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You're looking at the first ever image of a black hole. It was captured by the
#NSFFunded
@ehtelescope
project.
#ehtblackhole
#RealBlackHole
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See the Sun like never before!
@NSF
’s Inouye Solar Telescope produces first detailed images of the sun’s surface.
#SolarVision2020
📷:
@NatSolarObs
/
@AURADC
/ NSF
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@NatSolarObs
@AURADC
@NSF_MPS
The NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope provides unprecedented close-ups of the sun’s surface, but ultimately it will measure the sun’s corona – no total solar eclipse required. 😎
More:
#SolarVision2020
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Our own black hole! Astronomers have just revealed the 1st image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy using the
@ehtelescope
- a planet-scale array of radio telescopes that emerged from decades of NSF support.
#ourblackhole
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The instrument platform of the 305m telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico fell overnight. No injuries were reported. NSF is working with stakeholders to assess the situation. Our top priority is maintaining safety. NSF will release more details when they are confirmed.
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@NatSolarObs
@AURADC
@NSF
's Inouye Solar Telescope helps us better understand the sun and its impact on our planet.
#SolarVision2020
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How scientists at the
#NSFFunded
@ehtelescope
captured the first-ever image of a black hole.
#EHTBlackHole
#RealBlackHole
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The
@ehtelescope
team built an Earth-sized telescope by linking radio dishes around the world.
In April 2017, all they all swiveled to look at the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, a galaxy in Virgo constellation.
#RealBlackHole
#EHTBlackHole
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Following engineering assessments concluding damage to Arecibo Observatory cannot be addressed without endangering the lives and safety of crew and staff, NSF plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope:
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The story of
@ehtelescope
’s quest to capture the first image of a black hole was covered by
@SmithsonianChan
’s documentary “Black Hole Hunters” premiering this Friday.
#RealBlackHole
#EHTBlackHole
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Three years ago today,
@NSF
's
#DKIST
– the world's most powerful solar telescope – released its first amazing images of the boiling surface of the sun. Here's the latest look!
DKIST helps us study the sun's impact on Earth.
📷:
@NatSolarObs
/AURA/NSF
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@ehtelescope
@saoastro
To be able to image a black hole
#ehtblackhole
researchers needed to create a telescope with the same level of detail as seeing an date on a quarter from in L.A. from D.C
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When black holes collide, space itself moves. For a century, the idea of gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of space-- was only theory. Enter NSF's
@LIGO
, the facility that first observed the existence of gravitational waves.
#BlackHoleWeek
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Very excited to hear
@NASA
Administrator
@JimBridenstine
's STEM spark!
Can you remember the moment that sparked your interest in
#science
? Share your
#MySTEMspark
!
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🚨The image shows a bright ring around a spot of darkness, a spot we have come to understand as a shadow of a black hole, the direct visual evidence of the black hole's existence.
#SgrABlackHole
#OurBlackHole
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Ever wonder about life or science in space?
Wonder no more! NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan will be chatting with
@NASA
astronauts LIVE from
@Space_Station
TOMORROW at 12:40pm ET.
Watch here:
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Black holes are among the most mysterious objects in the universe– they're especially hard to study because nothing escapes their gravity, including the light and radio waves that often make astronomy possible.
#BlackHoleWeek
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This is the 1st time a
#gravitationalwave
detection was observed by observatories, located thousands of miles apart
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A team led by
#NSFfunded
researchers
@UCLA
raised the energy state of an atom's nucleus with a laser — a fundamental breakthrough that could enable a new type of atomic clock:
📷: James Terhune, Hudson Group, UCLA
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We caught it! NSF’s
@uw_icecube
catches first high-energy neutrino in the Antarctic ice and telescopes around the world confirmed it.
#BlazarNeutrino
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In 1837, Charles Darwin drew his first evolutionary tree in his notebook, with the words “I think” famously sketched off to the side. That “I think” was one of the first hypotheses in what would become the field of evolutionary biology!
#DarwinDay
#DarwinDay2019
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We must promote diversity in STEM & support women every step along their paths to science and engineering careers. Every child has a moment when their imagination is sparked by S&E. Let's keep that spark alive & nurture it.
