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One potential first-time Pro Bowler from each NFC team heading into the 2025 NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/one-potential-first-time-pro-bowler-from-each-nfc-team-heading-into-the-2025-nfl-season

Meet Camille Sturdivant: Star of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Netflix doc https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/camille-sturdivant-star-dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-netflix-photos-bio

Watchdogs say fraudsters are extorting small businesses for hundreds of dollars each by posting or threatening to post phony one-star reviews on Google Maps (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/…

Small Businesses Face a New Threat: Pay Up or Be Flooded With Bad Reviews
Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they’re asked to pay up.

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
VILA: [On communicator] Avon.
AVON: Well?
VILA: [On communicator] There's no response. What's going on, where are they?
AVON: Inside. It must be shielded.
VILA: [On communicator] Do you want to come up?
AVON: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/285

Cowboys WRs to benefit from brutal injury to Chicago Bears star CB https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-wrs-to-benefit-from-brutal-injury-chicago-bears-star-cb

GW231109_235456: A Sub-threshold Binary Neutron Star Merger in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4a Observing Run?
Wanting Niu, Chad Hanna, Carl-Johan Haster, Shomik Adhicary, Pratyusava Baral, Amanda Baylor, Bryce Cousins, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Heather Fong, Yun-Jing Huang, Rachael Huxford, Prathamesh Joshi, James Kennington, Alvin K. Y. Li, Ryan Magee, Duncan Meacher, Cody Messick, Soichiro Morisaki, Cort Posnansky, Surabhi Sachdev, Shio Sakon, Urja Shah, Divya Singh, Ron Tapia, Leo Tsukada, A…

GW231109_235456: A Sub-threshold Binary Neutron Star Merger in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4a Observing Run?
We present a sub-threshold search for gravitational-wave inspirals from binary neutron stars using data from the first part of the fourth observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. To enhance sensitivity to this targeted population, we incorporate a redshift-corrected population model based on radio observations of Galactic double neutron star systems. The search identifies a significant trigger with a false-alarm rate of about one per 50 years and a network signal-to-noise ratio of 9…

Assembling GW231123 in star clusters through the combination of stellar binary evolution and hierarchical mergers
Lavinia Paiella, Cristiano Ugolini, Mario Spera, Marica Branchesi, Manuel Arca Sedda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10609

Assembling GW231123 in star clusters through the combination of stellar binary evolution and hierarchical mergers
GW231123 is the most massive binary black hole (BBH) merger detected to date by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. With at least one black hole (BH) in the upper-mass gap and both BHs exhibiting high spins ($χ_{1,2} \gtrsim 0.8$), this event challenges standard isolated binary evolution models. A compelling alternative is a dynamical origin in star clusters, where stellar binaries and hierarchical mergers may both contribute to the formation of similar BBHs. In this work, we investigate the f…

The Curious Case of V CVn
Michael T. Power, Hilding R. Neilson, Galina Sherren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11672 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11672

The Curious Case of V CVn
Decades of observations on the star V Canum Venaticorum (V CVn) have revealed an unusual inverse relationship between its linear polarization and light curves (sometimes with a lead/lag time between them) and an almost constant polarization position angle. One theory proposed to explain this behaviour is the existence of a bow shock driven by a spherically symmetric time-varying dusty wind from the star, which is assumed to vary due to radial pulsations. To test this hypothesis, this study uses…

Our wonderful dog, Izzy (the brown and white dog) was taken to a shelter in March 2020 with four very young puppies. One, Star (the black and white dog), lives nearby and he and his human often stop by on their walks. Even after 5 1/2 years, Izzy gets more excited to see Star than any other dog or person, except maybe me. #MonDog

Raiders urged to poach Seahawks star with 1 Pro Bowl selection in 2026 NFL free agency https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-urged-poach-seahawks-star-pro-bowl-2026-nfl-…

Evidence for an Instability-induced Binary Merger in the Double-peaked, Helium-rich Type IIn #Supernova 2023zkd: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adea38 -> AI Helps Astronomers Discover a New Type of Supernova: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/ai-helps-astronomers-discover-new-type-supernova - astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole, offering an explanation for one of the strangest supernovae ever seen.

I know Star Wars is often kinda dumb. The movies are plot-holey and often kinda bad.
But seeing the first one with my almost 6 year old and playing Lego Star Wars with him is something special. Like the joy he feels seeing those characters do their weird shit, the way he really gets into thinking about the stories and why people do what and who they might have also talked to is just ... the best. I'm actually looking forward to watching even the prequels with him.

