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Looking for a destination where daylight lasts for months? Visit this place
1+ week, 6+ day ago (546+ words) WION Looking for a destination where daylight lasts for months? Visit this place Located deep in the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard experiences four months of continuous daylight. Situated outside the Schengen area, this remote destination is famous…...
Cosmic Tempest: Record-breaking black hole winds clocked at 30% the speed of light
1+ week, 6+ day ago (225+ words) Astronomers detect the fastest black hole winds ever recorded, tearing through space at an astonishing 30% of the speed of light. To put these extreme speeds into a terrestrial context, researchers have looked to the Saffir-Simpson scale used to measure tropical…...
Scientist says THIS dark comet could be a 38-year-old human probe - What Avi Loeb told us
3+ week, 1+ day ago (279+ words) A dark comet, 1998 KY26, that is the target of a probe planned for landing in 2031, could be a lost spacecraft. According to a team of scientists, there are quite a few reasons to theorise that this comet is actually a failed…...
Blue Moon: Four Planets Align Is Stunning Celestial Event
3+ week, 3+ day ago (280+ words) WION Blue Moon: Four Planets Align Is Stunning Celestial Event Washington Deploys Warships, Aircraft & Troops Around Cuba China: Bitchat Taken Down Over Regulatory Orders | Still Available Outside China Iran War Standoff: Trump Makes No Decision in Situation Room: Reports Israel-Lebanon…...
Which came first'the black hole or the galaxy? Webb discovery questions a key theory of galaxy formation
3+ week, 3+ day ago (394+ words) Researchers say the object could represent one of the clearest examples yet of a supermassive black hole forming without first emerging from a stellar collapse process. The findings, published in Nature and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,…...
What is hiding inside the Antennae galaxies? Scientists uncover evidence of a possible supermassive black hole
3+ week, 4+ day ago (538+ words) What is hiding inside Antennae galaxies? Scientists uncover evidence of a possible supermassive black hole WION - /What is hiding inside Antennae galaxies? Scientists uncover evidence of a possible supermassive black hole Located around 70 million light-years from Earth, the Antennae galaxies…...
Hellish 'super-Earth' Kua'kua is closer to the Moon than our home planet, JWST finds
3+ week, 4+ day ago (224+ words) WION - /Hellish 'super-Earth' Kua'kua is closer to the Moon than our home planet, JWST finds The James Webb Space Telescope helped scientists study a super-Earth 48 light-years away. It was discovered in 2018, and only now have scientists been able to learn…...
Did Milky Way secretly swallow another galaxy? Ancient stars hint at lost star system
4+ week, 2+ day ago (340+ words) The discovery of these ancient metal-poor stars near the galactic disk suggests that the Milky Way may have swallowed a large galaxy early in its history, leaving behind hidden traces inside our galaxy today. Researchers are studying these stars because…...
Neptune's mysterious moon Nereid may be the only survivor of an ancient cosmic crash, NASA's JSWT finds
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (277+ words) Nereid, discovered in 1949 by Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, is the third-largest moon orbiting Neptune and follows one of the most eccentric orbits of any known planetary satellite. Discovered in 1949 by Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, Nereid is Neptune's third-largest moon and…...
Dying star glows like a cosmic crystal ball in stunning new telescope image
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (523+ words) WION Dying star glows like a cosmic crystal ball in stunning new telescope image The image was captured by the Gemini North Telescope atop Maunakea, Hawai'i's tallest peak, and released by the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab. Astronomers have released a…...