Space photos of the week, October 4 - 10.
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Space Photos of the Week: A Beautiful Blue Nebula Says Good Night
Why Optical Illusions Like These Make Your Brain Go Haywire
A lot can get lost in translation between your eyes and your brain.
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California’s Busiest Bridge Has a Serious Issue With Rust
The Bay Bridge's failures reveal the two main problems with engineering innovation.
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Eerie Photos Trace the Strange History of Nukes
Since the first plutonium bomb was detonated in 1945, photography has followed the development of nuclear warfare.
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These Crappy Apollo Images Are What Make NASA So Great
The photos are presented seemingly as they were taken, with time-lapse captures taken through command module windows.
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Space Photos of the Week: Charon Has Some Serious Boo-Boos
Space photos of the week, September 27–October 3.
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New Pics Show Charon at its Brightest and Most Beautiful
NASA released the highest-res images of Charon yet and hot dang are they gorgeous.
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The Nobel Committee Hasn’t Always Picked the Right Winners
Over its 114 year history, the Nobel Prize has been given to some bad science, and some bad scientists.
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Hurricane Joaquin Looks Like a Beast From Space
NASA satellites provide a big-picture view of Hurricane Joaquin as it churns its way up the Atlantic seaboard.
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How to Get to Mars … And Maybe Even Live There
We've long dreamed of visiting the Red Planet. Here's what that trajectory might look like, from the fictional world of 'The Martian' to the technology we still have to develop.
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