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AstroWeekly: A shared planet

From the depths of the North Pacific Ocean, a 170,000-kilogram blue whale rises through a swarm of krill on its way to break the surface. In eastern Africa, giraffes wander across the rolling grasslands of the savanna with no particular destination. Meanwhile, herds of wild yak’s graze

Astro Weekly: A Special Shoutout to Trees

A few hundred years before the ancient Egyptians constructed the Pyramids of Giza, a seed germinated in the soil of western North America. Today, nearly 5,000 years later, that seed lives on as Methuselah—the current oldest tree on Earth. This tree came into existence when the world population