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Welcome, Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS!

Welcome, Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS!

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS I want to call your attention to an assuming moving dot. Catalogued as 3I/ATLAS, this high speed dot is moving at more than the escape velocity of our Solar System as it comes crashing through on its journey through the Milky Way. This dot is moving at a whopping 68 km/sec! Folks, this is an interstellar object that originated from some other star system. The ATLAS telescope in Chile discovered it on July 1. Amateur astronomer Sam Deen and others were able to find pre-discovery images take by the ATLAS and the Zwicky Transient Facility. The pre-discovery images...

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Modern Melt

Modern Melt

by | Dec 1, 2024 |

Our Earth is currently working its way toward being the exact opposite of a snowball Earth as we see glaciers and ice caps receding across the planet. This is fundamentally changing our landscape and how we as humans interact with that landscape.  These changes...

Between Fire and Ice is Slush

Between Fire and Ice is Slush

by | Dec 1, 2024 |

Snowball Earth. Credit: NASA Our planet has been driven to environmental extremes at many times in its history, and many plants and animals - including humans - have demonstrated they can survive less than ideal conditions. The last major ice age hit its peak 20 to 26...

Dinosaurs Thrived After Ice

Dinosaurs Thrived After Ice

by | Dec 1, 2024 |

Archaeopteryx Credit: Peter Montgomery Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanic object in our solar system today, but our planet gave Io a run for its money more than 200 million years ago. At that point in our planet's history, our world was dominated by the Triassic...

Volcanic Moon Orbiting Distant World

Volcanic Moon Orbiting Distant World

by | Dec 1, 2024 |

Let’s look at a world 635 lightyears away that just might have a fiery moon of volcanic goodness. To be honest, every aspect of this system is hot. The star is similar our Sun, but the planet is on an 2.8 day orbit around that star, and this orbit makes Mercury look...

A Bit of Joy: Jury Duty Strikes Astronaut

A Bit of Joy: Jury Duty Strikes Astronaut

by | Nov 28, 2024 |

On Oct 28, Astronaut Don Pettit’s son posted to Twitter, “My family just got served two jury summons at once. And as if that wasn’t absurd enough, one is for the one of us in space right now.” I know that legally jobs are required to provide workers time off to serve...

Telescopes galore: Euclid, Rubin, and Roman

Telescopes galore: Euclid, Rubin, and Roman

by | Nov 4, 2024 |

Back in 1998, researchers studying supernovae discovered that our universe is accelerating apart. Up until that point, it had been understood that our universe’s expansion was either going to slow to a stop, continue on as is-ish, or reverse it’s motion and collapse...

Black Holes Fire Off Cosmos Altering Jets

Black Holes Fire Off Cosmos Altering Jets

by | Oct 16, 2024 |

High-energy jets emerge from two sides of a black hole (illustrated). The black hole resides in a galaxy that is part of a filament of the cosmic web (silvery wisps). E. Wernquist, M. Oei, D. Nelson/IllustrisTNG Collaboration The definition of a black hole allows for...