Wandering Adventure Party

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.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-threatens-to-eviscerate-nasa-cb96

When was the first exoplanet discovered? You might read it was in 1992, but in fact the first evidence for the existence of alien worlds was found before then. Way before then.

Like, in *1917*.

I love this story.

When Was the First Exoplanet Discovered?

Evidence of alien worlds goes back farther than you think

Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)

Great news! Physics Girl is making videos again!

Bad news: Attacks on science are so bad I need to talk at a rally on Saturday.

Interesting news: We need to find more near-Earth asteroids.

And it's all here!

Standing up for Science rally, Physics Girl is back, and we need to find more asteroids

I’m angry about anti-science attacks, Dianna Cowern has made a new video, and a graph shows why we need to look for near-Earth asteroids

Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)

I give you a momentary reprieve from the madness:

The Vera Rubin Observatory has taken its first images of the sky, and they are *extraordinary*. Mind blowing detail, jaw dropping beauty.

Rubin opens its eye. And what it sees is the Universe.

Mind-blowing first images from the huge telescope.

Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)

Something lost a bit in the amazing images released earlier: Vera Rubin Observatory is a steely-eyed asteroid hunter! It's already found thousands of new ones in just a few nights, and is predicted to find *3.7 MILLION* more.

THREE POINT SEVEN MILLION

Vera Rubin Observatory will find millions of asteroids. Millions.

That’s a lot of space rocks.

Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)