A really starry sky seems vast—but all we’re looking at is our very local neighborhood. On the very best nights, we can see up to about 2,500 stars roughly one hundred-millionth of the stars in our galaxy, and almost all of them are less than 1,000 light years away from us or 1% of the diameter of the Milky Way.
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From rats to skulls to a disappearing doughnut, so-called “ufologists” claim to have seen all sorts of strange things in photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity […]
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The 17th-century pamphlet ‘The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire’ tells of a farmer who refused to pay a laborer to mow his field and swore he would rather the Devil mowed it. This story, possibly one of the first crop circle reports, reflects human fascination with the mysterious and unexplained in a time of agricultural and social change.
