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IN A NUTSHELL 🔭 The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A. 🌌 The potential planet is about 10,000 times fainter than its host star, showcasing the telescope’s advanced capabilities. 🌍 Located in the habitable zone, the gas giant offers a unique research opportunity despite its inability to support life. 🚀 Future observations …

“This process is similar to my acting,” says Timothy Olyphant. “It’s a little something I call winging it.” The 57-year-old, a cultural fixture since the late ’90s who’s claimed to have found the absolute “sweet spot” of fame, is discussing his approach to ceramics at his Westside studio. And like that dig at his Hollywood career, he’s being modest. Olyphant …

Review | FX’s ‘Alien: Earth’ delivers Xenomorph terror with a ‘Peter Pan’ twist  The Washington Post In ‘Alien: Earth’, the Future Is a Corporate Hellscape  WIRED How to Watch ‘Alien: Earth’ Online Without Cable for Free  The Hollywood Reporter ‘Alien: Earth’ is a tense, dark meditation about what makes us human  Los Angeles Times ‘Alien: Earth’ Is About a Different Kind of Monster  The Ringer …

Residents in central Victoria have reported seeing a large meteor streaking across the night sky on Sunday, with some people describing an extremely bright fireball and a loud sound as the object passed overhead. Dozens of clips and witness accounts were shared in the Facebook group Australian Meteor Reports. Saskia Reus-Smit, from Fryerstown, posted to the group that they had …

A lot goes down throughout Alien: Earth‘s eight-episode first season, and very little of it is pleasant for the people involved. On top of the extraterrestrial horrors, we have AI creations and massive corporations threatening humanity’s survival, as humanity once again does its best to out-monster the monsters. We sat down with five of Alien Earth’s principal cast members — …

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Heard Island, Indian Ocean [-53.116414344, 73.51793263] What’s in the photo? An unusual stream of von Kármán vortices trailing off a hidden peak Which satellite took the photo? Landsat 8 When was it taken? May 3, 2016 This striking satellite photo shows 10 swirling “dark voids” that appeared above an uninhabited volcanic island in the Indian …

“I think we can all agree that the planet’s about to get a lot hotter and a lot wetter,” Hawley says, and Bangkok is a tropical location filled with rivers and canals. Originally, he envisioned Prodigy’s soldiers moving around New Siam on trains, but once he visited Bangkok, “it became very clear: We’ll put people on boats, [and] it’ll help …

University of Georgia researcher Scott Harris holds a chunk of the McDonough Meteorite (Image credit: University of Georgia) A meteorite that survived atmospheric entry and smashed through the roof of a Georgia home earlier this year may have formed before Earth itself, according to a scientist from the University of Georgia who analyzed fragments of the wandering solar system object. …

But Whitehouse presented a third line of evidence to dispute the 3.95 billion-year date: isotopes of hafnium in the same zombie zircon crystals. The technique relies on radioactive decay of lutetium–176 to hafnium–176. If the 2.8-billion-year age resulted from rejuvenation by later heating, it would have had to have formed from material with a hafnium isotope ratio incompatible with the …

Glaciers Are Changing Earth Faster Than You Think  SciTechDaily Drivers of global glacial erosion rates  Nature Around 99 per cent of world’s glaciers erode between 0.02 and 2.68 mm per year: Study  Down To Earth Study Predicts Worldwide Glacier Erosion  Technology Networks The Complex Forces Shaping Landscapes Beneath Glaciers  Labroots Source link