IF YOU HAVE ECLIPSE GLASSES, GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK AT THE SUN RIGHT NOW

There is currently a dark spot on the surface of the Sun visible as a black dot, it’s called AR3664
These sunspots happen very often but ones this big are very rare, and this one is visible without a telescope

this sunspot is also releasing massive solar flares that will cause auroras to be visible in northern US states and all of canada

this is extremely rare, STARE DIRECTLY AT THE SUN RIGHT NOW (if you still have eclipse glasses)

so here’s two fun facts i learned about saturn today that just prove that this planet is the physical embodiment of chaos

1. saturn’s biggest moon, titan, is currently moving away from saturn. As it does, saturn’s obliquity (it’s axial tilt, which is just how tilted the planet is toward the sun) will increase. This increase then destabilizes titan’s orbit, which causes it to move away further, which causes the obliquity to increase more, in a feedback loop that will eventually
-eject titan from the system entirely, flinging it off into space
-cause saturn to flip on its side, like uranus is today
we don’t know when this will happen but we know it will (it will probably be between 1-100 billion years from now)

and
2. Saturn’s moon Hyperion has a chaotic rotation. Earth takes 24 hours to complete one rotation, and it’s very stable.
Hyperion is not

Hyperion’s day length and axial tilt constantly changes chaotically and unpredictably due to interactions with saturn and the other moons. This is so chaotic that it becomes physically impossible to predict where hyperion will be more than a month in advance
Even with things like supercomputers, we genuinely have no idea how long a day on hyperion will be or how tilted it will be more than 1 month from today

fun fact: there is a US law that prevents NASA from working with the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) in any capacity whatsoever

NASA and CNSA are literally prohibited from working together by law

China has a space station, Mars rovers, has landed several things on the Moon, and has a successful human spaceflight program

Now, where have I heard of 2 extremely capable spacefaring nations working against each other before?