EditorialVisitors view the world’s largest radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, April 22, 2006. (Barbara P. Fernandez/The New York Times)
EditorialThe entrance terminal, where guests board a launch pod that simulates a ride into the heavens and the hotel “ship” supposedly awaits, at Walt Disney World’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, near Orlando, Fla., Feb. 22, 2022. (Todd Anderson/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Chris Collingridge shows James Foster and Marie Dacke performing orientation experiments at a dark-sky site in rural Limpopo, South Africa, with a dung beetle. Humans aren’t the only species that navigate by starlight. Animals from birds to dung beetles may do it, too — and might become disoriented as our city lights drown out the heavens. (Chris Collingridge via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Chris Collingridge shows James Foster and Marie Dacke performing orientation experiments at a dark-sky site in rural Limpopo, South Africa, with a dung beetle. Humans aren’t the only species that navigate by starlight. Animals from birds to dung beetles may do it, too — and might become disoriented as our city lights drown out the heavens. (Chris Collingridge via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA shows Saturn (Fig. 1), The International Space Station (Fig. 2) and Jupiter (Fig. 3) seen in this third of a second exposure, made on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialPeople point toward the heavens, indicating the path that the souls of the dead should follow, during a vigil on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, for the victims of Saturday's mass shooting in Korat, north of Bangkok, Thailand. (Andre Malerba /The New York Times)