their light has travelled through various distances to reach the telescope's detectors, representing the vastness of space in a single image. A foreground star in our own galaxy, to the right of the image centre, displays Webb's distinctive diffraction spikes. Bright white sources surrounded by a hazy glow are the galaxies of Pandora's Cluster, a conglomeration of already-massive clusters of galaxies coming together to form a mega cluster. The concentration of mass is so great that the fabric of spacetime is warped by gravity, creating a natural, super-magnifying glass called a 'gravitational lens' that astronomers can use to see very distant sources of light beyond the cluster that would otherwise be undetectable, even to Webb. These lensed sources appear red in the image, and often as elongated arcs distorted by the gravitational lens. Many of these are galaxies from the early universe, with their contents magnified and stretched out for astronomers to study. Other red sources in the image have yet to be confirmed by follow-up observations with Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument to determine their true nature. One intriguing example is an extremely compact source that appears as a tiny red dot, despite the magnifying effect of the gravitational lens. One possibility is that the dot is a supermassive black hole in the early universe. NIRSpec data will provide both distance measurements and compositional details of selected sources, providing a wealth of previously-inaccessible information about the universe and how it has evolved over time. [Image Description: A crowded galaxy field on a black background, with one large star dominating the image just right of center. Three areas are concentrated with larger white hazy blobs on the left, lower right, and upper right above the single star.$

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A balloon flies in the sky over Billings, Montana, U.S. February 1, 2023, in this picture obtained from social media.

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DXBJX4 Spot-tailed quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus). The species is also known as tiger quoll, tiger cat or spotted-tailed quoll.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas giant planet always shows us something new. This latest image heralds the start of Saturn's "spoke season" with the appearance of two smudgy spokes in the B ring, on the left in the image.
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Hubble captures mysterious 'spokes' gliding across Saturn's rings

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NASA's Curiosity used its Mastcam to capture this 360-degree panorama of "Marker Band Valley" on Dec. 16, 2022, the 3,684th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Rippled rock textures found in this area are the clearest evidence the rover has seen of water and waves from Mars' ancient past.

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Watch SpaceX fire 31 engines on the most powerful rocket ever

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NASA astronaut, mission specialist, Jessica Watkins waves as she arrives with "Crew4" astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, April 18, 2022. Their launch to the International Space Station is scheduled for Saturday, April 23. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Sophisticated stone tools may predate humans, study suggests

UNDATED FILE PHOTO: An artist's rendition of the largest object found orbiting the Sun since Pluto was discovered in 1930, is shown October 7, 2002. The object called "Quaoar" was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope and is roughly 800 miles in diameter. Quaoar orbits the Sun at a distance of 4-billion miles in a region of space called the "Kuiper Belt." (Photo by NASA and G. Bacon/Getty Images)

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English School. Oil on canvas, 18th century. Located in a private collection. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Codebreakers find and decode lost letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

Earth core structure. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Hidden molten rock layer found beneath Earth's tectonic plates

Edible crab (Cancer pagurus) on sand covered with algi during low tide.

Neanderthals had a taste for a seafood delicacy that's still popular today

This visible-light image of Jupiter was created from data captured on 11 January 2017 using the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. Near the top, a long brown feature called a 'brown barge' extends 72,000 kilometers (nearly 45,000 miles) in the east-west direction. The Great Red Spot stands out prominently in the lower left, while the smaller feature nicknamed Red Spot Jr. (known to Jovian scientists as Oval BA) appears to its lower right.

Jupiter now has 92 moons after new discovery

This artist's impression shows a grey, irregularly-shaped asteroid against a dark background. A previously unknown 100--200-metre asteroid — roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum — has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Their project used data from the calibration of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), in which the team serendipitously detected an interloping asteroid. The object is likely the smallest observed to date by Webb and may be an example of an object measuring under 1 kilometer in length within the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. More observations are needed to better characterize this object's nature and properties.

New asteroid photobombs Webb telescope

IN SPACE - FEBRUARY 8 2018: In this handout photo provided by SpaceX, a Tesla roadster launched from the Falcon Heavy rocket with a dummy driver named "Starman" heads towards Mars. (Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images)

SpaceX put a Tesla sportscar into space five years ago. Where is it now?

