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A rare feel good story in the news; staff and volunteers from The Marine Mammal Center were able to reunite an otter pup with its mother in a central California bay last month.

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Baby sea otter is reunited with mother in California after long search

Using a Bluetooth speaker, a recording of its cries and a small boat, staff and volunteers from The Marine Mammal Center were able to reunite an otter pup with its mother in a central California bay l...

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November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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“Protecting our history is about telling the truth, even when it is uncomfortable,” Shapiro said in a statement posted on X Tuesday afternoon.

Josh Shapiro says ‘protecting history’ is crucial as Trump admin weighs removal of exhibits about slavery at Philly national park

Gov. Josh Shapiro's comment comes in direct response to The Inquirer's reporting showing more than dozen displays at Independence National Historical Park about slavery were flagged for review.

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July 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

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🔭 Fireball over Cape San Blas

Image Credit & Copyright: Jason Rice

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A bright streak is pictured through a starry sky over a beach spotted with the husks of dead trees. The rollover shows the resulting smoke trail from the bright meteor. Moving the cursor over the image will bring up an annotated version. Clicking on the image will bring up the highest resolution version available. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

July 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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🔭 Titan Shadow Transit

Image Credit & Copyright: Volodymyr Andrienko

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Every 15 years or so, Saturn's rings are tilted edge-on to our line of sight. As the bright, beautiful ring system grows narrower and fainter it becomes increasingly difficult to see for denizens of planet Earth. But it does provide the opportunity to watch transits of Saturn's moons and their dark shadows across the ringed gas giant's still bright disk. Of course Saturn's largest moon Titan is the easiest to spot in transit. In this telescopic snapshot from July 18, Titan itself is at the upper left, casting a round dark shadow on Saturn's banded cloudtops above the narrow rings. In fact Titan's transit season is in full swing now with shadow transits every 16 days corresponding to the moon's orbital period. Its final shadow transit will be on October 6, though Titan's pale disk will continue to cross in front of Saturn as seen from telescopes on planet Earth every 16 days through January 25, 2026.

July 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Yeetomato (artist)

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Hello hello, here's a linocut of a cat in the family that I made for my sister last week

A linocut print of a loafing cat with the silhouette of the same cat walking behind it

July 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM

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Architecture

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The Art museum of Grisons in Chur, Switzerland.
Design by Barozzi Veiga Architects, built 2014-2016

July 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM

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Astronomy 🔭

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NASA saves Voyager 1 mission by successfully reviving frozen thrusters from almost 24 billion kilometers away

Image is edited on top of the image released by NASA/JPL Caltech

July 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

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🔭 Clouds and the Golden Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Alexsandro Mota

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As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern hemisphere skies in this well-composed telephoto image from Conceição do Coité, Bahia, Brazil. The brightest lunar phase is captured here with both a short and long exposure. The two exposures were combined to reveal details of the lunar surface in bright moonlight and a subtle iridescence along the dramatically backlit cloudscape. Of course, July's Full Moon is a winter moon in the southern hemisphere. But in the north it's known to some as the Thunder Moon, likely a nod to the sounds of this northern summer month's typically stormy weather.

July 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Architecture

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Scada Building
Solar power plant in Konya, Turkey
architect: bilgin.studio

July 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM

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Architecture

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Nordest Arquitectura’s Casas 1922 in Rupià, Spain, is a two-house development completed in 2023 that reinterprets traditional residential typologies using industrialized, prefabricated systems.
#architecture #sustainable #climate

June 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM

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Architecture

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Beautiful images of the unique architecture of Dubai’s Old Town

June 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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🔭 Space Station Silhouette on the Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Holland

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A detailed view of part of Earth's Moon is shown with many craters visible. On the lower right, silhouetted against the comparatively bright Moon, is a small dark silhouette of the International Space Station. Many of the solar panels on the station are discernable. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

June 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Insta Science

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Stunning light shows (Auroras) on Jupiter as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

-Credits: NASA

June 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM

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🔭 Two Worlds, One Sun

Left Image Credit & Copyright: Damia Bouic; Right Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS; Digital processing: Damia Bouic

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Two images are shown side by side. On the left is a sunset seen from Earth, while on the right is a sunset seen from Mars. The Earth sunset is quite orange, while the Mars sunset is quite blue. The Sun appears angularly smaller from Mars than from the Earth. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

June 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Saganism

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Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

June 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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Architecture

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stunning and iconic architecture of barcelona

June 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM

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🔭 Meteors and Satellite Trails over the Limay River

Image Credit & Copyright: Martín Moliné

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A night sky is shown with many stars and streaks. In the foreground at the bottom are hills, a river, and the red and white streaks of car lights. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

June 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Astronomy 🔭

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Saturn's moon Mimas moving along the planet's vast ring system highway.

Credit: NASA Cassini spacecraft (2008)

June 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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Space Telescope Science Institute

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The Pillars of Creation, seen here in mid-infrared by #NASAWebb, adds to decades of research about star formation by helping astronomers analyze the densest dusts and gases of the region, and improving the precision of their star-formation models: bit.ly/45ayCYi 🔭 🧪