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Also, the blue stragglers mystery may finally be solved
WOH G64 has apparently kept its hue. Also, the sun does seem to be able to fry asteroids that venture too close
A fun rabbit hole pondering of a metatopic
NGC 7722 is a weird hybrid of galaxy types. What does that tell us?
The NASA spacecraft hit the moon Dimorphos, but that yanked the whole system hard enough to measure. Also, the plume was modeled in 3D, and the bigger asteroid is spitting rocks at its moon. So yeah, a lot.
Supernovae, asteroids, and more: That’s a lot of alerts.
I’m angry about anti-science attacks, Dianna Cowern has made a new video, and a graph shows why we need to look for near-Earth asteroids
Three very cool science stories about Mars, Earth, and near-Earth space
It may erupt every few centuries, but don’t panic!
Animation shows X-rays from an exploded star as it expands over the decades
Also, a small galaxy may be currently ramming through the Milky Way, so there’s that too
And that’s not the only thing weird about it
