EditorialA photo provided by NASA shows a view of the center of Milky Way from 2011. Scientists believe a series of supernova explosions 14 million years ago led to the creation of a 1,000-light-year-wide region bereft of the gas and dust needed to form new stars. (NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialThe Great Sphinx and the pyramids, which are eerily bereft of tourists amid the coronavirus pandemic, near Cairo on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Sima Diab/The New York Times)