The Yankees are a good way toward proving that their September/October version is their reality, not the June/July edition. Midseason was miserable mainly because the Red Sox won five of six games against the Yankees to resuscitate their season from underperformance toward the playoffs. The Blue Jays won five of six to leapfrog the Yankees and take first in the …
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On Monday (Oct. 6) the first supermoon of 2025 will rise big and bright into the autumn sky. Dubbed the Harvest Moon — one of the most famous full moons of the year — it is the first full moon of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, traditionally used to mark the end of the harvest season. The moon will officially …
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It’s been 16 years since the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers met in the postseason, and it feels long overdue for two of the National League’s recent powers. This National League Division Series will feature two of the sport’s highest payrolls and stars galore. One of these teams will go home earlier than anyone expected. That is the cruel …
Read More »What a Signal in a Failed Star’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life The New York Times Detection of phosphine in a brown dwarf atmosphere raises more questions Phys.org Wolf 1130C: Phosphine, Evidence, and an Exercise in Scientific Restraint SETI Institute James Webb Space Telescope Detects “Sign of Life” Molecule Phosphine on a Brown Dwarf 54 Light Years From Earth The Debrief Phosphine …
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If you’ve heard anything about the ’80s musical “Chess,” it’s probably this: catchy songs, nonsensical story. When I posit as much to Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, the stars of the upcoming Broadway revival, Michele deadpans, “What do you mean? Never heard that.” The trio, meeting over their lunch break during rehearsals, start to giggle. “I don’t like …
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A huge “wave” is rippling through our galaxy, pushing billions of stars in its wake, a new study reveals. The Milky Way‘s galactic wave was spotted in mapping data from the European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Gaia space telescope, which charted the positions and movement patterns of millions of stars with high accuracy before retiring earlier this year. Like ripples in …
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Black holes are often seen as cosmic monsters that swallow anything unlucky enough to stray too close. But new research suggests they do not always win — some stars can skim the Milky Way‘s central black hole, Sagittarius A*; lose mass; and stagger away. Scarred but alive, these survivors shine brighter than before, leaving clues that astronomers are only now …
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Dancing with the Stars kicked off its third week episode by showing a bunch of social media videos that we apparently missed on our phones. Thanks? Oh wait; it was for a reason! It’s TikTok Night in the ballroom, which was no doubt inspired by the presence of two celebrities from The Secret Lives of Morman Wives who happen to …
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Get ready for the ultimate road trip with no return ticket. Engineers and architects have unveiled a concept for a colossal spacecraft named Chrysalis, designed to be a self-sustaining world on a one-way voyage to Alpha Centauri. This is the closest star system to Earth, and it also contains the famous Proxima Centauri, the …
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Our Universe was ‘pre-heated’ in its early moments, according to a new study from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), challenging assumptions it emerged from an ultracold state. The discovery was made as astronomers hunted for an elusive signal from the Epoch of Reionization – the time when the first suns began to fire up about a billion …
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