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  • Jupiter’s skies are peppered with electron streams, ammonia plumes, and massive storms

    Scientists have long known that Jupiter is a stormy place. But since NASA’s Juno probe reached the solar system’s largest planet last July, they’ve found it to be a far more tempestuous place than they realized.

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  • Asteroids Could Be ‘Time Capsules’ Showing How Life Began on Earth

    As much as we tend to panic over the idea of an asteroid crashing into the Earth, one possible explanation for life on Earth is that an asteroid brought it here in the first place.

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  • Even Chemists Are Baffled by This GIF of a Droplet Spiraling to Its Doom

    A single drop of solvent swirls like a tiny dancer atop a beaker of water, gradually jettisoning away little round bits of itself until nothing remains. Some who saw it thought it looked like a spinning galaxy, or the world’s tiniest hurricane. All who saw it wondered what the heck was going on — and that includes the researchers who conducted the experiment in 2011.

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  • Toyota unveils manned lunar rover concept

    The automotive giant has designed a new pressurized vehicle that astronauts can drive around on the moon.

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