The last full moon of the decade, with a saffron-colored tinge, better known as the full "Cold Moon", hovers over Los Angeles, California on December 11, 2019. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

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A green comet named Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which last passed by our planet about 50,000 years ago, is seen from the Pico de las Nieves, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Borja Suarez
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Green comet, visible in the night sky for first time since Stone Age, makes its closest pass by Earth

A green comet named Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which last passed by our planet about 50,000 years ago and is expected to be most visible to stargazers this week, is seen journeying tens of millions of miles (km) away from Earth in this telescope image taken on Jauary 21, 2023. Dan Bartlett /Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT.NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Green comet seen from Earth for first time since Stone Age

Artist's interpretation of a remarkable 319-million-year-old fish that preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal. CT images of the brain are helping to unravel the sequence of neural evolution in one of today's most diverse vertebrate lineages. The fish, Coccocephalus wildi, would have been 6 to 8 inches long and likely fed on small crustaceans and aquatic insects.

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Neanderthals hunted massive elephants that once roamed northern Europe

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Workers feed cows at a dairy farming company in Handan, Hebei Province, China, On November 15, 2021.

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Viking burial mound at Heath Wood being excavated.

Vikings brought their animals with them to Britain over 1,000 years ago

This is an artist's impression of the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova — the ultra-powerful, gold-producing explosion created by merging neutron stars. These systems are so phenomenally rare that only about 10 such systems are thought to exist in the entire Milky Way.

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14 December 2020, Bavaria, M'nsing: A shooting star can be seen during the Geminids meteor stream in the starry sky above a tree. The Geminids are the strongest meteor stream of the year. Photo by: Matthias Balk/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Video: Meteor showers bring 'astronomy to us'

This handout picture obtained from the NASA website on January 6, 2022 shows the Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) that was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility this year in early March. - A newly discovered comet is currently shooting through our Solar System for the first time in 50,000 years and could be visible to the naked eye as it whizzes past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks, astronomers have said. Having travelled from the icy reaches at the edge of our Solar System, it will get the closest to the Sun on January 12 and pass nearest to Earth on February 1.

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Evolutionary biologist Dolph Schluter is pictured at one of his ponds containing stickleback fish at the University of British Columbia.

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Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft. The distance is 2500 kilometers from the surface of the planet, with the scale being .6km/pixel. The mosaic is composed of 102 Viking Orbiter images of Mars. The center of the scene (lat -8, long 78) shows the entire Valles Marineris canyon system, over 2000 kilometers long and up to 8 kilometers deep, extending form Noctis Labyrinthus, the arcuate system of graben to the west, to the chaotic terrain to the east. Many huge ancient river channels begin from the chaotic terrain from north-central canyons and run north. The three Tharsis volcanoes (dark red spots), each about 25 kilometers high, are visible to the west. South of Valles Marineris is very ancient terrain covered by many impact craters.

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Eastern chimpanzee juvenile male 'Gimli' aged 8 years playing with his brother 'Gizmo' aged 3 years (Pan troglodytes schweinfurtheii). Gombe National Park, Tanzania. June 2012.

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NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis1 mission to the moon at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

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Chimp sign language. Embargoed to 0001 Wednesday February 13 File photo dated 08/10/18 of a chimp, as research has shown that their sign language apes the way humans communicate. Issue date: Wednesday February 13, 2019. Scientists have learned the primates employ gestures that follow some of the same rules intrinsic to human language. Experts made the discovery after studying videos of wild chimps living in Uganda's Budongo Forest Reserve. See PA story SCIENCE Chimps. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire URN:41170504 (Press Association via AP Images)

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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifts off at its new pad, called Launch Complex 2, on January 24, 2023.

