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Gifts for People Who Love Space

A space gift usually means a poster. The better version is an object that behaves the way the universe does: lightning in a bottle, liquid that stands up when a magnet comes near, a pen pressurized so it can write where a fountain pen would quit.

None of these are telescopes, and none of them require a dark sky. They are for the person who already looks up, and who would rather be handed a small piece of the apparatus.

Why these

• Each object has a real connection to physics or to flight, not a star printed on a mug.
• They work as desk pieces, so the interest stays visible after the wrapping paper is gone.
• The range runs from a small plasma globe to a pen that hangs at the tilt of the Earth's axis.