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Above: A highly cropped view of RCW 38, featured in an ESO article in the current issue, and which I'll need to plan a trip far south to ever see for myself. Image from https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2503/.

The most recent issue of Free Astronomy Magazine (May-June 2025) is available for your reading and downloading pleasure in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Arabic at www.astropublishing.com (and facebook).

Another edition heavy on content provided by major astronomical observatories and agencies (original content still in the works). As always, an excellent collection and afternoon read.

We hear/read a lot about the recent feats of the James Webb Space Telescope, from which is remain warming (just slightly, in the interest of detector sensitivity) to read how the data from Hubble Space Telescope continues to complement the science and analysis being performed by Webb, such as in the NASA articles "Webb peers deeper into mysterious Flame Nebula" and "Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter."

Above: Hayabusa2 at Ryugu – September 23, 2018: Image captured immediately before hop of Rover-1B. 2018-9-23 09:46 (JST). (Image credit: JAXA)

The November-December issue of Free Astronomy Magazine is available for your reading and downloading pleasure.

To the digest of NASA/ESA articles, excellent updates for a slew of extra-solar research, and general all-around fantastic aggregation of relevant images to make you wish you'd gotten a tablet with higher resolution, this issue wades Andromeda's-shackled-ankle-deep into recent events at the Sunspot Solar Observatory on/at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico. Depending on your interpretation of events (and, possibly, your choice of late-night radio listening), you may or may not be satisfied with the description and resolution of the circumstances in the article or in the several follow-up news articles concerning the closing-up of the investigation.

Please download, read, and pass along. Also, check out the many back issues at www.astropublishing.com