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Stare All You Want At These Incredible Eclipse Images
Image Cache: If you’re reading this post, congratulations on following basic instructions and not burning out your retinas while watching today’s eclipse. For a few hours, folks across America could put aside the myriad horrors of this year and stare at the hot ball of gas literally keeping us all alive. It was actually quite…
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New Image Of Jupiter Is So Beautiful It’s Making Us Angry
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran Despite our squabbles here on Earth, the universe is full of so much beauty it’s almost stupid. Jupiter is perhaps the most unreasonably beautiful thing in our entire solar system, and it’s not shy about flexing. Recently, citizen scientists/JunoCam superstars Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created one of the most…
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Here Are The Messages NASA Should Not Beam Into Deep Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is one of the universe’s only unproblematic faves. For over 39 years, it’s been cruising along in space, flying by Saturn and the Kuiper Belt, doing nothing but beaming back beautiful photos and scientific research. Now, the intrepid spacecraft — skirting serenely in interstellar space — is being bombarded with requests…
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Everyone’s Favourite Alien System Is A Cranky Old Grump
TRAPPIST-1 would like to remind you that it was drinkin’ beer while you were still rompin’ around in your diapers — or whatever old people say. The ultracool dwarf star system, which first was announced back in February, has garnered a lot of interest because it harbours seven Earth-size planets. At least three of those…