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NASA’s next-generation space observatory successfully watched a moving asteroid as the telescope inches towards the end of its six-month commissioning period.

The successful tracking of a nearby object shows that the James Webb Space Telescope can keep a watch on solar system objects as well as the distant galaxies, stars and other faraway objects it is expected to observe in its perhaps 20-year lifespan.

Not Kidding! A Sugar Mountain has been discovered deep within the ocean.

Scientists have found that seagrass meadows on the ocean floor can keep humongous amounts of sugar beneath their swaying fronds. The sugar is in the shape of sucrose (the primary ingredient in sugar used in cooking), and it is released from the seagrasses into soil beneath, recognised as the rhizosphere.

Is this true?

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth.

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