Notices by Phil Plait (badastro@mastodon.social), page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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/

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

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!]