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An invisible molecular cloud that could shed light on how stars and planets form has been detected surprisingly close to Earth. From a report: Named Eos after the Greek goddess of the dawn, the cloud of gas would appear huge in the night sky if visible to the naked eye. It measures roughly 40 moons in width and has a weight about 3,400 times the mass of the sun, researchers reported in a study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. "In astronomy, seeing the previously unseen usually means peering deeper with ever more sensitive telescopes -- detecting those smaller planets ... those more distant galaxies," said study coauthor Thomas Haworth, an astrophysicist at Queen Mary University of London. "This thing was pretty much in our cosmic backyard, and we've just missed it," he added. Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust from which hydrogen and carbon monoxide molecules can form. Dense clumps within these clouds can collapse to form young stars. The article clarifies that Eos is 300 light-years away, which to be sure, is closer than any of the molecular clouds that we've known about previously.

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Dan Shilling, 39, has lost more than 10 stone is just over a year. His efforts were helped by a drug taken by nearly 9 million people in the UK.

Switching voltage allows search giant to swap out power delivery system

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Reviewers of the beach give the coastal destination five stars

A woman on TikTok is controversially claiming she isn't washing her face at all - or using any water - as she embraces the so-called 'caveman method' but commenters aren't convinced.

Dallas fans were sent into a frenzy this week when one of the show's most beloved stars was spotted on a rare outing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, has returned to open source licensing with Redis 8 now available under the AGPL v3 license. The move reverses last year's controversial shift to proprietary licensing schemes (RSALv2 and SSPLv1) that aimed to force major cloud providers to pay for offering Redis as a managed service. The decision follows significant market pressure, including AWS, Google, and Oracle backing the Valkey fork, which gained momentum in the open source community. Redis believes the AGPL license provides sufficient protection from cloud providers while satisfying open source requirements. Redis 8 will incorporate vector sets and integrate previously separate Redis Stack features including JSON, Time Series, and probabilistic data support.

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The school was graded as 'requiring improvement' by Ofsted at its last inspection

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Since 2017 81 police officers at Essex Police have been barred for their bad and sometimes criminal behaviour

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The F1 star, 27, announced the news on Instagram, sharing a slew of black and white snaps of their baby girl.

Officials fear a huge tsunami could be heading for Chile after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Argentina.

18,415 people were receving support from the county's adult social care services in December last year and that number is expected to continue to rise

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The arresting officer was in the area on an unrelated matter when he spotted what looked like a drug deal

Almost all new homes in England will be fitted with solar panels during construction within two years, the UK government will announce after Keir Starmer rejected Tony Blair's criticism of net zero policies. From a report: Housebuilders will be legally required to install solar panels on the roofs of new properties by 2027 under the plans. The policy is estimated to add between $4,000 and $5,320 to building a home but homeowners would save more than $1,331 on their annual energy bills, according to the Times. Labour has set a target of building 1.5m homes by the end of the parliament. The party has promised to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 and cut household energy bills by $400 a year.

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The school, which is part of the Compass Partnership of Schools, has 440 students, all aged between seven and 11.