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cometscomets

+2+2

A new comet to watch for, and more evidence for the very first stars

The comet may get very bright, but who knows?

Philip Plait

solar systemsolar system

+4+4

Europa’s ice is pretty thick

Also: a barred spiral galaxy more distant than expected

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

+4+4

Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe

No stars were seen in it, showing it really is a relic of the dawn of the cosmos

Philip Plait

supernovaesupernovae

+4+4

JWST observed an immense gamma-ray burst from a very long time ago

An incredibly powerful explosion reached out to us from across the Universe

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

+6+6

Happy solstice, and a gorgeous galaxy with which to measure the Universe

The longest night is now behind us, and a Hubble image of a galaxy used as a ruler

Philip Plait

exoplanetsexoplanets

+5+5

A new binary star exoplanet image, and a very cool five-point Einstein Cross

See a direct image of the planet, and a quintuply gravitationally lensed galaxy

Philip Plait

supernovaesupernovae

+5+5

The irony of Supernova 1885A

It proved the Universe was bigger than astronomers thought, but they couldn’t believe it

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

+4+4

NGC 3370: Stepladder to the Universe

Also, it’s a very pretty spiral galaxy

Philip Plait

cosmologycosmology

+5+5

A Little Red Dot may be a mostly naked supermassive black hole

This has implications for how such behemoths form in the first place

Philip Plait

supernovaesupernovae

+6+6

Yup. Young-Earth creationists are still wrong.

A claimed lack of supernovae explodes in their faces

Philip Plait

ESAESA

+4+4

Cursed math and astronomical inclusivity

In which I write about xkcd and JWST

Philip Plait

asteroidsasteroids

+6+6

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