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Ranking six NFL head coaching openings, excluding Baltimore https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6948073/2026/01/06/ranking-six-nfl-head-coaching-openings-titans-giants-raiders/

The fourth #AAS247 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmP4fC07-Q about The Milky Way and Stellar Explosions covered the paper Resolving the Fe K-alpha Doublet of the Galactic Center Molecular Cloud G0.11-0.11 with XRISM (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02482), 25 years of observing the Kepler supernova remnant with Chandra (https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/kepler/ and https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_010626.html and https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/supernova-remnant-video-from-nasas-chandra-is-decades-in-making/) and the paper Where do stars explode in the ISM? -- The distribution of dense gas around evolved massive stars in M33 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17694 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/stars-that-die-off-the-beaten-path/).

"a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles."
"Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles ... When compared to human drivers on the same roads, Waymo’s self-driving cars were involved in 91 percent fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 80 percent fewer crashes causing any injury. It showed a 96 percent lower rate of injury-causing crashes at intersections...deadliest I encounter in the trauma bay.&q…

A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object: #FreeFloatingPlanets – lonely wanderers in the Milky Way: https://en.uw.edu.pl/free-floating-planets-lonely-wanderers-in-the-milky-way/

"Everything but the kitchen sink: how to get rid of cooking oils and liquid waste without pouring them down the drain"
#FoodWaste #Environment

GMIMS-DRAGONS: A Faraday Depth Survey of the Northern Sky Covering 350–1030 MHz / A Three-dimensional Model for the Reversal in the Local Large-scale #Interstellar Magnetic Field: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae2471 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae28d1 -> New map of the Milky Way’s magnetism offers insights into cosmic evolution / Two new studies reveal structural complexity in the galaxy: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2026/01/29/new-map-of-the-milky-ways-magnetism-offers-insights-into-cosmic-evolution/ / https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/mapping-magnetic-field-milky-way

There have been numerous disgustingly fake 'nightscape' composites flooding the web where someone had merely pasted a deep astronomical image of comet C/2026 A6 #Lemmon into some landscape, making it look like it was a giant rivalling Ikeya-Seki oder West - oh, how I hated that. And what a relief that NOIRLab has now posted - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2549a/ - this beautiful and apparently unmanipulated picture of Lemmon over Mauna Kea on 12 November. Yes, it reached 3 point something mag. and had nice tails in the end but it was not a great comet by any means: just look how small and faint it appears next to the southern Milky Way!

The mass distribution in and around the Local Group: #MilkyWay is embedded in a ‘large-scale sheet’ and this explains the motions of nearby galaxies: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/a-flat-surrounding-of-the-milky-way-explains-the-motion-of-nearby-galaxies-4796

On the Use of Field RR Lyrae as Galactic Probes -- Early Formation of the Galactic Spheroid: #MilkyWay: http://www.inaf.it/en/inaf-news/rr-lyrae-beacons-to-investigate-early-formation-milky-way

Resolved Mass Assembly and Star Formation in #MilkyWay Progenitors since z = 5 from JWST/CANUCS - From Clumps and Mergers to Well-ordered Disks: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0ffe -> Canadian astronomers use Webb to uncover Milky Way’s turbulent youth through galactic twins: https://www.yorku.ca/news/2025/12/18/canadian-astronomers-use-webb-to-uncover-milky-ways-turbulent-youth-through-galactic-twins/