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We're entering a new era of astrophysics. The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists test existing ideas and models of how the universe was created—on a whole new level. This telescope is sending back images of galaxies forming under a billion years after the Big Bang—way earlier than astronomers had previously expected. Not only that, scientists had anticipated that later—but still very early—galaxies would be small, barely formed blobs; instead, the galaxies in these images have spiral arms. So, today's show is all about GALACTIC CONTROVERSY! Computational astroph...

(1) YOU’RE FROM THE SIXTIES! The Daily Beast’s article “Gay Talese on Resisting His Frank Sinatra Assignment, and What Really Matters in a Marriage” goes into the Sinatra-Ellison confrontation at length. (Which, if you’ve never read the piece, is here,) "... Gay Talese, at 91 years old, perhaps the world’s oldest living bestselling author with 17

Science fiction movies and other futuristic fantasies have filled our imaginations with amazing ideas of what things could be in the future. These stories

"If only 1 in a million planets was a host to life, there would still be around half a million life-bearing planets in this galaxy alone."

Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye.