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Scientists are comfortable in their own communities but other groups working on similar phenomena at different length scales could provide unexpected insights. Collaborations are more likely to uncover common underlying principles.

Following the completion of the largest single-dish radio telescope ever built, the real work may now begin, explain Rendong Nan and Haiyan Zhang.

Astronomers, astrophysicists and planetary scientists are global citizens who transcend political boundaries. Nature Astronomy supports a strong, open community with common interests.

Water ice has been spotted on Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt. The ice is trapped in craters at the northern pole — some of the coldest, darkest places in our Solar System. Ceres is now the third planetary body, after the Moon and Mercury, where water ice has been detected in permanently shadowed areas.