Isaac Schultz's discussions

That’s why I said “some!” Read more

Hi Marin! The black holes are at the center of the insets in this STScI link: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/114/01H28VT580KAS2N4NWJBG3GTPD?news=true Read more

Oof. Sorry — I’ll report this to the Kinja team. Didn’t realize the uploader was down. Read more

Fixed on the space tag, thank you for highlighting it. On the worm front, I’m deferring to Joe/the PNAS description (latter found here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/994020?). But I take your point that they’re not literally worms, in the strict meaning of the word. Read more

Any article with my name on it will be mine. They won’t be perfect—hardly—but they will be reported out and written up by my very human hands. Read more

Our Sun will go through the process of stellar death — that’s what I was referring to. Jury’s out on whether the Sun will leave behind a nebula (as noted in the earlier article.) Read more

Can’t wait until Michael Keaton goes supernova. Read more

I take this point! Just didn’t feel it was necessary to say “appeared to eject,” or something to that effect to indicate the age of the light on its arrival. Interesting that the light from Betelgeuse that ancient astronomers documented in their observations was already ancient to them, too! Read more

I try to make it immediately clear that this is a perfectly ordinary and harmless event, because I am similarly annoyed by headlines that intentionally leave that out. Read more

1,600ft is about as tall as the Shanghai World Financial Center, according to The Measure of Things. Read more

Thanks for sharing, Kevin! Definitely recommend everyone check that out, and zoom in, and zoom in, and... Read more