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The Hubble Telescope has captured a remarkable cosmic structure—LEDA 1313424—a galaxy surrounded by nine star-filled rings. While eight rings surrounding LEDA 1313424 were first observed by the Hubble Telescope, astronomers later confirmed the existence of a ninth ring. This confirmation came through additional data collected by the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii,… Continue Reading News…

Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for monitoring volcanoes prior to eruption, the researchers wrote in their paper, published Jan. 23 in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists have debated whether magma can persist in the upper…

BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists have successfully launched a detector prototype for the High-energy Underwater Neutrino Telescope (HUNT) into the South China Sea, the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Wednesday. The institute said the scientific research ship Tansuo-3 and the manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi…

The chance of space debris hitting an aircraft is very low, but the research from a team at the University of British Columbia (UBC) highlights that the potential for uncontrolled space debris to disrupt flights and create additional costs for airlines and passengers is not. The research is published in Scientific Reports. In 2022, a…