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Radioactive cosmic dust is raining down on Earth’s surface

Radioactive cosmic dust is raining down on Earth’s surface

It sounds worse than it is. In fact, it’s really cool and telling us about our local galactic neighborhood

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Philip Plait
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Farewell Mars, and bigger black holes form by eating each other

Farewell Mars, and bigger black holes form by eating each other

Psyche takes a parting shot of the red planet; black holes in the “mass gap” form by merging two smaller black holes

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Philip Plait
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Psyche peeks at Mars before a gravitational rendezvous

Psyche peeks at Mars before a gravitational rendezvous

Also: The world is leaving the US behind in solar and wind power

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
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More Martian lightning, China peaks its emission, and satellite re-entries shake the ground
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More Martian lightning, China peaks its emission, and satellite re-entries shake the ground

Three very cool science stories about Mars, Earth, and near-Earth space

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Philip Plait
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1000

1000

This is the 1000th issue of this newsletter! Plus: lightning on Mars!

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
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Red Planet special: HiRISE’s 100,000th image, and Martian crepuscular rays

Red Planet special: HiRISE’s 100,000th image, and Martian crepuscular rays

Big milestone for a Mars mission, and a weirdly familiar sight in the Martian sky

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Philip Plait
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A Red Planet Holiday

A Red Planet Holiday

A mind-blowing image of Mars taken from above the planet itself

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Philip Plait
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS seen from Mars!
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS seen from Mars!

Also, it’s spouting water, exactly like a spaceship wouldn’t

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
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A second look at a spectacular galactic collision; Curiosity from Mars orbit
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A second look at a spectacular galactic collision; Curiosity from Mars orbit

Two very cool images for you today

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Philip Plait
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Hera flies by Mars’s moon Deimos

Hera flies by Mars’s moon Deimos

The spacecraft took some pretty cool shots of the tiny, lumpy moon

Philip Plait
Philip Plait