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In 2022, a robot submarine spent two weeks mapping the floor of Norway's biggest lake, hunting for the ammunition a factory had dumped there between the 1940s and the 1970s. On the last day of the survey it found a wooden boat instead, 410 meters down and up to 700 years old.
One hydrophone sitting 891 meters down in Monterey Canyon, wired to shore by 52 kilometers of cable, recorded 2,111 days out of 2,192 between July 2015 and June 2021, and humpback song climbed from 34 percent of days to 76 while blue whale song fell away after a marine heat wave.
About 70 young stars sit inside one dark knot of gas in the Carina Nebula: ESA's Webb Picture of the Month for August 2026 shows the Treasure Chest globule, 7,500 light years off, lit by a 19-solar-mass O-type star
The five deep-sea arrays of the Ocean Observatories Initiative had been streaming continuous readings from the Atlantic and Pacific since 2016, and in May 2026 the National Science Foundation said four would be pulled out of the water before reversing course on June 18
