Don’t believe stories that we have to throw out what we know about cosmology, though!
NASA budget cuts threaten a workhorse observatory, but you can help
The Milk Way’s supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, seen in polarized light.
Scientists found a pretty danged big volcano on Mars hiding in plain sight
It’s eating the equivalent of a Sun’s worth of material EVERY DAY
Also, me as a stick figure in a “Minute Physics/xkcd” mashup.
Answer: Pretty danged hard. Also: The origin story of ultra compact dwarf galaxies.
We can make the world better. It helps to truly see the others who are in it.
The Wall Street Journal is awful, and my friend Rusty has money for grad students to protect Earth from asteroids
NGC 604 is really, really monstrous. Like, REALLY
A very cool video makes spectra a lot easier to understand
It’s a weird galaxy, but it may be even weirder than we thought
