Articles Tagged with #space
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Closing the Door
The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2021, and what were the least?
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Video
It May Be Science, But It Feels Like Magic
Time-lapse video of the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, shot from the International Space Station.
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Dreaming of Earth From Space
Astronaut Helen Sharman recounts a dream she has of returning to space and viewing Earth from above once more.
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Realpolitiking
Alienated
UFO sightings are common in America. So is a lack of political transparency.
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Video
Alpha Centauri Is in Central New Jersey
Friends build the first scale model of the solar system so we can feel how big it is—and how small we are.
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Phenomena Understood
The Economic Benefits of Alien Abduction
According to economists, if intelligent life elsewhere wants to kidnap earthlings, there must be a reason—and a business model.
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Video
Time-Lapse of the 2015 Perseid Meteor Shower
While you were (probably) sleeping, Earth was treated to its annual viewing of the Perseid cloud.
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Animated Flyover of Pluto’s Icy Mountains and Plains
Created from images captured by New Horizons.
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The Doctor Is In
Fight or Flight
A near-death experience makes this week’s International Asteroid Day a little more tricky to celebrate.
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Spoofs & Satire
Gods and Kings and Middle Managers
Recent astronomical discoveries have expanded our understanding of the universe—and messed up godhead performance reviews.
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Science in Fiction
Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Ignore the critics: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is not only a serious, complex comment on space policy, it’s a heartbreaking, philosophical look at the value of time.
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Spoofs & Satire
The Great Gtzzby
The Jazz Age blasts into orbit, adding oxygen parties and mighty pincers to the rise-and-fall decadence of the intergalactic one percent.