Sunday, September 28, 2025
Object Passing Through Solar System
"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system."https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasa-confirms-interstellar-object-flying-151117238.html
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Space Buddy
"The Earth has a new follower. Astronomers recently discovered a tiny quasi-moon that they believe has been orbiting the sun alongside the Earth for decades."https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/article/meet-earths-new-travel-buddy-a-tiny-quasi-moon-thats-been-following-us-for-decades-205237868.html
Simulation
"Are we living in a simulation? Well, the jury's out on that one. But humans do create simulations all the time."https://www.space.com/astronomy/the-largest-ever-simulation-of-the-universe-has-just-been-released
31/ATLAS
"Astronomers say one of the rarest comets ever observed, the mysterious 3I/ATLAS, likely isn’t alone, and that more mysterious interstellar visitors to our solar system could soon be on the way."https://thedebrief.org/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-is-making-its-way-closer-to-earth-and-new-research-suggests-it-probably-isnt-alone/
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Confirmed Planets
"The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said."https://www.wired.com/story/6000-planets-have-been-found-outside-the-solar-system/
Cluster of space Satellites
"A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and threaten astronauts in flight."https://apnews.com/article/solar-storms-launch-nasa-noaa-e1e76b973123262c15e717bc515ae6f0?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Next Launch February
"Although work remains to be done, the space agency is now pushing toward a launch window that opens on February 5, 2026, officials said during a news conference on Tuesday at Johnson Space Center."https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/nasa-targeting-early-february-for-artemis-ii-mission-to-the-moon/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Aliens
"Aliens? A UC Santa Cruz program called Shadow the Scientists is demystifying those notions."https://laist.com/brief/news/climate-environment/an-interstellar-object-is-passing-through-our-solar-system-this-uc-program-says-to-stay-calm-and-carry-on
Monday, September 22, 2025
Beginning of Universe
"How exactly did the universe start, and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution?"https://scitechdaily.com/new-physics-model-challenges-the-big-bang-story-we-thought-we-knew/
Habitable World
"The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know."https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/science/earth-quasi-moon-asteroid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk8.IQAO.hiR1-r11wkVm&smid=url-share&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Dark Beads James Webb Telescope discovered
"The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered strange "dark beads "above a four-armed star pattern in Saturn's atmosphere."https://www.livescience.com/space/completely-unexplained-james-webb-telescope-finds-strange-dark-beads-in-saturns-atmosphere
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Einstein
"At a glance, it can be easy to imagine that Einstein probably took a fascinating picture in 1905 just from the title."https://www.eldiario24.com/en/physicist-detect-hidden-time-dimension/21521/#google_vignette
Life on Mars
"A recent analysis of the Sapphire Canyon mudstone core, drilled by NASA’s Perseverance rover in July 2024, adds new evidence to the ongoing search for life on Mars."https://www.earth.com/news/nasa-announces-discovery-of-life-on-mars-with-high-degree-of-confidence/#google_vignette
Cosmic Scale
"Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet."https://gizmodo.com/dead-star-caught-snacking-on-pluto-like-object-2000661468?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-09-21-pm
Asteroid 2024
"Asteroid 2024 YR4 garnered global attention last year when astronomers estimated it could hit Earth in 2032."https://gizmodo.com/an-asteroid-could-smash-into-the-moon-in-2032-heres-why-we-should-destroy-it-2000661550?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-09-21-pm
Teleportation
"The topic of teleportation is a joy for the avid sci-fi enthusiast."https://www.eldiario24.com/en/supercomputers-teleportation-success/21600/
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Perseverance found something astonishing
"While sampling ancient, dry riverbed rocks on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover found something astonishing."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/organics-mars-means-for-life/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab
111 Tauri
"111 Tauri is a wide binary star[5] system in the constellation Taurus. It is located at a distance of 48 light years from the Sun."https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Tauri
Quantum Entanglement
"The concept of quantum entanglement is emblematic of the gap between classical and quantum physics."
