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BREAKING 🚨: Phosphine gas has been found again in Venus’s atmosphere
This gas is only known to be produced from living organisms or artificially in a lab. A STRONG indicator of life on Venus 😳 
At its closest, the spacecraft got ~214 miles from the surface — Closer than the ISS’s average altitude of 227 miles. 
These are now the highest resolution images we have of Europa yet! 
NEWS 🚨: NASA’s Chandra observatory captures remains from a supernova explosion that happen only a couple hundred years ago
NEWS 🚨: Scientists say they’ve found, near a dying sun, a planet that could be capable of supporting life.
via @esa
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NEWS 🚨: New data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that surface water existed on Mars for much longer than 1 billion years and sooner than previously thought
To date, NASA has confirmed almost 5,000 exoplanets out of the 100 billion believed to exist in our galaxy.
A donut-shaped planet could technically exist (and be gravitationally stable), but it would have to be moving at extreme speeds. Days would be just a few hours.
Galaxy M101 (left) and Typhoon Rammasun (right). Each with a beautiful mathematical curve known as a logarithmic spiral 🌀#space
On this day in 1974, humans sent the first signal out into #space in an attempt to contact another civilization. The message contained information about human DNA and Earth.