Phil Plait is an astronomer, author and science communicator who writes Bad Astronomy and brings the universe down to Earth through books, videos and talks.
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Phil shared Many Happy Orbits, a tool that calculates your age on other planets. He tested its dates against his own birthday and revisited his long-running fondness for Fark.
badastronomy.beehiiv.comRead Phil’s newsletterPhil explored a Chandra and Swift galaxy mosaic and reflected on his years doing outreach for Swift. The same issue featured a Curiosity panorama of a Martian dawn.
badastronomy.beehiiv.comRead Phil’s newsletterIn Bad Astronomy, Phil unpacked JWST observations of WISE 0855, a nearby free-floating world. He explained how changing spectra reveal clouds thickening and thinning.
badastronomy.beehiiv.comRead Phil’s newsletterPhil wrote about evidence that repeated eruptions from T Pyxis have carved a huge cavity in surrounding material. He explained why infrared maps could help astronomers find more of these structures.
badastronomy.beehiiv.comRead Phil’s newsletterPhil examined a new Gemini North image of the Pa 30 supernova remnant. His newsletter followed the clues in its narrow filaments and unusual central star.
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