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Flora And Fauna

Manatees in Florida's Crystal River gather by the hundreds each winter around freshwater springs that stay at a constant 72 degrees Fahrenheit, a thermal refuge that protects them from potentially fatal cold stress when Gulf water falls below 68 degrees

Every winter, hundreds of Florida manatees crowd into Crystal River's freshwater springs, where water flowing from the Floridan aquifer holds a constant 72 degrees. The margin between survival and cold stress is only four or five degrees, and the springs are what keeps them alive.

By Space War Editorial Team · Sep 14, 2026

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Constellations

SN 1987A exploded 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud and was first spotted from Earth in February 1987; nearly four decades later, the James Webb Space Telescope has finally caught evidence of high-energy emission from what appears to be the neutron star left at its core

Nearly four decades after SN 1987A lit up southern skies from the Large Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb Space Telescope has caught the first strong signature of the neutron star buried in its debris — argon and sulphur ionised by a hidden high-energy source at the centre of the remnant.

By Space War Editorial Team · Sep 11, 2026
Flora And Fauna

In 2011, a male wolf known as OR-7 walked from northeastern Oregon into California, becoming the first confirmed wild wolf in the state since 1924, and his descendants now form breeding packs in Siskiyou and Lassen counties more than a century after the species was extirpated

In December 2011, a collared Oregon wolf named OR-7 crossed into California — the first wild gray wolf in the state since 1924. His descendants now form breeding packs across five northern counties.

By Space War Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026
Water World

Why did a Southwestern desert river that had usually run dry below the U.S.-Mexico border for decades briefly reach the sea again in 2014, and what did biologists find growing in the wetted corridor by season's end?

On March 23, 2014, engineers opened the gates of Morelos Dam on the Arizona–Mexico border and released 105,392 acre-feet of Colorado River water into a channel that had been dry for most of five decades. Within weeks, cottonwood and willow seedlings anchored in the wet silt, and by mid-May a thin ribbon of river reached the Sea of Cortez for the first time in a generation.

By Space War Editorial Team · Sep 9, 2026

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