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BAN #252: NEOWISE once more, Big planet around a little star

10 September 2020 Issue #252

BAN #257: Political analogue, AstroGear, Neptune’s enormous sphere of influence

28 September 2020 Issue #257

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

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Hubble unscrambles the Egg Nebula

An amazing image of a dying star fried my brain

Philip Plait

BAN #122: What causes those ripples in dirt roads?

June 13, 2019 Issue #122

A dead star is being all two-faced and weird

Like white dwarfs aren’t bizarre enough, a newly discovered one is one half hydrogen and one half helium

exoplanetsexoplanets

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Today’s the day. Or is it?

It depends on what you mean by “day”. Also, old stars eat their planets!

Philip Plait

binary starsbinary stars

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Is Betelgeuse a binary star? The evidence is piling up

The second star may be leaving a wake behind it as it orbits

Philip Plait