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Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!What JWST found in the extreme outer Milky WayAlmost all of the stars, planets, and interesting physics happens in the inner portions of galaxies. Is that conventional wisdom all wrong?2d ago3
Avi LoebWhere Will Voyager Be in a Billion Years?Last month I asked my brilliant undergraduate student at Harvard, Shokhruz Kakharov: “Where will the Voyager spacecraft be in a billion…Jun 146
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!Longest, strongest black hole jets of all-time discoveredWith the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.5h ago3
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