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fromFast Company
1 day ago

The head of NASA, members of Congress, and Elon Musk want to make Pluto a planet again. Will Trump do it?

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman advocates for restoring Pluto's planetary status, citing its discovery by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh and contributions to Kansas astronomy.
fromOpen Culture
6 months ago

How a 19th Century Scientist Created Incredibly Realistic 3D Models of the Moon (1874)

At the moment, there's no bet­ter way to see any­thing in space than through the lens of the James Webb Space Tele­scope. Pre­vi­ous­ly fea­tured here on Open Cul­ture, that ten-bil­lion-dol­lar suc­ces­sor to the Hub­ble Space Tele­scope can see unprece­dent­ed­ly far out into space, which, in effect, means it can see unprece­dent­ed­ly far back in time: some 13.5 bil­lion years, in fact, to the state of the ear­ly uni­verse.
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fromBig Think
6 months ago

Centuries before Stephen Hawking, an isolated priest imagined black holes

Scientific discoveries expanded cosmic scales, diminishing humanity's centrality, while Enlightenment thinkers pursued ambitious exploration of stars' distances, sizes, masses, and cosmic variety.
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