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The Continental Checks in With a Trailer and Goofy Title
Following the success of John Wick: Chapter 4, it was a given that Lionsgate would be continuing the assassin-heavy universe of the action series in some capacity. We’ve known for some time that a TV spinoff by the name of The Continental was in the works, and now we’ve got our first idea of what…
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The Coolest Images Taken by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has seen amazing things since it launched over sixteen years ago.
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What Astronomers Thought Pluto Looked Like Before They Saw It Up Close
It’s been 91 years since amateur astronomer Clyde Tombaugh first spotted Pluto on a set of glass negatives. Since then, the object has been declared a planet, named, and, of course, demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006. Whatever its status, our fascination with Pluto has held fast. But until very recently, we didn’t have…
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Pluto’s Moon Charon Now Has A Crater Called Dorothy, Among Other Newly Named Features
Up until July 2015, Pluto’s largest Moon, Charon, was just a pixel in terms of what we knew about it. That all changed when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped through the system, revealing craters, deep crevices, valleys and mountains on the distant moon – surface features that now have formal names.