Characterizing planetary systems with SPIRou: questions about the magnetic cycle of 55 Cnc A and two new planets around B
C. Moutou, P. Petit, P. Charpentier, P. Cristofari, C. Baruteau, P. Th\'ebault, L. Arnold, E. Artigau, A. Carmona, N. J. Cook, F. Debras, X. Delfosse, J. -F. Donati, L. Malo, M. Ould-Elhkim
https://arxiv.org/abs/251…

Characterizing planetary systems with SPIRou: questions about the magnetic cycle of 55 Cnc A and two new planets around B
One of the first exoplanet hosts discovered thirty years ago, the star 55 Cnc has been constantly observed ever since. It is now known to host at least five planets with orbital periods ranging from 17 hours to 15 years. It is also one of the most extreme metal rich stars in the neighbourhood and it has a low-mass secondary star. In this article, we present data obtained at the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope with the SPIRou spectropolarimeter on both components of the 55 Cnc stellar system. We…

Challenging a binary neutron star merger interpretation of GW230529
Ivan Markin, Anna Puecher, Mattia Bulla, Tim Dietrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08750 https://

Challenging a binary neutron star merger interpretation of GW230529
GW230529_181500 represented the first gravitational-wave detection with one of the component objects' mass inferred to lie in the previously hypothesized mass gap between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest observed black holes. Given the expected maximum mass values for neutron stars, this object was identified as a black hole, and, with the secondary component being a neutron star, the detection was classified as a neutron star-black hole merger. However, due to the low signal-to-nois…

A 2821 Star Optical SETI Survey using ESO HARPS archival data
Benjamin Fields, Jason C. Goodman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08628 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

A 2821 Star Optical SETI Survey using ESO HARPS archival data
We examined archived observations of 2,821 stars taken by the high-resolution ESO HARPS spectrograph to search for potential narrow-band laser emissions from extraterrestrial sources. From one observation of each star, our search algorithm identified a total of 285 spectral peaks with line widths slightly larger than the instrument's point-spread function. After eliminating false positives (including cosmic rays, instrumental artifacts, and terrestrial airglow lines, we identified 8 sources wor…

Raiders’ Brock Bowers Gets Blunt Words From Rob Gronkowski https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brock-bowers-blunt-words-rob-gronkowski/?adt_ei=[email]

Investigating Phosphorus Abundances in a Sample of APOGEE-2 Bulge Globular Clusters
Beatriz Barbuy, Jos\'e G. Fern\'andez-Trincado, Morgan S. Camargo, Doug Geisler, Maren Brauner, Sandro Villanova, Dante Minniti, Domingo Anibal Garc\'ia-Hern\'andez, Stefano O. Souza, Heitor Ernandes, Am\^ancio Fria\c{c}a, Marco Pignatari
https://

Investigating Phosphorus Abundances in a Sample of APOGEE-2 Bulge Globular Clusters
Phosphorus enhanced (P-rich; [P/Fe] > 0.8) giants have been found among mildly metal-poor fiels stars, but in only one star in a globular cluster (GC), M4 (NGC 6121). Also, in a sample of bulge spheroid stars, some of them showed a moderate P-enhancement in the range +0.5 < [P/Fe] < +1.0. In this paper we derive the P abundance of moderately metal-poor ([Fe/H] ~-1) GC stars, aiming to check if the phenomenon could be related to the unusual multiple stellar populations found in most GCs. Here we…

I did an event yesterday where I sold some of my prints and illustrations. A couple was really excited when they saw this one!
As they walked away from my table I heard one say "Iron Giant!" and I uh, well... I really hope it's not a gift for a Star Wars fan!
#art #illustration

Formation of Cosmic Noon Protogalaxies via Quasar-Induced Fragmentation of a Cosmic Filament
Marko Mi\'ci\'c, Themiya Nanayakkara, Xinyu Dai, Jeremy Bailin, Miljan Kol\v{c}i\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10670

Formation of Cosmic Noon Protogalaxies via Quasar-Induced Fragmentation of a Cosmic Filament
When black hole jets encounter ambient medium, they can compress the gas, trigger star formation, and create stellar clusters containing tens of thousands of stars. Here, we report a remarkable discovery of such a phenomenon that happened just 2.2 billion years after the Big Bang, during the Cosmic Noon era. Quasar SDSSJ141924.44+532315.5, powered by a one-billion-solar-mass black hole, is seen blasting a powerful jet that interacts with a hypermassive gas reservoir, creating a fascinating, clu…

