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The Launchpad

A black hole jet is more powerful than the Death Star We're not making this up. A supermassive black hole jet was recently found to have so much energy that astronomers opted to compare it to the estimated energy output of a fictional device: the Death Star from "Star Wars: A New Hope", which can blow up entire planets. In other news, an astrophotographer captured a stunning image of the Flaming Star Nebula, a nearby star's eruption could unlock secrets around superflares and China joins the race to build data centers in space.