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Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope
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Hubble unscrambles the Egg Nebula

Hubble unscrambles the Egg Nebula

An amazing image of a dying star fried my brain

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
cometscomets
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A new comet to watch for, and more evidence for the very first stars
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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
Philip Plait
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 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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Inside the Helix Nebula: JWST image shows thousands of creepy fingers around a dying star

Inside the Helix Nebula: JWST image shows thousands of creepy fingers around a dying star

Plus: My 200th article for Scientific American

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
binary starsbinary stars
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Splitting Castor’s sextuple star system
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Splitting Castor’s sextuple star system

Four stars seen separately in the system for the first time

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
white dwarfswhite dwarfs
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A dying star goes to an iron bar

A dying star goes to an iron bar

A mysterious new feature has been spotted in the Ring Nebula

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
dustdust
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How to feed a bouncing baby star: Let food fall directly on it

How to feed a bouncing baby star: Let food fall directly on it

A protostar has been found without a disk slowly feeding it

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
binary starsbinary stars
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Is Betelgeuse a binary star? The evidence is piling up
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Is Betelgeuse a binary star? The evidence is piling up

The second star may be leaving a wake behind it as it orbits

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
supernovaesupernovae
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An immense and catastrophic explosion of a nearby supernova still graces our sky

An immense and catastrophic explosion of a nearby supernova still graces our sky

The Vela Supernova Remnant is a masterpiece of chaos

Philip Plait
Philip Plait
exoplanetsexoplanets
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Today’s the day. Or is it?

Today’s the day. Or is it?

It depends on what you mean by “day”. Also, old stars eat their planets!

Philip Plait
Philip Plait