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Scheerer Phenomenon: Those White Structures You See When You Look At The Sky May Not Be "Floaters"
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Scheerer Phenomenon: Those White Structures You See When You Look At The Sky May Not Be "Floaters"

Also known as "blue field entoptic phenomenon" and "blue sky sprites", the little dots move in time with your heartbeat.

One of “Publishing’s Greatest Failures” – How a 500-Year-Old Bible Map Changed History Forever
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One of “Publishing’s Greatest Failures” – How a 500-Year-Old Bible Map Changed History Forever

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The first Bible to include a map of the Holy Land was published in 1525, marking its 500th anniversary this year. Although the map [...]

China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
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China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution

Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

These Two Galaxies Are Tying The Knot And Producing Stars
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These Two Galaxies Are Tying The Knot And Producing Stars

The European Space Agency has release its ESA/Webb Picture of the Month and it features a pair of dwarf galaxies engaged in a tentative dance, like nervous partners at a social. The pair are a staggering 24 million light-years away. But even at that great distance, the pair of galaxies is the closest-known interacting pair of dwarfs, other than the Milky Way's Magellanic Clouds, where both the stellar populations and the gas bridge linking the galaxies have been observed.

JWST Discovers A Milky Way-Like Spiral Galaxy Where It Shouldn’t Exist
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JWST Discovers A Milky Way-Like Spiral Galaxy Where It Shouldn’t Exist

We need to rethink how, and how quickly, galaxies come to be.