Plus, the best wildlife photos of the year
| | Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | | | | |
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The Tower of London, visible throughout England’s capital, always was about intimidation—first as a fortress, then as a prison where, over eight centuries, “guests” often met bloody ends.
It has no shortages of ghosts. Anne Boleyn spent her final days there. Two English princes in line for the throne vanished and were likely murdered within its walls. Queen Jane, just 17, ruled for only nine days before she was jailed there (pictured below)—and hanged.
The executioner has been silent since offing a Nazi spy in 1941, but the original Tower of Terror still exudes a spooky chill. What other secrets does it hold?
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 | | VIDEO BY NASA/JOHNS HOPKINS APL | | | We’re ready for incoming asteroids: That’s the message from NASA after sending a spacecraft smashing into an asteroid two weeks ago. NASA exceeded its expectations for changing the path of the space rock nearly 7 million miles away (seen above in pictures). Several results surprised scientists, Nat Geo reports. Will humans be able to save Earth from a killer space rock in the future? | | | |
| Head over talons: Bald eagles perform a “death spiral” courtship cartwheel along Washington State’s Hood Canal in a recent post on Nat Geo Travel’s Instagram. The bald eagle population has rebounded significantly since the mid-1960s, when the birds were on the brink of extinction. However, a recent study found that more than half of the adult birds today have chronic lead poisoning from ammunition, Nat Geo reports.
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 | | ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW FAZEKAS | | See the Seven Sisters: Tonight, as the moon rises in the constellation Taurus, train your binoculars next to the moon to catch the Pleiades star cluster. This sparkling light group (shown above), is also known as the Seven Sisters, is one of the nearest to Earth, and is bright enough to be spotted with the naked eye even under moderate light-polluted skies.
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 | PHOTOGRAPH BY KARINE AIGNER
| | An award-winner: Just-named Wildlife Photographer of the Year Karine Aigner, who made this image for our story on songbirds in Cuba, also won the Photojournalist Story Award last night for the article. Above, a trapper illegally caught these six songbirds, each photographed inside its cage against a black backdrop to create this composite image. Clockwise from top left: male painted bunting, female painted bunting, indigo bunting, wood thrush, blue grosbeak, and yellow-throated warbler. See Aigner’s award-winning Wildlife Photographer of the Year image.
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