SYFY WIRE Phil Plait The depths of Hell: Rocket Lab is sending a mission to Venus Tasting the clouds of Venus to look for life. By Phil Plait 1 year ago Another black hole first: Astronomers capture a ring of light as photons orbit M87A* Eerie black hole photon ring observed for the first time. By Phil Plait 1 year ago NASA’s SLS rocket is now ready for its August 29 Moon launch After many delays, the Artemis mission is finally good to go. By Phil Plait 1 year ago Betelgeuse aftermath: Still recovering from blowing its stack The interior of the red supergiant is still sloshing around after a massive dusty belch. By Phil Plait 1 year ago Over time, some stars get uncomfortably close to the Sun Several stars in the recent past have given us a cosmically close shave. By Phil Plait 1 year ago Astronomers find dark matter from 12 billion years ago New method sees unprecedentedly far back in the history of the Universe. By Phil Plait 1 year ago Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies? By Phil Plait 1 year ago Radioactivity powers volcanoes of salty ice on Ceres The cryovolcanoes aren't nuclear, but their heat comes from radioactive decay. By Phil Plait 1 year ago Multiple stars like being born in chaos Dense and turbulent stellar nurseries make more binary stars. By Phil Plait 1 year ago Why doesn’t Jupiter have even more spectacular rings than Saturn? Jupiter is bigger and more massive, but Saturn puts it to shame. By Phil Plait 1 year ago SYFY WIRE | Page 5
The depths of Hell: Rocket Lab is sending a mission to Venus Tasting the clouds of Venus to look for life. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Another black hole first: Astronomers capture a ring of light as photons orbit M87A* Eerie black hole photon ring observed for the first time. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
NASA’s SLS rocket is now ready for its August 29 Moon launch After many delays, the Artemis mission is finally good to go. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Betelgeuse aftermath: Still recovering from blowing its stack The interior of the red supergiant is still sloshing around after a massive dusty belch. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Over time, some stars get uncomfortably close to the Sun Several stars in the recent past have given us a cosmically close shave. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Astronomers find dark matter from 12 billion years ago New method sees unprecedentedly far back in the history of the Universe. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies? By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Radioactivity powers volcanoes of salty ice on Ceres The cryovolcanoes aren't nuclear, but their heat comes from radioactive decay. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Multiple stars like being born in chaos Dense and turbulent stellar nurseries make more binary stars. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Why doesn’t Jupiter have even more spectacular rings than Saturn? Jupiter is bigger and more massive, but Saturn puts it to shame. By Phil Plait 1 year ago