Meet Packers' Tucker Kraft, the NFL's next star tight end: 'He's one of the best' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6622435/2025/09/12/tucker-kraft-tight-end-packers-commanders/

Behavior of passive polymeric tracers of different topologies in a dilute bath of active Brownian particles
Ramanand Singh Yadav, Ralf Metzler, Rajarshi Chakrabarti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11337

Behavior of passive polymeric tracers of different topologies in a dilute bath of active Brownian particles
Using computer simulations in two dimensions we investigate the dynamics and structure of passive polymeric tracer with different topologies immersed in a low-density active particle bath. One of the key observations is that polymer exhibit faster dynamics compared to passive colloidal particles at high activity, for the same particle density, in both linear and star polymer topologies. This enhanced motion is attributed to the accumulation of active particles, which induces prolonged and persi…

The elevator puzzle in Star Wars: Dark Forces is one of the best examples of why retro games are still fun to play.

So, we came early to the #baseball game for the Chipper Jones Bobblehead. We were successful, but we'll see how the game looks come the 6:05pm start time. The game is Stripers vs Durham Bulls.
#milb

“Hey everybody! I’m gathering all our most senior military commanders of the US military in one place at one time, so don’t, like ya know, bomb this one place or anything at 38.979896 North and 77.422607 West at about 10:30 in the morning on Tuesday. Thanks!”
https://

Hegseth abruptly summons top military commanders to meeting next week
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals and admirals to a base in northern Virginia for a sudden meeting next week. The directive doesn't offer a reason for the gathering Tuesday of senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their top advisers. Confirmation comes from three people familiar with the matter who weren't authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive plans and spoke on condition of anonymity. The Pentagon’s top spokesman confirms that Hegseth “w…

Streaming Star Wars: The Old Republic from my Linux PC tonight. My character is on the Dark Side, but the power of the open-source community is with me. #SWTOR #LinuxGaming #TheOldRepublic

I haven't seen quite a few #StarWars scenes here! Really amazing... especially the Mon Mothma/Organa discussion... & that one Hoth scene. 😜
▶️ The Unseen Star Wars Footage That Would Change Everything
https://

I've been trimming subscriptions recently.
Disney cancelled (Just before the Kimmel stuff)
Paramount cancelled (Until a new Star Trek season starts)
XBox Game Pass Ultimate because WTF were they thinking with the 50% increase?!... reduced to Essentials.
Apple One reduced to Apple Music and iCloud Family only
Fortnite Crew cancelled
I imagine the next company subscription I cancel will be the next one to do something stupid 😅
#SubscriptionHell #Subscriptions

Dallas Cowboys' defensive star misses Wednesday practice with injury https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-defensive-star-misses-wednesday-practice-with-injury

Two irrationally elliptic closed orbits of Reeb flows on the boundary of star-shaped domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$
Xiaorui Li, Hui Liu, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06597 h…

Two irrationally elliptic closed orbits of Reeb flows on the boundary of star-shaped domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$
There are two long-standing conjectures in Hamiltonian dynamics concerning Reeb flows on the boundaries of star-shaped domains in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ ($n \geq 2$). One conjecture states that such a Reeb flow possesses either $n$ or infinitely many prime closed orbits; the other states that all the closed Reeb orbits are irrationally elliptic when the domain is convex and the flow possesses finitely many prime closed orbits. In this paper, we prove that for dynamically convex Reeb flow on the boun…

⭐ A Star Of The Bytes ⭐
#screenshot #emoji #bytes #star

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
STOT: Why do we still retain it? The woman Lurena has escaped. It's just a precaution. May I ask you an impertinent question?
BLAKE: If you don't mind an impertinent answer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/406 B7B6

Our spotlight this week lands on a track from the debut album of '70s power pop trailblazers Big Star ... melodic, timeless, and criminally overlooked.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the track and the legendary band behind it. And don't forget to follow us for your weekly dose of #rock and #metal

Big Star - The Ballad of El Goodo
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Dallas Cowboys' defensive star misses Wednesday practice with injury https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-defensive-star-misses-wednesday-practice-with-injury

Raiders’ Brock Bowers Gets Blunt Message From Derwin James https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brock-bowers-derwin-james-chargers/?adt_ei=[email]

Two years after launch, Reach's US project is profitable, has a 70-person team, and one editor-in-chief for all three US titles, Mirror, Express, and Irish Star (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/reach-in-t…

Reach in the US: 70-strong team is turning a profit with more growth planned
A “methodical” approach to building audiences for Reach brands Mirror, Express and Irish Star in the US has “proven they can wash their own face”.

