Also: An explosive xkcd, sea level rise, and a new space telescope is making progress
A powerful solar storm graced us with gorgeous aurorae, but they are also a warning
Sgr A* is misaligned with the galaxy. An ancient collision may have knocked it off balance.
Asteroid 2024 ON sneaked up on us, and a gorgeous Hubble shot of NGC 3430
The binary system has a lot of mysteries to answer for
Archived Hubble images show the star prior to the titanic explosion
If you claim aliens, I want evidence.
It’s also a cautionary tale on letting go of bad ideas. Bonus: fun math!
A professional/amateur collaboration finds a previously unknown nebula. It’s weird, and gorgeous.
A new study says 2.25 times the mass of the Sun, give or take. Any more, and you get a black hole.
We can get pretty cool shots of tiny, distant objects from Earth sometimes
It may have been a second generation star, and it’s in a Milky Way satellite galaxy