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Star art: Kaleidocosmo
Stars are colorful, and this one weird trick shows how to photograph it
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Have we found indirect evidence of the very first stars to shine in the Universe?
These first stars were whoppers, and when they blew up they did so… differently.
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20k, Eclipse panel reminder, SciAm, and a pic of a spacecraft on the Moon (kinda)
Another milestone reached, stuff I wrote for a wonderful magazine, and NASA snaps a shot of an Indian spacecraft sitting on the lunar surface.
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Lucy spots Dinkinesh, NASA eclipse science, My homecoming
A space mission sees its first asteroidal target, I’m moderating a NASA panel about the upcoming eclipses, and we’re finally moving into our new home in…
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Goodbye, Twitter
Yeah, I’m done. Elon’s just awful.
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A massive galaxy cluster with massive galaxy collisions
On scales like these, the human brain tends to melt a bit.
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Almost done moving, a News Roundup, and, well, an otamatone (oh, just scroll down and read it)
Yeah, bit of a hash going on in today’s issue
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JWST’s view of the magnificently dusty skeletal arms of the spiral galaxy M51
Creepy, or beautiful? Why not both?
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Truly weird JWST images of a truly weird object: Supernova 1987A
We’ve been studying it for over 35 years and still don’t really understand it
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August 2023
2023's July the hottest on record, and how many asteroids get removed from the “hazardous” list
So, kindof a bad news/good news thing going on here
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Watch an alien planet orbit its star!
Seriously, it’s real. Also, some stinky climate news. Literally.
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A new comet might — might — get bright enough to see naked eye next month
Comets are notoriously fickle, but this one might be a good one
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