https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/60counting/We celebrate NASA’s first 60 years of achievement

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The universe is at once familiar and unfathomable. We look up at the night sky and see stars glittering like…

A free, web-based collection of astronomy and Earth science videos and interactives.

From the vast reaches of outer space to the depths of the Mariana Trench, the Library’s collections chronicle some of the Western world’s greatest voyages of discovery and exploration. These are journeys that crossed time and space, shattering the old realms of myth and superstition and revealing the known world, a place of maps and charts and taxonomic tables. Giants and dragons did not exist, it turned out, but a whole new universe filled with strange and wonderful things did.

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