space
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NASA Wants to Send Human Nudes to Aliens and Hello Houston, Is This Grindr?
NASA will be sending human nudes into space in the hopes that it will attract the attention of aliens.
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Supernovas, Auroral Sounds and Hungry Tides: Unpacking First Nations Knowledge of The Skies
Duane Hamacher’s The First Astronomers explores the deep and living star knowledge of First Nations people from around the world – and challenges the notion that Indigenous knowledge is not scientific. Review: The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders Read the Stars – Duane Hamacher, with Elders and Knowledge Holders (Allen & Unwin) This magnificent book…
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune: Why Our Next Visit to the Giant Planets Will Be So Important
The giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are some of the most awe-inspiring in our Solar System, and have great importance for space research and our comprehension of the greater universe. Yet they remain the least explored – especially the “ice giants” Uranus and Neptune – due to their distance from Earth,…
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This Object in Space Flashed Brilliantly for 3 Months, Then Disappeared. Astronomers Are Intrigued
“Holy sharks, Batman, it’s periodic!” I exclaimed on Slack. It was the first lockdown of 2021 in Perth, and we were all working from home. And when astronomers look for something to distract themselves from looming existential dread, there’s nothing better than a new cosmic mystery. In 2020 I gave an undergraduate student, Tyrone O’Doherty,…