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If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. A...more

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His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of people in this world, she had told him, and the spir...more

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The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster--punishment for her moth...more

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Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their due so fast they shi...more

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The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. "Congratulations," I say, when what I really want to tell him is to pick up...more

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Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they sh...more

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What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in t...more

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There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twin...more

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Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find yo...more