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  The Super Soaker was Invented by a NASA Nuclear Engineer Working on His Hobby in the Bathroom - Core77

  core77.com - Rain Noe

  In 1982, nuclear engineer Lonnie Johnson was working for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During the day, he was figuring out how to power the …

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  Mystery Tsunami That Spread Around The World in 2021 Can Finally Be Explained

  ScienceAlert - Carly Cassella

  Last year in August, a surprise tsunami in the South Atlantic Ocean mushroomed to distances over 10,000 kilometers (more than 6,000 miles) away, …

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  Astrophotographer snaps his 'clearest ever photo of the SUN', revealing swirls and feather-type patterns on the solar surface

  dailymail.co.uk - Shivali Best

  An astrophotographer has revealed what he claims is his 'clearest ever photo of the sun'. Andrew McCarthy layered 150,000 individual pictures of the …

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  Astronauts grew green chile on the space station and made themselves space tacos

  NPR - Sharon Pruitt-Young

  Outer space just got a little more delicious. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had the pleasure of dining on space tacos last weekend: tacos topped with green chile that was actually grown in space. As part of NASA's Plant Habitat-04 investigation, scientists began growing hatch …

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  Can we see farther back in space than we can in time?

  bigthink.com - Ethan Siegel

  The universe is only 13.8 billion years old, but we can see back 46.1 billion light-years. Here's how the expanding universe does it. No matter where …

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  Why do the planets in the solar system orbit on the same plane?

  space.com - JoAnna Wendel

  To answer this question, we have to go back in time. If you've ever gazed at a model of the solar system, you've likely noticed that the sun, planets, …