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The cloud is causing elevated particle pollution in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, and could reach the Triad this weekend depending on weather systems.

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability ...

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The view of our home galaxy lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.