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The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/

Did you know the average human large intestine is about 1.5 meters long? [1]
#SuperBowelFacts
[1] https://www.chp.edu/our-services/transplan

Differences in Small & Large Intestines | Children's Pittsburgh
Do you know the main differences between the small and large intestines? Learn exactly how your body absorbs nutrients from your food on a daily basis.

"Alaska Wolf Found With Record Amount of Mercury, a Sign of Growing Contamination"
#Alaska #Animals #Wolves

Alaska Wolf Found With Record Amount of Mercury, a Sign of Growing Contamination

Research Experience for Undergrads (#REU) at Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences! ⚒️🧪
Geosciences, #planetary science, atmospheric sciences, #oceanography,

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

The 6th #AAS247 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nss3zNi5SYA about Cosmology and Galaxy Clusters discussed the lensed supernova Ares from the Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS) program (https://www.stsci.edu/jwst-program-info/download/jwst/pdf/9478/), the paper PASSAGES: The Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Protocluster Core Candidate at Cosmic Noon (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf4d5 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-lens-reveals-hyperactive-cradle-of-future-galaxy-cluster/), new results from the One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad165e) and the paper Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3
(https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849463900911844 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-galaxy-clusters/).

"India Says Its Grasslands Are ‘Wastelands.’ Medieval Folklore Suggests Otherwise"
#India #Environment
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India Says Its Grasslands Are 'Wastelands.' Medieval Folklore Suggests Otherwise

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Longtime friends with a common commitment to YDS: Read our new story on alums Jim Waits '61 B.D. and Barbara Brown Taylor ’76 M.Div. and the amazing friendship that began when Dr. Waits hired her to be his assistant at Candler School of Theology in 1978. #WeAreCalled

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/).

The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).

🙉 Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/workers-who-love-synergizing-paradigms-might-be-bad-their-jobs

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn (well, as mice learn) https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/02/25/neurons-learn/ "the brain can deliver neuron-specific feedback during learning";

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn - MIT McGovern Institute
When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that with surprising precision, sending targeted feedback to individual neurons so each one can adjust its activity in the right direction. The finding echoes a key idea from modern artificial intelligence. Many […]

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der #KVK wird 30! 🥳
https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/
zum geburtstag gibts eine kurze umfrage:

Seasonal Ice Cover Could Allow Liquid Lakes to Persist in a Cold #Mars Paleoclimate: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025AV001891 -> Thin ice may have protected lake water on frozen Mars: https://news.rice.edu/news/2026/thin-ice-may-have-protected-lake-water-frozen-mars

GWTC-4.0 - an Introduction to Version 4.0 of the #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c06 -> The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes: https://physics.mit.edu/news/new-catalog-more-than-doubles-the-number-of-gravitational-wave-detections-made-by-ligo-virgo-and-kagra-observatories/ / New catalog of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations published: https://www.aei.mpg.de/1415736/new-catalog-of-ligo-virgo-kagra-observations-published - the latest catalog, GWTC-4, includes 128 new candidates from the fourth observing run, more than doubling the previous total.

"Mojave Solar Farm a Haven for Rare Desert Plant"
#US #USA #America #Mojave

Mojave Solar Farm a Haven for Rare Desert Plant

Evidence of Recent Material Transport within a Binary Asteroid System: #DART Mission Data Reveals that Asteroids Throw ‘Cosmic Snowballs’ at Each Other: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/jessica-sunshine-tony-farnham-new-nasa-dart-mission-data-reveals-asteroids-throw-cosmic-snowballs - astronomers found evidence that rocks continuously travel between Didymos and its smaller moon Dimorphos, reshaping our understanding of how near-Earth asteroids evolve over time.

OA Book, looks interesting:
Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures | Books Gateway | MIT Press
#cllimate #speculativefiction

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CH3OH and HCN in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Mapped with the ALMA Atacama Compact Array - Distinct Outgassing Behaviors and a Remarkably High CH3OH/HCN Production Rate Ratio: #3IATLAS: https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-detects-extremely-abundant-alcohol-in-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas/ - astronomers capture a chemical snapshot of planet formation beyond our solar system.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SHERELLE
Fatspoon, Bruna Moreira & Edu Mundo:
🎵 Na Feira
#Fatspoon #BrunaMoreira #EduMundo
https://fatspoon.bandcamp.com/track/na-feira-feat-bruna-moreira-edu-mundo

Little to no active faulting likely at Europa’s seafloor today: #Europa: https://www.reuters.com/science/study-casts-doubt-potential-life-jupiters-moon-europa-2026-01-06/

lets do this!
"For instance, the technology’s fast charging, high output and robust endurance suggest a good fit for storing excess electricity generated at solar farms during the daytime, to power the grid at night. It may also be useful for backup power at data centers.
“Because this technology could extend the lifetime of batteries to decades upon decades, it might be ideal for storing renewable energy or quickly taking over when power is lost,” El-Kady said. “This would remove worries about the changing cost of infrastructure.”
#climateaction #electrification