One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks
Lauren I. Biddle (The University of Texas at Austin), Brendan P. Bowler (University of California Santa Barbara), Marvin Morgan (The University of Texas at Austin, University of California Santa Barbara), Quang H. Tran (Yale University), Ya-Lin Wu (Taiwan Normal University)
https://

One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks
Exoplanets are organized in a broad array of orbital configurations that reflect their formation along with billions of years of dynamical processing through gravitational interactions. This history is encoded in the angular momentum architecture of planetary systems--the relation between the rotational properties of the central star and the orbital geometry of planets. A primary observable is the alignment (or misalignment) between the rotational axis of the star and the orbital plane of its p…

My niece is in charge of props for a local theater group and asked if I could try to get these light sabers working.
I have never used one of these but when I finally got it powered on and it said "Powered up!" I nearly shit myself.
I did not expect it to talk.
I've seen every Star Wars film and they never talk!
I got one of them working fine, the other had a spicy pillow so I'll replace the battery and see if that gets it sorted.

The corruption of our the once-vaunted non-political integrity of our military takes another step forward (or I guess a better word would be downward):
"Navy reverses demotion of Rep. Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-navy-…

Navy reverses demotion of former White House doctor Ronny Jackson
Rep. Ronny Jackson has announced that the Navy has restored his retired rank of rear admiral. This overturns a 2022 demotion that followed a scathing investigation that found major issues with his behavior while he was the top White House physician. The Texas Republican on Wednesday posted a June 13 letter from Navy Secretary John Phelan saying he had reinstated Jackson to the retired rank of a one-star admiral following a “review of all applicable reports and references.” The Navy confirme…

A novel approach to determining the age of stellar clusters: application to NGC 188
K. Yakut, B. Kalomeni, S. Rappaport
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09255 https://

A novel approach to determining the age of stellar clusters: application to NGC 188
We present a new independent determination for the age of one of the oldest open clusters, NGC 188: $6.41 \pm 0.33$ Gyr. We utilize a novel approach where we jointly fit the radial velocities (RVs) and spectral energy distributions (SED) of six binary star systems in the cluster. The joint fit has 21 free parameters: 12 stellar masses, 6 orbital inclination angles, as well as a common cluster age, distance, and extinction, $A_V$. The fit to the SEDs utilizes MIST stellar isochrones, and the fit…

Jauan Jennings injury: 49ers WR played through five broken ribs, ankle sprains in Week 6 loss to Buccaneers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jauan-j

A short whiles back I decided to watch randoms of Star Trek TNG randomly, so I asked ChatGPT to pick one, and keep a list of unwatched episodes.
With as often as it messed up, it would have been faster and easier for me to write myself a little Python app for this.
- It's constantly suggesting episodes i've already watched
- Occasionally it suggests an episode from another Trek series like DS9
-= Somehow a whole bunch of episodes got dropped from the list

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- A spiritual song from The Circling Sun
One from the all-star New Zealand ensemble The Circling Sun's new expansive album.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hlw7

Brock Bowers injury update is concerning for Raiders star's Week 2 status https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/brock-bowers-injury-update-concerning-raiders-week-2-status/d9278…

A dual AGN at z = 5.4 associated with a Lyman-alpha Nebula in the Center of a Cosmic Filament
Qiong Li, Christopher J. Conselice, Qiao Duan, Duncan Austin, Tom Harvey, Nathan Adams, George Bendo, Lewi Westcott, Vadim Rusakov, Zheng Cai, Yuanhang Ning, Shiwu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09749

A dual AGN at z = 5.4 associated with a Lyman-alpha Nebula in the Center of a Cosmic Filament
Predictions from current theories and simulations suggest that dual AGN systems are exceedingly rare at high redshifts. The intense radiation and powerful outflows from AGNs regulate star formation, heat the interstellar medium, and drive massive gas outflows that shape the host galaxy and its surroundings. One manifestation of AGN feedback is the creation of extended Ly$α$ nebulae. However, identifying these systems at high-$z$ is challenging. Here, we report a remarkable dual AGN candidate a…

Packers star Billy Howton, believed to have been the oldest living NFL player, dies at 95 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/packers-star-billy-howton-believed-to-have-been-the-oldest-living-nfl-player-dies-at-95

