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Closer Look: The List of Canceled Projects Keeps Growing
After writing that last section, I took a break, I ate some edamame, and I scanned BlueSky, and I learned the story I now need to write is somehow even more depressing than it was 30 minutes ago. There are a lot of articles out there on the missions that may be...
It’s Time to Give Up on Supersymmetry
Since I was old enough to read about particle physics, I’ve been reading about how one possible set of solutions to explain why we have the particles we have in our universe would require the existence of a massive zoo of particles that that bring the population of...
Closer Look: Remote sensing our Planet Earth
We live on a geologically active rocky world that is uniquely shaped by a combination of water-driven weather and complex life. Currently, we are the only world we know of capable of supporting humans without requiring advanced technologies and mitigation against...
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Galaxies Seen Through Gas
One of the more surreal aspects of JWST images is that infrared light can pass through a lot of dust and gas, allowing us to see galaxies that were previously hidden. New images of Herbig-Haro 49/50 resemble a weirdly abstract Christmas tree; a ring galaxy ornaments...
JWST Catches the Re-lighting of the Universe
There are certain key questions that go hand in hand with mapping the changing nature of Dark Energy. For instance, we’re looking to the early universe to see when the first galaxies came to light and how fast they and other structures grew into systems we might...
Dark Energy Search Gets Dynamic
At the beginning of our last episode, I mentioned that we’d just learned that new work by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, had provided hints that our universe has a changing density of dark energy, but I needed time to look over the research. Well,...
Ancient Crater Found Hiding in Australia
I want to bring you a story that looks to rewrite a bit of our world's history. Researchers studying the geology of an Australian feature called the North Pole Dome, despite being located in Western Australia, found evidence that the feature is associated with a 3.5...
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Closer Look: Commercial Lunar Payload Services
The shadow of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander on the Moon. Space exploration is at a weird point in its development. Some tasks, like launching small and medium-sized satellites to low earth orbit are now as routine as overnight shipping. At the same time,...
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