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“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

Derek Wallentinsen stood atop Inscription Rock in El Morro National Monument on the night of May 23, 2019, taking photographs of the star-filled sky to document the darkness. A ranger at the time, he ...

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