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Sednoids, Rewinding the Solar System in a Simulation 

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

“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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Sednoids and the Mysterious Missing Planet X

As I’ve said before, this isn’t the world I grew up in. Back then, the Solar System had nine planets, assorted moons, and asteroids. Plus, of course, the sun. Now we’ve got planets, dwarf planets, minor planets, natural satellites, trans-Neptunian … Continue reading

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Double Jupiters, a JuMBO Puzzle; Antimatter Falls Down

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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Unidentified Phenomena, Being Human, Taking Reality As-Is

NASA’s “UAP Independent Study Team Report” used the words stigma, destigmatize, or destigmatizing about a dozen times. At 31 mostly-text pages, that works out to one of those words every two and a half pages. That’s nowhere near the frequency … Continue reading

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