Early spring is a hard time to air a prestige TV show, especially an HBO show that airs on Sunday nights. The Last of Us is learning this lesson the hard way, with Episode 5 airing February 12, Super Bowl Sunday, and Episode 9, the series finale, airing March 12, the same night as the Academy Awards.

Thankfully, HBO announced that they’re taking preemptive action to counteract the first conflict: in an unprecedented move, The Last of Us Episode 5 will be available for streaming on HBO Max Friday, February 10 at 9:00 pm, two days before it’s scheduled to hit airwaves. It’s a smart move, and HBO should do it again.

Understanding the cosmos, and searching for new flavors of celestial objects is quite a bit like feeling around in the dark. The reaches of space are dark, though fortunately, visible light makes up only a tiny handful of the clues that can be weaved together into a story that cohesively describes the universe.

Discovered 60 years ago, quasars — that is quasi-stellar [star-like] objects — have a misleading name. While these objects do shine like a star from our undiscerning eyes on Earth, they are the brightest objects in the universe, and actually make up their own category of celestial phenomena. They’re actually the ultra-bright centers of galaxies powered by powerful supermassive black holes.

There’s something weird afoot in Netflix’s White Noise — and it’s not what you might think.

Adapted from a Don DeLillo novel, White Noise centers on a professor’s family before and after a toxic cloud settles on their town. But that post-apocalyptic premise obscures the fact that there’s actually a very real scientific condition buried in this absurdist satire.

Before the toxic cloud even makes an appearance, the viewer learns Babette — the professor’s wife — has secretly been taking an unauthorized prescription drug, much to the concern of her husband and children.

We later find out the fictional pill — called Dylar — is actually a treatment for the intense fear of death that Babette experiences on a daily basis. As it turns out, this isn’t just a fictional concoction — it’s a real mental health condition, and some researchers think we should use magic mushrooms to treat it.