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Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Flickr & Danie Franco/Unsplash – Neil deGrasse Tyson, left, and an illustration of a flying saucer.

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Upworthy exclusive: Neil deGrasse Tyson on the best way to make first contact with aliens

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An Operation Smile volunteer reverses an oxygen mask so a child with a cleft condition can blow a bubble for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Operation Smile Photos)

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