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Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A: Cool Images of Hot Gas 0 (0)

Webb’s high-resolution cameras are showing details that scientists have never seen before. That’s what I started talking about this week.

But the Cassiopeia A supernova’s underwhelming appearance, or maybe non-appearance, reminded me of famines, coffeehouses, and other malign menaces. Continue reading

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Sednoids, Rewinding the Solar System in a Simulation  0 (0)

Sedna and Sednoids aren’t this month’s only science news. But I saw two exciting, for me, developments; and that’s what I started talking about last week. This week I’ll wrap up most of what I was going to say about … Continue reading

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Tokamak at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy Shut Down 0 (0)

“UK’s nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years“Esme Stallard, BBC News (October 13, 2023) “‘It felt brilliant. One thing is to work on a design, another thing is to operate it.’ “Barry Green recounts the moment in June 1983 … Continue reading

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Double Jupiters, a JuMBO Puzzle; Antimatter Falls Down 0 (0)

Every time we develop new tech for studying this universe, we find something new. New to us, that is. This week, I’ll be talking about unexpected Jupiter-size objects in the Orion Nebula, and why scientists at CERN dropped a few … Continue reading

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UAPs/UFOs: Collect Data, THEN Draw Conclusions 0 (0)

…NASA’s new UAP report, attitudes, assumptions; and, finally, … the legacy of “Killers from Space”…. Continue reading

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