Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is just weeks away from a close approach to Earth that could make it visible to the naked eye in the October night sky. Read on for spectacular views of this wandering comet and its magnificent tail as captured by astrophotographers around the world. Astronomers discovered Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) on Jan. 3 using a 60-inch …
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Most note-taking apps try to do everything. They want to be your document editor, project manager, database, and social network all at once. After years of jumping between bloated platforms that promised to “revolutionize” how I organize my thoughts, I stumbled upon something completely different. Memos is an open-source note-taking app that does exactly one thing really well: it lets …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🪐 Astronomers are investigating a mysterious interstellar object moving through our solar system. 🔭 The object could provide clues to planet formation around young stars. 🌌 Research suggests these objects might be seeds for giant planets in high-mass star systems. 📊 Ongoing studies aim to understand the distribution and impact of these cosmic visitors. An unexpected visitor …
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MINNEAPOLIS — Drake Lindsay threw for 324 yards and three touchdowns on Saturday as Minnesota rallied to defeat Rutgers 31-28. Playing with out their top two running backs, the Golden Gophers (3-1, 1-0 in the Big Ten) had problems establishing a ground game, rushing for just 35 yards. But Lindsay, their freshman quarterback, completed 31 of 41 passes — including …
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In this artist’s illustration, infalling hydrogen gas causes the growing protoplanet WISPIT 2b to shine brightly in the hydrogen alpha spectrum, to which the MagAO-X instrument is particularly sensitive. Credit: Joseph Olmsted/STScI/NASA Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star. Using cutting-edge adaptive optics, the team …
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This slightly cropped version of the project shows the swing of the Sun and the Moon as they cross paths over the period of one year. Scroll down to see the full image. | Photo by Luca Vanzella and Alister Ling Today marks the autumnal equinox, the astronomical date when fall begins and summer ends. It’s a special date for …
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A 25-year quantum puzzle is solved, bringing teleportation closer to reality. Achieving the entanglement measurement of the W state. Credit: KyotoU / Takeuchi lab Scientists demonstrated the first entangled measurement for W states, a breakthrough for quantum information transfer and computing. Quantum entanglement highlights the profound divide between classical and quantum physics. In this phenomenon, the state of each photon …
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Photographer Osama Fathi has produced a pair of breathtaking images showing the dramatic transformation of the moon during the total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7, as it fell into the deepest part of Earth’s shadow above the White Desert National Park in Egypt. A lunar eclipse takes place when Earth passes directly between the sun and moon during a full …
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We’re Watching It Happen: Scientists Capture Planet Birth For First Time As Gas Giant Five Times Jupiter’s Size Forms Live Energy Reporters Astronomers Catch a Planet in the Act of Being Born Universe Today Astronomers glimpse growth of baby planet shrouded in dust EarthSky A baby star is born Nature Astronomers found the building blocks of new planets swirling around two young stars yahoo.com Source …
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As microplastics and their smaller, even more insidious counterparts, nanoplastics, have increasingly permeated the environment and our bodies, one of the key challenges facing researchers has been finding inexpensive, rapid, and convenient methods to detect the presence of these tiny particles in the first place. In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Photonics, researchers revealed a new method for detecting …
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