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Horticulturist Joe is going to show us how to assemble hanging baskets. When creating your hanging baskets you want to make sure the spiller (sweet potato vine) plants are placed near the edge of the basket, then filler plants (petunia), and if . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
The saucer magnolia buds are starting to push but have a couple of weeks before they are in full bloom. Stay tuned for updates!
A fleet of NASA telescopes may have uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an environment like this before . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Astronomers have spotted the merger between two neutron stars in a very odd place. This extreme collision was found in a tiny galaxy embedded in a stream of gas. Scientists needed NASA’s Chandra, Fermi, Swift, and Hubble to make this discovery. Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
a measuring tool held next to small leaves
A new tree species discovered in an Indigenous area is already threatened
Asian elephant calf Linh Mai explores the Elephant Community Center. (Brett Kuxhausen/Smithsonian)
An update from Robbie Clark, elephant manager and acting curator of Elephant Trails.
Photo of an eastern bluebird perched on a fence. Behind the bluebird, a tree swallow can be seen perched along the same fence.
From fine-scale movements to continental migrations, learn why scientists are tracking Virginia's birds as they fly.