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LSTs under construction at the CTAO-North site in La Palma, Spain.
CTAO’s four Large-Sized Telescopes mark construction completion, with commissioning ahead and distant explosions among their targets.
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The shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere mapped using transmission strings. The planet has a broad banded jet around the equator with vast wind speeds which transport material and heat from the permanently irradiated dayside to the permanently shadowed nightside.
SpaceJWST finds hidden structure in a hot exoplanet’s atmosphere 1,300 light-years awayJoseph Shavit
SN 2018zd offers evidence for an electron-capture supernova, but competing studies leave its mechanism and the Crab’s origin debated.
SpaceUnusual supernova solves 1,000 year mystery revealing a third way stars might explodeJoseph Shavit
Simulations explain how magnetic-field draping and reconnection shape uneven waves at Earth’s magnetic shield.
SpaceEarth’s tilted magnetic field changes where space waves formJoseph Shavit
Mount Sinai sends brain and heart tissue models to the ISS to study spaceflight, genetic risk and changes linked to aging.
HealthMiniature brain and cardiovascular models head to orbit on SpaceX CRS-35 to study agingJoseph Shavit
A SwRI-led model filters false far-side solar detections and improves magnetic maps, with a measured trade-off in missed active regions.
SpaceImproved magnetic field maps bring the Sun’s hidden hemisphere into focusJoshua Shavit
Railway timetables and magnetic records place Exeter’s reported solar-storm train delay in 1848, correcting a longstanding date error.
SpaceA delayed Victorian train reveals a 185 year-old error in space weather historyJoshua Shavit
Artist’s impression of WISE 0855, a cold, free-floating world about 7.5 light-years away. Webb observations provide evidence of changing water-cloud thickness and atmospheric chemistry beneath the clouds.
SpaceJWST discovers the first shifting water clouds on a planet outside of our solar systemJoseph Shavit
The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud as seen by Mars Express. A new model suggests Mars’s 1,800-kilometer cloud forms ice without dust seeds, though the mechanism still needs confirmation.
SpaceMars’s longest morning cloud may form ice without dustJoshua Shavit
NASA selected GIMLI to search for a lava tube beneath the Marius Hills Pit, a potential natural shelter for future astronauts.
SpaceNASA plans radar and seismic tests for a hidden lunar cave that could shelter future astronautsJoseph Shavit
Webb finds the host of a record-distance fast radio burst, revealing a young dwarf galaxy that favors a magnetar origin.
SpaceJWST traces the most distant known fast radio burst to a strange dwarf galaxyJoseph Shavit
Atlantic sediments reveal a magnetic reversal lasting 70,000 years, challenging assumptions about Earth's changing field.
SpaceEarth’s magnetic field took 70,000 years to complete an ancient reversalJoseph Shavit
A theoretical model uses information theory to estimate cosmic bits, without proving information is a new state of matter.
SpaceScientists calculate how much information exists in the observable universeJoseph Shavit
Webb and Spitzer study 21 extreme debris disks, linking dust minerals to possible giant impacts and changing planetary orbits.
SpaceNASA’s James Webb telescope reveals the dusty aftermath of 21 planet-shattering collisionsJoseph Shavit
A theoretical study explores how a hidden dimension could shape primordial black holes and a possible high-energy neutrino connection.
SpaceFive-dimensional black holes offer a possible explanation for dark matter and neutrinosJoseph Shavit
Unusual elements and a 4.4-day brightness cycle suggest a planet formed from material shed by the white dwarf HS 0209+0832.
SpaceAstronomers discover a ‘phoenix planet’ reborn from the ashes of a dead starJoseph Shavit
Gemini North images reveal chains of gas knots in Pa 30, a supernova remnant linked to 1181 with a surviving central star.
SpaceCosmic ‘pearls’ emerge around the surviving star of an ancient supernovaJoseph Shavit