Video: Most beautiful images of space in 2017 compiled by NASA

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  The 10 most popular Brookings content pieces of 2017

  As 2017 comes to a close, we take a look back at the 10 most popular pieces of content published at Brookings this year. From a quick response to“fake news” out of Saudi Arabia to a deep dive into how upper middle class Americans are hoarding opportunities, these were the pieces that captured your attention and helped set the tone

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  NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80

  (Photo: NASA)NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80.He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker's jetpack, alone in the cosmic blackness above a blue Earth. He traveled more than 300 feet away from the space shuttle Challenger during the spacewalk."The iconic photo of Bruce soaring

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  Discovery of neutron star collision is 'breakthrough' of 2017

  This image released by the National Science Foundation shows an artist's illustration of two merging neutron stars. Photo: AFPThe world's first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars colliding, causing a massive blast that rippled through the fabric of space and time, was judged the scientific breakthrough of 2017, the journal Science said Thursday.The smashup of the two ultra-dense stars observed