Got Binoculars? You’ve Got Venus (For A Few Days)

If you've got a set of binoculars, then you'll be happy to know that you can catch a view of Venus in them. In astronomical terms, Venus was at its farthest point from the sun back about a week ago. Now, it's closing in on Earth, which means it's close enought that it can be viewed ...

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Is The Hubble Telescope Making Our Lives Meaningless?

So here's an interesting bit of news for you this fine morning, folks--seems that there are some folks out there who think that the Hubble telescope, among others, is contributing to making life as we know it MEANINGLESS. They're calling them "life-shrinkers", and some folks think that, by talking about the universe at large, showing us ...

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