Auroras have fascinating scientific explanation but offer the feeling of stupendous transparent beauty that touches the northern sky of your soul, Dana Wilde writes.
Some trees on Earth are believed to have lived thousands of years, raising questions about how they might experience time and our own concepts about what it means to get old, Dana Wilde writes.
The magnitude of our awe at the facts of supernovas is like astronomers hundreds of years ago seeing new stars where none had been before, Dana Wilde writes.