March 17, 2026

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Is Sahara Desert Dust Secretly Feeding the Amazon? The science behind a 10,000-mile journey

Is Sahara Desert Dust Secretly Feeding the Amazon? The science behind a 10,000-mile journey

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[ad_ About 27 million tons of Saharan dust delivers about 22,000 tons of phosphorus to the Amazon annually. Image: NASA In 2015, scientists reported evidence that vast plumes of dust from the Sahara Desert help replenish phosphorus in the Amazon rainforest, linking the world’s largest desert to its largest rainforest in what researchers described as…

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In the astrosphere of HD 61005, NASA’s Chandra observes a “young sun” blowing bubbles with dust wings resembling moths.

In the astrosphere of HD 61005, NASA’s Chandra observes a “young sun” blowing bubbles with dust wings resembling moths.

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[ad_ Source: Chandra X-ray Observatory Astronomers have noticed something unusual. A star, resembling our Sun in its youth, is creating a bubble in space. The star, called HD 61005, is about 120 light years away from Earth. At first glance this seems normal. Same mass as the Sun, same temperature. But it is only about…

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