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100th Post!

Hey, would you look at that! This is the 100th post on the Spacing Out blog! So in celebration of me spitting a lot of words about space out into the wilds of the internet, I’m taking a look back at the last 99 posts and looking at all the crazy stuff...
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Cosmic Vocab: Black Hole Edition

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of my space vocab posts, so let’s look at some of the most mysterious things we see out in space: black holes. Their mass (whatever that is) is so densely packed that for some region around it its gravity is so...
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Beyond the Telescope: Observing the Universe's Cosmic Dawn with JWST

Journey to the outermost reaches of our observable universe in this immersive Planetarium program featuring MIT astrophysicist Christina Eilers, PhD. Using real data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), travel back in time to seek the surroundings...
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Space News Deep Dive: Solar Migration

The Sun is not the same star it was when it first started shoving hydrogen atoms together 4.6 billion years ago. And, as it turns out, it’s not hanging out in the same neighborhood it first grew up in either. So let’s do a deep dive and see where it is we...
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Making Marks

This week’s post is brought to you entirely by the fact that I saw a picture that was sent to Earth from the Perseverance rover on Mars. The rover took a picture of some tracks it had left behind it. There’s something beautifully simple and yet profound...
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Space News Deep Dive: The Artemis Shake-Up

In the same week that we learned that the SLS rocket due to carry the Artemis 2 crew into space had to be rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs. So let’s talk about what the changes are, what they mean for the program, and myself and so...
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Space News Deep Dive: How Saturn Got Its Rings (And Many Other Things)

I love the Saturn system. I love weird gravity shenanigans. A new study set out to find how Saturn’s rings could have formed. It goes back to a single precipitating event that set a whole string of cosmic dominos falling. So join me in this Saturnian...
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Space News Deep Dive: Rewriting Star Death

Researchers at MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics had been able to watch a star in our neighboring galaxy Andromeda directly collapse into a black hole without going supernova for the first time. This is big. So I’m going to do a deep dive into this...
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Planetary Profile: Jumbo Jupiter

Y’all, Jupiter is so darned bizarre. I've already covered its tendency to collect asteroids, the uniquely harmonic nature of its big moons, and that time it almost went homicidal on the entire inner solar system. But don’t worry, there's more. So let’s...
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Wonders of the Night Sky

A live presenter takes you on a tour through the skies of New England, highlighting the top celestial sights of the season.
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Go for the Moon: Getting Hyped for Artemis 2!

Like I was going to talk about ANYTHING this week but Artemis 2. I have not seen nearly enough hype about this mission. Okay, I know it’s not landing on the Moon, but this is still the first time humans are going to be breaking out of Earth orbit since...
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Getting to Know Orion: Stars, Nebulas, Meteors, Oh My!

I’ve decided to round up some of the more interesting facets of the Orion part of the sky that I have yet to cover and put them all together. From honkin’ huge stars to spectacular cosmic clouds, and I’ll even throw in a solid mention for the meteor...
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Destination Mars: The New Frontier

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Getting to Know Orion: The Great Nebula

If you’re starting to think about nebulas in Orion, there’s one you’re more likely to be thinking about first, M42 also known as the Orion Nebula. This massive star-formation region is close enough, big enough, and bright enough to be one of the few...