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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

miscellanymiscellany

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A spider web a million trillion kilometers wide: JWST’s view of IC 5332 (1)

Also: How many near-Earth asteroids have been visited by spacecraft?

Philip Plait

miscellanymiscellany

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A spider web a million trillion kilometers wide: JWST’s view of IC 5332

Also: How many near-Earth asteroids have been visited by spacecraft?

Philip Plait

miscellanymiscellany

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A galaxy collision got me digging, Goodbye Tiktok, Project for Awesome

Sometimes mistakes lead to cool astronomy stuff.

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

supernovaesupernovae

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One last stellar belch before exploding

The red supergiant star DFK 52 erupted gas and will soon go supernova

Philip Plait

supernovaesupernovae

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A second star for Betelgeuse?!

Astronomers post a possible binary companion for the soon-to-be supernova

Philip Plait

cometscomets

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Another alien visitor to our solar system!

3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object seen zipping through our neighborhood

Philip Plait

exoplanetsexoplanets

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JWST spies a Saturn-sized planet from a quadrillion kilometers away

The exoplanet orbits a red dwarf and is the lowest mass one ever directly spotted

Philip Plait

astrophotographyastrophotography

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The Andromeda Galaxy gets psychedelic

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Philip Plait

solar systemsolar system

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Vera Rubin Observatory will find millions of asteroids. Millions.

That’s a lot of space rocks.

Philip Plait

dustdust

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Rubin opens its eye. And what it sees is the Universe.

Mind-blowing first images from the huge telescope.

Philip Plait

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