#DayOfTheGirl
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The team from
@ehtelescope
just released the first ever image of a black hole. How did they capture something that until now has never been seen?
#EHTBlackHole
#RealBlackHole
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NSF-supported USAP scientists in
#Antarctica
are over the moon! Starlink is testing polar service with a newly deployed user terminal at McMurdo Station, increasing bandwidth and connectivity for science support.
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Additional details regarding the collapse at the Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope are available now at NSF's site:
Engineers are on-site. Top priorities are maintaining safety at the site and assessing damage.
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This
#WomenInScience
day, we remember these 6 women who broke the ice ceiling by becoming the first women to ever visit the South Pole:
"If women are in science and science is in the Antarctic, then women belong there.” -Dr. Mary Odile Cahoon
#WomenInSTEM
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Stan Lee, thank you for being a strong supporter of kids in STEM. You’ll be missed.
#Excelsior
Watch this special video from
@TheRealStanLee
! Then go check out
#GenNano
and create your own
#nanotech
superhero:
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Happy birthday to
#RosalindFranklin
! Without her work, DNA's structure would still be a mystery -- as would critical details of coal, graphite and other forms of carbon.
#OTD
#WisdomWednesday
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"Remember that you can be yourself – with all your interests and talents – and still become a scientist or engineer. You don't have be like anyone else or pretend to not be excited or good at what you are." --NSF Director France Córdova
#DayoftheGirl
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The observation was a merger of 2
#blackholes
, and the
#gravitationalwave
event has been designated “GW170814.” More
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How accurate is the new topographical Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) map? It shrunk resolution from 1 km to 8 meters. Learn how it will help scientists study changes in climate:
@UMNews
@NGA_GEOINT
@NSF_GEO
#NSFfunded
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Dan Marrone of
@UofA
says in a few weeks of observing,
@ehtelescope
project collected approx 1000 disks, 5 petabytes of data, equivalent to "all of the selfies that 40k people will take in their lifetime."
#RealBlackHole
#ehtblackhole
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What a best way to celebrate
#NationalStemDay
than nominating an outstanding, 7-12th grade
#STEM
educator:
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In the inky dark of space, no one can hear you scream...but here on Earth, we can hear black holes collide. In this clip, we can hear the sound of two black holes colliding
#broughtoyoubyNSF
's
@LIGO
.
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NSF is saddened by this development. As we move forward, we will be looking for ways to assist the scientific community and maintain our strong relationship with the people of Puerto Rico.
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Too small for a
#blackhole
, too large for a neutron star – what is it?
@NSF
’s LIGO has discovered an unusual object that has scientists just as puzzled as they are excited.
Check it out: .⠀
⠀
📷 :
@LIGO
@Caltech
@MIT
/R. Hurt (IPAC)⠀
#NSFfunded
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Shep Doeleman
@ehtelescope
director and sr. research fellow at
@saoastro
: Black holes are objects so massive and so compact that light cannot escape. We think they exist throughout the universe, but we have never seen one.
#RealBlackHole
#ehtblackhole
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People have been imagining what
#blackholes
look like since they were predicted by Einstein more than a century ago. We don’t have to imagine anymore! Watch 👇
Learn more about
#OurBlackHole
:
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Can you wobble? The M87 black hole does!
The
@ehtelescope
debuted the first
#realblackhole
image in 2019, but with NSF support, it was gathering data long before that. This data showed that the "shadow" of the M87 black hole wobbles over time:
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Engineers like Mary Ross are an inspiration to women everywhere. Women and minorities continue to face challenges and break through barriers in
#engineering
-- while doing incredible work to make the world a better place.
#GoogleDoodle
#womeninSTEM
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Today the President released the FY 2022 budget request which includes $10.17 billion for NSF, an increase of 20%.
This request represents an investment in American prosperity, innovation, & the diverse STEM workforce of tomorrow.
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Today is the day! 🚨
NSF and the
@ehtelescope
will announce a groundbreaking discovery in our galaxy at 9 am EDT. Watch LIVE here:
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NSF’s first priority is safety. Multiple assessments by independent engineering companies found the telescope structure is in danger of a catastrophic failure and its cables may no longer be capable of carrying the loads they were designed to support.