Absolutely, positively one of the best compilations of the FINAL EPISODE of #StarWars #Andor.
▶️ STAR WARS FANS REACT TO ANDOR 2X12 Series Finale reaction mashup compilation

A New Determination of the Mass of NGC 3603-A1 - the Most Massive Binary Known? #binary star system NGC 3603-A1 is one of the most massive binaries ever discovered in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Here's one Eagles star who is glad not to face Micah Parsons this week: Why Philly won't miss Dallas playmaker

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

My niece is in charge of props for a local theater group and asked if I could try to get these light sabers working.
I have never used one of these but when I finally got it powered on and it said "Powered up!" I nearly shit myself.
I did not expect it to talk.
I've seen every Star Wars film and they never talk!
I got one of them working fine, the other had a spicy pillow so I'll replace the battery and see if that gets it sorted.

Raiders Urged to Move on From Disgruntled Star as Nightmare Season Continues https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-urged-to-move-on-from-disgruntled-star/?adt_ei=[email]

The polar debris disc around 99 Herculis: A potential signpost for polar circumbinary planets
Jeremy L. Smallwood, William DeRocco, Zhizhen Qin, Antranik A. Sefilian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08698

The polar debris disc around 99 Herculis: A potential signpost for polar circumbinary planets
The nearby binary star system 99 Herculis (99 Her) is host to the only known polar-aligned circumbinary debris disc. We investigate the hypothesis that the narrow structure of this circumbinary disc is sculpted by the gravitational influence of one or more unseen polar circumbinary planets. We first establish the theoretically viable parameter space for a sculpting planet by considering dynamical stability and clearing mechanisms, including the chaotic zone, Hill radius, diffusion, and polar al…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
KELDAN CONTROL: Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. The ship is an unmanned ore carrier on Computer Flight Coordination.
NOVA QUEEN PILOT: I hope you're sure about that, Keldan, it's still on zero-four-zero.

Still one of the best blooper compilations from Star Wars 1-6.
▶️ Star Gags: A Never-ending Bloopers Saga
#StarWars

NFL sack leader Nik Bonitto excited to chase Von Miller's team record: 'Maybe one day I can be in those shoes'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-sack-leade…

Dallas Cowboys working on 'record-setting' deal with star player https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-working-on-record-setting-deal-with-star-player

Raiders Floated as Team That Could Sign Former Bengals Star https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/sign-former-bengals-star-tyler-boyd/?adt_ei=[email]

Hot Jupiter formation in dense stellar clusters: A Monte Carlo model applied to 47 Tucanae
J. A. Wirth, C. J. Clarke, A. J. Winter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08406 https://

Hot Jupiter formation in dense stellar clusters: A Monte Carlo model applied to 47 Tucanae
We study the efficiency of high-e migration as a pathway for Hot Jupiter formation in the dense globular cluster 47 Tuc. Gravitational N-body simulations are performed to investigate the orbital evolution of star-planet systems due to dynamical stellar perturbations. Planetary systems that have been scattered into orbits of sufficiently high eccentricity can undergo tidal circularisation, with Hot Jupiter formation being one possible stopping condition. We also account for the possibility of (i…

Formation of A Nuclear Star Cluster Through A Merger Event In The Low Surface Brightness Galaxy AGC 223218
Tian-Wen Cao, Zi-Qi Chen, Zi-Jian Li, Cheng Cheng, Gaspar Galaz, Venu M. Kalari, Jun-feng Wang, Chun-Yi Zhang, Pei-Bin Chen, Meng-Ting Shen, Hong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06668

Formation of A Nuclear Star Cluster Through A Merger Event In The Low Surface Brightness Galaxy AGC 223218
We present the properties of the nuclear star cluster (NSC) in the low surface brightness galaxy AGC 223218. The disk of the galaxy can be modeled using two S$\acute{\rm e}$rsic components with distinct central positions: one representing the inner bright disk and the other corresponding to the extended outer disk. We estimate the stellar masses of the NSC and the host galaxy using two methods: spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting and mass-to-light versus color relations (MLCRs). The stel…

Jerry Jones' trade for star edge rusher won Cowboys Super Bowls in 1990s ... so why did he just give one away?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jerry-…

Cowboys urged to trade for Dolphins' star as Micah Parsons replacement https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/miami-dolphins/news/cowboys-urged-trade-dolphins-star-micah-parsons-replacement/671ed22d09111e…

