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
JWST images of the nearby galaxy show huge tendrils of material blasting away
A tried-and-true astronomical technique uncovers galaxies in JWST images
This is an astronomy newsletter, so I gotta cover a lot of ground. And ocean. And sky.
Infrared light reveals how fiercely luminous stars are destroying the iconic nebula
Stars die, and that may feel sad, but it’s also pretty danged pretty. Also: Voyager 1 is alive! ALIIIIVE!
These bizarre cosmic explosions are still a mystery, but we have lots of ideas
