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Nearly a millennium ago sky-watchers recorded a new star so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks, and Hubble has now traced how far its remnant, the Crab Nebula, has expanded since " a thousand-year-old explosion still visibly unfolding
31+ min ago (193+ words) In July 1054, court astronomers in China recorded a new "guest star" near Tianguan, the star we now call Zeta Tauri. It was bright enough to be seen in...
Claims for a Multiverse Violate Basic Logic
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (612+ words) In recent decades, it has become clear that our universe shows much evidence of design. Many physicists are uncomfortable with that idea. They prefer multiverse theory: our universe is just a blip in a vast sea of universes. It happens…...
Astronomers discover unexplained spin pattern in early galaxies
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (350+ words) Lior Shamir, an associate professor of computer science at Kansas State University, analyzed images of 263 early galaxies captured through the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey. Shamir used quantitative shape analysis to determine the rotation of each galaxy. The data revealed…...
James Webb has caught at least five galaxies colliding about 800 million years after the Big Bang, flinging heavy elements out into space far earlier than any model predicted " evidence the early universe was already messy and mature when it should still have been simple
5+ hour, 31+ min ago (758+ words) Published July 11, 2026 A galaxy merger found by the James Webb Space Telescope has made the early universe look less orderly than the standard picture suggests. JWST's Quintet sits in a patch of sky only about 4. 5 arcseconds by 4. 5 arcseconds across, corresponding…...
Astronomers have found 31 of the oldest known quasars burning so soon after the Big Bang that current models struggle to explain how their black holes grew massive enough to power them in the time available
5+ hour, 31+ min ago (101+ words) Euclid was built mainly to map the large-scale universe. Barely into its survey, it has already changed the census of some of the earliest known quasars....
NASA Shares Image Of Merging Galaxy Clusters Helping Decode Dark Matter
14+ hour, 13+ min ago (225+ words) NASA has shared an image from the Hubble Space Telescope showing a massive galaxy cluster that is helping scientists better understand dark matter and the structure of the universe, reported NASA. The image features a galaxy cluster called CL0016+1609, also known…...
Scientists Solve Mystery of Bizarre "Alien Megastructure" Star
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (722+ words) Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that busted their butts, scaled great heights, got it right, and discovered a new world. First, Hannibal marched an army of men, horses, and elephants over the Alps to…...
Curious Kids: Can you make a black hole in a laboratory?
7+ hour, 33+ min ago (626+ words) Can anyone make a black hole in a laboratory? " Sohini B. , age 13, Kolkata, West Bengal, India A black hole is an object so massive and dense that even light cannot escape its gravity. They occur in space when extremely dense objects,…...
Radio observations reveal once hidden structures around the Orion Nebula
10+ hour, 10+ min ago (767+ words) New radio maps of the Orion Nebula reveal unknown expanding shells and cavities, while cutting the estimated mass of its surrounding shell nearly tenfold. (CREDIT: Juan D. Soler, University of Vienna, with data from the NRAO's Jansky VLA and NASA's Wide-field…...
24, 000 Cold Atoms Model "Mini Universe" Without A Ticking Clock
13+ hour, 31+ min ago (651+ words) We've seen the rise of AI over the last few short years with the rise of the LLM and companies such as Open AI with its Chat GPT service. Ivy has been working with Neural Networks, Machine Learning and AI…...