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Majority of voters object to Trump’s National Guard deployment in DC, poll finds  Politico With Trump’s Takeover, Washington Finds a Mission to Resist  The New York Times Just 38% of Americans support Trump’s use of troops to police DC, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  Reuters How Washington became Donald Trump’s chew toy  The Economist DC residents express concern as MPD, federal agents set up checkpoint  FOX 5 …

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers: an object so unfathomably dense and hot that it defies comprehension. Conventional theories have suggested for years that the gas giant’s behemoth interior was formed following an enormous collision with an early planet. The “giant impact” theory suggests that roughly half …

When NASA’s Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this strange and beautiful planetoid. As the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt, accounting for more than 39 percent of its total mass, Ceres is the only object in the belt that has undergone hydrostatic equilibrium (aka. became round …

A new study has returned to a popular Milky Way attraction, formed by a fast-spinning dead star core that scientists say is one of the most powerful electromagnetic generators in the galaxy.  At the heart of this colorful nebula is a so-called pulsar, a type of neutron star that blasts streams of high-energy particles through space as it revolves like …

A prominent Harvard astrophysicist has claimed that a mysterious object moving through our solar system could be a nuclear-powered spacecraft.  Professor Avi Loeb, director of the Galileo Project, which hunts for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, said the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS exhibits characteristics suggesting it is not a typical comet, contrary to NASA’s assessment.  One of those signs is …

Social media has been abuzz with users in Japan reporting sightings of a mysterious object that briefly lit up skies across the country’s west on Tuesday night as it fell. A Kyodo News livestream of a volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture captured the moment at about 11:08 p.m. An official at the Japan weather agency’s Kagoshima meteorological office said …

Circle Strafe NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the number of the planet’s known satellites to 29. In early February, the space observatory’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) caught the minuscule and still-unnamed object orbiting the gas giant at a distance of 35,000 miles. “It’s a small moon but a significant discovery, which is something …

“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her …

Mystery object lights up night skies across western Japan  Japan TodayView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her …