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The peak of the Perseid meteor shower could coincide with a spectacular light show.

Four Coronal Mass Ejections Are Headed Towards Earth, With Strong Auroras Possible

ARECIBO, Puerto Rico — For nearly half a century, astronomers have been puzzled by a brief and unexplainable radio signal detected in 1977 that seemed to hint at the existence of alien life. Known as the “Wow! Signal,” this tantalizing cosmic transmission has remained one of the most intriguing mysteries in the search for signs of intelligent life in outer space. Now, scientists may finally know where it came from!

Wow! Scientists may have finally decoded mysterious signal from space

Did you ever wonder what lies at the heart of a spiral galaxy? It’s a roaring, giant black hole known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN). These particular supermassive black holes are extremely energetic regions that are millions to billions of times the mass of our sun and are surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust.

Galaxy with an ultra-bright core is concealing a secret

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Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe aged

The Independent

 Astronomers finally have an explanation behind why the James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding “impossible” monster galaxies in the early universe that appear to shake the foundations of cosmology.Since the pioneering Webb telescope began its scientific operations in July 2022, it has spotted about half a dozen massive galaxies that appear to be far bigger and more mature than they should be given their position in the universe.Some of these monster galaxies were found to be as massive as our Milky Way when the universe was only about 3 per cent of its current age, a finding that shook...

Scientists finally have solution to cosmology’s ‘biggest crisis’

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A mysterious object that is 27,306 times the size of Earth has been spotted flying through space at one million miles per hour, NASA reports. The object (CWISE J1249), discovered by citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, is “moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot […]
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A Massive, Mysterious Object Is Traveling Through Space At One Million Miles Per Hour

Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a dramatic and complex process as the star plunging towards the supermassive black hole is spaghettified and and torn to shreds. The resulting fireworks are known as a tidal disruption event.

Watch a Black Hole Tear a Star to Shreds in Insane New Simulations

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Sharing a living space with someone on the daily is rarely a walk in the park. Everyone has their little strange quirks, moods and habits that can drive another person crazy. However, some zodiac signs are known for being particularly demanding or having personality traits that naturally make cohabitation a little more challenging to say the least. Let's see which zodiac signs are the most difficult to live with and tips with how to cope!

The 3 Most Demanding Zodiac Signs to Live With

"Something outside the Solar System" may have dramatically cooled the Earth.

Earth's Past Ice Ages Could Have Been Triggered By Our Movement Through The Galaxy

Scientists studying the zone between Earth’s atmosphere and space have spotted unusual X- and C-shaped features that could thwart signals that keep our planet running smoothly.

Scientists have spotted unexpected X- and C-shaped structures in the atmosphere. They are struggling to explain them

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanets with extremely small orbits around their stars. But what about exoplanets that get close enough to be devoured by their star, and what if it's an Earth-sized exoplanet?. This is what a recent study posted to the arXiv preprint server and accepted to...

Good thing we found this Earth-sized planet now—it's about to be destroyed

Warp drives have a long history of not existing, despite their ubiquitous presence in science fiction. Writer John Campbell first introduced the idea in a science fiction novel called Islands of Space. These days, thanks to Star Trek in particular, the term is very familiar. It's almost a generic reference...

What if you flew your warp drive spaceship into a black hole?

A collaborative international effort has produced a catalog detailing 126 (120 confirmed, 6 candidates) exoplanets using TESS and Keck Observatory data, broadening knowledge of their diverse types and potential for hosting life. An international team of scientists, including significant contributions from astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi’s Institute for Astronomy...

Astronomers Uncover Vast Array of Strange Alien Worlds

For decades, physicists have been captivated by the prospect of spaceships traveling faster than light by compressing four-dimensional spacetime — a concept commonly referred to as “warp drive.”. Yes, you heard it right — those super-speed spaceships that effortlessly dart across galaxies in popular sci-fi culture. While it...

Detecting warp drives from extraterrestrial spacecraft using gravitational waves

Hawaii State

Something in space powerful enough to slingshot a would-be star out of the Milky Way at a million miles an hour is mystifying scientists. A team of citizen scientists first discovered the object while they were working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds Planet 9 project, which uses images from the space agency’s WISE (Wide-field Infrared Explorer) mission. The mission ran from 2009 to 2011 and mapped the sky in infrared light. Once scientists at NASA got involved, they’ve since learned more about the object, including what it could be made of and where it came from.

Astronomers Just Discovered A Low-Mass Object Flying At a Million Miles Per Hour

New York State

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named 16 new Damon Runyon Fellows, exceptional postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators. This prestigious Fellowship encourages the nation's most promising young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by providing them with independent funding ($300,000 total) to investigate cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $4.8 million to exceptional early-career scientists

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) Researchers from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with colleagues from the Faculty of Tropical AgriScience of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, are unravelling the mysteries of the life of termites. Colonies of the species Neocapritermes taracua boast a unique type of defence, which is provided by worker termites at the end of their lives. When attacked, they sacrifice themselves by setting off an explosive chemical reaction, the result of which is a toxic liquid that immobilizes and poisons their adversary. Dr Jana Škerlová and her colleagues from the scientific group of Assoc. Prof. Pavlína Maloy Řezáčová has been able to describe in detail the mechanism by which the mysterious enzyme which termites carry on their backs works. Her latest article on the topic has been published in the scientific journal Structure.

Kamikaze termites protect their colony with the help of a special enzyme. Its secrets have been uncovered by scientists from IOCB Prague

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Astronomers have recently spotted signs of an extended disk of dust and gas, whirling in orbit around a distant star.
While this phenomenon is a normal stage in the development of a star and its planetary system, what makes this find so spectacular is that it's the first one we've seen around a star in a whole other galaxy, outside of our own.



					
			

The feature was spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy some 179,000 light-years away from the Milky Way. And, although it might seem like common sense to suppose that star formation processes are universal, we've not been...

Astronomers Spotted a Disk Orbiting a Star in Another Galaxy

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A MAP of the stars could lead alien-hunters directly to where extra-terrestrial life may be hiding. Scientists have created a 3D illustration charting a list of nearby stars that may be hosting “habitable” alien worlds. They used data from Nasa‘s Chandra X-ray Observatory to identify these planets. It involved finding stars that are close enough […]

Alien-hunters given 3D space map showing exactly where scientists think extraterrestrials may be hiding on nearby worlds

The team behind the first ever image of a black hole can now observe the same celestial gargantuan with greater definition than ever before. On Tuesday, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team announced that their global network of radio telescopes, which turns Earth into one giant virtual telescope, can observe at a new radio frequency. This means a few things. First, the team can get crisper imagery of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, which starred in the first ever image of a black hole, taken in 2017 and published in 2019. Second, having an additional frequency means the team can play with color.

The Event Horizon Telescope Just Made A Major Breakthrough — Black Holes Can Now Be Seen in ‘Color Vision’

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Bubbling, frothing and sloshing: Long-hypothesized plasma instabilities finally observed

Whether between galaxies or within doughnut-shaped fusion devices known as tokamaks, the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma regularly encounters powerful magnetic fields,...

Bubbling, frothing and sloshing: Long-hypothesized plasma instabilities finally observed

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