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Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ Moon Is Hiding an Ocean Beneath Its Mangled Surface
An odd little moon that orbits closely to Saturn just revealed its biggest mystery: a hidden ocean that lies beneath its heavily cratered surface. Mimas is less than 123 miles (198 kilometers) wide, too small to be perfectly round, and its icy shell is covered with deep scarring from objects slamming into it. Its most…
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Every Tiny Speck Of Light In This Image Is A Galaxy
To help us grok the immensity of the cosmos, the European Space Agency has released a remarkable image of space in which every point is an entire galaxy. If you didn’t feel insignificant before seeing this, you sure as hell will now.
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Herschel’s Largest Survey Of Cosmic Dust Is Huge And Beautiful
The largest ever census of dust in the local Universe has been carried out by the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory — and the results are huge and beautiful.