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One Cool Thing: Giant Full Moons Are All In Your Head

When tonight’s full moon makes its debut (as well as a lunar eclipse for just about everyone in the world except for North America) it will appear unusually large. However this moon illusion is all in your head as Mother Nature Network explained, “the moon isn’t changing sizes, and while its distance from Earth does […]

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The Space Graveyard You Never Knew About

• ISS
• NASA
• space

By Miro Korenha and Alexandra Patel Point Nemo, standing for no one, lies 4,000 meters below the ocean’s surface and it’s the spot where hundreds of fallen spacecraft lie in the “space graveyard”. Located between Australia and South America, this area is unpopulated and lacking in wildlife. Since the 1970s, at least 260 spacecraft have […]

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One Cool Thing: July’s Night Skies

After the fireworks are over, you can’t miss out on nature’s night sky display this July. From incredible opportunities to see Saturn and eclipses galore, check out NatGeo’s roundup of July’s top stargazing events.

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NASA’s New Mission Headed to Saturn

• Dragonfly
• NASA
• New Frontiers
• Saturn
• space travel
• Titan

As the Verge explained, “a new mission involving a drone-like lander will explore the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission — called Dragonfly — received a coveted funding slot from NASA’s New Frontiers program, which funds ambitious missions to explore objects in our solar system.” Titan is the only moon in our solar system […]

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Space X Falcon Heavy Successfully Launches With Huge Payload

• atomic clock
• Elon Musk
• NASA
• NOAA
• satellites
• SpaceX
• The Planetary Society

by Alexandra Patel and Monica Medina Overnight on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy Rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with loud sonic booms and managed to successfully land two of its launch vehicles on landing pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, though the third booster rocket crashed […]

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One Cool Thing: Must-See Stargazing in June

• Arietids Meteor Shower
• June
• night sky

Make sure you pencil in some stargazing into your summer plans as this time of year brings some incredible celestial events. The new moon is tonight which means the sky is extra dark to find June’s constellations, and later this week don’t miss the Arietids meteor shower. Grab a blanket and click here to check […]