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Gabriel’s Horn is bizarre and literally unrealistic. It’s also super cool.
How an asteroid passes through Earth’s atmosphere and eventually becomes a meteorite
Also: Amazing image of Saturn ring spokes seen from Earth
It happened in 2024 and it's more than two football fields across. Also: 8 hours of Crash Course Astronomy
The "first light" shot is weird but hints at amazing things to come. Plus: Mercury has more shrinkage than thought
Also: Predicting where meteorites fall before a small asteroid impact
Plus: Video from the Science of Star Trek panel
We knew the small icy world Chariklo has rings. We didn’t know they changed over time.
It’s not clear what’s causing the chaos, but it may be the streamer that feeds it
It’s even weirder in some ways than the hexagon at its north pole
Another incredible JWST image of a dying star. Also: the discovery of a new satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and four nearby white dwarfs
