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mothernaturenetwork: 8 awesome images of solar eclipses

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mothernaturenetwork: Hunger Games: How controversial books build ‘empathy muscles’Reading emotionally challenging books with a child can help that child work through the material and their own feelings.

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mothernaturenetwork: The world’s 10 oldest living trees

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mothernaturenetwork: If it’s not dark matter, than what is it?A lack of dark matter in the universe calls into question commonly accepted theories about how galaxies move in the universe.

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mothernaturenetwork: Photo of the day: Hubble marks 22 years in orbit with stellar imageIn celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, NASA has released this stunning new image of the Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus. Located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, 30 Doradus is one of the largest, brightest and most prolific star nurseries in the Milky Way. It’s so bright that if it were as close to the Earth as the Orion Nebula — located 1,500 light-years away — it would fill up a space equivalent to 60 moons in our night sky and would also cast shadows on the surface of the planet.

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mothernaturenetwork: 7 places for top-notch stargazing

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mothernaturenetwork: The light from big cities is known to obscure star-gazing for many urban dwellers. But the high wattage from skyscrapers and office buildings is an obstacle for another nighttime phenomenon: the lunar rainbow. Sometimes called a moonbow, the band of colors is a nocturnal rainbow produced by light — in this case, from a full moon — as it passes through water droplets.6 amazing things that city dwellers miss out on

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mothernaturenetwork: 1 billion stars blaze bright in new Milky Way photoThe granddaddy of all panoramic snaps, the stunning new photo of our very own galaxy was created by an international team of astronomers.

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mothernaturenetwork: ‘Hunger Games’ exposes myth of technological progressThe popular series doesn’t celebrate the progress of technology, an idea that historians of science and technology see as overly simplistic anyway.

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mothernaturenetwork: 8 breathtaking images of baby stars

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ikenbot: Filigree & Shadow at Cygnus Loop Image Credit: NASA IOTD Wispy tendrils of hot dust and gas glow brightly in this ultraviolet image of the Cygnus Loop Nebula, taken by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The nebula lies about 1,500 light-years away, and is a supernova remnant, left over from a massive stellar explosion that occurred 5,000-8,000 years ago. The Cygnus Loop extends more than three times the size of the full moon in the night sky, and is tucked next to one of the ‘swan’s wings’ in the constellation of Cygnus. The filaments of gas and dust visible here in ultraviolet light were heated by the shockwave from the supernova, which is still spreading outward from the original explosion. The original supernova would have been bright enough to be seen clearly from Earth with the naked eye.

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mothernaturenetwork: NASA creates cloud spectacle with 5-rocket launchOccurring near the end of the day’s launch window, the ATREX rockets left a stunning cloud display for skygazers.

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mothernaturenetwork: Solar flare or refueling UFO?The bulbous solar flare extension is actually a ‘prominence’ and contains cooler, denser plasma than the surrounding 3.5-million-degree Fahrenheit corona.

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