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A JetBlue plane was en route to Puerto Rico when its pilots got word from air-traffic control they were about to fly through a danger zone. The plane initially went into a holding pattern to stay safe ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

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