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The largest known galaxy is wider than 17 Milky Ways

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The blue ribbon for largest known galaxy goes to a behemoth that probably grew by cannibalizing its smaller neighbors. Known as IC 1101, the galaxy’s diameter is estimated to be a whopping 520 kiloparsecs, or nearly 1.7 million light-years, researchers report in a study submitted July 16 to arXiv.org. That’s wider than 17 Milky Ways lined up in a row.
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Hundreds of sea level studies have underestimated ocean rise

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How to scout a safe summer swimming hole

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A sewer line collapse in Maryland earlier this year spilled more than 360 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of wastewater into the Potomac river just upstream of Washington, D.C. The incident may be the largest sewage spill in U.S. history,and it’s a quintessential example of fecal pollution, the most common source of sickness from natural waterways. Anytime we swim in a lake, river or ocean, we risk encountering waterborne pathogens.
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