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miscellanymiscellany

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Our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a hiccuppy past

It may erupt every few centuries, but don’t panic!

Philip Plait

supernovaesupernovae

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Watch a supernova explosion sweep through space

Animation shows X-rays from an exploded star as it expands over the decades

Philip Plait

the Sunthe Sun

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Solar eclipse seen from space!

Also, a small galaxy may be currently ramming through the Milky Way, so there’s that too

Philip Plait

supernovaesupernovae

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An egg-shaped planet orbits a death star

And that’s not the only thing weird about it

Philip Plait

MarsMars

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1000

This is the 1000th issue of this newsletter! Plus: lightning on Mars!

Philip Plait

volcanoesvolcanoes

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Venus has lava tubes!

A long undersurface tunnel discovered in old NASA data

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

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Hubble unscrambles the Egg Nebula

An amazing image of a dying star fried my brain

Philip Plait

cometscomets

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A new comet to watch for, and more evidence for the very first stars

The comet may get very bright, but who knows?

Philip Plait

miscellanymiscellany

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A spider web a million trillion kilometers wide: JWST’s view of IC 5332 (1)

Also: How many near-Earth asteroids have been visited by spacecraft?

Philip Plait

miscellanymiscellany

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A spider web a million trillion kilometers wide: JWST’s view of IC 5332

Also: How many near-Earth asteroids have been visited by spacecraft?

Philip Plait

star clustersstar clusters

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The spectacular Sculptor spiral galaxy in 1,500 colors!

Picking your colors carefully reveals rich science

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

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The most difficult planet Hubble’s ever seen

In 1995 it slewed almost too close to the Sun

Philip Plait

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