What Is the Famous Photo of a Single Atom and How Was It Taken?
A photograph of a single atom is really a long-exposure image of light emitted by that atom while it is…
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Why the Milky Way Smells Like Raspberries and Rum
Space does not literally taste or smell like raspberries and rum to human noses, but astronomers have found a molecule…
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Is Super Sentai Ending and What Happens Next?
Super Sentai ending refers to reports that the long running Japanese tokusatsu superhero franchise, which began broadcasting in 1975 and…
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What Is a Blood Moon?
A blood moon is a total lunar eclipse, the moment when the Moon moves entirely into Earth’s darkest shadow and…
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3I/ATLAS Observations: Interstellar Comets Become Routine
A dirty snowball from another star system is cruising past at nearly twice Earth-Sun distance, and about twenty different teams…
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Venus’s ‘Lost Moon’ returns in headlines, not the sky
On crisp evenings in the 1700s, respected astronomers pointed small refractors at a glaring white lantern in the west and…
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The Gigamoon reveals the Moon in astonishing detail
You think you know the Moon until a billion-plus pixels stare back. In Andrew McCarthy’s colossal 1.3-gigapixel mosaic, every wrinkle,…
