After 10 years of painstaking development, the Gemini Planet Imager has returned its first image of a distant exoplanet. Behold Beta Pictoris b, a massive planet several times larger than Jupiter — and over 63 light-years from Earth. Read more…
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A massive, 7.7 magnitude quake struck south-central Pakistan on Tuesday afternoon local time. The USGS warns that there will high casualties and economic losses , requiring international response. Seismologists have also confirmed that the quake raised a new island , about 30-40 feet high, off the coast. Read more…
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7.7 magnitude quake in Pakistan just created a new island