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The Martian moon Phobos observed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the giant crater Stickney and odd grooves covering its surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Flyby video of a Martian moon
Phil Plait
A 3D model of the surface of the asteroid Ryugu created from Hayabusa2 data. Note that in frame A, the rock Catafo Saxum sits right in the center, marking the meridian (0° longitude) of Ryugu. Credit: Watanabe et al.
Ryugu’s history has been… weird
Phil Plait
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Science Behind the Fiction: Should we worry about Crisis on Infinite Earth's antimatter wave?
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Artist’s depiction of a blue star orbiting a black hole… except this depiction for the purported 70 solar mass black hole is incorrect. That gas orbits the whole system. Credit: Jingchuan Yu / Beijing Planetarium (modified by Phil Plait)
So, about that 'too massive' black hole… yeah, not so much.
Phil Plait
hst_ngc6240_bigNGC 6240, a relatively nearby galactic collision. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
A galaxy with *three* supermassive black hole hearts
Phil Plait
Artwork depicting meteors falling on the early Earth. Did they carry the building blocks for life on them? Many certainly did. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
Sweet! Sugars found in meteorites for the first time
Phil Plait
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Sweet! Sugars found in meteorites for the first time
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Artwork depicting meteors falling on the early Earth. Did they carry the building blocks for life on them? Many certainly did. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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You should get out more, because being alone for too long will literally shrink your brain
Elizabeth Rayne
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes closest, fastest pass of the sun than any spacecraft
Jeff Spry
Parker Probe Hero
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This Brazilian brute is one of the oldest carnivorous dinosaurs ever found
Jeff Spry
Castro Hero
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Saturn can take a backseat — did NASA just find rings around the Sun?
Elizabeth Rayne
NASA image of dust around the sun
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TESS saw the comet 47/P Wirtanen undergo an outburst after a debris impact
Phil Plait
Two images show data from TESS (left) including the comet and stars, and then processed (right) with the stars removed to show the comet more clearly. Credit: Farnham et al.
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We've ruled out baby werewolf, but is this 18,000-year-old mummified puppy a dog or a wolf?
Elizabeth Rayne
Dogor the mummified puppy
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We’re sending these high-tech crash test dummies around the moon to be sure humans will make it
Elizabeth Rayne
phantom dummy
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A white dwarf is cooking a giant planet and slowly eating it
Phil Plait
Artwork depicting a white dwarf evaporating a close-orbiting giant planet, with some of that material forming a disk around the dead star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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Could real-life cyborg armies be marching straight out of sci-fi by 2050?
Elizabeth Rayne
Steve Aoki's Neon Future
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Science Behind the Fiction: How Disney+ is capturing nostalgia
Cassidy Ward
Darkwing Duck
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Earth had a minimoon, but then it burned up in our atmosphere
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A bright fireball seen over Australia in 2017 (this is NOT the TCO from 2016, but meant to be representative). Credit: Phil Hart
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Russia wants to put an observatory on the Moon to stalk incoming asteroids
Elizabeth Rayne
NASA image of the lunar south pole
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Ikea eyes the red planet with tiny designs for life on Mars
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IKEA furnishings inside the Mars Desert Research Station
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Elon Musk bought James Bond’s Lotus Esprit submarine and it inspired the Cybertruck
Adam Pockross
James Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine from The Spy Who Loved Me
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