Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side.
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Astronomy
This year February will have an extra day -- we discuss why?
February 11, 2024
Wednesday evening and Thursday morning (Dec. 13-14) is the peak time for one of the best meteor showers of the year – the Geminids.
December 10, 2023
The first images are coming in from the new Euclid Space Telescope and they are spectacular.
November 8, 2023
Saturday Oct. 14 North America will be treated to an eclipse of the Sun.
October 7, 2023
Two eclipses of the Sun will be visible in North America during the 2023-24 school year.
August 19, 2023
We make suggestions for how best to see the 2023 Perseid meteor shower.
August 5, 2023
Explains a new movie of distant galaxies and remote time from the Webb Telescope.
July 18, 2023
The Webb Telescope has found a complex building block of life in a galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.
July 4, 2023
Astronomers have seen a star explode in a nearby galaxy. Such explosions are part of the recycling scheme of the universe.
May 28, 2023
On April 20, the Japanese Hakuto-R spacecraft took a remarkable image of the Earth from orbit around the Moon, showing a …
April 27, 2023
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