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Notitia, gratias.

 

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James Webb Space Telescope Archives - NASA Science

blogs.nasa.gov

All of these observations, together, tell us that JADES-GS-z14-0 is not like the types of galaxies that have been predicted by theoretical models and computer simulations to exist in the very early universe. Given the observed brightness of the source, we can forecast how it might grow over cosmic time, and so far we have not found any suitable analogs from the hundreds of other galaxies we’ve observed at high redshift in our survey. Given the relatively small region of the sky that we searched to find JADES-GS-z14-0, its discovery has profound implications for the predicted number of bright galaxies we see in the early universe, as discussed in another concurrent JADES study.

 

[Caete]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

William Anders - Wikipedia RIP

 

[Casey Pelous]

Boeing needs to hire this guy to do their PR.

 

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William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut who took famous 'Earthrise' photo, dies in plane crash at 90

Anders, 90, was on the mission that circled the moon in 1968 ahead of the lunar landing in 1969. He was on a small plane that crashed Friday between two islands north of Seattle.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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[Essence Lumin]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Still amazed at the entry for Bismith because it looks toxic AF.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Still amazed at the entry for Bismith because it looks toxic AF.

Just VERY mildly radioactive, so mildly it was thought to be a stable element.

 

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprise in a Martian Rock

Among several recent findings, the rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before on the Red Planet: yellow sulfur crystals.

Since October 2023, the rover has been exploring a region of Mars rich with sulfates, a kind of salt that contains sulfur and forms as water evaporates. But where past detections have been of sulfur-based minerals — in other words, a mix of sulfur and other materials — the rock Curiosity recently cracked open is made of elemental, or pure, sulfur. It isn’t clear what relationship, if any, the elemental sulfur has to other sulfur-based minerals in the area.

“Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert,” said Curiosity’s project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “It shouldn’t be there, so now we have to explain it. Discovering strange and unexpected things is what makes planetary exploration so exciting.”

 

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More current Mars news. This one is very "intriguing.."

No, NASA hasn’t found life on Mars yet, but the latest discovery is intriguing

These spots are a big surprise."

arstechnica.com

NASA's Perseverance rover has found a very intriguing rock on the surface of Mars.

An arrowhead-shaped rock observed by the rover has chemical signatures and structures that could have been formed by ancient microbial life. To be absolutely clear, this is not irrefutable evidence of past life on Mars, when the red planet was more amenable to water-based life billions of years ago. But discovering these colored spots on this rock is darn intriguing and has Mars scientists bubbling with excitement.

"These spots are a big surprise," said David Flannery, an astrobiologist and member of the Perseverance science team from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, in a NASA news release. "On Earth, these types of features in rocks are often associated with the fossilized record of microbes living in the subsurface."

This is a very recent discovery, and the science has not yet been peer-reviewed. The sample was collected on July 21—a mere four days ago—as the rover explored the Neretva Vallis riverbed.

 

[Isabeau]

Maybe this belongs in TIL thread as it isn’t really news, but still…

The Whippet Special: Venus News Extra Extra

This is 100% and literally the pattern Venus makes in the earth's sky over an 8-year cycle. Each 'rose petal' takes about 18 months.

thewhippet.org

Venus has been associated with roses for a very, very long time, at least 2-3000 BCE, with the Sumerian goddess Inanna (Ishtar in Akkadian/Babylonian), who was the planet Venus and had the rose as her symbol. Ancient roses were probably a species of dog rose, and looked like this – much more like the Venus astral rose-pattern than typical modern roses:

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Chinese scientists have developed a method to gather 51-76 kg water out of one metric ton moon rock, so they claim. If a moon base should be erected winning water is one of the most basic problems which needs to be resolved.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675824001280

 

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Amazing.

New Microscope So Absurdly Fast It Can See Electrons In Motion

The microscope uses electron pulses at the speed of a single attosecond to get a clear look at moving electrons.

futurism.com

Behold, the world's fastest microscope: it works at such an astounding speed that it's the first-ever device capable of capturing a clear image of moving electrons.

Developed by researchers at the University of Arizona, who have published their work in the journal Science, the microscope uses electron pulses at the speed of a single attosecond — or one quintillionth of a second — to snap "freeze frames" of the subatomic particles, which travel fast enough to circle the Earth in a matter of seconds.

This is a potentially groundbreaking advancement that could allow scientists to tease out what happens to electrons during ultrafast interactions, such as the breaking of a chemical bond.

 

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[Isabeau]

Or an extreme closeup of Free, hours after eating especially spicy curry. Hard to tell…

 

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*burp*

 

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[GoblinCampFollower]

This honestly is one of the most important discoveries for medicine ever to sound so comical...