5 Truths of Dark Matter

"Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can to breathe life back into it."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/5-truths-dark-matter/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab

Super Earth

"The discovery of a possible “super-Earth” less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an international team including researchers from Penn State."https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/newly-discovered-super-earth-offers-prime-target-search-alien-life

Big Bang

"Everyone is familiar with our universe’s explosive beginnings—things got really hot and really dense until there was a Big Bang."https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/telescope-desert-reached-back-billion-130000877.html

Sagittarius B2

"Sagittarius B2 is the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive and active star forming cloud, producing half of the stars created in the galactic centre region despite having only 10 percent of the area’s star-making material."https://esawebb.org/news/weic2520/?lang

Orion spacecraft

"The Orion spacecraft, which will fly four people around the Moon, arrived inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Thursday night, ready to be stacked on top of its rocket for launch early next year."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/nasas-next-moonship-reaches-last-stop-before-launch-pad/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Brian Cox

"English physicist and science communicator Brian Cox has given some of his thoughts on comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor currently hurtling its way through the Solar System."https://www.iflscience.com/prof-brian-cox-explains-what-he-finds-remarkable-about-interstellar-object-3iatlas-story-81168

Solar Tail

"Astronomers analyzing observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered further unusual features of our third interstellar visitor, and confirmed the presence of a rare "anti-solar tail"."https://www.iflscience.com/anti-tail-and-odd-594-kilometer-feature-found-on-interstellar-object-3iatlas-by-keck-observatory-81188

Where Space Begins

"Space does not begin at a specific altitude above the Earth, but the Kármán line at 100 km is a commonly used definition."https://space-facts.com/

Dark Matter

"Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich tapestry of stars and galaxies we see in the night sky evolved." https://phys.org/news/2025-10-astronomers-lowest-mass-dark-gravitational.html

Lowest mass dark object

"Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe."https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/astronomers-find-mystery-dark-object-distant-universe?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Mass of the Universe

"Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible."https://www.astronomy.com/science/how-is-the-total-mass-of-the-universe-calculated/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Clouds Chambers

"Invented in 1911, cloud chambers like this one were among the first devices used to study high-energy particles called cosmic rays, believed to come from exploding stars called supernovas."https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/cloud-chamber?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Cosmic Rays

"Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe."

https://news.uchicago.edu/explainer/what-are-cosmic-rays?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Map of Universe

"The new map of the Universe’s expansion history released by the DESI Collaboration offers hints at a breakdown of the standard model of cosmology."https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/130

31/ATLAS

"A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path through the galaxy in simulations involving over 13 million stars."https://www.iflscience.com/interstellar-object-3iatlas-may-be-a-10-billion-year-old-time-capsule-from-an-earlier-age-of-the-universe-81077

Computation of volume of Universe

"The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact."https://www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patterns-solve-a-major-physics-riddle-20251006/

Atoms

"Here on planet Earth, everything that we see, feel, or interact with is composed of atoms. There are approximately 90 naturally occurring species of atom that we can find on Earth, and approximately 30 more that we can synthesize under laboratory conditions."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/atom-lost-original-meaning-science/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab

Universal Effect

"When you view anything at all in the Universe, you’re not seeing it precisely as it is right now: at the moment you experience seeing it."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/earth-across-universe/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab

NASA'S plans for the future

"For the past 60+ years, the name NASA has been synonymous with humanity’s vision to dream about horizons far beyond the bounds of our terrestrial worries."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/thousands-nasa-employees-bid-farewell/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab

31/ATLAS

"3I/ATLAS will begin its pass by the Red Planet Wednesday and will be closest on Friday — reaching just over 18.5 million miles away, according to the European Space Agency."https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/world-news/manhattan-sized-interstellar-object-3i-atlas-approaches-mars-as-space-agencies-rush-to-make-observations/