Planets composed of iron, rock, and water. Illustrations not to scale. The planet model on the left-hand side develops a shallow layer of pure water, while the majority of the
Planets composed of iron, rock, and water. Illustrations not to scale. The planet model on the left-hand side develops a shallow layer of pure water, while the majority of the
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Maximum likelihood phylogenomic tree of 381 cyanobacterial genomes, including newly sequenced genomes labeled in bold. The tree was inferred from 46,754 unambiguously aligned sites under the best-fit model (LG+F+I+R10) and
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Minimum accreted masses inferred from the five most commonly detected elements (O, Mg, Si, Ca, Fe) as a function of white-dwarf cooling ages (i.e., the time since the white dwarf