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Barbara McClintock changed genetics when she discovered that individual genes can change places in chromosomes. Since the discovery was contradictory to genetics theory at the time, it took 40yrs until her findings were accepted & she was awarded the
#NobelPrize
.
#WomenInScience
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Look familiar? It's the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, a galaxy 55M light-yrs from Earth.
(left) 2019: 1st-ever
#realblackhole
pic
(right) 2021: image mapping polarization of light
Both 📷 by
#NSFfunded
@ehtelescope
:
#BlackHoleWeek
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Happy
#BlackHoleFriday
!
This simulated video shows what a
#blackhole
system would look like up close. We haven’t seen one with our own eyes—yet—since our Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole is over 25,000 light-years away.
📹: Chael, Wielgus, Palumbo, Johnson, Bouman
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Nearly every atom inside you was crafted in the intense furnaces of distant suns, or the chaos of their fiery deaths.
Our new video The Stars Within Us tracks the birth of every element in the Periodic Table. Watch the full video here:
#PeriodicTableDay
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🚨 NSF and the
@ehtelescope
will announce a groundbreaking discovery in the Milky Way May 12 at 9 am .
📷: Dr. Daniel Michalik, NSF
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Happy birthday to Adm.
#GraceHopper
! Her work in computer science, moving from simplistic programming languages to sophisticated ones, helped lead to the technology we use today.
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NSF announces $31M in awards to explore applications of
#quantum
mechanics, advance next-generation sensing, computing, modeling & communication:
#WHQISsummit
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Fire-breathing dragons, monsters of the universe, pocket-size powerhouses – black holes beggar the imagination & attempts to study them.
On
#BlackHoleWeek
,
@NSF
recommits to research that can open a wider window to the cosmos.
📷: D. Dayag CC-BY-SA-4.0
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In a huge day for astrophysics, on 4/10/19,
@NSF
and
@ehtelescope
shared the first image of a black hole.
EHT is a planet-wide array of radio telescopes built to capture a historic leap in astronomy.
#BlackHoleWeek
📷: EHT Collaboration, et al.
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Due to a lapse in appropriations, NSF will not be posting or responding to any comments. We will return as soon as possible.
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It's
#WomenInScienceDay
! 👩🔬👷🏾♀️👩🏻⚕️👩🏿🔬👩🏿🏫
NSF celebrates the strides women are making in STEM and supports the next generation of female scientists, engineers, technicians, educators and entrepreneurs as they pursue their STEM dreams.
Your dreams are NSF's dreams, too.
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@NatSolarObs
@AURADC
@NSF_MPS
This is just the beginning!
@NSF
's Inouye Solar Telescope will collect more information about our sun during the first 5 years of its lifetime than all the solar data gathered since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the sun in 1612. 🤯
#SolarVision2020
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Happy
#eclipse
day!
Don't miss out on the solar eclipse passing over the U.S. today. 😎
Even if you're not in the path of totality or can't go outside, you can watch online and learn about solar science with
@NSF
and the NSF
@NatSolarObs
.
Watch on YouTube starting at:
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We're back! Here's a look back at our most popular stories of 2018, from octopuses 🐙 to astrophysics 🔭, we fund it all!
#NSFfunded
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We're seeing the unseeable! Black holes have sparked imaginations for decades.
#OTD
a year ago, we saw the first-ever image of a
#realblackhole
-- captured by
#NSFfunded
@ehtelescope
, a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes. 🤯
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It’s
#FossilFriday
! Check out a newly described species of extinct mammal called Simbakubwa kutokaafrika. This 22 million-year-old hyaenodont was found in Kenya and was a formidable carnivorous predator—considerably larger than a modern lion.
@ohiou
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It's our birthday! Help us celebrate nearly seven decades of
#innovation
and discovery that have changed not just the United States, but the world.
#NSFfunded
#science
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4-10-19 9 a.m. EDT
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#YearInReview
: Here are some of our most popular Twitter stories of 2022! (In no particular order)
First up: NSF-supported
@ehtelescope
revealed the FIRST image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy:
#ourblackhole
#bye2022
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From our Director France Córdova: A Historic Day for Astrophysics
#EHTBlackHole
#RealBlackHole
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Can you remember the moment that sparked your interest in
#science
?
