Articles Tagged with #outerspace
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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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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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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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Mars on Mars
An artist’s ethereal treatment of the cosmos and the desert win her a massive, devoted following.
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The Final Frontier
Interstellar Hard Drive
All your precious data, everything you’ve created and every memory you’ve captured and stored, is etched on a hard disk somewhere on Earth. Back it up all you want—it won’t matter if the planet goes. The search for storage beyond the cloud.
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Stellar
Animated images inspired by Carl Sagan that show humans made from stars.
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Electric Light Formula
Manmade light is normally considered pollution before it’s thought of as beautiful. A series of luscious portraits of Earth’s brightest hotspots.
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Spoofs & Satire
Define the Ratio of People to Cake
After the world’s oddest job-interview questions, from companies like Citigroup and Facebook, were revealed, our writer decided to take all of them to prove he’s hirable anywhere.
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Opinions
Houston, We Have Contractions
A baby may be a tiny step for mankind, but it’s a giant one for new parents, especially the adult diapers part.
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The Novice
How to Do Astrology
Those who can’t do, learn. In this installment of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, we divine meaning from the heavenly bodies.
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Personal Essays
From Cover to Cover
Music connects to memories, and so do album sleeves. From ELO’s spaceship to Róisín Murphy’s see-through top, the covers that made one writer a fan.
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Weird Science
In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson
Ingesting a wily particle is no laughing matter. Ten steps of concrete advice to consider before your hands grow to the size of large cities.