NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Strange Chemistry Beyond Our Solar System
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July…
Scientists Discover Hidden Symmetry on Earth That Nobody Can Explain
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that balanced it out, performed evasive maneuvers,…
Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, where temperatures soar into the millions of degrees even though the visible surface below is far cooler — one of the strangest long-running puzzles in solar physics.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past few years flying repeatedly through the Sun’s corona, the outer…
How China is working to turn Saishiteng Mountain into the world’s largest astronomy base
Construction on the Tibetan plateau of some of the Earth’s most powerful optical telescopes is putting China on…
Tiny X-ray telescope could unlock the Moon’s hidden chemistry
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have used simulations to show that a small, newly developed X-ray telescope could…
What to know about the total solar eclipse in August
Summary A total solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal on August 12.…
Scientists have made a huge discovery at the enormous black hole at the centre of our Galaxy. And they found something pointing right at it
Astronomers say they’ve finally seen, for the first time, evidence of a powerful wind blowing from the supermassive…
Bucking boycotts, prizewinning Israeli astrophysicist finds ‘Zen-like’ perspective in space
Astrophysicist Paz Biniamini from the Open University of Israel on Tuesday became the first scholar in the Ra’anana-based…
An AI trawled through 35 years of Hubble images and found more than 800 strange objects that had never been documented before, showing that one of astronomy’s most famous archives is still hiding discoveries in plain sight
Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images…
Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert
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Fold a single sheet of paper just 42 times and it would be thick enough to reach the Moon, because each fold doubles the thickness and doubling grows far faster than anyone expects
Take a single sheet of ordinary paper, about a tenth of a millimetre thick. Fold it in half…