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May 20
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You Are Here: Scientists Unveil Precise Map Of More Than A Billion Stars (NPR)
April 25 was the day astronomers said goodbye to the old Milky Way they had known and loved and hello to a new view of our home galaxy. NPR describes the first day of CCCA's Gaia workshop.
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The Milky Way, Revealed as Never Before (Scientific American)
As a major new catalogue of our galaxy's stars from the Gaia space mission reverberates through the scientific community, astronomers are rushing to make revolutionary discoveries through such efforts as a dawn-to-dusk data hack-a-thon at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics.
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Ancient Salt Rock Suggests Oxygen Surged in Early Atmosphere (Princeton University News)
A study of two-billion-year-old salt found that the rise in oxygen that occurred about 2.3 billion years ago, known as the Great Oxidation Event, was much more substantial than previously indicated: "Instead of a trickle, it was more like a firehose."
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David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone (New York Times)
The geneticist at Harvard Medical School has retrieved DNA from more than 900 ancient people. His findings trace the prehistoric migrations of our species.