https://charmingscience.com/new-quantum-breakthrough-could-transform-teleportation-and-computing/?fbclid=IwY2xjawM748pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsJU0Kgm9AeNroVRGKZtDozBcAxEEziDO4cgBboJNulaGElxEI8wY0eLJteC_aem_b6G_Ndebh8Rv5zwBSnl4OQ
Growing Black Hole
"A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers."https://phys.org/news/2025-09-chandra-black-hole-eddington-limit.html#google_vignette
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Geneva Neptunian Desert
"An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics, has launched an ambitious program to map exoplanets located around the Neptunian Desert."https://phys.org/news/2025-09-exo-neptunes-toi-planetary-reveals.html#google_vignette
Quantum Fun
"This is what fun looks like for a particular set of theoretical chemists driven to solve extremely difficult problems: Deciding whether the electromagnetic fields in molecular polaritons should be treated classically or quantum mechanically."https://phys.org/news/2025-09-principles-simulations-reveal-quantum-entanglement.html#google_vignette
Artemis
"With about two-and-a-half years to go until a planned crewed-mission to the moon, NASA is still deciding which company will receive a greenlight to build the Artemis program’s lunar terrain vehicle (LTV)."https://www.popsci.com/technology/nasa-lunar-rover-tire-contest/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Cosmic Noon
"The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems."https://phys.org/news/2025-09-spacecraft-explore-3iatlas-cosmic-noon.html
Deep Space Communications
"NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth at distances comparable to Mars."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-deep-space-communications-demo-exceeds-project-expectations/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=dsoc20250918
City size Spacecraft
"A spacecraft the size of a small city could one day ferry generations of humans across the void to Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, according to a detailed concept design released this summer."https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/no-way-back-meet-chrysalis-the-36-mile-starship-designed-to-carry-1000-humans-away-from-earth-forever/
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Exoplanets
"The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tally-of-planets-outside-our-solar-system-reaches-6000/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=exoplanets20250917
Time
"Few ideas in modern science have changed how we understand reality as deeply as space-time, the intertwined union of space and time at the core of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity."https://scitechdaily.com/does-space-time-really-exist/
Monday, September 15, 2025
The Sun
"The Sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-analysis-shows-suns-activity-ramping-up/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=sun20250915
Star Trek Replicators
"The problem with turning the matter-out-of-nowhere theory into Star Trek replicators or transporters?"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250913232932.htm#google_vignette
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Quantum Materials
"Quantum materials contain relativistic particles called Dirac electrons governing unique physical properties."https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250912195124.htm#google_vignette
Spotted Black Hole
"New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based telescope to spot an exploding black hole."https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/scientists-say-theres-a-90-percent-chance-we-could-spot-an-exploding-black-hole-in-the-next-decade
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Chinese Asteroid
"Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid traveling at 40,000 miles per hour (64,373 kilometers per hour) struck Earth, crashing into the Atlantic Ocean near the modern-day town of Cape Charles, Virginia."https://gizmodo.com/evidence-of-ancient-asteroid-impact-and-tsunami-found-in-north-carolina-2000657598?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-09-13-pm
Black Hole Merger
"On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes."https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5537131/ligo-10-years-black-holes-hawking-theory-confirmed
Quantum Entanglement
"The concept of quantum entanglement is emblematic of the gap between classical and quantum physics."https://phys.org/news/2025-09-quantum-state-trio-entangled-photons.html#google_vignette
Friday, September 12, 2025
Quantum Algorithm
"Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers."https://interestingengineering.com/science/century-old-math-problem-quantum-solution
Behavior of Matter
"From matter’s behavior, measuring stars and galaxies reveals their normal matter contents."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/galaxy-cluster-broke-modified-gravity/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Apophis
"When the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis makes its breathtakingly close flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029, more than 2 billion people across Africa and Western Europe will be able to watch it drift across the night sky."https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/apophis-flyby-in-2029-will-be-the-first-time-a-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-has-been-visible-to-the-naked-eye
Ancient life plot thickens
"Since February 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring a region on Mars known as Jezero Crater, a huge cavity believed to have once hosted a lake."https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/did-nasas-perseverance-rover-find-evidence-of-ancient-red-planet-life-the-plot-thickens?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Laboratory controlled conditions
"When it comes to finding out about the Universe in a scientific fashion, most of us think about performing experiments here on Earth under laboratory controlled conditions."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/spherex-jwst-comet-3i-atlas/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Sample collected by NASA’S Mars Rover
"A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life."
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Cosmic Traffic
With all the talk about a new space age and new programs in space, you never hear about traffic lights in space. You never even see them in sci-fi films or books. Would there be the same laws as on a terrestrial highway?
