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Charles Deehr remembers his first red aurora in 1958 but others have appeared over the decades, including earlier this month.
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Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by ...
La Niña and El Niño are phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate phenomenon that influences the ...
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Io, moon of Jespiter Jupiter, is famously volcanically active. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, over an area the size of Asia. Some of the volcanic mountains are taller than Mount Everest.
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Charles Deehr will never forget his first red aurora. On Feb. 11, 1958, Deehr was a student at Reed College in Portland, ...