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When ships pass through Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean, the nearest land mass is 1677 (2,700 kms) miles away. This means that at certain times of the day (planes excluded), the nearest humans are on the International Space Station ~ 416 km (256 miles) up.

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NASA is pausing all Mars missions, effective immediately.

Here's why: https://rb.gy/f51iov

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Analysis of the DNA inside the hyena poop revealed a bunch of hyena DNA alongside the DNA of the European woolly rhino: https://rb.gy/10g7hj

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Last month was the hottest October on record globally, Europe's climate monitor said Wednesday, as months of exceptional heat are likely to make 2023 the warmest year in history: https://rb.gy/aivmya

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Faking the moon landing in 1969 would have been harder than actually going to the moon. It would also take the efforts of more than 400,000 conspirators to keep it a secret.

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NASA's Lucy mission has just snagged a celestially good deal: two asteroids for the price of one flyby. While flying past a small main-belt asteroid called Dinkinesh the spacecraft found an even smaller “moon” orbiting it. The two form a binary asteroid pair.

Read more: https://rb.gy/l5bsy1

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The observable universe is 93 billion light years across. That's big. Alan Guth made a calculation about inflation in the early universe that says the entire universe could be 150 sextillion times larger than that. That's 150 with 21 zeroes after it, times 93 billion.

Astronomers found that the universe is at least 250 times larger than the observable universe, or at least 7 trillion light-years across. "That's big, but actually more tightly constrained that many other models," according to MIT Review report.

📷: Pablo Carlos Budassi

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Saturn has the lowest density of any planet, 687 kg/m³, which is less than that of water. Saturn is of such low density that it would float in a (gigantic) bathtub 🪐

📷: NASA JPL-Caltech

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Platymma tweediei, the rarest snails in the world, often called the (Malaysian) fire snail, is the largest land snail in Peninsular Malaysia, living exclusively in the mountainous forests there. It is the only species in the genus Platymma. It is characterized by its black shell and orange to bright red foot 🐌

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One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a … pea 🤯

📷: NASA JPL-Caltech

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Many scientists believe that asteroid collided with our planet, As a result huge amount of dust was released that might has covered the Earth's surface, cutting off sunlight for long periods of times. These finally led to extinction of many species including dinasaurs from the earth.

Read more: https://rb.gy/rohsl

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Oil prices could soar to a record high of more than $150 a barrel if the war between Israel and Hamas leads to a repeat of the full-scale conflict in the Middle East witnessed 50 years ago, the World Bank has warned.

Read more: https://rb.gy/7p6tp

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Astronomers have used archived data from the Keck II telescope in Hawaii to observe Uranus' infrared aurora for the first time. The planet’s atmosphere is mixing with particles, producing a newly discovered infrared aurora.

Read more: https://rb.gy/z3ngw

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Rare Jimbacrinus Crinoid Fossils from Western Australia. They’re estimated to be around 280 million years old (Gascoyne Junction, Australia).

📷: FossilEra

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A man in his 60s has died from a snake bite in central Queensland, after helping to remove a snake which had coiled around his friend's leg: https://rb.gy/e4xpj

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Artemis program aims to create an outpost on the Moon by as soon as 2030. Bangor scientists have put together an energy source that could potentially allow the astronauts to live on Moon for prolonged periods of time: https://rb.gy/1yj7s

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The Laniakea Supercluster encompasses approximately 100,000 galaxies stretched out over 520 million light years ✨️