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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
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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
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Astronomers find a new denizen in the deep black of the solar system

Astronomers find a new denizen in the deep black of the solar system

2017 OF201 is a giant iceball far, far beyond Neptune...and it complicates things for Planet Nine

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
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Amateurs aid astronomers’ ammonia ascertainment, Lovely short flick about the Kármán Line
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Amateurs aid astronomers’ ammonia ascertainment, Lovely short flick about the Kármán Line

Jupiter’s clouds are now more easily mapped

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
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Vesta is still full of surprises
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Vesta is still full of surprises

It’s not really an asteroid, nor maybe really a protoplanet.

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
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Has Planet 9 been found? Wellllllll...

Has Planet 9 been found? Wellllllll...

If real, an observation could be of another solar system planet. But it’s too preliminary to say yet.

Philip Plait
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
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Hundreds of small asteroids found in the main belt using JWST

Hundreds of small asteroids found in the main belt using JWST

Astronomers used a new technique to find the building-sized rocks, the smallest ever seen at that distance

Philip Plait
Philip Plait