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The contrail from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen from Long Beach, Calif., more than 100 miles southeast from its launch site, the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday.
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Leandro Teixeira and Richard Dubielzig of the University of Wisconsin - Madison open the whale eye package.
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Leah Bahrencu, 35, of Austin, Texas, developed an infection after an emergency C-section to deliver twins Lukas and Sorana, now 11 months.
Ilana Panich-Linsman
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An Indonesian farmer passes a field as Mount Sinabung volcano spews thick smoke into the air in Karo, North Sumatra, earlier this month. The volcano roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years. After another period of inactivity it erupted once more in 2013, and it has remained highly active since.
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After a recent fire scare, visiting reindeer Lightning, front, and Holiday were removed from the Santa Barbara Zoo.
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Stormtroopers pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' in London, on Dec. 12.
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Studying the penis of a thistle tortoisebeetle may lead to a better design for medical catheters.
Yoko Matsumura, Alexander Kovalev, Stanislav N. Gorb/Science Advances
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