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🌌 Astronomy
Exploring celestial objects and following the latest discoveries - from JWST deep fields to backyard skies. Every article on this page touches the night sky.
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APOD: Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun”, is a reminder that even a single observation can ...
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APOD: M83: The Southern Pinwheel
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “M83: The Southern Pinwheel”, is a reminder that even a single observation can ca...
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APOD: LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula”, is a reminder that even a single observation can ...
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APOD: Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn’s South Pole”, is a reminder that even a single ob...
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APOD: The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars”, is a reminder that even a single ob...
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APOD: Pluto in Enhanced Color
Each day, the NASA APOD archive turns a different corner of the cosmos into a brief, human-sized window on the universe. Today’s image, “Pluto in Enhanced Color”, is a reminder that even a single observation can carry...
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The Oldest System in Production: 49 Years of Voyager 1
Two days ago I wrote about the newest system in production: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ten million alerts a night, a 60-second SLO, Kafka under the stars. Tonight I want to look at the other end of the spectrum.
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Vera Rubin Observatory: The Universe Just Went to Production
On June 30, 2026, the most ambitious scientific instrument went to production.
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Nothingness Has No Address - a dialogue on the greatest enigma
A late-night metaphysics dialogue with Claude (Anthropic).
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A Star for My Father - Vincenzo D'Apice
Vincenzo D'Apice · September 12, 1937 - August 8, 2022