Space Perspective's balloon-like spacecraft is floating toward a 2024 commercial launch. See new photos of the high-altitude luxury vehicle — including its fancy space toilet.

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An illustration of a man taking a sunset photo in a space cabin above earth's atmosphere
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers Jupiter has a jet stream whipping around the planet at 320 mph, twice as fast as Earth's fiercest hurricanes

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The high-speed jetstream can be seen around Jupiter's equator.

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A drought in the Amazon uncovered ancient, eerie face carvings that look like emojis

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A picture shows three engravings in dark rock. These seem to depict faces with the following expressions left to right: confounded, smiling, screaming.
Three pictures side-by-side show ancient engravings found under the Negro river in Manaus, Brazil.

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The sad, lonely secret behind America's never-ending wave of Marvel movies and Disney reboots

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A conga line of franchise characters.
Media companies are in the business of selling nostalgia — and it's because Americans are lonely.

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An astrophysicist explains why even if you were right next to the Voyager probes 15 billion miles from the sun you could still see them

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The Voyager probes are floating indefinitely through space, reaching further than any other space mission.

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Researchers investigating a medieval burial site found Christian symbols tattooed on one of the bodies' feet

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Images of the tattoo on the top side of the right foot. These pictures were taken with a full spectrum camera and digitally enhanced.
Images of the tattoo on the top side of the right foot. These pictures were taken with a full-spectrum camera and digitally enhanced.

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Whale watchers spotted a 'super rare' white orca in California

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Pod of transient killer whales including one young rare white Orca spotted in Strait of Georgia near Saturna Island on June 02, 2019.
White orcas, like this one spotted in the Strait of Georgia near Saturna Island, are rare. Whale watchers said the one seen in California may be leucistic or have a condition known as Chediak-Higashi syndrome.

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Cavendish bananas face extinction and not all experts agree on how to save it

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The Split Banana
Banana splits may taste different in the future.

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An orca species that helped humans hunt whales for thousands of years may now be extinct, new research reveals

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An orca swimming.
Thaua hunters sang to orcas as they hunted whales side-by-side for thousands of years.

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Thousands of people are cutting off their hair and donating it to help soak up an oil spill in Venezuela that is so large it can be seen from space

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An oil spill pictured near Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.
A contaminated oil field pictured near Lake Maracaibo.

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