After much “will it / won’t it” over the last few weeks in the wake of increased (and then decreased) seismic activity, an eruption in Iceland finally started with a brand new fissure near Fagradalsfjall

After much “will it / won’t it” over the last few weeks in the wake of increased (and then decreased) seismic activity, an eruption in Iceland finally started with a brand new fissure near Fagradalsfjall
The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Affordable Wide-Field with Brian Ventrudo. In this episode we talk with a returning guest about getting the most out of affordable wide-field telescopes and what can be seen with them.
We’ve been so busy wondering how we’ll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we’ll do if we actually encounter them. How does an alien discovery get communicated to the media?
Deep in the cosmos, NASA’s TESS has discovered four new worlds orbiting a pair of young stars that provides a glimpse of planetary evolution.
There are stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. But very little evidence of anything in between. Where are all the intermediate-mass black holes that should be the building blocks of the biggest ones?
Today’s Travelers in the NIght talk about asteroid 2024 BX1 exploded harmlessly in our atmosphere and P/1999 J6 (SOHO)
Cheap Astronomy stumbles around in the dark againWhat is the latest on dark matter? Are black holes the source of dark energy?
Astronomers researching the G237 protocluster find 63 galaxies within, all producing stars and more galaxies at a high rate, acting as a “shipyard” for their region of the cosmos