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This won’t work. Credit: Mars: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute). Castle Romeo nuclear test: US Dept. of Energy
Is nuking Mars a good idea? (No)
Phil Plait
The Moon glows in gamma rays, created as cosmic rays slam into its surface. This series of images displays longer and longer exposures by the Fermi space telescope, showing how the images gets better with time. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
The Moon is brighter than the Sun … in gamma rays
Phil Plait
Artwork depicting the explosion of a massive star: a supernova. Credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA/ illustration by Joy Pollard
Across the Universe, a star exploded so violently that it *completely* annihilated itself
Phil Plait
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Artwork showing a massive planet impacting the protoJupiter while the solar system was still forming. Credit: K. Suda & Y. Akimoto/Mabuchi Design Office, courtesy of Astrobiology Center, Japan
Was Jupiter's core nearly destroyed by a massive planetary impact while it was still forming?
Phil Plait
Cara Gee and Cas Anvar (“The Expanse”) and Perry Shen (“General Hospital”) star in a series of videos about exoplanets. Credit: NASA/IPAC/Caltech/Universe Unplugged
Universe Unplugged: Learn about exoplanets with the cast of The Expanse
Phil Plait
artwork of a black hole accretion disk
The supermassive black hole in our galaxy recently erupted… and we don't know why
Phil Plait
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WIRE Buzz: A Quiet Place 2 adds Djimon Hounsou, James Wan producing The Troop, more
Jacob Oller
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Djimon Hounsou Guardians of the Galaxy
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Bubbles are floating up to space…but how exactly will they float?
Elizabeth Rayne
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The Little Mermaid bubbles
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Solving the riddle of the edge-on galaxy NGC 5866
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A deep image of NGC 5866 reveals huge streams of stars looping around it; clear evidence of a recent galactic collision. Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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Zombie planets could stay undead for a billion years
Elizabeth Rayne
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White dwarf star
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This giant prehistoric parrot might have munched on massive crackers
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Dr. Brian Choo
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The all-new arachno-diet: Spider found eating full-grown bat outside Texas home
Josh Weiss
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Eight Legged Freaks
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Jupiter from Hubble: Enormous, magnificent, and… fading at the edge?
Phil Plait
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Jupiter on June 27, 2019 as seen by Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)
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More cities roll out the welcome mat for robots, previewing our delivery droid future
Benjamin Bullard
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Amazon Scout via official website 2019
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Deep space travel could mess with your head—literally, your brain
Elizabeth Rayne
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NASA image of Mars
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Measuring a monster: The two *billion* solar mass black hole in NGC 3258
Phil Plait
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Artwork depicting the inner ring of gas and dust around the accretion disk, with the supermassive black hole directly in the center powering everything. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
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Tardigrades take one small step on the moon after Israeli lunar lander crash
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tardigrade
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Science Behind the Fiction: How we all might become Idris Elba from Hobbs & Shaw
Cassidy Ward
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Idris Elba in Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw
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When it comes to making stars, galactic gas tanks are nowhere near full
Phil Plait
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The FUGIN survey looked at a huge swath of the Milky Way (top), finding both areas of low-density gas (bottom left) and high (bottom right). The latter is where stars are born. Credit: NINS, NOAJ, Nobeyama, FOREST
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NASA's Apollo 11 moon rocks caught lying about their age
Jeff Spry
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Moon
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The first cookies baked in space will be a treat for science
Elizabeth Rayne
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cookies in space
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