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China’s giant Xuntian space telescope faces further delay until late 2026
South China Morning Post· 1 day agoThe leaked slides, which have since been removed from Chinese social media but were independently...
Photo shows collapsed Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, not China's 'Eye of Heaven' telescope
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA photo of a collapsed radio telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory has been shared hundreds...
Galactic Rings of Power: Astronomers Uncover Massive Magnetic Toroids in the Milky Way Halo
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAstrophysicists have discovered large magnetic toroids in the Milky Way’s halo, which impact cosmic...
Cosmic butterfly or interstellar burger? This planet-forming disk is the largest ever seen
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMonch is the lead author of one of two new papers describing the disk. To give a sense of the scale...
A Star Became 1,000 Times Brighter, and Now Astronomers Know Why
Universe Today· 2 days agoThe pair is called FU Orionis (FU Ori), and it’s in the constellation Orion. The sudden and extreme...
Let's Talk About the Ending of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days ago“It’s like the beginning of the next one almost more than the end of this one.” That’s director Wes...
The Strongest Solar Storm in 20 Years Was Mostly Harmless, but We May Not Be So Lucky Next Time
Scientific American· 1 day agoA sufficiently intense bombardment could raise a geomagnetic storm that would push satellites out of...
32 strange places scientists are looking for aliens
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFrom planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places scientists are searching for alien...
Alien 'Dyson sphere' megastructures could surround at least 7 stars in our galaxy, new studies...
LiveScience· 21 hours agoWhile the researchers can not be totally sure that these stars host intelligent civilizations, they...
How Do Lasers Work?
ExtremeTech· 4 days agoHere at ExtremeTech, we're fans of both 1) technology and 2) extremes, and lasers are toward the far end of both spectra. There are many different types of lasers—almost as many as there are ...