HE2159-0551: a very metal-poor peculiar low Ba giant -- a candidate from the LMS-1/Wukong
A. Schichtel, D. H. Plonka, C. J. Hansen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07091 https://

HE2159-0551: a very metal-poor peculiar low Ba giant -- a candidate from the LMS-1/Wukong
We present a comprehensive spectroscopic and kinematic analysis of the very metal-poor ([Fe/H] = -2.60 $\pm$ 0.20 dex) giant star HE2159-0551. By investigating the star's chemodynamic characteristics, we seek to address its formation, evolution, and role in the chemical enrichment of the early cosmos and the possible connection to known merger events. From high-resolution data we perform a one dimension, local thermodynamic equilibrium analysis using PyMoogi. We conduct a detailed abundance ana…

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
PARTON: Now she's running around loose.
STOT: Well at least we know what to expect, anyway. And after all, what can she do, alone? She is the last one.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/163 B7B4

Myles Garrett injury: Browns star pass rusher misses practice as opener vs. Bengals approaches

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/myles-g…

Falcons' Bijan Robinson names budding Cowboys star biggest competition he's ever faced https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/10/cowboys-demarvion-overshown-bijan-ro…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
BLAKE: So, if Lurgan's coordinates are correct Star One is somewhere in there.
AVON: Which makes it about the only thing that is.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/44

Bengals training camp: One surprise star on offense; Shemar Stewart grades his first padded practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals

An AGB star as the source of the abundance pattern of hyper-metal-poor star HE 1327-2326
P. Gil-Pons, S. W. Campbell, C. L. Doherty, M. Lugaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01302 h…

An AGB star as the source of the abundance pattern of hyper-metal-poor star HE 1327-2326
Abridged. HE 1327-2326 (HE 1327), with [Fe/H]=-5.2, is one of the most metal-poor stars detected and a candidate to be the offspring of the first stars. Numerous efforts have been made to match its abundance pattern. However, no model satisfactorily explains its entire surface chemical composition. The high CNO pattern with [N/Fe]>[C/Fe]>[O/Fe], the light element 'slide' (between Na and Si), and the presence of Sr and Ba in HE 1327 is reminiscent of those asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars tha…

Former Cowboys’ Micah Parsons Wanted One Thing, Per His Agent https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-wanted-one-thing-agent/?adt_ei=[email]

JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
N\'estor Espinoza, Natalie H. Allen, Ana Glidden, Nikole K. Lewis, Sara Seager, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, David Grant, Am\'elie Gressier, Shelby Courreges, Kevin B. Stevenson, Sukrit Ranjan, Knicole Col\'on, Brett M. Morris, Ryan J. MacDonald, Douglas Long, Hannah R. Wakeford, Jeff A. Valenti, Lili Alderson, Natasha E. Batalha, Ryan C. Challener, Jingcheng Huang, Zifan Lin, Dana R. Lo…

JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
TRAPPIST-1 e is one of the very few rocky exoplanets that is both amenable to atmospheric characterization and that resides in the habitable zone of its star -- located at a distance from its star such that it might, with the right atmosphere, sustain liquid water on its surface. Here, we present a set of 4 JWST/NIRSpec PRISM transmission spectra of TRAPPIST-1 e obtained from mid to late 2023. Our transmission spectra exhibit similar levels of stellar contamination as observed in prior works fo…

“The first thing Putin did after taking power was silence shows that criticized him.”
✅ '#Andor' Writer #DanGilroy Knows Why You're Thinking About the Show This Week (and It's Not the Emmys)

'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy Knows Why You're Thinking About the Show This Week (and It's Not the Emmys)
The Emmy winner penned an editorial in one of Hollywood's big trades about parallels between the 'Star Wars' show and current events.

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
AVON: There is only Lurgan's word. Everybody else who knew is either dead or amnesiac. One clue. Just one, and we have got it. Why are you listening to this drivel, Blake? We can take Star One, let's get on with it.
JENNA: Very stirring. When did you become a believer?
https://blake.torpi…

Beyond the stars: Linking H$\alpha$ sizes, kinematics, and star formation in galaxies at $z\approx 4-6$ with JWST grism surveys and $\texttt{geko}$
A. Lola Danhaive, Sandro Tacchella, William McClymont, Brant Robertson, Stefano Carniani, Courtney Carreira, Eiichi Egami, Andrew J. Bunker, Emma Curtis-Lake, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Zhiyuan Ji, Benjamin D. Johnson, Marcia Rieke, Natalia C. Villanueva, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Chris Willot, Zihao Wu, Yongda Zhu

