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Stars and Science

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a collection of great resources for teaching about stars and science

• Article Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture. - Vox
• Article Solving a 600-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
• Article The Multiverse Is Inevitable, And We’re Living In It
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Is there life out there?

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The universe is so vast, that statistically, there is a high percentage chance that there might be life out there (somewhere).

• Article A New Recipe for Hunting Alien Life - Scientific American
• Article Casting a $20 Million Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope
• Article Is there anybody out there? - The search for extraterrestrial intelligence moves up a gear
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The sun, stars and science

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a collection of great resources for teaching about the sun, stars and science

• Article NASA's Parker Solar Probe: Why It's Hard to Reach the Sun - The Atlantic
• Article This is the highest-resolution photo of the sun ever taken - MIT Technology Review

Stars and Astronomy

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a collection of articles about stars and astronomy

• Article Space Is Full Of Planets, And Most Of Them Don't Even Have Stars - Forbes
• Article Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs
• Article How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History’s Greatest Solar Observers
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Astrology - Stars and Astronomy

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Astrology - Stars and Astronomy

• Article Why Astrology Matters - Nautilus

Oumuamua - Mysterious Interstellar Object UFO - Is there life out there?

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Oumuamua - Mysterious Interstellar Object UFO - Is there life out there?

• Video The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech
• Article Have Aliens Found Us? Interview with Harvard Astronomer - Mysterious ‘Oumuamua | The New Yorker
• Article Interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper argues, but experts are skeptical - CNN
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National Geographic - Educational Resources

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a collection of educational resources from National Geographic

• Article One Strange Rock - Educational Resources | National Geographic Society
• Website Resource Library | National Geographic Education
• Article Strategy Share: Exploring the World Through Documentary Filmmaking – National Geographic Education Blog
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Netflix - documentaries about Planet Earth

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a collection of Netflix documentaries about Planet Earth

• Article Netflix's 'Our Planet' Is Beautiful but Uncomfortable - The Atlantic
• Article One Strange Rock (Netflix documentary 2018) - IMDb

'One Strange Rock' -National Geographic, Netflix documentary about Planet Earth

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a collection of 'One Strange Rock' -National Geographic, Netflix documentary about Planet Earth

• Article One Strange Rock (Netflix documentary 2018) - IMDb
• Article One Strange Rock - Educational Resources | National Geographic Society
• Video David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station
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Low Earth orbit Communications Satellites

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A collection of articles about Low Earth orbit Communications Satellites

• Article Space Debris Has Hit And Damaged The International Space Station
• Podcast The Evolution of the Satellite Economy | Andreessen Horowitz
• Article Why China fears Starlink. China in space
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The sun, galaxies and the milky way

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a collection of great resources for teaching about the sun, galaxies and the milky way

• Article Two suns? No, it's a supernova drawn 6,000 years ago, say scientists | The Guardian
• Article Billion-star map of Milky Way set to transform astronomy | Nature
• Article All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years | Astronomy.com
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Searching for Planets that could support life - Is there life out there?

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Searching for Planets that could support life - Is there life out there?

• Article There Could Be 300 Million (or More) Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy
• Article An Earth-Sized Exoplanet in Our Cosmic Neighborhood
• Article Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
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Mining Asteroids in outer space

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Mining Asteroids in outer space

• Article The Colorado School of Mines Wants to Launch the First-Ever Space Mining Program
• Video Asteroid Mining Fast Facts
• Article Space startup Gitai raises $17.1M to help build the robotic workforce of commercial space – TechCrunch

UFOs and Aliens - Is there life out there?

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UFOs and Aliens - Is there life out there?

• Article Aliens Are Here on Earth - Kevin Kelly - The Technium
• Article Is there anybody out there? - The search for extraterrestrial intelligence moves up a gear
• Article Belief in aliens could be America’s next religion | The Outline
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SpaceX StarLink and Low Earth orbit Communications Satellites

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SpaceX StarLink and Low Earth orbit Communications Satellites

• Video Why Elon Musk is really building Starlink
• Article Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist
• Podcast Astronomers Worry SpaceX Starlink Program Could Alter Night Sky : NPR (2019)
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Asteroids, Comets in outer space

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Asteroids in outer space

• Video How We Proved An Asteroid Wiped Out The Dinosaurs | Big History Project
• Article How NASA's spacecraft will smash into an asteroid to save Earth next year
• Article A short new movie of a comet’s surface is pretty incredible | Ars Technica
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Flat Earth - theory, people, beliefs

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A collection of articles and videos about Flat Earth - theory, people, beliefs

• Video People From Around The Globe Met For The First Flat Earth Conference (HBO)
• Video Flat Earth "Science" -- Wrong, but not Stupid
• Article My parents are Flat-Earthers
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Photograph of a Black Hole

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Photograph of a Black Hole

• Article Last year, we finally photographed a black hole. Now what?
• Article How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? With a Telescope as Big as the Earth - The New York Times
• Video Why this black hole photo is such a big deal - Vox
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Protecting the Earth from Asteroids, Comets in outer space

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Protecting the Earth from Asteroids, Comets in outer space

• Article How NASA's spacecraft will smash into an asteroid to save Earth next year
• Article Dinosaur-killing Asteroid Could Have Caused 2 Years of Darkness
• Article MIT system predicts the best way to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid
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Epistemology, Theories of Knowledge - Comparing Empiricism, Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

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Epistemology, Theories of Knowledge - Comparing Empiricism, Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

• Video David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
• Article Coming to Our Senses - By Neil deGrasse Tyson, Natural History Magazine

Supernovae - Telescopes, Stars and Astronomy

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Supernovae - Telescopes, Stars and Astronomy

• Article Two suns? No, it's a supernova drawn 6,000 years ago, say scientists | The Guardian
• Video Dark Energy might not exist after all