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In June 1997, the residents of the small Scottish island bought the island after raising the £1.5 million purchase price from public donations, ending 169 years of landlordism; its electricity system now includes 112 kilowatts of hydro power, 170 kilowatts of solar and 24 kilowatts of wind.
Venus may have remained temperate and potentially habitable for most of its history—then water-thin carbonatite lava carved vast channels, including one stretching 6,800 kilometres, and released enough CO₂ to help transform the planet into the inferno we see today
By the age of eight, a girl in northeastern Brazil was working through sky-survey images on two computer screens and had logged 18 preliminary asteroid detections; if confirmed, they would make her younger than Luigi Sannino, who was 18 when he set the record for youngest person to discover an asteroid in 1999.
Nearly every element in your body except hydrogen was forged by stars—the calcium in your bones and much of the iron in your blood came through ancient supernovae, while the hydrogen flowing through you was born before the first star existed.
