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.

Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA

The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency

Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)

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)

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)