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It’s the hottest year we’ve ever lived through. It’s possibly the coolest we see from now on.
The wind on the planet WASP-127b is very, VERY supersonic. Also, correcting an error in the last issue
A colossal supermassive black hole is (possibly) tangling with a tiny white dwarf. Guess who’ll win?
WR 140 is a terrifying star system, but it sure is beautiful. Also, announcing a new rate for the newsletter.
Very rare footage of a mini-impact, and the Gaia spacecraft has been shut down
xkcd gets me thinking nautically, and Firefly’s Blue Ghost launches to the Moon soon
The full 11,000 x 8,000 pixel image will destroy you.
We keep finding nuggets around the distant planets, and scientists retract a paper when they realize they were stuck in a tautology.
Instead of a massive collision shattering the impactor, it may have merely allowed Pluto to hang out with it a little while before forming an actual moon
Views from both telescopes let us compare and contrast a cosmic collision
Hey, look, nature is the one creating the circumstances for these analogies. I’m just pointing them out.
