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15 Phenomenal Images of the Aurora Australis

With today’s super telescopes, we are better placed than ever to witness the astonishing celestial beauty of stars, nebulae and quasars. But while telescopes are invaluable to our understanding of the distant Universe, there are luminous cosmic energies at play closer to home that can be seen clearly with the naked eye. Most people have heard tale of the legendary Northern Lights, but their southern cousins, Aurora Australis, make no less magical a spectacle.

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How Often Is The Sky Falling?

After reading that a home in New Zealand was rather dramatically disturbed by a bit of falling mechanical trash, I began to wonder how often, exactly, the sky feels fit to fall on us. Not just airplane parts, or the occasional poo bomb, but meteorites, too, [...]

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