Hubble images confirm an exoplanet’s orbit, another SciAm article, and a live interview this Thursday
Life, uh, finds etc. etc. Also, I’m going all over the Hoosier state to talk solar eclipses
This is great news for scientists under attack by ideologues
Bit of a smorgasbord today, but I think the subject line gives you the highlights
The last pic of a Mars helicopter, I ask a favor of Hugo-nominating-people, and, well, some asteroids in the news. Also why 681 is a cool number.
I do love a good extraterrestrial occultation, and the origin of the Geminid meteor shower is still really mysterious
I do love shots of spacecraft on the Moon taken from lunar orbit. Plus the exploding habitat video rocks. Climate change not so much.
The immense explosion shattered the incoming rock, but some pieces may have survived
Two spacecraft show how to fail successfully, or successfully fail
Incredible — and eerie — images of 19 nearby face-on spiral galaxies in the infrared show how stars are born and die
A new platform for BAN, and an incredibly advanced gravitational wave observatory gets the go-ahead to begin construction
I’m taking this newsletter to Beehiiv, plus an incredible photo of the night sky showing a comet and the Horsehead nebula