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Space photo of the week: The last view of the 'Great Comet of 2025' for half a million years Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines brightly after its last approach to the sun for hundreds of thousands of years.

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The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪

Very hard to see the comet with all the light from the city (La Serena, Chile), but my iPhone catch it!