I’m taking this newsletter to Beehiiv, plus an incredible photo of the night sky showing a comet and the Horsehead nebula
Another small rock was discovered just before it hit us. And 2024 will run hot and cold… but mostly hot
These cool celestial objects are still mysterious in many ways, but we’re really starting to figure them out.
An old mathematical formula finds new use in the skies
Turns out spotting evidence of a moon orbiting a planet around another star is pretty hard.
The two planets are much more similar in color than generally thought
If they do, we may be seriously overestimating how often they occur
Yeah, that headline has a lot going on. Let me explain!
A graph that plots the whole Universe. Yes, the whole thing.
The brown dwarf is very close to Earth and an iconic example for astronomers, but it may hold a surprise
Jupiter’s nightmare hellscape moon Io is seen up close by Juno for the first time
A way we can help 2024 be better, and a bit of insight into what makes physics dorks laugh
