Wandering Adventure Party

Please note that I am NOT looking for advice on any of my health issues. I've already had one person recommend homeopathy to me, and you can imagine how I felt about that.But in general — online and IRL — don't reply with advice to people who have not actively asked for it.

Not to be too obvious or tautological, but whaddya know, young-Earth creationists are wrong again!https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/yup-young-earth-creationists-are-still-wrong

No matter how you slice them, an active galaxy is one of the most terrifying sources of pwoer in the cosmos. But what we see does kinda depend on how we slice them. Here's a thing I wrote!https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-a-quasar-the-answer-depends-on-your-point-of-view/

@badastro glad to hear you are doing better and appreciate the reminder to everyone to be vigilant. Almost the same situation - just got it for the first time visiting my mom before she knew she had it who very likely got it from her doctor’s office. Both of us had milder cases but I still have a cough a month later.

In this corner: OCSN-49, a star cluster with hundreds of members wandering the galaxyAnd in THIS corner: a diffuse giant molecular cloud with 100,000 times the Sun's mass just minding its own businessIt's the CLASH of the EONS! Who will win? https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/star-cluster-vs-giant-molecular-cloud-who-wins

@badastro You'd have to be on Mars in the first place. Also, it's very cold there, so your naked eye would freeze before you can see anything.

So, yeah, a mind-vaporizingly huge explosion in space *may have been from a white dwarf ripped to shreds by a black hole*.yeGADShttps://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-white-dwarf-may-have-been-torn-to-shreds-by-a-black-hole

Because of course, asteroids from the vicinity of Venus may threaten Earth. https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/asteroids-from-venus-pose-an-invisible-but-uncertain-threat

Faster than light travel is possible… kinda. Distant galaxies are receding from us at superluminal speeds. How can that be, and how can we see them if they're flying away faster than the light they emit?Even weirder: to them, *you*re* moving FTL!https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-can-galaxies-recede-from-us-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/

Look, almost everyone gets acne at some point in their life, but can you imagine being able to see it from 1.4 quadrillion kilometers away?https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-exoplanet-reveals-its-star-s-spotty-face

Astronomers have caught a bouncing baby exoplanet feeding and growing pretty big!https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-baby-planet-is-caught-feedingNote: This is for paying subbies to my newsletter, to and for whom I am very grateful.

Is it presumptuous of me to explain an xkcd comic? Well, I'm doing it anyway.Also: sometimes, being inclusive is easy. But it's always the right thing to do, *especially* when you're dealing with a ten billion dollar telescope.https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/cursed-math-and-astronomical-inclusivity

Sure, you have family issues, but at least none of your siblings slammed into you at 18,000 kilometers per hour and sent your shattered pieces flying off into space with similar orbital elements.I mean, probably.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asteroid-families-reveal-solar-systems-secret-history/

Did you know there's a limit to how fast a black hole can feed? And that some break that limit? Here's one that does it by a *lot*.https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-black-hole-is-eating-way-above-its-weight-and-ancient-tektites-in-australia[Paid subscribers only today]

Do *any* of TRAPPIST-1's planets have air? Maybe. Kinda. Maybe not.This stuff is HARD.https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/looking-for-air-around-trappist-1-s-planets

Look, when you're a zombie star eating the entrails of a hot planet, sometimes you just need to cool things down a bit. https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/astronomers-found-a-dead-star-that-might-be-munching-on-a-pluto-like-planet

How do you weigh a black hole? We're talking ten octillion tons for a *small* one. Plus it just eats the scale.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-weigh-a-black-hole/

Premium subscribers to my Bad Astronomy Newsletter can read about a mysterious impact on the Moon traced to a Chinese rocket, and how astronomers have now discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets!https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/6-000-exoplanets-a-chinese-rocket-whacked-the-moon

@cafuego WOW! Nice.

So JWST has seen these weird objects called Little Red Dots that appear to be extremely luminous and way on the other side of the universe from us. What the heck are they?Well, they could be immense star-like objects powered by black holes. So, yeah.https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/little-red-dots-at-the-edge-of-the-universe-may-be-black-holes-powering-gigantic-balls-of-gas