You've seen this picture before. These are called the Pillars of Creation. A cradle of about-to-be formed stars slowly heating up inside clouds of gas and dust.

The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx craft, which took samples from asteroid Bennu, is back on Earth and ready to be meticulously studied over the next month. As of right now only 1.5 grams of the estimated 250 gram sample have been looked at. This is the most material brought back from outer space since the 70's.

Last week was the first time scientists were directly able to capture the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web. This structure, the largest in the universe, is a vast sea of interconnected filaments between galaxies.

The winners announced

Saturn's ice-covered moon Enceladus reflects nearly all the sunlight that hits it, making its surface temperature only -330 degrees Fahrenheit.

Not to be outdone, Mars also has a Newton crater, with a huge diameter of about 185 miles. You can have a look here:

It was all excitement this week in the control room of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, as the first heavy-ion collisions of 2023 were underway. The LHC is colliding lead ions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.36 TeV! The first heavy-ion collision since Dec 2018.

Happy 25th bday to Google. Did you know they got their name from the misspelling of the number googol? A googol, also known as ten-duotrigintillion, is a 1 with 100 zeros behind it, a number so large there are actually less atoms in the entire universe than one googol.

Continuing with the blue theme, let's talk about nightmare exoplanet HD 189733b, which appears blue to us bc of its murky atmosphere fraught with silicate particles. Winds here are 7x the speed of sound, and most likely spins its probable glass rain. It does look nice, though.