OK, fine, different Orcs. But these ORCS are way, WAY bigger
Material traced down to about a light-year from a black hole’s maw shows they are seriously messy eaters
Stuff from other stars flies through our solar system all the time. If it hits a planet or moon, there might be a way to tell.
A short and sweet xkcd comic needs 1,400 words of explanation by me. But they’re fun words!
I usually write a secondary headline here to specify what’s implied in the main headline above but this time it’s pretty much a straightforward thing.
The European mission will scan the skies so we can understand the structure of the Universe. It also makes for some danged pretty pictures.
Dinkinesh has a moon, and that moon is two moons touching. Yeah, it’s weird.
Zach and Kelly Weinersmith have a must-read book for space nerds — and since you’re reading this newsletter that means you
I have a simple solution for NASA’s budget woes, and some very cool photos of Betelgeuse showing it dimming by getting brighter. Yes, you read that right.
Asteroids, solar panels, cosmology, lightning on Venus, southern fossils — I’ve got it all for you
A new video by Erik Wernquist gives you the experience on a 2001-type spinning space habitat
From violence, beauty: A collision between two icy moons was the likely genesis of the solar system’s most beautiful structure
