A *staggering* view of Mars that you VERY much want to see. And it even has a case of phobobombing.
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 09:54:09 JST Phil Plait If Hubble can see so much detail in distant galaxies, why can't it see the Apollo astronaut bootprints on the Moon?
This is a question with a definite resolution.
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 06:24:53 JST Phil Plait A rare happenstance: a ruby-throated hummingbird actually perched on our feeder. This was from about 3 meters away taken with my phone.
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 00:49:34 JST Phil Plait 66 million years ago, a huge object from space slammed into Earth and gave the dinsoaurs a really, really bad day.
... and now we know what it was: an asteroid, not a comet, and it came from the outer solar system.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/dinosaur-killer-asteroid-came-deep-space-outer-solar-system
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 23:55:12 JST Phil Plait You may have heard the huge Andromeda Galaxy is doomed to collide with the Milky Way causing cosmic chaos and catastrophe. AIIIIIEEEE!!!
Or… maybe not so much. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-the-milky-way-and-andromeda-galaxies-ever-collide/
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 04:33:31 JST Phil Plait The Sun blew off an eruptive prominence recently, one of the most impressive and spectacular events it can generate. APOD has the story, and below is a video of it. The time-lapse covers 90 minutes.
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 05:56:06 JST Phil Plait In other news…
A new JWST pic for its anniversary shows a very cool colliding galaxy pair, where one of them looks like a penguin!
And somehow I makes this about not being able to let go of bad ideas long after they're really super clearly wrong.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/new-cool-jwst-image-colliding-galaxies-looks-like-penguin
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 03:39:46 JST Phil Plait Hubble the asteroid hunter!
And I mean, holy wow, check out that image!
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/hubble-asteroid-hunter-actual-good-climate-news
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 03:13:23 JST Phil Plait *Another* weird planet has been found?
Kinda makes you wonder if maybe we're the weird ones.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/another-weird-planet-im-starting-wonder-us-whos-weird
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 23:52:23 JST Phil Plait You have an astronomical revolution in your pocket I would've killed for when I was in high school.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-astronomy-helped-create-your-smartphones-camera/
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:53:11 JST Phil Plait JWST has very likely seen the most distant galaxy ever found, and I'm still kinda boggling about it. It's too big, too massive, and too bright to exist according to our current understanding of how the Universe works.
We need a better understanding!
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/jwst-bags-distant-galaxy-ever-seen-hoo-boy-mystery
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 00:01:28 JST Phil Plait A team of astronomers discovered some of the most ancient stars in our galaxy and used the moment to thumb their noses at ingrained GOP sexism, and I am so here for it.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/planet-fomalhaut-three-ancient-stars-another-galaxy-orbit
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 02:44:17 JST Phil Plait Look, I'm not one to morphology shame, but you gotta admit this is one really weird-looking galaxy.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ethereally-glowing-seriously-weirdlooking-disk-galaxy
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 02:30:15 JST Phil Plait Handsome boy visitation
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 01:19:02 JST Phil Plait You may have heard the aphorism: There are more stars in the heavens than grains of sand in all the beaches on Earth.
Lovely, yes? But… is it true?
I did the math, and spoilers: Bet on sand.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-stars-outnumber-the-sands-of-earths-beaches/
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 10:49:14 JST Phil Plait Hey, didja hear about the new cool image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole that was released yesterday? I explain it here!
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/new-spectacular-view-local-monster-black-hole-polarizing
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 03:41:32 JST Phil Plait In news today that won't piss you off, there's a black hole out there that's eating the equivalent of FOUR EARTHS PER SECOND.
PER *SECOND*.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/scariest-black-hole-universe
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 16:35:30 JST Phil Plait Stars in clusters are born in waves, which would've been shocking 20 years ago but is now expected. Science marches on.
...and, sadly, so do Nazis, which means I still have to deal with them in my newsletter. An update about that is at the link.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/nazi-update-geez-i-hate-even-having
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 04:45:11 JST Phil Plait Yesterday was the December solstice! In the northern hemisphere it was the longest night of the year… but weirdly NOT the latest sunrise and earliest sunset.
Surprised? Let me explain:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-winter-solstice-has-a-surprising-secret/
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Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 01:00:09 JST Phil Plait Some planets are shrinking!
Literally. Their atmospheres are evaporating away, and up until now it wasn't clear why. But then Exoplanet Queen Jessie Christiansen and her team figured it out!
They're boiling from the inside out.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/why-are-some-planets-shrinking
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