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        "text": "On the evening of October 30, 2026 the Moon is waning gibbous, 71% illuminated. That day the Moon sets at 12:42 PM MDT and rises at 9:45 PM MDT. Times are for Denver, Colorado; they shift by minutes to an hour elsewhere in the US and Canada."
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        "headline": "Think Halloween is scary? This scorched alien world is a real-life cosmic horror story",
        "editorial_note_md": "The James Webb Space Telescope investigated super-Earth TOI-561 b. This rocky lava planet, located 280 light-years away, completes an orbit every 11 hours and is too hot for life to survive on its surface. It was discovered by NASA's TESS spacecraft in 2020.",
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        "headline": "“These Small Ones Dominate the Risk”: Are Deadly ‘Halloween Fireballs’ Just Media Ghost Stories, or is the Cosmic Airburst Threat Real?",
        "editorial_note_md": "Mark Boslough says media reports of Halloween Fireballs are exaggerated. The 2026 fall Taurid meteor shower is not likely to include powerful fireballs capable of melting everything on the surface. Boslough presented his findings at the Geological Society of America's annual GSA Connects conference.",
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