So many fun science facts in Lisa Kaltenegger's new book on extraterrestrial life. Lisa Kaltenegger Carl Sagan Institute My WaPo review: washingtonpost.com/books/2024/05/…

So honored to meet Katie Ledecky and the other Medal of Freedom recipients. We’ll be cheering you on for Paris, Katie!

And a massive thanks to the Guild’s @evanyeats and its attorney, Robert Paul, who fought this all the way.

Pro tip: Join (or start) a union in your workplace. It’s the best way to guarantee your workplace rights. End.

#NASAWebb captured the top of iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail, with a new view that focuses on the illuminated edge of the nebula’s distinctive structure. (1/5) 🧵

This is a new #JWST image of the 'mane' of the Horsehead Nebula!

The field of view is 0.8 lightyears across—which is a staggering 7,569,000,000,000 kilometres.

And whereas the Nebula and the six-sided stars in the frame are *in* the Milky Way...

...EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY

NEW: NASA is putting Mars Sample Return on bare-bones budget as it looks for faster/cheaper options (but do they exist?) washingtonpost.com/science/2024/0…

A mere $310m in '24 and $200m in '25 for Mars Sample Return is grim for JPL. This mission is on life support.

NASA overhauling Mars Sample Return. Nelson: 'The bottom line is, an $11 billion budget is too expensive, and a 2040 return date is too far away'nasa.gov/news-release/n…

Wow… watch the temperature drop as the eclipse passes…

From 'I’m not Black, I’m O.J.” to a symbol of America's racial divisions.

What O.J. Simpson meant to Black America.

By Emmanuel Felton Rachel Hatzipanagos

Gift link: wapo.st/4435yiT

Here's the story that led the last print extra edition The Washington Post ever published: O.J. SIMPSON ACQUITTED #ojsimpson
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It’s a normal day until it’s suddenly not; the moon’s shadow comes sweeping overhead at more than 3,000 miles per hour.

The landscape transforms into something truly extraterrestrial. Then it’s gone as soon as it came. MyRadar Weather

And I'll never forget the horrific photographs shown in the courtroom on the opening day of the Simpson trial. washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

Wrote this story on deadline with feeds from colleagues after they arrested O.J. Simpson washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

Clouds part and crowds scream as total solar eclipse delights the U.S.

From Joel Achenbach Arelis R. Hernández Scott Dance and me, plus a team across the country: wapo.st/3xlbXtp

Here's our preview of the Great North American Eclipse. Countdown is on, crowds are here in Dallas, hotels booked, parties planned. The forecast is uncongenial but the show must go on. washingtonpost.com/science/2024/0…

Clouds, clouds, go away, come again some other day. I was told this chant works. washingtonpost.com/science/2024/0…