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solar eclipse, sun, moon, astronomy, space

How Do You Tell the Difference Between Total, Annular, Solar, and Lunar Eclipses?

Arrangement of the phases of the moon in total eclipse with Blood Moon

9 Celestial Omens

Galaxy clusters like Abell 2744 can act as a natural cosmic lens, magnifying light from more distant, background objects through gravity. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect light from the first stars in the universe if they are gravitationally lensed by such clusters. (astronomy, space exploration, galaxies)

How Fast Is the Universe Expanding?

Flag of Japan

5 Paintings You Need to See in Japan

October 18, 2019. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir waves at the camera during a spacewalk with fellow NASA astronaut Christina Koch (out of frame). They ventured into the vacuum of space for seven hours and 17 minutes to swap a failed battery charge-discharge unit (BCDU) with a spare during the first all-woman spacewalk. The BCDU regulates the charge to the batteries that collect and distribute solar power to the orbiting lab's systems.

7 Questions for Astronaut Jessica Meir

Discover

The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Black widow spider

9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders

Panoramic view at sunrise of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

6 Lost Civilizations

pg 229Nazi parade features a banner proclaiming, "Death to Marxism."The possibility of a peaceful Germany after World War I was precluded entirely by the terms of the Versailles Treaty and theintransigent hostility of France and England. Stripped of indu

Were the Nazis Socialists?

Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece

Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why We Celebrate MLK Day

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Born	May 6, 1952 (age 72) • Tatebayashi • Japan

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Nicollier, Claude

Claude Nicollier

Swiss test pilot and astronaut

Charles Bolden.

Charles Bolden

American astronaut

Stephanie Wilson

Stephanie Wilson

American astronaut

Ellen Ochoa

Ellen Ochoa

American astronaut and administrator

Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson

United States senator

Mark Kelly and Scott Kelly

Mark Kelly

American astronaut and United States senator

Āl Saʿūd, Salmān

Sultan ibn Salman Al Saud

Saudi royal and astronaut

Scott Kelly

American astronaut

Pedro Duque

Spanish aeronautical engineer and astronaut

Eileen Collins

Eileen Collins

United States pilot and astronaut

STS-78; Thirsk, Robert

Robert Thirsk

Canadian astronaut

Roberta Bondar

Roberta Bondar

Canadian neurologist, researcher, and astronaut

Kathryn Sullivan

Kathryn Sullivan

American oceanographer and astronaut

Fuglesang, Christer

Christer Fuglesang

Swedish physicist and astronaut

Kadenyuk, Leonid

Leonid Kadenyuk

Ukrainian cosmonaut

Astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Skylab 3 science pilot, reconstituting a prepackaged container of food at the crew quarters' ward-room table of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) of the space station, 1973.

Owen Garriott

American astronaut

Franklin Chang-Díaz, 1997.

Franklin Chang-Díaz

Costa Rican-born American physicist and astronaut

Norishige Kanai

Norishige Kanai

Japanese astronaut

Akiyama Toyohiro.

Akiyama Toyohiro

Japanese journalist and television reporter

Mohri Mamoru, right before the takeoff of space shuttle mission STS-99, Feb. 11, 2000.

Mohri Mamoru

Japanese astronaut

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Edwin E. Aldrin (Buzz Aldrin) stands on the moon, Apollo 11

Famous Astronauts and Cosmonauts