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

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
Philip Plait
miscellanymiscellany
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A spider web a million trillion kilometers wide: JWST’s view of IC 5332
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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
Philip Plait
star clustersstar clusters
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The spectacular Sculptor spiral galaxy in 1,500 colors!

The spectacular Sculptor spiral galaxy in 1,500 colors!

Picking your colors carefully reveals rich science

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

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

Sometimes mistakes lead to cool astronomy stuff.

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
solar systemsolar system
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Europa’s ice is pretty thick

Europa’s ice is pretty thick

Also: a barred spiral galaxy more distant than expected

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
miscellanymiscellany
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A faint stream of stars is being pulled out of the nearby galaxy M61
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A faint stream of stars is being pulled out of the nearby galaxy M61

Also: a free audiobook featuring my dulcet voicebox

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope
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Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe
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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
Philip Plait
exoplanetsexoplanets
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A black hole’s one-fifth lightspeed belch, and JWST finds a lava planet with an atmosphere

A black hole’s one-fifth lightspeed belch, and JWST finds a lava planet with an atmosphere

An incredibly fast wind from a black hole, and a super-hot super-Earth may have a broiling atmosphere, too

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope
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Happy solstice, and a gorgeous galaxy with which to measure the Universe

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
Philip Plait
exoplanetsexoplanets
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A new binary star exoplanet image, and a very cool five-point Einstein Cross
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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
Philip Plait
astrophotographyastrophotography
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Mystery solved? Baffling huge nebula near Andromeda Galaxy is actually in our neighborhood

Mystery solved? Baffling huge nebula near Andromeda Galaxy is actually in our neighborhood

Weird arcing cloud of oxygen is most likely part of the Milky Way, not our giant neighbor

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
dustdust
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Powers of Chandra and JWST unite!
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Powers of Chandra and JWST unite!

The two great telescopes combine to make amazing science and gorgeous images

Philip Plait
Philip Plait