The nearly full Moon shines just below Pollux and Castor this evening. It forms a straight line with them when the stars come out over the eastern Canadian Maritimes. The line becomes slightly curved by the time of dusk for the rest of the continent.
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#Space: investigations reveal more evidence that #Mimas is a "stealth" #OceanWorld — one of #Saturn’s smallest, innermost #moon could have an expanding, geologically young #ocean
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I am concerned that the human species is not mature enough to understand how magnificent life in the ocean🌊truly is.We, most of us humans view the sea simply as some kind of a chemical waste dump,trash receptacle for disgusting plastic,or worse as their property to be exploited.
The Iguazu Falls, located on the border of Argentina and Brazil, is the largest broken waterfall in the world. Comprised of 275 separate cascades, the falls are fed by the Iguazu River and are a truly spectacular sight to behold.
Newly discovered asteroid #2023BU (diameter ~8 meters) will have a very close encounter with Earth on January 26 at 21:27 UTC, flying at about 0.025 LD (lunar distances) or about 9,600 km
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The Globus INK (1967) is a remarkable piece of Soviet spacecraft equipment. Its rotating globe showed cosmonauts the position of their Soyuz spacecraft. An electromechanical analog computer, it used gears, cams, and differentials to compute the position. Let's look inside 🧵
Radiocarbon dating has identified stemmed point tools 2300 years older than others excavated at a #Paleoamerican settlement, expanding the time frame for tool use in this community. https://t.co/R1yAZZ3KdE @ScienceAdvances
Restoring Hong Kong’s Threatened Oyster Reefs:
Through restoration efforts, conservationists hope they can provide multi-benefits with improved water quality, stabilized shorelines & better habitat for the city’s rich marine wildlife.
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Fairphone is a very small company with nowhere near as many resources as Google, Samsung, BBK, and the other Big-Tech juggernauts—yet it managed to outlast them with its support program.
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England is poised to ban single-use plastic plates, cutlery, and certain kinds of polystyrene cups over environmental concerns.
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