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Natural Science

Supermassive

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Natural Science

A brief history of everything

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Natural Science Photography

The Last Planet

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Our best image yet of Pluto and Charon, pretty exciting stuff.

New Horizons is travelling 5 billion km to reach Pluto. To put that distance into perspective: it’s really fucking far.

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Space Cards

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Beautiful Flickr set of General Dynamics Astronautics Space Cards.

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Kepler-16b

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Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren’t good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie’s iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction.

NASA release retro travel posters for some newly discovered planets.