Science is fun. It’s cool. It’s amazing! And now, as of May 24, 2024…
Aha! celebrates science by revealing amazing discoveries and images from our world and beyond and exploring life’s most intriguing, strange and unexpected questions.
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Who am I?
As founder and editor, I bring several decades of experience in science and health writing. I left newspapers in 1998 to launch one of the internet’s earliest mainstream science publications, which was later sold and absorbed into Space.com, where I became a writer and eventually editor-in-chief. I was also the founding editor and later editor-in-chief of Live Science, and as a media executive I led the launch of several other science and technology publications.
Now I’m rolling up everything I’ve learned, along with my sleeves, to make Aha! a publication I’d enjoy reading every day.
This is going to be fun. Let’s make it so.
Cheers,
Rob
PS: About the new Hubble Space Telescope image above. It reveals fine details in a spiral galaxy named NGC 4689 that’s relatively nearby, just 54 million light-years away. That means we’re looking back in time 54 million years, seeing the galaxy as it existed then, since that’s how long it took the light, traveling at, um, light-speed, to get here. The photo was released today, May 24, 2024—the day this newsletter launched.