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"Both sides" doesn't work even in biology. The amino acids in your body are all left-handed, and the genetic letters in your DNA are right-handed. Nobody knows why. https://t.co/gfa4Gcu1n0
A final highlight from SOFIA's first decade: It mapped magnetic fields that snake around our galaxy's supermassive black hole. Those fields seem to help keep the black hole quiet (for now). https://t.co/p6ojhgsl3L
Our Sun is an exceptionally boring star. Either we live at a dull period in solar history, or the Sun truly is an outlier. Either way, something unusual is going on here. https://t.co/6l6oI64N3M
A supermassive black hole ejected plasma jets at nearly the speed of light. The resulting bubbles are more than a million light years wide--10 times the size of our entire galaxy. https://t.co/rO88C7md8n
It looks like a delicate cosmic butterfly. In reality, ESO 137-006 is a violent outpouring of energetic particles shooting from a supermassive black hole & threading through an intergalactic tangle of magnetic fields. https://t.co/qGSaEm6SCS
Just for fun, let's zoom in on the colliding Antennae galaxies, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope. There's...a lot going on. https://t.co/9PSUFmeh2m
A new study of gamma rays from distant corners of the Milky Way rules out many versions of string theory & other attempts at a "theory of everything." The ultimate cosmic truth--whatever it may be--must be very subtle. https://t.co/GYS34X6js7
Wrinkled terrain on Mercury shows that the planet may once have had warm geothermal springs.
Could simple life have evolved on Mercury? It's not as crazy as it sounds. https://t.co/W2A4eFoLmn
Italy is seeing a similar pollution drop. The later image (from the Sentinel-5P satellite) captures just the beginning of the effects of the Italian lockdown. https://t.co/RRf0GtRmOG #COVID19
Lots of cool, smaller space missions are coming, too! Like Japan's Destiny+ mission to a rock comet, and the DART mission that will slam into a near-Earth asteroid to change its course. https://t.co/hJrLkRO28k and https://t.co/Uadb4smkxl