With little advanced warning, last night, many California residents looked up into the crisp autumn night sky to see a surreal sight. Many took to Facebook and Twitter to ask…
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Hurricane Florence is dominating the headlines this week, and for good reason. The mega storm is larger than Hurricane Katrina, and as it barrels towards the Carolinas, 120mph winds and…
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Formed in October 2015, Night Crew Labs was created with one mission: to film the aurora borealis from a high altitude balloon. After 18 months of building the balloons and testing countless scenarios,…
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We’ve all seen pictures of the Earth from space, whether in a astronaut film or in our science textbooks in school, we all have a certain image in our minds…
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Over the past 12 years, NASA’s impressive HiRISE camera (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) has photographed hundreds of targeted swaths of Mars’ surface in unprecedented detail. The camera operates in visible wavelengths,…
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This colorful stripe of stars, gas, and dust is actually a spiral galaxy named “NGC 1055,” captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, using…
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Losing its “Planet” status in 1992 didn’t stop Pluto from being the most charming part of the Kuiper belt. Ever since its discovery in 1930, people have been fascinated by the dwarf,…
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Astronaut Jeff Williams knows, like no other, that “you see things at a different scale” from outer space, since he orbited our planet for a record 534 days on several missions for…
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The Story Behind These Mysterious Light Pillars In Canada’s Night Sky
With a 2-year-old in the house, it wasn’t much of a surprise for Canadian content creator Timmy Joe, 33, to wake up at 1:30 a.m. on January 6. As one sometimes does in…
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Only twelve people have ever walked on the moon, and the last one to do so in 1972 was Eugene Cernan, commander of the last human mission to the moon, Apollo 17.…