"China’s Fossil Fuel Emissions Dropped Last Year as Solar Boomed"
#China #FossilFuels #SolarPower #Energy

China's Fossil Fuel Emissions Dropped Last Year as Solar Boomed

If you just need a pretty figure from a dataset and not the full power of R, have a look at #gui

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Edu Lobo:
🎵 Zanzibar
#NowPlaying #EduLobo
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jWwrVcPvnVZBJRhpCTzdr

Forschende zeigen, dass der #Klimawandel den städtischen #Wärmeinseleffekt in tropischen Regionen verstärkt.
Mithilfe von maschinellem Lernen lassen sich globale Projektionen auf lokale Bedingungen übertragen. Viele Städte in

Edu Lôbo - "Missa Breve" (1973)
It's just a Russian reissue but it sounds great. Happy to finally have this. 🎶
#NowPlaying #EduLobo #Rubinho

How AI can help students not by writing their essays but with dialogue.
#AI

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Of interest to experimental petrologists, upcoming virtual workshop "to discuss and plan to address systematic bias in predictive models caused by the way trace element partitioning data is currently published." #geology #geochemistry ⚒️

Overview
This workshop overview page outlines a February–March 2026 virtual event for experimental petrologists, editors, and program managers to address systemic bias in trace element partitioning data by advocating for publication of raw analytical data to support FAIR principles, improve model accuracy, and establish community-driven data standards.

So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.

"Global Investment in Clean Tech Hit a New High Last Year"
#Energy #Renewables
https://e360.yale.edu/dige…

Global Investment in Clean Tech Hit a New High Last Year

So what does #Trump have up his sleeve with this?
NIAID staffers ordered to remove biodefense, pandemic preparedness language on website:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/bioterrorism/niaid-staffers-ordered-remove-biodefense-pandemic-preparedness-language-website

Navy/Marines ROTC students in Barton Hall for the Club Fair
#photo #photography <…

The Stochastic Siren - Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background Measurements of the #HubbleConstant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01997 -> Illinois and UChicago physicists develop a new method to measure the expansion rate of the universe: https://physics.illinois.edu/news/Hubble-tension-expansion-rate-of-universe

"Europe to Ramp Up Offshore Wind in Push for Energy Independence"
#Europe #Energy #Renewables

Europe to Ramp Up Offshore Wind in Push for Energy Independence

Ubiquitous High-frequency Waves and Disturbances in the Active Region Corona Observed with Cryo-NIRSP: #CORONA STAYS SO HOT AND HOW THE SOLAR WIND IS LAUNCHED INTO SPACE.

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Short-term survival of #tardigrades (Ramazzottius cf. varieornatus and Hypsibius exemplaris) in #martian #regolith simulants (MGS-1 and OUCM-1): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/shortterm-survival-of-tardigrades-ramazzottius-cf-varieornatus-and-hypsibius-exemplaris-in-martian-regolith-simulants-mgs1-and-oucm1/8A91986096FB533FB264DD056F549DF2 -> ‘Water bears’ reveal potential for adapting, protecting Martian resources: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/water-bears-reveal-potential-adapting-protecting-martian-resources - microscopic tardigrades help inform how simulated Martian soil might support plant life and mitigate contaminants shedding from human explorers, researchers report -> Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-finally-found-something-tardigrades-cant-survive-2000728358 - tardigrades are practically invincible on Earth, so scientists looked to outer space in search of their kryptonite.

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"Warming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at Once"
#Wildfires #Climate #ClimateChange

Warming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at Once

🐚 Underwater 3D printing may reshape maritime concrete construction
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/01/underwater-3d-printing-could-transform-maritime-construction

Underwater 3D printing could transform maritime construction | Cornell Chronicle
An interdisciplinary collaboration has developed a way to 3D-print concrete underwater – a technique that could transform on-site maritime construction and the repair of critical infrastructure.

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"Britain Just Had Its Sunniest Year on Record"
#UK #UnitedKingdom
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/u.k.-sunn

Britain Just Had Its Sunniest Year on Record

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/

Nominations sought for the 2026 Rising Stars in Computational & Data Sciences Workshop to be held April 7-8, 2026, at the Santa Fe Institute in #SantaFe, NM. #NewMexico
h…

