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H2O and IQ
There is great irony in NASA’s recent discovery of water flowing on Mars. First, that the gift of our intelligence allows us to make such amazing findings on other worlds while we use the same brain...
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Another Glorious Hubble Image
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this recent image of spiral galaxy NGC 4845. The galaxy lies around 65 million light-years from Earth, but it still presents a gorgeous sight. NGC 4845’s glowing...
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A Trip to Titan
NASA is advertising its upcoming space tourism trip to Saturn’s largest moon Titan with this gorgeous retro poster. Just imagine rowing across Titan’s lakes and oceans, and watching Saturn set below...
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What Keeps NASA Going?
Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan is the last human to have set foot on a world other than Earth. It’s been 44 years since he last stepped off the moon. In fact, in 1972 he drove around using the lunar...
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Juno on the 4th of July
Perhaps not coincidentally, NASA’s latest foray into the great beyond reached a key milestone today. The Juno spacecraft entered orbit around the gas giant Jupiter on the 4th of July, 2016. NASA is...
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The Transit of Dione
This gorgeous image of Saturn’s moon Dione as it transits the gas giant was snapped by the Cassini spacecraft on May 27, 2015. For more beautiful views of the stunning ringed planet and its curious...
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Osiris-Rex and Bennu
You might be mistaken for thinking Osiris-Rex and Bennu are the names of two rather exotic dogs. No. Bennu is a 1,500 foot wide space rock, which circles the Sun at around 60,000 mph. OSIRIS-REx is...
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Europa, Europa
A couple of days ago, September 26, 2016, tens of millions of us tuned in to the gory — and usually devoid of fact — spectacle that is the US Presidential election debate. On the same day, something...
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[tube]9L471ct7YDo[/tube] A couple of days ago NASA released this gorgeous video constructed from real images taken by the Huygens lander. This revisits Huygen’s successful landing on Titan — Saturn’s...
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Time to Move to Trappist-1
Those bright women and men at NASA have done it again. This time they’ve discovered 7 exoplanets all revolving around the same distant star. The cool news is that on the cosmological distance scale...
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