This week and next, we want to draw attention to the power of
#STEM
education. Share your story (with a video or photo) using
#MySTEMspark
:
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Talitha Washington, Mathematician and NSF Program Director shares how math didn't come easy for her, and if not for other amazing women in her life, she might not have become the award winning mathematician she is today!
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For Native American Heritage Day - share how researchers
@UCBerkeley
are saving early 20th century native american audio recordings:
#NativeAmericanHeritageDay
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NSF announces new actions to help eliminate sexual harassment in science & engineering: .
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Last year,
@ehtelescope
released the first image of a black hole. A stunning feat, the image had decades of tech behind it, like new ways to process petabytes of data, equivalent to billions(!) of cat videos.
How
@NSF
made that possible?
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Happy birthday to us!
For more than 7️⃣ decades,
@NSF
has funded science and engineering research— from astronomy to zoology and everything in between — that has led to discoveries and innovations that transform our world.
#NSFfunded
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Happy
#BlackHoleWeek
⚫️!
But, what's a
#blackhole
? A pocket of cosmic matter with ferocious mass but extremely compact, with a gravitational pull so powerful it warps space-time, and nothing, not even light, can escape it.
More about black holes 👉
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New details on the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory's 305-meter telescope, including video, are available on NSF's website:
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The vampire squid got its name bc it looks like it wears a cloak. It’s truly elegant & often misunderstood. Doesn’t suck blood.
#takeoverNSF
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Can you explain your research using emojis? At NSF, we provide💰 for 🏫👩🏻🔬👨🏻🔬 working in 🐞, 🖥️, 🔭, 👫, 🌋,👩🏻🎓👨🏻🎓and 🤖.
#WorldEmojiDay
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When a rare astronomical event happens, sometimes you want to get another look. 👀
Accurately identifying the source of a high-energy neutrino requires multiple messenger signals, like high-energy particles and visible, radio, and X-ray signals, to all, tell the same story.
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A chemist who is looking at microbes to understand their influence on human lives and an engineer who looks to animals to build better wind turbines and other technology...
Congrats to the 2020
#NSFwaterman
winners Emily Balskus and John O. Dabiri 🎉
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Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for being awarded the
#NobelPrize
in chemistry! Their work discovering CRISPR has given the world one of our most promising tools for genetic editing.
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Have you ever wondered if quantum is in your future or your career?
This
#WorldQuantumDay
, join
@levarburton
as he explores those questions, engaging students, researchers and even a
@NASA
astronaut on the
@Space_Station
!
From
@NSF
&
@q12education
.
📽
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On this
#NationalDayOfMourning
, we recall the late President George H. W. Bush’s support and admiration for science and engineering research.
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Your kids can learn how to code... and more!
We've got 7⃣ NSF-supported
#STEM
resources for learners of all ages that are perfect for at-home learning:
#virtuallearning
#socialdistancing
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A "ghostly" image? This unique portrait of the Milky Way incorporates invisible neutrino "ghost particles" (in blue) captured by
@NSF
's
@uw_icecube
observatory.
We're the first humans to see the galaxy in anything other than light!
📷: IceCube /NSF/ESO
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For NSF, every day is
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
.
For decades – and today more than ever – NSF has supported and empowered women and girls in STEM education, research and careers: .
#WomeninSTEM
#WomeninScience
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The
@ehtelescope
collaboration, who produced the first-ever image of a
#realblackhole
, have imaged the magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s
#blackhole
😱
More on this discovery here ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
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NSF and its partners are proud to launch the National AI Research Resource pilot.
Its goal? To democratize the future of
#AI
research & development by offering researchers & educators advanced computing, datasets, models, software, training & user support.
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75 years ago this week, in the midst of WWII, Vannevar Bush argued that science and innovation were key to ensuring American prosperity.
His report, Science—The Endless Frontier, outlined a plan for government support of basic research that led to the creation of
@NSF
.
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They say a picture is worth 1000 words, so we’ll keep it short and sweet. These are a few of our favorite NSF-supported space pics, share yours this week with
#NSFspace
or
#BroughtToYouByNSF
.
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