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This image by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) features the central region of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud, which resides 630 light years away. The cold, wispy cloud material (blue, centre) is illuminated in the infrared by the glow of the young, outflowing protostar Ced 110 IRS 4 (orange, upper left). The light from numerous background stars, seen as orange dots behind the cloud, can be used to detect ices in the cloud, which absorb the starlight passing through them. An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of diverse ices in the darkest, coldest regions of a molecular cloud measured to date by studying this region. This result allows astronomers to examine the simple icy molecules that will be incorporated into future exoplanets, while opening a new window on the origin of more complex molecules that are the first step in the creation of the building blocks of life. [Image Description: A large, dark cloud is contained within the frame. In its top half it is textured like smoke and has wispy gaps, while at the bottom and at the sides it fades gradually out of view. On the left are several orange stars: three each with six large spikes, and one behind the cloud which colours it pale blue and orange. Many tiny stars are visible, and the background is black.]

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NASA's Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA's Artemis I mission is the first integrated flight test of the agency's deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems. SLS and Orion launched at 1:47 a.m. EST, from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

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The "LLR" laser has been installed on the summit of the Säntis (2500m) and was activated from June to September 2021. It was focused above a 124m high transmitter tower belonging to the operator Swisscom, equipped with a traditional lightning conductor.

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Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the NSF's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab. The survey is here reproduced in 4000-pixels resolution to be accessible on smaller devices.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches a GPS III satellite to orbit January 18, 2023

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The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is launched on classified mission USSF-67 for the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

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Based on new evidence from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, this illustration reflects the conclusion that the exoplanet LHS 475 b is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth. The planet whips around its star in just two days, far faster than any planet in the Solar System. Researchers will follow up this summer with additional observations with Webb, which they hope will allow them to definitively conclude if the planet has an atmosphere. LHS 475 b is relatively close, 41 light-years away, in the constellation Octans. [Image Description: Illustration of a planet and its star on a black background. The planet is large, in the foreground at the centre, and the star is smaller, in the background and also at the centre. The planet is rocky. The top quarter of the planet (the side facing the star) is lit, while the rest is in shadow. The star is bright yellowish-white, with no clear features.]

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An artistic rending of the star Gaia17bpp being partially eclipsed by the dust cloud surrounding a smaller companion star.

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Newly discovered Earth-size planet TOI 700 e orbits within the habitable zone of its star in this illustration. Its Earth-size sibling, TOI 700 d, can be seen in the distance.

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ALMA Scientists Find Pair of Black Holes Dining Together in Nearby Galaxy Merger
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Cosmic Girl 747 sits on the runway surrounded by technical service equipment at Cornwall Airport on January 08, 2023 in Newquay, England. Photo by Hugh Hastings/Getty Images.

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ROME, ITALY - DECEMBER 27: A view of the Pantheon in the historic centre of Rome on December 27, 2022 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Emmanuele Ciancaglini/Ciancaphoto Studio/Getty Images)

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People stand beside St Michael's Tower as they watch the full moon, sometimes known as a "Wolf Moon", rise behind Glastonbury Tor in Glastonbury, Britain, January 17, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing's Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner's second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 launched at 6:54 p.m. ET, and will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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Homo heidelbergensis pair wearing cave bear skins for protection from the cold.

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Walt Cunningham adjusts his pressure suit before the Apollo 7 launch on October 11, 1968.

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$The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of colour in the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. This is a region where young stars are forming -- or have barely burst from their dusty cocoons as they continue to form. Protostars are the scene-stealers in this Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image. These are the bright red orbs that sometimes appear with eight diffraction spikes. When knots with sufficient mass form within the pillars, they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heat up, and eventually begin shining brightly. Along the edges of the pillars are wavy lines that look like lava. These are ejections from stars that are still forming. Young stars periodically shoot out jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. This sometimes also results in bow shocks, which can form wavy patterns like a boat does as it moves through water. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for millions of years. Although it may appear that near-infrared light has allowed Webb to "pierce through" the background to reveal great cosmic distances beyond the pillars, the interstellar medium stands in the way, like a drawn curtain. This is also the reason why there are no distant galaxies in this view. This translucent layer of gas blocks our view of the deeper universe. Plus, dust is lit up by the collective light from the packed "party" of stars that have burst free from the pillars. It's like standing in a well-lit room looking out a window -- the interior light reflects on the pane, obscuring the scene outside and, in turn, illuminating the activity at the party inside. Webb's new view of the Pillars of Creation will help researchers revamp models of star formation.$

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