Long Way Up

Astronomers spend one winter pointing the world's largest telescope at a single empty patch of sky.

A remote listening post picks up a transmission counting down to something no one ordered.

A marine biologist maps a shoreline that rearranges itself with every storm.

A photographer returns to the village where her sister disappeared on the longest day of summer.

A weather scientist tracks an aurora over Tromsø — and finds something underneath the ice that remembers her name.