This week's space news

We have pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu!

Here’s more about the sample return container’s landing and what happens next. I also wrote about the OSIRIS-REx sample return container landing over at Fast Company!

Hubble took a breaktaking photo of a globular cluster

Watch the video to learn more, including why so many of the stars in this picture have a reddish tint!

Meet our friendly neighborhood supermassive black hole

I’m trying to do more evergreen explainer-style content. If you have any burning questions (even the dumb ones—I guarantee you that the questions you have about space you think are dumb aren’t actually dumb), let me know!

I talked about climate news over at Science Friday

I love working with this team, so you’ll hear me over at Science Friday more often going forward!

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