Bizarre Blanets and Weird Worlds

Hi. Sorry about the silence: I've been busy redrafting the current-newest novel in progress (it's back with my agent), and now I just flipped over to rewrite the much-rewritten novel before that (which ran into a brick wall in late 2025 for structural reasons, and which I set aside while I was working on the next book, figured out a fix for in late 2026, and am now fixing). As you can imagine, slaving over manuscripts isn't the only thing I do on a computer. Along the way I'm browsing the web--or what's left of it these days that isn't clickbait nonsense and LLM-generated slop--and slowly accumulating a mass of perpetually open browser tabs with stuff that bears future consideration. These are not story ideas, but they're elements of background or texture that I think might conceivably come in handy in a future project. And because I'm currently working on a pair of space operas, this list is astrophysics-oriented ... (Hint: click the links, there's some truly crazy stuff here, most…