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Galaxy clusters like Abell 2744 can act as a natural cosmic lens, magnifying light from more distant, background objects through gravity. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect light from the first stars in the universe if they are gravitationally lensed by such clusters. (astronomy, space exploration, galaxies)

How Fast Is the Universe Expanding?

Paleogeography and paleoceanography of Early Triassic time. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown at the lower right. Continents, continental drift, plate tectonics, Pangea, Laurussia, Gondwana.

Spotting a Supercontinent: How Pangea Was Discovered

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Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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Milutin Milankovitch

Serbian mathematician and geophysicist

Walter Munk

American geophysicist and oceanographer

Marcia McNutt

American geophysicist

Alfred Lothar Wegener

Alfred Wegener

German meteorologist and geophysicist

Andrija Mohorovičić

Croatian geophysicist

Sir Harold Jeffreys

Sir Harold Jeffreys

British astronomer and geophysicist

J. Tuzo Wilson

Canadian geologist

Størmer

Fredrik Størmer

Norwegian geophysicist and mathematician

Stanley Keith Runcorn

British geophysicist

Sir Harold Spencer Jones.

Sir Harold Spencer Jones

British astronomer

Robert S. Dietz

American geophysicist

Merle Antony Tuve

American geophysicist

Balfour Stewart

British meteorologist and geophysicist

Dirk Brouwer

American astronomer

Sydney Chapman

British mathematician and physicist

Augustus Edward Hough Love

British geophysicist

Maurice Ewing

American geophysicist

Felix Andries Vening Meinesz

Dutch geophysicist

Day, Arthur L.

Arthur L. Day

American geophysicist

Vladimir Vladimirovich Belousov

Soviet geologist

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