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Ready to lose time to link-hopping? It’s time for all the neat news we didn’t cover on Space this week.

Eyewitness to the Apollo 13 explosion (because April isn’t all good news for spaceflight).

Hypothesis for what we’ll see on Pluto in 2015.

Book review of a fictional story starring a particle physicist.

On how to avoid boredom when spending a year on the ISS.

Sunset on Mars.

Once upon a time, a ferret was employed to keep a particle accelerator clean.

The Alphabet of Astronomy.

The United States has a surprising amount of empty census districts.

The cherry pits that went to space are producing strange trees.

Space suit fashion.

PopSci’s 2014 Year of Science has a bunch of interesting astronomy & planetary science (and is also where I found the top image; you know you want to learn more about it!).

M7.2 earthquake in Mexico.

Image: The ESA Canary Islands telescope using a laser to communicate with a NASA moon orbiter. Credit: IQOQI Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences/ESA

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