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a space-scape made of concentrated awesome

Here's a little something for fans of large, complex space art...
a space-scape made of concentrated awesome

a marauding star vs. our solar system

A rogue star passing through our stellar neighborhood could cause the biggest mass extinction since the Permian in 1.5 million years. Or it might not. We still have to see.
a marauding star vs. our solar system

the moon really is a harsh mistress

The coldest place in our solar system isn't somewhere in the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud. It's a network of craters on the Moon.
the moon really is a harsh mistress

jupiter takes another one for the team?

Jupiter may have once again saved us from an asteroid impact. But next time, it might steer one our way...
jupiter takes another one for the team?

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our strange stellar neighbors…

Is VB 10 a planet-sized star, or is VB 10a a star-sized planet? One of our closest stellar neighbors poses a small but interesting challenge to cosmic taxonomy.
our strange stellar neighbors…

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meet the ray comfort of astronomy

Introducing Spike Psarris, junk scientist and nonsense regurgitator extraordinaire...
meet the ray comfort of astronomy

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