Take 14 seconds to watch the change in Earth’s surface temperature from 1880 through 2016.
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Circumpolar stars never rise or set
Added by kHilton February 3, 2017Circumpolar stars always reside above the horizon, and for that reason, never rise or set. All the stars at the Earth’s North and South Poles are circumpolar. Meanwhile, no star…
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Groundhog Day has roots in astronomy
Added by kHilton February 2, 2017Groundhog Day is tied to the movement of Earth around the sun. It’s the year’s first “cross-quarter” day.
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Humans Almost Drove These 6 Animals To Extinction. But We Saved Them Instead. | The Huffington Post
Added by kHilton February 2, 2017These conservation success stories remind us that the mass extinction of the world’s species doesn’t have to be inevitable.
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Can This Trash Can Turn Food Waste Into Garden Treasure?
Added by kHilton January 28, 2017The Zera Food Recycler may not transform scraps into ready-to-use soil, but it could still help take a bite out of landfill-bound waste
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Opportunity Rover celebrates 13 years on Mars
Added by kHilton January 28, 2017On January 24, 2017, NASA’s Opportunity rover celebrated 13 Earth years exploring Mars. She’s officially a teenager. Here are 6 ways she’s behaving like one
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What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
Added by kHilton January 28, 2017The reasons for Trump’s win are obvious, if you know where to look.
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“Rogue” Science Agencies Defy Trump Administration on Twitter
Added by kHilton January 28, 2017Anonymous accounts are purportedly linked to NASA, National Parks and other agencies
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See a faint star cluster near bright Sirius
Added by kHilton January 27, 2017Tonight, look for the sky’s brightest star, Sirius, and the faint star cluster near it. Sirius is easy to see because it’s so bright and because the three prominent Belt…
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Your new moon is January 27 or 28
Added by kHilton January 27, 2017This new moon is January 28, 2017 at 00:07 UTC … just after midnight by clocks in England. It’ll be the evening of January 27 for us in the Americas,…