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solar systemsolar system
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Asteroids from Venus pose an invisible — but uncertain — threat

Asteroids from Venus pose an invisible — but uncertain — threat

Bottom line: we need to look for them

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
asteroidsasteroids
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A black hole is eating way above its weight, and ancient tektites in Australia
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A black hole is eating way above its weight, and ancient tektites in Australia

Something is helping this black hole gobble down material at incredible rates

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
solar systemsolar system
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A portrait of our planet and moon from across the solar system

A portrait of our planet and moon from across the solar system

Psyche snaps Earth and Moon, I’m talking to teachers in Texas, and a newly discovered impact crater in India

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
asteroidsasteroids
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A brown dwarf reveals its mass
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A brown dwarf reveals its mass

Plus: Are Fast Radio Bursts caused by asteroids slamming into neutron stars?

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
exoplanetsexoplanets
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White Dwarf stars are dead, but they still feed... on planets
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White Dwarf stars are dead, but they still feed... on planets

Observations show a lot of these stars are actually zombies. Also: moving an Earth-threatening asteroid just got a bit harder

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
exoplanetsexoplanets
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JWST directly images a cold exoplanet, the Flyeye asteroid hunter is now online
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JWST directly images a cold exoplanet, the Flyeye asteroid hunter is now online

14 Her c is around our same age, and ESA has a new telescope to look for space rocks

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
climate changeclimate change
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Did an asteroid impact dam up the Grand Canyon 56,000 years ago?
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Did an asteroid impact dam up the Grand Canyon 56,000 years ago?

The Meteor Crater asteroid impact may have created an ancient lake. Also, Arctic sea ice again way too low

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
asteroidsasteroids
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Tunguska is healing, a reflective volcano from space

Tunguska is healing, a reflective volcano from space

An Earth impact gets better, a gorgeous volcano from the ISS

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
cometscomets
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Another alien visitor to our solar system!

Another alien visitor to our solar system!

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

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
solar systemsolar system
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Vera Rubin Observatory will find millions of asteroids. Millions.

Vera Rubin Observatory will find millions of asteroids. Millions.

That’s a lot of space rocks.

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
ESAESA
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Could asteroid 2024 YR 4 hit the Moon? And it’s way past time to take space debris seriously

Could asteroid 2024 YR 4 hit the Moon? And it’s way past time to take space debris seriously

Space is dangerous, y’all

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
asteroidsasteroids
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Taurus in 3D!

Taurus in 3D!

Cool animation does a big circle around a nearby star cluster

Philip Plait
Philip Plait