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Total Solar Eclipse Will Pass Over South Pacific, South America : NPR

Billions of fish in the Pacific Ocean will be treated to an awe-inspiring celestial event today. That's because a total solar eclipse will be visible over a huge swath of the southern Pacific. Land animals including humans in Chile and Argentina will also get to observe the total spectacle, as will anybody connected to the Internet. And most parts of South America will be able to see a partial eclipse.

BAD NEWS! In 600 million more years, there won't be any more total solar eclipses. Get out enjoy them before they are gone.

Last blue moon of the decade to rise Saturday night

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Last blue moon of the decade to rise Saturday night

This is a seasonal blue moon -- the fourth blue moon in a season (Spring 2019). Summer 2021 will also have four full moons -- August 21, 2021 will be the Seasonal Blue Moon.
 
This is different then the Monthly Blue Moon (two in a month) we had in January 2018 and March 2018. The next Monthly Blue Moon is October 2020.
 

Apollo astronauts left their poop on the moon. NASA ought to go back for that shit. – Vox

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Apollo astronauts left their poop on the moon. NASA ought to go back for that shit. – Vox

But the bigger human footprint on the moon is, arguably, the 96 bagsof human waste left behind by the six Apollo missions that landed there.

Yes, our brave astronauts took dumps on their way to the moon, perhaps even on the moon, and they left behind their diapers in baggies, on humanity’s doorstep to the greater cosmos.

The bags have lingered there, and no one knows what has become ofthem. Now scientists want to go back, and answer a question that has profound implications for our future explorations of Mars: Is anything alive in them?