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06/07/2026

A year ago

06/07/2026

You've watched the squirrel on your fence every day for years. She's on the feeder, on the roof, in the oak. You think you know her.

You probably didn't know her ankles rotate backward — that's the only reason she climbs down headfirst. Or that she has whiskers on her legs that read the bark like fingertips. Or that the tail flick you've seen a thousand times is a vocabulary she's using on every squirrel within earshot.

🐿 The one that got me: she buries thousands of acorns a year and never finds all of them. The ones she forgets germinate. Some of the oaks in your neighborhood exist because a squirrel forgot where she put lunch.

She's never lived more than two hundred yards from where she was born. She doesn't hibernate — she's out there every winter morning running on food she buried months ago and somehow remembers where to find.

Ten facts. The squirrel you see every day is doing all of this right now 🐿

06/07/2026

06/07/2026

Meet HD 189733b.

From far away, it looks beautiful. A deep, calm blue just like our oceans from space. 🌍

But don't let that fool you.

This planet is one of the most extreme worlds ever discovered.

Its temperature reaches 1,200°C… hot enough to melt metal.

It rains glass. Not water. Actual melted glass particles — flying sideways at 7,000 km/h. 💨

That's nearly 20 times faster than the speed of sound.

It's a gas giant — about the size of Jupiter — and it orbits so close to its star that one year there lasts just 2.2 Earth days. ⚡

Scientists call it a "Hot Jupiter."

And it sits just 63 light-years away from us.

Close enough to study. Deadly enough to never visit.

Space is full of worlds that look familiar from a distance… and become nightmares up close.

📸 Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser