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Guest Video: Our Neighborhood Black Hole

May 6, 2020 BJ Deming

Relax — it’s about a thousand light-years away, small, and so quiet that it is truly invisible, unlike some Milky Way black holes. Per this

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Guest Video: Interstellar Visitor 2I/Borisov Is “Off The Charts”

April 20, 2020 BJ Deming

Here’s a news story about this. Per sources quoted by Wikipedia, this very distant, nonthreatening comet is about 14 times as big as the Earth.

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Repost: Guest Video: Elements Forming in a Dying Star

November 2, 2019 BJ Deming

Here’s a guest video from 2018. I found this amazing BBC trailer while looking up something I found while researching arsenic. That’s just breathtaking! But

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Guest Videos: Pluto, Planet 9, and The Goblin

May 4, 2019 BJ Deming

But the Kuiper Belt may already have a king: Sigh. If only we had warp drive and could steer the New Horizons spacecraft like a

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Guest Video: What is that space “Cow”?

January 21, 2019 BJ Deming

Astronomers have nicknamed a mysterious explosion spotted recently “Cow,” based on the last three letters in its formal catalogue name. They have no idea what

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Guest Videos: Galactic Fountains and Cosmic Serpents

November 19, 2018 BJ Deming

No, seriously it’s a galactic fountain. With gas, not water. And a massive black hole . . . Has anyone seen Christopher Nolan lately? We

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