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Once considered a fringe idea, the prospect of offsetting global warming by releasing massive quantities of ...

The image was taken by GOES-19, the newest in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series operated by NOAA.

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New telescope images show that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is shooting a giant jet of gas and dust toward the sun. This ...

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