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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

exoplanetsexoplanets

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Can we detect rings around exoplanets?

Also, more evidence that Mercury may not be as dead as we thought

Philip Plait

miscellanymiscellany

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A galaxy collision got me digging, Goodbye Tiktok, Project for Awesome

Sometimes mistakes lead to cool astronomy stuff.

Philip Plait

solar systemsolar system

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Europa’s ice is pretty thick

Also: a barred spiral galaxy more distant than expected

Philip Plait

miscellanymiscellany

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A faint stream of stars is being pulled out of the nearby galaxy M61

Also: a free audiobook featuring my dulcet voicebox

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

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Inside the Helix Nebula: JWST image shows thousands of creepy fingers around a dying star

Plus: My 200th article for Scientific American

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

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Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe

No stars were seen in it, showing it really is a relic of the dawn of the cosmos

Philip Plait

binary starsbinary stars

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Splitting Castor’s sextuple star system

Four stars seen separately in the system for the first time

Philip Plait

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