Science With a Grin

Space & Astronomy

The cosmos is enormous, mysterious and apparently staffed by comedians.

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Space & Astronomy

50 original creations

Science With a Grin cartoon about the unexplained breakup of the Cold War-era American spy satellite USA 32 above Earth while rival satellites pretend not to know what happened — USA 32: Just a Normal Satellite Day
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Science With a Grin cartoon explaining how a rotating spacecraft could create artificial gravity while Chris and Rexy endure the spinning ride to Mars — Artificial Gravity: The Interplanetary Spin Cycle
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Science With a Grin cartoon imagining fusion-powered spacecraft making faster trips to Mars and eventually carrying humanity toward other stars — Fusion Propulsion: The Stars Are Waiting
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Science With a Grin cartoon correcting myths about the Sun being on fire, its color, rotation, size, eventual fate and Earth's changing distance from it — Five Sun Myths That Need More Light
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Science With a Grin cartoon showing exoplanet GJ 3090 b driving backward around its star while the other planets complain that it is going the wrong way — Opposite Day: GJ 3090 b Goes the Wrong Way
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Science With a Grin cartoon about CHIME detecting an ancient 21-centimeter hydrogen signal that may help scientists study the expansion of the universe — Ancient Hydrogen Left an 8-Billion-Year Voicemail
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Science With a Grin cartoon comparing Southwest Georgia summer heat with Mercury and NASA's Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun — Southwest Georgia: Not Mercury, but It Sure Feels Like It
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Science With a Grin cartoon correcting six Moon myths about the far side, full moons, the horizon illusion, lunar phases, the Great Wall of China and lunar rotation — Six Moon Myths That Need to Come Back Down to Earth
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Science With a Grin cartoon imagining radio bursts from exoplanet Beta Pictoris b as an alien radio station broadcasting auroras — K-Beta 98.7: All Auroras, All the Time
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Science With a Grin cartoon of a roadside travel center beside the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, inspired by water detected near Sagittarius A star — Sagittarius A* Travel Center
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Science With a Grin cartoon turning the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's green out-of-focus test stars into glowing doughnuts — The Universe Is Sponsored by Krispy Kreme
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Science With a Grin cartoon of Chris and Rexy watching the long-running Taurid meteor shower while South Georgia summer heat refuses to leave — Taurids: September–November. Summer: Apparently Forever.
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Science With a Grin cartoon of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory arriving early and finding the faint Aquarius IV satellite galaxy before its official survey began — Rubin Clocked In Early
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Science With a Grin cartoon comparing hot Mercury to a Southwest Georgia parking lot and hotter Venus to the inside of a sun-baked vehicle — Venus Is Hotter Than Mercury—Seriously!
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Science With a Grin cartoon explaining that Mercury may have shrunk by nearly twelve miles as its interior cooled over billions of years — Mercury Had Shrinkage!
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Science With a Grin cartoon about September planets, the Harvest Moon and Milky Way viewing accompanied by South Georgia heat and mosquitoes — September Stargazing: Look Up, Get Bitten!
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Science With a Grin cartoon about the newly identified 2024 McGetchin impact crater and how Earth’s atmosphere shields us from many incoming space rocks — Moon Gets Hit by a Building-Sized Rock
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Science With a Grin cartoon of Chris and Rexy beside a telescope, planning fall stargazing targets while wondering which ProCam setting fixes the universe — Fall Stargazing: Same Sky, Different Questions
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Science With a Grin cartoon about the James Webb Space Telescope finding a treasure chest of roughly 70 newborn stars in the Carina Nebula — James Webb’s Treasure Chest in Space
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Science-humor cartoon explaining how the 2017 GW170817 neutron-star collision produced gravitational waves, a gamma-ray burst and heavy elements including gold and platinum — 2017 Kilonova: The Cosmic Jewelry Factory
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Science-humor cartoon about the LUX-ZEPLIN dark-matter detector recording one intriguing particle in its signal region after years of waiting — One Weird Particle Walks Into LUX-ZEPLIN
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Science-humor cartoon celebrating the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its wide-field studies of exoplanets, galaxies and dark matter — The Universe Gets a Wide-Angle Lens
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Science-humor cartoon about planetary protection and an astronaut named Steve accidentally contaminating a space mission with Earth microbes — We Found Life—Never Mind, That’s Steve
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Science-humor cartoon about lunar radiation hazards, solar storms and the protective equipment astronauts need on the Moon — Solar Casual
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Science-humor cartoon imagining an enormous early-universe black-hole star as a tiny red dot driving through space in a giant gas sweater — Little Red Dot
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Science-humor cartoon about microgravity slowing digestion and leaving an astronaut waiting for relief — Houston, We Have a Logjam
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Science-humor cartoon about the fastest known star racing around the Milky Way’s central black hole — Fastest Star in the Milky Way
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Science-humor cartoon about the mysterious Wow signal and its possible natural explanation — Wow! It Wasn’t Aliens
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Science-humor cartoon about a river of cosmic gas tilting planetary orbits in Orion — Orion’s Gas Strikes Again
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Science-humor cartoon explaining how galaxies may be born spinning — Galaxy Kindergarten: Cosmic Baby Spinners
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Science-humor cartoon about the Milky Way’s warped shape and a lost astronaut — Galaxy GPS Failure
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Science-humor cartoon comparing the Milky Way’s warped disk to a potato chip — The Milky Way Potato Chip
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Science-humor cartoon about the mysterious chemistry of Pluto and Titan — Pluto & Titan: Cosmic Besties
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Science-humor cartoon about NASA precisely predicting a solar eruption’s arrival — The Sun Delivers Right on Time
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Science-humor comic about NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft waking from hibernation — New Horizons Wakes Up for Adventure
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Science-humor comic about astronomers weighing the Milky Way — Galactic Check-Up
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Science-humor comic explaining the extreme power of a magnetar — The Universe’s Loud Neighbor
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Science-humor comic about a satellite reflecting sunlight into the night — Space HOA Approves New Lighting Plan
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Science-humor infographic about the history of measuring the speed of light — How We Measured Light Speed
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Science-humor cartoon about a helium-rich exoplanet confusing mission control — First Contact Confusion
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Science-humor cartoon comparing the chemical ingredients of the Milky Way to a candy store — The Milky Way Candy Store
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Science-humor infographic following Earth toward the Great Attractor and Shapley Supercluster — Cosmic Road Trip
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Science-humor infographic about the Moon gradually moving farther from Earth — The Moon’s Slow Journey Away
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Science-humor cartoon comparing an Earth rainbow with the concentric glory seen in Venus’s atmosphere — Rainbow vs. Glory
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Science-humor cartoon about the strange sulfur, ammonia and almond-like scents associated with comets — A Smell of the Cosmos
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Science-humor cartoon of a Mars rover discovering ancient nitrogen and other ingredients for life — The Martian Lunchbox
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Science-humor cartoon imagining the heliopause as the guarded wall of a private solar-system community — The Solar System Gated Estates
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Science-humor cartoon imagining NASA running a cosmic lost-and-found desk for misplaced exoplanets — Lost & Found in Space
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Science-humor cartoon comparing the tidy classroom model of the solar system with its enormous real distances — The Solar System: Actual Size May Vary
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Science-humor cartoon about NASA predicting the arrival of a coronal mass ejection with remarkable precision — The Sun's Tantrum Forecast
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

— Carl Sagan