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Less research on environmental risks means we will be forced to operate with an incomplete understanding of those risks.

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One lucky inhabitant, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, has just shared a breathtaking video (below) showing an aurora burst into life as the space station orbited Earth.

The Earth is approximately 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from the Sun, Space.com reported. At this distance, it takes about 8 minutes and 19 seconds for sunlight to reach our planet.

If this image indeed shows the aftermath of a planet, it could explain a mysterious X-ray signal that astronomers have detected from the nebula for more than four decades.

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This 2014 satellite photo shows a cloud of haze sitting in the Kashmir Valley in the Himalayas. The ethereal "lake" consists mainly of smog and other pollutants from nearby factories.