With the first #AAS246 presser "Cosmic Accelerators and Active Black Holes" came the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb7e0 (Discovery of a Pulsar Wind Nebula Candidate Associated with the Galactic PeVatron 1LHAASO J0343 5254u) &
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adccb9 (Swift-XRT Observations and Upper Limits at Five LHAASO Galactic Sources) with the press release https://natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/2025-06-where-did-cosmic-rays-come-from.aspx, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adccc1 (Radial Profiles of Radio Halos in Massive Galaxy Clusters: Diffuse Giants Over 2 Mpc) etc. with the press release https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/record-breaking-cosmic-structure-discovered-colossal-galaxy-cluster and https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09676 (Investigating the Emission Mechanism in the Spatially Resolved Jets of Two z ≈ 3 Radio-loud Quasars) with the press releases https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/j1610/ and https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-chandra-sees-surprisingly-strong-black-hole-jet-at-cosmic-noon/ and the abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025AAS...24520421S/abstract (NIRCam imaging of NGC 4258).
Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links (Roman Anin/OCCRP)
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-t…
UK regulator investigates possible online safety breaches at 4chan and other platforms
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/uk-regulator-investigates-possible-online-safety-breaches-4chan-othe…
YouTube releases its 2024 US Impact Report, which says YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed $55B to US GDP in 2024 and supported 490K full-time jobs (Alexandra Veitch/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/2024-us-youtube-impact-re…
Invisible Illusion – Curse Of Knowledge
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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.
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform, adding a separate inbox for DMs (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684120/threads-direct…
With the #AAS246 presser number 3 came the press releases https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-018 (Moons of Uranus Surprise Scientists in NASA Hubble Study) and https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-125 (Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA's Webb) and the paper "Silicate clouds and a circumplanetary disk in the YSES-1 exoplanet system" already covered in https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/114660217108691128 with the press release https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/top-stories/featured/silicate-clouds-discovered-in-atmosphere-of-distant-exoplanet/ (Silicate clouds discovered in atmosphere of distant exoplanet).
With the 4th #AAS246 press conference come the press releases #PUNCH and #CODEX sitting on the ISS. While the corona shape predictions for the 2024 total solar eclipse were published in https://www.predsci.com/corona/apr2024eclipse/home.php