Category: 7. Science
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Awe-inspiring Comet Lemmon photos from our community
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Makrem Larnaout in Tunisia captured Comet Lemmon on October 8, 2025. Makrem wrote: “Imaged under the bright light of the full moon, this photograph captures the spectacular Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) with its… -
Astronomers capture first-ever image of two black holes orbiting each other
Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black holes—could harbor two black holes rather than one. That theory, long considered speculative, finally has been…
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Moore Foundation Awards Shi $1.3M To Advance Quantum Physics
Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Sufei Shi has been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to join its 2025 cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators. The programme will award him $1.3 million over five…
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 181 — World Space Week
World Space Week – A UN-Established Global Celebration of Space – YouTube
Watch OnOn Episode 181 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Alma Okpalefe, World Space Week Association’s executive director, to discuss…
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Scientists create a magnetic lantern that moves like it’s alive
Researchers have developed a polymer structure shaped like a “Chinese lantern” that can quickly change into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional forms when it is compressed or twisted. This transformation can be triggered and controlled…
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Solar tornadoes are brewing – and we might not see them coming
We’ve known for a time that massive solar eruptions can cause real problems on Earth. They mess with satellites, shut down power grids, and even knock farm equipment offline.
But now, researchers have found something new. There are also…
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Scientists create a magnetic lantern that moves like it’s alive
Researchers have developed a polymer structure shaped like a “Chinese lantern” that can quickly change into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional forms when it is compressed or twisted. This transformation can be triggered and controlled…
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Mole-Rats Could Hold the Key to Living Longer
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that lived long, played hard, crashed out, and topped it off with a glass of claret.
First off, it’s Naked Mole-Rat Week! Or at least it should be, given that there are…
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After Decades of Searching, Scientists Make a Major Breakthrough in the Mystery Surrounding Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
Every large galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center, each one emitting powerful winds of hot gas from its event horizon. Our galaxy should be no exception. Yet for the last 50 or so years, astronomers have been searching…
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