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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.
Do not trust AI. It sucks. Also, a weird planet orbiting its star at a weird angle.
Maaaaaaybe. The Giant Impact hypothesis still reigns, but it’s worth looking at other ideas
Just some short science news items
The incredible gamma-ray burst hunter launched into orbit 20 years ago
Using STIS, my old camera on Hubble, astronomers have taken the best look yet at a nearby quasar
