When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts
as with creating images.

— Niels Bohr

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A chance alignment in Lupus

ESO Top News - 3 hours 57 min ago
Image: A chance alignment in Lupus
Categories: Astronomy

Doom: The Dark Ages — Release date, trailers & everything we know

Space.com - 4 hours 27 min ago
More than five years after Doom Eternal, we’re once again ready to rip and tear through demons in Doom: The Dark Ages.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX Fram2 astronauts see their Florida launch site from space as historic pole-orbiting mission nears its end (video)

Space.com - 4 hours 56 min ago
SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts are sharing incredible views from the first human spaceflight to orbit Earth's poles, as their mission nears a conclusion.
Categories: Astronomy

The Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, Targeted by Tariffs, Are a Biological Wonderland

Scientific American.com - 4 hours 57 min ago

Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, which comprise a remote volcanic refuge for penguins and seals and a UNESCO World Heritage site

Categories: Astronomy

Bonobo Calls Are More like Human Language Than We Thought

Scientific American.com - 5 hours 27 min ago

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language

Categories: Astronomy

JWST Delivers Best-Yet Look at That Worrisome Asteroid

Scientific American.com - 5 hours 27 min ago

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a building-sized space rock

Categories: Astronomy

Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere

Space.com - 5 hours 27 min ago
Big storms can strip some parts of Jupiter's atmosphere of ammonia, while leaving buried reservoirs of the gas elsewhere.
Categories: Astronomy

Secretive Russian Military Satellites Release Mystery Object into Orbit

Scientific American.com - 5 hours 52 min ago

A trio of classified Russian satellites, called Kosmos, has sparked intrigue in space-tracking circles after an unidentified object was launched into orbit

Categories: Astronomy

Captain Pike and his crew explore a lost Starfleet vessel in a new 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' novel coming later this month

Space.com - 6 hours 27 min ago
'Strange New Worlds' Season 3 is coming soon, so why not crack open this thrilling new 'Star Trek' book to set the mood?
Categories: Astronomy

New 'Black Mirror' Season 7 trailer teases an epic space battle for the USS Callister (video)

Space.com - 6 hours 27 min ago
Alongside this exciting teaser for 'Black Mirror 'Season 7, which launches on April 10, we also have details on this week’s 'USS Callister: Into Infinity' virtual watch party on April 8.
Categories: Astronomy

Extreme magnetic fields near our galaxy's black hole are preventing stars from being born, JWST discovers

Space.com - 6 hours 50 min ago
New James Webb Space Telescope images of the stellar nursery Sgr C, near the galactic center, reveal why it contains fewer stars than expected.
Categories: Astronomy

The utterly beautiful destruction of a planet: Space photo of the day

Space.com - 6 hours 50 min ago
The Helix nebula may point to the ultimate fate of our sun — and Earth.
Categories: Astronomy

Xenolinguistics—the Study of Alien Languages—Helps to Reveal Why All Beings Communicate

Scientific American.com - 7 hours 12 min ago

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself

Categories: Astronomy

A Mission That Could Reach Mercury on Solar Sails Alone

Universe Today - 7 hours 22 min ago

An innovative proposal would be a first for planetary exploration. Turns out, it’s as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing momentum from a launch starting point on Earth. It can take missions several years and planetary flybys before capture and arrival in orbit around Mercury or Venus. Now, a new proposal would see a mission make the trip, using innovative and fuel efficient means.

Categories: Astronomy

We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – and used to power – a moon base of the future
Categories: Astronomy

Trump Staff Cuts Hollow Out Extreme Heat Programs

Scientific American.com - 7 hours 27 min ago

Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blow to the agency's efforts to manage rising temperatures made worse by climate change

Categories: Astronomy

Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future Is Now Uncertain

Scientific American.com - 8 hours 27 min ago

The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened.

Categories: Astronomy

Moon dust may help astronauts power sustainable lunar cities. Here's how.

Space.com - 8 hours 27 min ago
Constructing solar arrays out of moon dust would reduce launch costs and make lunar bases more plausible, according to a new study.
Categories: Astronomy

How a 'mudball' meteorite survived space to land in the jungles of Central America

Space.com - 9 hours 10 min ago
A fall of rare meteorites in Costa Rica has revealed new details about a similar space rock that fell in Australia 50 years earlier.
Categories: Astronomy