Pretty cool, though not enough to make a snowman unless you have a really wide plow
We can get pretty cool shots of tiny, distant objects from Earth sometimes
China lands on the Moon, Boeing Starliner goes to orbit, Hubble limps along, Starship test flight 4 went pretty well
How did a massive galaxy form so soon after the Big Bang?
It may have been a second generation star, and it’s in a Milky Way satellite galaxy
Moon dust is evil. Plus: Capturing carbon, and finding the first stars torn apart by black holes
A bit of a hodgepodge of exoplanetary news today
JWST images of the nearby galaxy show huge tendrils of material blasting away
A tried-and-true astronomical technique uncovers galaxies in JWST images
Like it wasn’t already upsetting enough. Also, hear me talk about the Dark Universe on Big Picture Science
Four stars star in today’s issue: One maybe with planets, and three that formed at the same time our galaxy did
A new kind of object astronomers spotted is like a galaxy, but is amazingly low on stars