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Potentially Habitable Super-earth Discovered Just 20 Light-years Away

Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth just 20 light-years away, orbiting a Sun-like star in the habitable zone—where liquid water might exist. Could this be one of our best chances to study an Earth-like world up close?

dailygalaxy.com

 

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52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3D

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

www.livescience.com