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New observations from the Nordic Optical Telescope, in the Canary Islands, Spain, suggest that 3I/ATLAS’s unusual anti-solar tail has changed direction, becoming dominated by a tail that faces away from the Sun. On July 1, astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) spotted an object speeding through the Solar System on an escape trajectory. It was soon found …

Astronomers have discovered a colossal bridge of near-invisible gas — spanning around twice the width of the entire Milky Way — connecting a pair of distant dwarf galaxies. The adjoined entities also share a record-breaking galactic tail, which is more than 15 times longer than our galaxy is wide. The dwarf galaxy duo, NGC 4532 and DDO 137, is located …

A sprawling Amazon Web Services cloud outage that began early Monday morning illustrated the fragile interdependencies of the internet as major communication, financial, health care, education, and government platforms around the world suffered disruptions. As the day wore on, AWS diagnosed and began working to correct the issue, which stemmed from the company’s critical US-EAST-1 region based in northern Virginia. …

A striking new photo of the superbright “Comet Lemmon” (C/2025 A6) shows the partial remains of its sizeable tail, shortly after the ethereal limb was temporarily torn apart by the sun. The cosmic shredding occurred just a few days before the comet is due to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday (Oct. 21). Astrophotographer Petr Horálek captured the …

Press enter or click to view image in full size New images from the Nordic Optical Telescope, in the Canary Islands, Spain. The evolution of the glow around 3I/ATLAS shows a transition from an anti-tail towards the Sun to a tail away from the Sun. The brightest pixel is marked by a red dot. Sunward is West and distance from …

CHICAGO (AP) — A United Airlines plane heading for its gate clipped the tail of another United aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, authorities said. No one was hurt in Friday’s incident and the 113 passengers on Flight 2652 from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were able to leave the plane normally after a delay, United officials said in a statement. The second …

A United Airlines plane heading for its gate clipped the tail of another United aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, authorities said. No one was hurt in Friday’s incident, and the 113 passengers on flight 2652 from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were able to leave the plane normally after a delay, United officials said in a statement. Runway collisions like these could …

Award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury has captured a stunning view of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) shining in the sky over Somerset in the U.K. ahead of its close approach to Earth on Oct. 21. Dury revealed Comet Lemmon‘s bright green coma and long diffuse tail streaking through the eventing sky in exquisite detail as day gave way to night above the …

Comet Lemmon’s nucleus and tail pictured against the distant starfield beyond. (Image credit: Brennan Gilmore) Astrophotographer Brennan Gilmore has captured spectacular views of the solar wind stripping a vast section from C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)’s tail, as the icy wanderer continues to brighten ahead of its close approach to Earth on Oct. 21. Top Camera Pick: Nikon Z9 (Image credit: Andy …

A new bat from the Western Himalayas has been described, and it carries two striking traits, a bare ring around each eye and a tail that outstretches its body. The species is called the Himalayan long tailed myotis, Myotis himalaicus. This bat did not simply appear out of thin air. Field teams first caught lookalikes years ago, then circled back …