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Phil Plait
BadAstronomer
1/ Twitter being Twitter, I’m seeing misinfo about the horrific Beirut explosion already. We don’t know the source yet, or how many people have been hurt or killed. But, about
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Finding the center of the solar system is a journey involving superdense stars that spin faster than a kitchen blender blade, colossal black holes eating other, and literal ripples warping
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For the very first time, astronomers saw a HUGE flash of light after 2 black holes merged… but it came a *month* later. Turns out there was a 3rd black
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When stars die, it’s *gorgeous*. Especially when Hubble is the one showing them to you.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hubble-sees-the-spectacular-deaths-of-stars-like-the-sun 2/ I mean, COME ON. 3/ The elongated, bipolar, and hourglass sha
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1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, the Universe was still in chaos.Except for this galaxy.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/how-did-this-galaxy-emerge-from-the-chaos-just-15-billion-years-after-the-big-bang 2/ Nicknamed the Wolfe Galaxy, it
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In 2016, a VERY bright fireball fell over Arizona. When scientists examined pieces of it that fell to Earth, they found it look a *lot* like the rock that exploded
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You can click this link to read my article on Y4 ATLAS and 2I/Borisov, unless you DON’T want to see a Hubble image of a comet that’s disintegrating. Up to
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Of all the things I expected to wake up to this morning, seeing a bobcat in my yard was not one of them. Yet here we are. I was about
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Billions of light years from Earth, two black holes merged into one after spiraling closer together for untold eons. But this time, something was different. They were singing in tune.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/two-black-holes-merged-into-one-singi
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Sometimes I’ll read about something that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. And sometimes I read something that makes my neck hair leap off my
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So, um, it’s *possible* that some parts of the Universe are expanding faster than others.If that’s true, then some *very* basic assumptions we make about how the Universe behaves need
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Astronomers looked incredibly closely at a supermassive black hole halfway across the Universe and saw something really weird: Matter may be corkscrewing as it screams out from the black hole
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