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  1. Life

    A 3-D printed, plastic beaker could help algae grow on Mars

    Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

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  2. Astronomy

    A rare chance to see two exploding stars is happening in the southern sky

    Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

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  3. Life

    A barrage of radiation couldn’t kill this hardy life-form

    A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

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  4. Astronomy

    Mysterious ‘little red dot’ galaxies have a possible origin story

    Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

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  5. Planetary Science

    In a first, the Webb telescope found a planet by actually ‘seeing’ it

    Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

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  6. Astronomy

    Two spacecraft created their first images of an artificial solar eclipse

    The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

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  7. Space

    Distant nebulae star in one of the first images from the Rubin Observatory

    These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

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  8. Astronomy

    Black hole–shredded megastars power a new class of cosmic explosions

    These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.

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  9. Space

    Here’s how a collision of star remnants launches a gleaming jet

    A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

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