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Milky Way over Easter Island

By |2024-11-05T08:09:20-05:00November 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 900 large stone statues called moais exist there. The Rapa Nui (Easter Island) moais stand, on average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. [...]

Milky Way Behind Three Merlons

By |2024-08-07T09:09:10-04:00August 7th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day To some, they look like battlements, here protecting us against the center of the Milky Way. The Three Merlons, also called the Three Peaks of Lavaredo, stand tall today because they are made of dense dolomite rock which has better resisted erosion than surrounding softer rock. They formed about 250 [...]

Stairway to the Milky Way

By |2024-05-29T09:09:27-04:00May 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What happens if you ascend this stairway to the Milky Way? Before answering that, let's understand the beautiful sky you will see. Most eye-catching is the grand arch of the Milky Way Galaxy, the band that is the central disk of our galaxy which is straight but distorted by the [...]

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