Two very cool images for you today
Cool animation does a big circle around a nearby star cluster
The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency
Lightning is Earth’s own natural particle accelerator
2017 OF201 is a giant iceball far, far beyond Neptune...and it complicates things for Planet Nine
It’s seen a couple of billion years after the Universe itself got started
Jupiter’s clouds are now more easily mapped
The planet flew a little too close to the sun
Seriously, times have changed since the 1950s. A lot. Also: Mount St. Helens from space!
It’s not really an asteroid, nor maybe really a protoplanet.
If real, an observation could be of another solar system planet. But it’s too preliminary to say yet.
Nothing about this story isn’t really big