How to find the best stuff in the night sky from absolutely anywhere

Sea lion comb, abandoned medieval town, and glacier spying. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. June 25, 2019 Stargaze Anywhere Sure, big, bright cities aren’t the best place for scientific exploration of the cosmos, but if you know what to look for and how to look, you can still find something cool. Here’s the beginner’s guide to admiring stars, planets, and satellites from absolutely anywhere. Read More → Sea Lion Comb To further understand the curious biology of marine lice, scientists invented a “telescopic lice comb” to collect lice specimens from the world's only freshwater sea lion colony in Valdivia, Chile. Read more → SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, SPAIN Tres Xemeneies Travel along the coast up north of Barcelona, and you’ll notice three massive towers standing alone in vast stretches of empty fields. These are the unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Photographing Chernobyl Join us for a nine-day trip next January as we seek out Ukraine’s photogenic sights, from towering relics of Soviet power to hundred-year-old brickwork drains beneath the streets of Kyiv. You’ll also have the rare opportunity to photograph the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, capturing a side of the area only a Ukrainian winter can reveal. Learn more→ LECARROW, IRELAND Deserted Medieval Town On a sleepy, off-the-beaten-track peninsula jutting into Ireland’s River Shannon, you can wander through Rindoon, one of Ireland’s most enigmatic abandoned medieval towns. Read more → Glacier Spying A team of researchers recently set out to map 650 shrinking glaciers along a 1,200-mile path through the Himalayas. To do it, they enlisted a trove of aerial images captured decades ago by U.S. spy satellites. Read more → Food & Drink Horchata Lojana You may associate horchata with the creamy, rice-based, cinnamon-studded drink common in Mexico. But in Loja, Ecuador, it’s known for its vivid hibiscus color and floral, sugary taste. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222