Beyond the stars: Linking H$α$ sizes, kinematics, and star formation in galaxies at $z\approx 4-6$ with JWST grism surveys and $\texttt{geko}$
Understanding how galaxies assemble their mass during the first billion years of cosmic time is a central goal of extragalactic astrophysics, yet joint constraints on their sizes and kinematics remain scarce. We present one of the first statistical studies of the $\mathrm{H}α$ size-mass relation at high redshift with a sample of 213 galaxies at spectroscopic redshifts of $z\approx 4-6$ from the FRESCO and CONGRESS NIRCam grism surveys. We measure the $\mathrm{H}α$ morphology and kinematics of…

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Brian Flores hints at potential Vikings interest in star DT Christian Wilkins https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/minnesota-vikings/news/brian-flores-hints-potential-vikings-interest-star-dt…

HR6819: a puffed-up stripped star system challenging stable mass transfer theory
A. Picco, P. Marchant, H. Sana, J. Bodensteiner, T. Shenar, A. J. Frost, K. Deshmukh, J. S. G. Mombarg, D. Pauli, R. Willcox, A. Kemp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21521

HR6819: a puffed-up stripped star system challenging stable mass transfer theory
HR6819 is the first system with a puffed-up low mass stripped star and a classical Be star whose nature has been confirmed by optical interferometry. It shows the most extreme mass ratio (15.7 +/- 1.1), the lowest stripped star mass (0.270 +/- 0.056 Msun), and one of the shortest orbital periods (40.3266 +/- 0.0016 days) among similar post-interaction binaries. These properties make HR6819 a unique test case for binary interaction physics, in particular the efficiency of mass transfer onto the …

HD 143811 AB b: A Directly Imaged Planet Orbiting a Spectroscopic Binary in Sco-Cen
Nathalie K. Jones, Jason J. Wang, Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa, Anne E. Peck, William Roberson, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Jerry W. Xuan, Bruce A. Macintosh, S. Mark Ammons, Vanessa P. Bailey, Travis S. Barman, Joanna Bulger, Eugene Chiang, Jeffrey K. Chilcote, Gaspard Duch\^ene, Thomas M. Esposito, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Katherine B. Follette, Stephen Goodsell, James R. Graham, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum,…

HD 143811 AB b: A Directly Imaged Planet Orbiting a Spectroscopic Binary in Sco-Cen
We present confirmation of HD 143811 AB b, a substellar companion to spectroscopic binary HD 143811 AB through direct imaging with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) and Keck NIRC2. HD 143811 AB was observed as a part of the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) in 2016 and 2019 and is a member of the Sco-Cen star formation region. The companion object is detected $\sim 430$ mas from the host star by GPI. With two GPI epochs and one from Keck/NIRC2 in 2022, we confirm through common proper …

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
VILA: Saurian Major?
BLAKE: Zen, visual star sector four two point six one. It's there, on the edge of the system. One of the early self-governing colonies subsequently annexed by the Federation. When the settlers declared their independence again, the Federation crushed them with typical efficiency.
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The Small Magellanic Cloud through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope : binaries and mass function within the galaxy outskirts
M. V. Legnardi, F. Muratore, A. P. Milone, G. Cordoni, T. Ziliotto, E. Dondoglio, A. F. Marino, A. Mastrobuono-Battisti, E. Bortolan, E. P. Lagioia, M. Tailo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08687

The Small Magellanic Cloud through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope : binaries and mass function within the galaxy outskirts
The stellar initial mass function (IMF) and the fraction of binary systems are fundamental ingredients that govern the formation and evolution of galaxies. Whether the IMF is universal or varies with environment remains one of the central open questions in astrophysics. Dwarf galaxies such as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), with their low metallicity and diffuse star-forming regions, offer critical laboratories to address this issue. In this work, we exploit ultra-deep photometry from the Jam…

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High-Pass Filtering and Gaussian Process Regularization: Stellar Activity Characterization Techniques Applied to the 55 Cancri Planetary System
Justin Harrell, Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08076

High-Pass Filtering and Gaussian Process Regularization: Stellar Activity Characterization Techniques Applied to the 55 Cancri Planetary System
Doppler planet searches are complicated by stellar activity, through which cyclical changes in the host star's photosphere and chromosphere can mask or mimic planetary signals. A popular technique for modeling stellar activity is to apply a quasiperiodic Gaussian process (GP) kernel, which provides a flexible model with rigorous error propagation. However, observers must guard against overfitting, as a GP may be flexible enough to subsume other signals besides the one it is intended to model. T…

