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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Friday, July 5. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by Wyoming Senior Olympics - on July 10th you can help support senior athletes in Wyoming by participating in the WyoGives day of giving!

One person was killed in a shootout with a Yellowstone National Park ranger Thursday morning, after an exchange of gunfire with a shooter in the Canyon Village, central region of the park, authorities say.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the ranger is injured but in stable condition and receiving treatment, and there are no active threats to the public.

"We noticed that people on social media were saying there had been a shooting in Yellowstone and a park ranger was injured. And so a lot of these statements appeared to contain a leaked email from Cam Sholly, park superintendent. We were able to confirm the email's legitimacy, but even so, we waited for an official announcement from Yellowstone National Park - and we received that late morning Thursday, saying that not only had an agent been injured in a shootout with a suspect, but the suspect has died."

Officials had not released the identity of the shooter as of Thursday evening, but did confirm that the incident started Wednesday night and culminated Thursday morning in a shootout.

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A Kansas-based company is moving forward with plans for a project to store minimally toxic carbon dioxide in underground voids deep under a huge swath of southwest Wyoming.

The project's backers want to utilize nearly 605,100 acres of underground space beneath Lincoln, Sweetwater and Uinta counties, according to energy reporter Pat Maio.

"There's a company called Moxa carbon storage, which is trying to go through the permitting process with the state's Department of Environmental Quality, as well as the Bureau of Land Management, to basically start storing carbon dioxide and caverns underground… there's two big projects. One of them is over 600,000 acres underground, which I was calculating to be about 6,000 football fields underground, that they're gonna be putting carbon dioxide into."

Filings submitted to the BLM say no public-owned surface lands would be disturbed, though the carbon dioxide would be stored in federally owned underground pore space.

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The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, is the Grand Prismatic Spring of the cosmos. Located in the constellation Lyra, Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi says it's one of the most colorful celestial sights in the night skies over Wyoming this summer.

"The Ring Nebula is basically cloud of gas created after the collapse of a sunlight star. And the thing the thing that stuck with me is once I saw the images, it's like the Grand Prismatic Spring of the night sky. So that should resonate with Wyomingites, because it's this circular space structure that has a spectacular display of color."

To find the Ring Nebula, amateur stargazers should head outside around 10 p.m. and find the trapezoid-shaped constellation Lyra directly above the upside-down cross of Cygnus. The Ring Nebula is right between the bottom two stars.

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