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Kudos to illustrator Frederik Peeters, who has imagined a happy (tungsten-clad?) astronaut flying like Mary Poppins above the molten-iron storm front on planet WASP-76b. https://t.co/ciWjkuQGh6
What are those huge, enigmatic blobs inside the Earth? I tried to make sense of our planet's inner puzzles: https://t.co/5TqlHtxH3d
If you've ever wanted to discover your own black hole, now's your chance.* The LOFAR radio telescope is recruiting citizen scientists to help locate supermassive black holes in distant galaxies.
* Alas, the black hole will not technically belong to you.
https://t.co/h3aE6LTfCW
Today I learned: Jonathan Swift was making another snide joke about academia when he named his land of useless intellectuals "the flying island of Laputa." https://t.co/WQG0RhQPh2
Another of Earth's mini-moons may have wandered too close & burned up over Australia in August, 2016. https://t.co/iWtw2CRz2x
The secret to UGC 2885's success is that it lives in a relatively isolated region of space: It could grow slowly & undisturbed, with little competition from other galaxies. https://t.co/b1dSdV1vwa by @HUBBLE_space
Our Milky Way galaxy is big, but galaxy UGC 2885 is HUGE, four times as wide with 10 times as many stars. It's the biggest galaxy of its kind in the local universe. https://t.co/uDerA2OE3C via @BadAstronomer
Researchers have discovered a "consciousness switch" in the thalamus that causes macaques to snap to attention--even if fully anesthetized. The research points to new ways to bring a patient out of a coma. https://t.co/g10QMWidJc
Smack a planet one way and you get Neptune. Smack another same-size planet a different way and you get Uranus. Random events had a huge influence on what the solar system looks like... https://t.co/OYrukRxAMx