Tomorrow is April 1, and space seems to bring out the prankster in all of us. From fake UFO photos and moon-landing conspiracies to astronauts in gorilla suits aboard the International Space Station, the line between hoax and reality can be surprisingly thin. The odd thing is that the real universe is usually stranger—and far more entertaining—than anything we could invent.
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NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, April 15, 2018 This photo is a bit old now. It’s from the Mars Curiosity rover, in 2018. I only came across it the other day (or, to be precise, re-discovered it). I thought I’d share, even though it’s a pretty ordinary looking photo. The average teenager with a cellphone could
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In 2016, NASA released a collection of posters featuring exoplanets and other stellar destinations, as travel posters. Extremely high resolution, large scale versions of them were available, and as I was pretty hooked by them, a family member who had access to a high resolution plotter and plastic printing sheets, downloaded the files (they’re free),
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