Milky Way seen from Mount Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (@ Terje Sørgjerd/TSO Photography)

Milky Way seen from Mount Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (@ Terje Sørgjerd/TSO Photography)

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• Today is the anniversary of a mission by a special Soviet envoy who famously said…""“Beep… beep… beep… beep…”
• Every season, the night sky turns and shifts…""Reintroducing a whole new cast of characters
• Astronomy 101: Cosmology isn\t a fancy way of saying \"truly wondrous makeup.\"""Or is it?
• Who discovered this galaxy? No one really knows.""But if it\s celestial skies you seek, you\ll find a stellar vantage point nearby

Bridge crossing Cuyahoga River at dusk in Cleveland, Ohio (@ Henryk Sadura /Photolibrary)

Bridge crossing Cuyahoga River at dusk in Cleveland, Ohio (@ Henryk Sadura /Photolibrary)

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• This industrial waterway helped ignite the environmental movement of the 1960s.""Heard the one about the river that caught fire? It was no joke
• Veterans Memorial Bridge is just one of hundreds bridges in this city…""That features a river running through and a Great Lake alongside
• Ask ABBA, ZZ Top, or any musician in between.""This city rocks
• This city is on the shore of a lake that put the E in “HOMES” and the gerund in “Sergeant Major Hates Eating Onions.”""Do you remember this “great” body of water?

Shore of Payette Lake near McCall, Idaho (@ David Ryan/Lonely Planet Images)

Shore of Payette Lake near McCall, Idaho (@ David Ryan/Lonely Planet Images)

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• If it\s solitude you\re after, just head due east from here to the vast wilderness area that goes by the name of...""The River of No Return
• This lake might just be home to a Loch Ness-style “monster.”""Or maybe not
• This area\s getting ready to settle in for a long winter.""At a mile high, it gets the most snow in the state
• A river flows from this lake, featuring rapids that attract the most fearless daredevils.""Hold on to your stomach…

An illuminated Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China (@ Christian Kober/Corbis)

An illuminated Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China (@ Christian Kober/Corbis)

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• Residents here begin a countrywide “Golden Week” holiday that kicks off today with National Day. The military will parade in this city, and tonight fireworks will light up the sky…""To commemorate the 62nd anniversary of Communist rule
• Locals affectionately call this building “The Egg.”""See more of its shell and some of the yolk…
• This titanium-and-glass oval dome offers a cultural refuge…""In a city known as a center of political power and breakneck economic development
• What would you see inside “The Egg”?""Many kinds of performance, including this cultural treasure