Phil Plait
Remember when Betelgeuse didn't blow up?
But it blew *out*. Dust, that is, and a lot of it. Like, the unit "gigaton" is postively smashed flat by the amount it disgorged.
So here's what it looked like in the infrared as it did that.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/mars-sample-non-return-betelgeuse
Phil Plait
How'd you like to take a huge rotating space station... out for a spin? You can in a gorgeous new video, and because I can't help myself I talk a bit about the physics of it, too.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/taking-a-rotating-space-station-out
Phil Plait
What created Saturn's magnificent rings? As is the case so often in astronomy, out of violence, elegance and beauty.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/what-created-saturns-magnificent
Phil Plait
This view of Jupiter is moody and gorgeous, but also *very* unusual. Can you guess why?
As always, I'm here to explain!
👇
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/a-unique-and-gorgeous-view-of-jupiter
Phil Plait
Video *from the spacecraft* as OSIRIS-REx sent its sample of asteroid bits to Earth. Also, one way to see if an asteroid will hit us is... wait and see if it does. Um.
[paid subs only today]
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/video-from-space-as-pieces-of-an
Phil Plait
Halloween's a-comin', so here's something really scary: An asteroid that wasn't discovered until *after* it had already passed us.
(But we're working on a way to find these...)
Bonus: a classic but hard-to-find scifi doomsday movie you can watch online.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/wanna-see-something-really-scary
Phil Plait
So you want to write a book. Great! But here's a thing few will tell you: No matter how hard you try, it will still have errors in it. And correcting them means you may have to be… quite a character.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/a-fun-fact-you-may-not-know-about
Phil Plait
I convinced Scientific American to publish a scholarly article on werewolves and space exploration.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-to-a-werewolf-on-the-moon/
Phil Plait
NASA is about to launch a mission to the most metal asteroid we know. How metal? It may have once had volcanoes of molten iron.
*THAT* metal.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/a-totally-metal-asteroid-mission
Phil Plait
Perhaps you, as I do, sometimes need a jaw-dropping JWST pic of a baby star throwing a *half-light-year-long* tantrum.
Oh, with explanations of what you're seeing too, because that's kinda my thing.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/incredible-jwst-shot-of-a-young-star
Phil Plait
Tonight is the equinox! But I bet it doesn't mean what you think it means!
Let me equisplain.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-equinox-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/
Phil Plait
A new comet might - *might* - be a showstopper in a few weeks. Read all about it here!
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/a-new-comet-might-might-get-bright
Phil Plait
Red vs. Blue: Ever wondered why stars are different colors?
SCIENCE!
Well, that and temperature. Here, let me 'splain:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-colors-of-stars-explained1
[may require signup at SciAm but it's free!]
SCIENCE!#Astronomer, #scicomm, #author, etc. Newsletter: https://badastronomy.substack.com/
GNU social JP is a social network, courtesy of GNU social JP管理人. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-dev, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.