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A tiny shift exposes a cold brown dwarf masquerading as an early galaxy

A faint red object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope originally appeared to offer a possible glimpse of the universe's first galaxies. But images taken about 3½ years apart revealed a giveaway: The object, nicknamed Capotauro, had moved.

A tiny shift exposes a cold brown dwarf masquerading as an early galaxy

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Mapping Kīlauea’s Magma Reservoirs

Researchers used a dense seismometer network to monitor a combination of natural and truck-generated seismic signals and identify two regions of subsurface magma storage.

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