A red supergiant star has a truly cosmic case of dusty flatulence and that means it's about to die. And we've obtained pretty detailed images of it despite it being IN ANOTHER GALAXY.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-red-supergiant-s-clock-is-ticking-and-we-re-getting-a-good-look-before-it-goes-supernova

[Note: image shown here is artwork but a pic's in the link]

What's the roundest human-made object ever made? One of Einstein's most bizarre predictions led to a pretty dang spherical ball bearing because of course it did.

[also, more on kicking Elon's Nazi bar to the curb]

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-the-roundest-human-made-object-also-i-nuked-my-twitter-account

This new JWST pic of the nearby bright star Vega — which you can see up in the sky now! — is incredible. It's so smoooooooooth! But that's not the star, it's a disk of dusty debris around it.

Should've sent a poet.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-incredibly-smooth-image-of-debris-around-the-nearby-star-vega