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SETI Institute

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#PPOD: Young stars are surrounded by a disc of gas and dust: the building materials for planets. When other very bright and massive stars are present nearby, their light heats the young star’s disc, stripping away part of its material. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Credit: ESO/M. L. Aru et al.

Astronomical image of a tear-drop shaped object, whose point is near the lower left. The rounded end is near the center of the image. The majority of the drop is a faint blue, while the rounded end is bright yellow. Dark brown gas and dust fills the rest of the image.

September 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós

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Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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Caleb Scharf

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New book! New book! My space exploration extravaganza The Giant Leap hits shelves Oct 21st but you can get 20% off with a pre-order direct from the publisher (use code LEAP25) 🙂 www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/caleb...