Meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO). Graphic illustration of molecules floating with cinema tape against a dark background. 2 rows of 3 scanning tunnel microscope images showing purple shapes against a dark background. Young plants lined up in a row in a petri dish, ranging from green to red hues. A digital image of server racks forming a tunnel, with glowing lines and dots resembling data flow emerging from a central light source.

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 A teal cosmic map of the universe on a black background. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. There is a magnified section showing the underlying structure of matter in our universe.

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