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How to Gigapan a Space Shuttle
Go behind the scenes with one of the photographers who made our new "intimately detailed" HD panoramas of the NASA spacecraft.
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Space Shuttle in HD: New 360 Tour
As Discovery prepares to roll into its new home in a Virginia museum, take a 360, zoomable tour of the iconic spacecraft.
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Best Science Pictures of 2011?
A spiny cucumber and a nanotube "city" feature among the winners of the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
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New "Super Earth" Found
The likely rocky planet orbits squarely in its star's habitable zone, making it a prime candidate for life, astronomers report.
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Blast Off!
Take off with the National Geographic Angry Birds Space book as the birds fly through space on an intergalactic rescue mission.
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Iceland's Resilient Beauty
Over the centuries, humans (and sheep) have taken a toll on the volcano- and glacier-shaped landscape. But what remains is still spectacular.
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Civil War Sketches
Browse through a gallery of historical illustrations depicting both the horrors of battle and the moments of grace, as captured by skilled battlefield artists of the American Civil War.
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Apostles Photo Gallery
They were unlikely leaders. As the Bible tells it, most knew more about mending nets than winning converts when Jesus said he would make them "fishers of men." Yet 2,000 years later, all over the world, the Apostles are still drawing people in.
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