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Author: Eric Betz

Eric is a native of Santa Cruz, California, and grew up wandering rugged beaches and coastal redwood forests. That time spent outdoors led him to love the night sky.   He ultimately attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he earned his bachelor’s degree with a double major in physics and astronomy. Throughout college, he worked at the local ski resort in the winters and studied Mars at the USGS Shoemaker Center for Astrogeology. He also volunteered on public nights every clear Friday at the campus observatory.   A friend coaxed him into taking a science writing course and several semesters later he graduated with a journalism degree specializing in environmental reporting. Eric has since authored hundreds of stories, covering everything from dinosaur digs to the logging industry, and from endangered species to space tourism and anything compelling in between.   He joined Astronomy most recently from the Arizona Daily Sun, where he reported on science and the environment in the world’s First International Dark-Sky City. Eric now lives in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood with his partner, Julia, and their two crazy dogs. In his spare time, he still enjoys wandering in the wilderness, as well as restoring old Volkswagens and sampling all that a city built on beer and cream has to offer.
Evidence suggests that a devastating barrage of meteorites rained down on the Dead Sea city of Tall el-Hammam in what is now Jordan. And, according to some researchers who think Tall el-Hammam was the biblical city of Sodom, that scenario could explain its destruction. John Martin/Wikimedia Commons
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Unconfirmed, unlucky tales of people killed by meteorites

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a "great conjunction" of the bright planets Venus and Jupiter? On June 17, 2 B.C., the planets had come so close they would have almost appeared as one object, similar to the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 2020. Ron Miller/Astronomy magazine
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The Star of Bethlehem: Can science explain what it really was?

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System, Stars

The Star of Bethlehem: Can science explain what it really was?

Human Spaceflight

The Kármán Line: Where space begins

Four massive volcanoes make up the Tharsis Bulge on Mars. The largest of the four, Olympus Mons, is at bottom right. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Justin Cowart
Science, Solar System

Olympus Mons: Mars’ mega volcano

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The Sun’s death could mean new life in the outer solar system

Cosmology

The Big Freeze: How the universe will die

Cosmology, Science

Where is the edge of the universe?

Solar System

How will life on Earth end?

Human Spaceflight

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip III, a more durable spaceplane

Human Spaceflight, Robotic Spaceflight

How do spaceX’s Starlink satellites actually work?

Planets, Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

China’s new Mars rover could accelerate a growing space race

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