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All day, every day, all around the world, National Geographic explorers are making discoveries and recording stories that help us better know and understand our planet.

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Beauty Beyond the Stars

Converting invisible light from billowing clouds of gas and dust into spectacular color images, scientists paint a picture of space that is anything but black and void.

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Welcome the return of warmth, light, and new life to the northern hemisphere with colorful images from around the world.

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DNA studies suggest that all humans today descend from a group in Africa 60,000 years ago. Follow the journey from them to you, as written in your genes.

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