#BeNoteWorthy
#piccadillyinc
Monday, September 8, 2025
Delayed Liftoff
"Liftoff of the 10th fully integrated Starship from SpaceX’s Starbase facility at Boca Chica Beach, in Texas, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT / 2330 UTC on Sunday, Aug. 24."https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/08/24/live-coverage-spacex-gets-ready-for-crucial-10th-test-flight-of-starship/?user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
31/ATLAS
"We already knew that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was different from the other two interstellar objects known to have traversed the Solar System, but a slew of new observations suggest it may be even weirder than the weirder that it was."https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/4-powerful-telescopes-agree-interstellar-025023118.html
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Tonight's Lunar Eclipse
"Much of the world will get to witness the spectacle of a total lunar eclipse on Sunday night."https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-full-moon-lunar-eclipse-tonight-2000655078?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-09-07-pm
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
"Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli ForMemRS HFRSE (/ˌskæpəˈrɛli, ˌʃæp-/ SKAP-ə-REL-ee, SHAP-,[2][3] US also /skiˌɑːp-/ skee-AHP-,[3][4] Italian: [dʒoˈvanni virˈdʒiːnjo skjapaˈrɛlli]; 14 March 1835 – 4 July 1910) was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Schiaparelli established the Martian system of nomenclature still in use today; before him, features of the planet bore the names of contemporary astronomers, similar to the lunar map of van Langren that preceded that of Hevelius.[5]"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Schiaparelli
31/ATLAS
"Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb are calling for NASA to monitor the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it passes the sun on Halloween Eve to ensure it does not drop off “mini probes” that could invade Earth."https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/world-news/interstellar-object-3i-atlas-could-release-mini-probes-that-will-appear-as-uaps-experts-warn/
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Quantum Matter
"Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have identified a previously unknown state of quantum matter."https://scitechdaily.com/its-its-own-new-thing-scientists-discover-new-state-of-quantum-matter/
Supermassive blackhole
"A tiny blob of red light spotted at the beginning of the Universe could represent the first direct evidence for a supermassive black hole formation pathway."https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-may-have-found-the-first-direct-evidence-of-a-primordial-black-hole
31/ATLAS
"Astronomers have captured a stunning image of a tail growing on interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS. The image was captured on Aug. 27, 2025, by a team of scientists and students using the Gemini South telescope located on Cerro Pachón in Chile."https://www.space.com/astronomy/scientists-capture-interstellar-invader-comet-3i-atlas-growing-a-tail-this-image-is-both-a-scientific-milestone-and-a-source-of-wonder-photo-video
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Quantum Hardware
"Researchers have demonstrated a new fabrication approach that enables the exploration of a broader range of superconducting materials for quantum hardware."https://phys.org/news/2025-09-fabrication-technique-door-materials-quantum.html#google_vignette
Gravitational Waves
"Using gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, astronomers have discovered that a "stellar graveyard" is packed with mergers between extreme stellar remnants like black holes and neutron stars, created when massive stars die in supernova explosions."https://www.space.com/astronomy/gravitational-waves-reveal-stellar-graveyard-packed-with-neutron-star-and-black-hole-mergers
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Titan
"Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface."https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250831112449.htm#google_vignette
Astronomers
"According to astronomers, water worlds, though admittedly not those containing Kevin Costner, are one of the most common types of planets in our solar system."https://phys.org/news/2025-09-soot-planets-common-worlds.html
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Quantum Tunneling
"In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon called quantum tunneling."https://charmingscience.com/something-from-nothing-physicists-model-vacuum-tunneling-in-a-2d-superfluid/
31/ATLAS
"Few cosmic visitors have captured the fascination of astronomers quite like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS."https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/i-watched-scientists-view-the-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-in-real-time-heres-what-they-saw
Inside of Mars
"The inside of Mars isn't smooth and uniform like familiar textbook illustrations."https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267873/marss-interior-more-like-rocky-road/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Gemstones in Space
"Scientists found both gemstone-like silicates and smoky grains, along with life-linked carbon structures appearing in unexpected places."https://scitechdaily.com/webb-telescope-spots-sparkling-crystals-and-lifes-ingredients-in-the-butterfly-nebula/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Time
"Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist."
https://charmingscience.com/new-theory-proposes-time-has-three-dimensions-with-space-as-a-secondary-effect/
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