Daniel Patrascu

There are things in this Universe the human mind simply has a very hard time understanding. Like, say, a supernova explosion caused by a star reaching the end of its life, an event so massive that, even 1,700 years after it happened, it can still shoot things into the surrounding Universe at two million miles per hour (3.22 million kph). We've known of supernovas for a long time now, so there are few things that keep us surprised about them.

Ever before it was launched at the end of 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope promised to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe. It rapidly did that, including by discovering something we were oblivious to before the Webb came along: little red dots.

The needs of war have often pushed humans into getting creative and making weapons and weapons platforms out of, well, pretty much anything. Just remember, for instance, the images of civilian pickup trucks being turned into machine gun posts or even rocket launchers. It almost never happens, though, for such a conversion to be made right from the factory floor.