Joe Burrow says this one attribute separates good NFL quarterbacks from great ones

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Protostellar Outflows at the EarliesT Stages (POETS). VIII. The jets in the intermediate-mass star-forming region G105.42 9.88 (alias LkH{\alpha} 234)
Luca Moscadelli, Fabrizio Massi, Olga Bayandina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03161

Protostellar Outflows at the EarliesT Stages (POETS). VIII. The jets in the intermediate-mass star-forming region G105.42+9.88 (alias LkHα 234)
Our aim is to investigate the protostellar jets inside the young stellar object (YSO) cluster G105.42+9.88 (alias LkH$α$ 234). This is one of the least luminous targets of the Protostellar Outflows at the EarliesT Stages (POETS) survey, which has been recently carried out to study young outflow emission on scales of 10-100 au. The combination of multi-epoch water maser very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations with sensitive Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) continuum and Large Binocu…

One Big Factor No One is Talking About for Raiders' Star https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-seattle-seahawks-geno-smith-chip-kelly

Trevon Diggs responds to Micah Parsons' cryptic 'One Last Ride' tweet https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/trevon-diggs-responds-micah-parsons-cryptic-one-last-ride-tweet-dallas-cowboys-chaos

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: There isn't.
SERVALAN: And if you want to keep your job you'll find it.
DURKIM: Why won't you face the facts?
SERVALAN: Because I'm not convinced. And even if I were, there would be nothing I could do about it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/33

Cowboys' frustrated star listed as potential training camp trade candidate https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/frustrated-dallas-cowboys-star-potential-training-camp-trade-candidate

Optimising reference library selection for reference-star differential imaging of discs with SPHERE/IRDIS
S. Stasevic, J. Milli, J. Mazoyer, A. -M. Lagrange, S. Bergeon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03325

Optimising reference library selection for reference-star differential imaging of discs with SPHERE/IRDIS
The direct detection of circumstellar discs through high-contrast imaging provides key insights into the history and dynamics of planetary systems. Pole-on discs, especially faint debris discs, are difficult to detect and require careful consideration during post-processing to remove stellar residuals from the data while preserving the disc signal. Reference-star differential imaging (RDI) serves as one of the primary post-processing methods for disc observations. We aim to develop a method of …

Packers acquire Cowboys star Micah Parsons: Breaking down the trade using PFF data https://www.pff.com/news/packers-acquire-cowboys-star-micah-parsons-breaking-down-the-trade-using-pff-data

Simulating RISTRETTO: Proxima b detectability in reflected light
Maddalena Bugatti, Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Billot, Nicolas Blind, Baptiste Lavie, Martin Turbet, Bruno Chazelas, Francesco Pepe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07644

Simulating RISTRETTO: Proxima b detectability in reflected light
The characterization of exoplanet atmospheres is one of the key topics in modern astrophysics. To date, transmission spectroscopy has been the primary method used, but upcoming instruments will lay the foundation for advancing reflected-light spectroscopy. The main challenge in this area of research is the high contrast ratio between the planet and its star. RISTRETTO, a high-resolution integral-field spectrograph designed for ESO's VLT, aims to address these limitations through a combination o…

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
ORAC: Each of which performs a dual function; namely, to indicate the approach of an intruder and then to destroy that intruder by a powerful anti-matter implosion.
JENNA: So it's a combined alarm system and minefield.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/338

Concerns for Raiders Star on Final Injury Report of Week 5 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-brock-bowers-germaine-pratt

New Cowboys DT Kenny Clark has unique family tie to current Dallas star https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/new-cowboys-dt-kenny-clark-unique-family-tie-current-dallas-star-osa-odighizuwa

Proposed Trade Sends Cowboys an $84 Million Haul Led by Star No. 1 Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-trade-rumors-jaguars-micah-parsons/?adt_ei=[email]

Cowboys send veteran DE to IR, giving hope for preseason star to make roster https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-send-veteran-defensive-end-ir-hope-preseason-star-make-roster

Shy DCC Netflix star flaunts dancer's legs in tiny dress, clear heels in rare sexy pic https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/shy-dallas-cowboys-cheer…

Only Jerry Jones puts out fires with buckets of gas https://insidethestar.com/only-jerry-jones-puts-out-fires-with-buckets-of-gas

Cowboys’ CeeDee Lamb Gets Important New Injury Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/ceedee-lamb-new-injury-update/?adt_ei=[email]