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NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured the northern lights earlier this week aboard the International Space Station.

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Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

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