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NASA satellites show surge in Indonesia hotspots as 2025 fires send smoke to Malaysia https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/nasa-satellites-show-surge-in-indonesia-hotspots-as-2025-fires-send-smoke-to-malaysia/

NASA satellites show surge in Indonesia hotspots as 2025 fires send smoke to Malaysia
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s 2025 fire season is spiraling into one of the worst in recent memory, with a sharp spike in hotspots and toxic haze already choking parts of Malaysia. Forest and peat fires, mostly caused by deliberate land clearing for agriculture, are an annual problem in Indonesia that strain relations with neighboring countries. July […]

Diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emission from the Milky Way and the local knee in the cosmic ray spectrum
C. Prevotat, Zh. Zhu, S. Koldobskiy, A. Neronov, D. Semikoz, M. Ahlers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10823

Diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emission from the Milky Way and the local knee in the cosmic ray spectrum
The LHAASO observatory has recently measured details of the cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum in the knee region (1 -- 10 PeV) with unprecedented precision, including its average CR mass composition and the spectrum of the proton component. We use these precision measurements, combined with direct measurements of CRs by space-based detectors, to derive predictions for the spectrum of diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emission from the interstellar medium under the assumption that the CR spectrum is univers…

The presentations at the 2nd #AAS246 presser were about the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc911 (Discovery of the Seven-ring Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cyanocoronene (C24H11CN) in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1, also https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-chemistry-breakthrough-largest-aromatic-molecule-found-in-deep-space/), https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05575 (A map of the outer gas disk of the Galaxy with direct distances from young stars, also https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-researcher-unveils-new-map-of-milky-way-galaxy-in-atomic-hydrogen-revealing-its-clumped-flocculent-nature-for-first-time) and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbbd9 (Surveying the Giant H ii Regions of the Milky Way with SOFIA. VII. Galactic Center Regions Sgr B1, Sgr B2, and Sgr C, also https://www.seti.org/press-release/unusual-stellar-nurseries-near-our-galaxys-center-puzzle-scientists) plus two results with apparently neither papers nor press releases going with them.

Chemical templates of the Central Molecular Zone. Shock and protostellar object signatures under Galactic Center conditions
Katarzyna M. Dutkowska, Gijs Vermari\"en, Serena Viti, Izaskun Jim\'enez-Serra, Laura Colzi, Laura A. Busch, V\'ictor M. Rivilla, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Sergio Mart\'in, Christian Henkel, Pablo Garc\'ia, Xing Lu, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Jairo Armijos-Abenda\~no, Yue Hu, J\"urgen Ott, Kai Smith, Fengwei Xu, Shaoshan Zeng, \'Alvaro S\…

Chemical templates of the Central Molecular Zone. Shock and protostellar object signatures under Galactic Center conditions
(Abridged) The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way exhibits extreme conditions, including high gas densities, elevated temperatures, enhanced cosmic-ray ionization rates, and large-scale dynamics. Large-scale molecular surveys reveal increasing chemical and physical complexity in the CMZ. A key step to interpreting the molecular richness found in the CMZ is to build chemical templates tailored to its diverse conditions. The combined impact of high ionization, elevated temperatures, an…

I guess the US Army can't defend itself and needs a fence to protect its tanks from the public that paid for those tanks.
"DC prepares for Trump’s military parade with 18 miles of fencing and 175 magnetometers"
I guess this is a second TACO - The Army Chickens Out.

DC prepares for Trump's June 14 military parade
As Washington, D.C., cleans up from the weekend’s culmination of World Pride, the capital city’s focus now shifts straight into a very different mass event — the June 14 military parade to honor the 250th birthday of the army and the 79th birthday of President Donald Trump. Army officials have estimated around 200,000 attendees for the evening military parade. More than 18 miles of security fencing will be erected and 175 magnetometers will be deployed at security checkpoints for the birt…

Teddy Bridgewater addresses suspension from coaching high school players: 'I was just trying to protect them'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/t…

A New High-latitude H I Cloud Complex Entrained in the Northern Fermi Bubble: #FermiBubbles, revealing the Milky Way’s most extreme outflows are younger and more complex than ever imagined.

Second #AAS246 presser beginning on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjSZu9ob8Q - the topic is "From Molecules to Molecular Clouds: Discoveries in the Milky Way", the topics are listed in https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Mon_pm

Introduction to the China Space Station Telescope (CSST): #CSST is equipped with five scientific instruments [and] is expected to make significant contributions and discoveries across various astronomical fields, including cosmology, galaxy and active galactic nuclei (AGN), the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, stars, exoplanets, Solar System objects, astrometry, and transients and variable sources. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the CSST instruments, observational capabilities, data products, and scientific potential."

#COZMIC - Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Initial Conditions Beyond Cold Dark Matter / Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Fractional non-CDM Initial Conditions / Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations of Self-interacting Dark Matter with Suppressed Initial Conditions: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adceef / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adce83 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adce82 -> Scientists code Milky Way twin galaxies to better understand dark matter: https://today.usc.edu/scientists-code-milky-way-twin-galaxies-to-better-understand-dark-matter - USC researchers led the development of a computer simulation that gives astrophysicists a mechanism for testing ideas about dark matter and its behavior in the Milky Way and other galaxies.