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MIRROR EARTHS. “There are more than a dozen white dwarfs in our galaxy that are orbited by asteroids, comets and perhaps even planets -- entire graveyards of worlds. While the stars were alive, they rose every day in the skies of these worlds. They gently warmed the soil and stirred the wind. Living organisms may have soaked up their rays.” https://lnkd.in/dpMBcCM View in LinkedIn

“WHITE DWARFS must not be stars so much as the corpses of stars. Each white dwarf was once much like our sun and shone with the same brilliance. But then it began to run out of fuel and entered its stormy death throes, swelling to 100 times its previous size and brightening 10,000 fold, before shedding its outer laters and shriveling to a glowing cinder the size of Earth. For the rest of eternity, it will sit inertly, slowly fading to blackness.” https://lnkd.in/dpMBcCM View in LinkedIn

DEATH OF A STAR. “Once the nuclear fuel is entirely burnt out, there remains no sufficient pressure to resist the attractive force of gravity, consequently, the star experiences the stellar death, a phenomenon known as gravitational collapse.” https://lnkd.in/dnMiFPu View in LinkedIn

THE REAL ROOTS. “Space is a violent place, strewn with galaxies that have cannibalized each other to survive. Some of these survivors are galactic fossils, revealing glimpses of the past because they formed in the early universe.” https://lnkd.in/dVQCih6 View in LinkedIn

A profusion of ephemeral spring violets and birdsong. View in LinkedIn

A wonderful early tomato plate. View in LinkedIn

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. “We emphasize the newly recognized roles of phages as puppet masters of their bacterial hosts, where phages are capable of altering the metabolism of infected bacteria through the expression of auxiliary metabolic genes and the redirection of host gene expression patterns.” https://lnkd.in/ddi7prp View in LinkedIn