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Illustration by Kathleen Fu 1. The Panhandle. Thanks to simple geometry, the Texas Panhandle is perhaps the easiest of the state’s eleven regions to delineate.
The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope aims to create the largest 3D map of the universe in the next six years. The observatory just completed the first piece.
This map of eclipse paths from 2024 to 2044 reveals that Australia hit the jackpot: Over just 11 years, the continent (lower right) will see four total solar eclipses — in 2028, 2030, 2037 and 2038.
Over five years, I read 1,001 novels to hear the voices that fill this country. These books showed me that the places of American fiction can’t be divided into blue or red states.
In a paper published today in Science, the team revealed the first map of the Milky Way in neutrinos. (Usually our galaxy is mapped out with photons, particles of light.) The new map shows a diffuse ...
"When doing the US landfall map, it occurred to me just how active the 1880s were. In our database, the 1880s hold the record for the most landfalling US hurricanes in a single decade, at 20.
Explore the interactive map here.. NASA's Webb telescope gathers data for online map. Using its powerful resolution and infrared capabilities, the James Webb Space Telescope observed a region of ...