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BAN #297: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, Brain melting illusion

15 February 2021 Issue #297

BAN #325: Curiosity from Mars orbit, How to watch this week’s lunar eclipse

24 May 2021 Issue #325

Announcing my next book: Under Alien Skies

October 10, 2022 Issue #471

BAN #392: Enterprise score, R Corona Australis in spectacular color

13 January 2022 Issue #392

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+4+4

The spectacular Sombrero galaxy

Plus: the chance of the Milky Way and Andromeda colliding just went up. Maybe.

Philip Plait

BAN #373: The Numinous

8 November 2021 Issue #373

BAN #67: Church Moonrise, Photonic mea culpa

December 3, 2018 Issue #67

Is the Small Magellanic Cloud not one galaxy, but two?

It’s a weird galaxy, but it may be even weirder than we thought

Philip Plait

BAN #140: Hot astrophoto, cold brew

August 15, 2019 Issue #140

supernovaesupernovae

+5+5

A low-mass star is screaming past us. Was it spat out by a supermassive black hole?

It’s moving at 1.6 million kilometers per hour, and may be falling back into the galaxy

Philip Plait

BAN #409: Introducing Daisy!

14 March 2022 Issue #409

BAN #381: A comet and planets in the night sky

06 December 2021 Issue #381