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Inauguration for Sagrada Família’s Tallest Tower Dazzles With Touching Light Show Depicting Gaudí

In a moment that has been 144 years in the making, Pope Leo XIV inaugurated the Sagrada Família’s Tower of Jesus Christ, its final and highest tower. The structure, completed in February, turned the Barcelona temple into the tallest Christian church in the world at 566 feet. To mark the occasion, a light show took place, featuring a touching tribute to Antoni Gaudí, the man who designed the Sagrada Família.

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Artist Spends 6 Years Crafting 300,000 Paper Quills for Massive Portrait of Planet Earth

Artist Alinn Akhmetbek uses paper to explore facets of our world. The material is manipulated to express concepts of humanity and ecology, such as reconciling our treatment of the planet with our connection to it. These ideas are the basis for her recently completed work titled 72 Voices of Earth. The paper art is a view of our planet from space, done on a massive scale.

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Kruger National Park Celebrates 100 Years of Wildlife Conservation

Embed from Getty Images South Africa’s Kruger National Park celebrated its 100th anniversary on May 31, 2026, marking a century of wildlife conservation, scientific research, and ecotourism. Officials, conservationists, and visitors gathered at Skukuza Rest Camp to honor the country’s flagship national park, which protects roughly 19,485 square kilometers (7,576 square miles) of wilderness and some of Africa’s most iconic animals, including lions, elephants, rhinos, leopards, and buffalo.

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Jupiter and Venus Will Align With the Moon to Create “Holy Grail” of Planetary Brightness This Month

The two brightest planets visible from Earth are putting on a spectacular sky show this June. Over the next two weeks, Venus and Jupiter will appear unusually close together in the western sky after sunset, culminating in a striking alignment with the crescent moon on June 16 and 17. The celestial event centers on a planetary conjunction, which occurs when objects appear close together in the sky from Earth’s perspective.

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