A city-sized sphere of neutrons with the mass of a star is doing weird stuff while plowing through the gas floating around the galaxy.
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A pulsar plucks the Guitar Nebula
Super-high-speed electrons from a dead star are plowing through the gas
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Some thoughts on the #nokings protest, and the SPECTACULAR JWST shot of the iconic Sombrero Galaxy pulled a fast one on me.
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No Kings protest thoughts; the spectacular Sombrero Galaxy fools me again
No Kings rally more than just a protest; a gorgeous galaxy looks a lot better than I first thought
I know y'all have other things on you're mind right now, but if you need a distraction I wrote about a very nearly complete census taken of all cosmic objects within 65 light-years of the Sun, and it's cool.
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Cosmic Secrets Are Hiding in This Census of Our Interstellar Neighborhood
A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form throughout the universe
I am furious — incandescently furious — over the attacks on science by Trump and his regime, especially the actions of RFK Jr., which, *as history has plainly show us*, result in deaths upon deaths. You want the receipts? I've got the receipts.
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Standing Up for Science
Why we must defend science, and the text from my national rally speech
My new conspiracy theory: Earth is indeed round, but its orbit is shaped like a bowling pin.
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Every Year the Sun Makes a Figure Eight in the Sky. Here’s Why
A curious celestial phenomenon known as the analemma is a reflection of Earth’s orbit and tilted axis
I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now. Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it.
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Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA
The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency
A supermassive black hole in another galaxy tore a star to shreds and spewed its guts all over space. <puts finger to earpiece> We're getting reports of a second supermassive black hole
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A star ripped to shreds reveals a galaxy’s second black hole
Nothing about this story isn’t really big
Good news for a change: It looks like WR 104, the potential source of a mind-vaporizingly powerful gamma-ray burst death ray, is not pointed exactly at Earth.
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Is the WR 104 system pointing a gamma-ray burst at Earth? Probably not.
New observations indicate it’s aimed away from us
I dumped all things Meta. Zuck can kiss my ass.
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Goodbye, Meta. Also, a first planetary discovery for JWST
Waving bye-bye to Zuck’s domain, and a new (to us) planet is tugging on others in its system
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I've got an update on the exoplanet K2-18b, and it doesn't look good for the biosignatures. Also, I have opinions on how this has played out. As an assuagement, a gorgeous galaxy for Hubble's 35th.
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UPDATE: Was *anything* seen from K2-18b? Also, a gorgeous galaxy for Hubble’s 35th
New study shows no sign of chemicals at all from the exoplanet, let alone biosignatures