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Click this to see a short quicktime clip of Earth’s moon passing in front of the sun, as recorded by two of NASA’s spacecraft dedicated to observing the sun. It’ll take a minute for the clip to load because of its size, but wait for it. It’s worth it.
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Cartoonist Troy Walker created a comic strip in 1991 about a sponge with a personality. Bob Spongee had eyes, legs and arms. He lived on Apple Street with his wife, Linda, and their daughter, Bubbles. Walker, of Fairfield, Calif., then produced 1,000 dolls: yellow sponges with a “drawn-on” face that he sold as collectibles…