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The Meteor Crater asteroid impact may have created an ancient lake. Also, Arctic sea ice again way too low
Previously hidden by geometry, the Sun’s austral pole is revealed. Bonus: some (rare) good climate news!
The gravitational waves they emitted were fiercely powerful, but where did the black holes come from?
That’s a fun headline to write! The good news is we’re safe and the science is awesome.
An Earth impact gets better, a gorgeous volcano from the ISS
More info on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and the Trifid is the new newsletter banner
3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object seen zipping through our neighborhood
The exoplanet orbits a red dwarf and is the lowest mass one ever directly spotted
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That’s a lot of space rocks.
Mind-blowing first images from the huge telescope.
Astronomers find neatly a dozen quasars jammed into a small volume of space, and no one knows why they’re there.