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Only a few regions on our planet - just west and east and especially inside of the dark zone in this NASA map which is mostly the Pacific Ocean - will have a good view of the full totality from 11:04 to 12:03 UTC of the #LunarEclipse today, but there will be webcasts galore to try out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywJ47LZ-Ic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZCZcS45jg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOlqcK5Edg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOgOLKgNyLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtL3BA94t5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJUW0Kx4Eg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQLcLAfilkQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-_LYVuIEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl9UAUiqNKM
Also https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164029689080320 = a graphic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd1R8rrAMzw = an animation, https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/41436 = satellites near the dark Moon, https://www.eclipsewise.com/lunar/LEprime/2001-2100/LE2026Mar03Tprime.html and https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/march-2026-total-lunar-eclipse-your-questions-answered/ and https://solarsteam.siu.edu/3march2026_tle/ and https://www.timeanddate.com/live/eclipse-lunar-2026-march-3 and https://news.siu.edu/2026/02/022426-siu-to-host-viewing-party-for-march-3-total-lunar-eclipse.php and https://www.perthobservatory.com.au/astronomy-events/2026-total-lunar-eclipse = websites, https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/116156904320261558 = a thread, https://www.space.com/news/live/total-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-march-3-2026-live-updates = updates, and https://gizmodo.com/the-march-3-total-lunar-eclipse-sounds-amazing-but-theres-a-catch-2000726548 and https://www.geekwire.com/2026/total-lunar-eclipse-visibility-weather/ and https://www.astronomy.com/observing/how-to-watch-the-lunar-eclipse-online/ and https://www.space.com/stargazing/lunar-eclipses/watch-the-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-on-march-3-with-these-free-livestreams = articles.

"Drought Is Fueling an Air Pollution Crisis in Iran"
#Iran #AirPollution
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/iran-dr…

Drought Is Fueling an Air Pollution Crisis in Iran

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Bundle adjustment of Hayabusa2's ONC images and controlled color mosaic map of #Ryugu: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12554 <- https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WW3IH0

"A High-Stakes Lawsuit Against a French Oil Giant Is Closely Watched in Africa"
#Africa #FossilFuels
https://

A High-Stakes Lawsuit Against a French Oil Giant Is Closely Watched in Africa

Carbonaceous Cosmic Dust Analogs Distinguish between Ion Bombardment and Temperature: #CosmicDust in her lab. What she found could help us understand how life started on Earth: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2026/02/02/cosmic-dust-carbonaceous-analogue-infrared.html - study reverse-engineers stellar chemical cocktail of fundamental molecules using infrared 'fingerprints'.

"Urban Greenery Is Making Some Cities Hotter, Study Finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://e360.yale.edu/diges…

Urban Greenery Is Making Some Cities Hotter, Study Finds

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As reported in http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005664.txt the main belt #asteroid (44) #Nysa is showing "an unusual, highly concave, possibly bilobate, shape" in #LBT images - and https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/41424 now adds that the observer describes the object on the so far unpublished pictures as a "freaky little space guy" ...

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"Much of the World Facing ‘Water Bankruptcy,’ U.N. Report Warns"
#UN #UnitedNations #Water

Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns

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Two new #comets were just announced, none of them will be become bright, though: see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005660.txt and earlier https://www.facebook.com/sunguoyou.cn/posts/pfbid02QpZCmEwZYA7B99frLj2Fb1AZ4LGj4eAs9KGERQWRNyjHz6XBg2dr1PcdwZaU4PJrl for C/2026 B2 (Sun-Gao) and http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005659.txt for P/2026 B1 (PANSTARRS).

An X-ray-Emitting Proto-Cluster at z ≈ 5.7 Reveals Rapid Structure Growth: #GalaxyCluster in Early Universe: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_012826.html

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"After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up"
#Iran #Climate #ClimateChange

After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up
Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpumping that destroyed a centuries-old system for tapping underground reserves. 

Constraining properties of dust formed in #WolfRayet binary WR 112 using mid-infrared and millimeter observations: #dust grains emanating from a massive #BinaryStar system: https://public.nrao.edu/news/a-quintillion-to-one-giant-stars-tiny-dust/

"A.I. Is Keeping Aging Coal Plants Online"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

A.I. Is Keeping Aging Coal Plants Online

Discovery and Multiwavelength Analysis of a New Dissociative #GalaxyCluster Merger - The Champagne Cluster: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ade67c -> NASA's Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/champagne/

Ion-Scale Wave Emission and Absorption for Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in the Inner #Heliosphere: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118809 -> U of A researchers unravel mysteries of the solar wind: https://news.arizona.edu/news/kissing-sun-u-researchers-unravel-mysteries-solar-wind

"Seas to Rise Around the World — but Not in Greenland"
#Greenland #Oceans #Sea

Seas to Rise Around the World — but Not in Greenland

Capture into Apsidal Resonance and the Decimation of Planets around Inspiraling Binaries: #Tatooine planets rare? Blame general relativity: https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/30/why-are-tatooine-planets-rare-blame-general-relativity/

"Our Changing Planet, as Seen From Space"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/nasa-sat…

Our Changing Planet, as Seen From Space

Evidence of medium response to hard probes using correlations of Z bosons with hadrons in heavy ion collisions: #QuarkGluonPlasma, confirming the plasma behaves like a liquid.

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"China to See Solar Capacity Outstrip Coal Capacity This Year"
#China #SolarPower #Energy

China to See Solar Capacity Outstrip Coal Capacity This Year

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The Vera C. #Rubin Observatory has released its first alerts documenting astronomical events spotted by the observatory: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2605/ - Rubin issued 800,000 alerts the night of 24 February which called scientists’ attention to new asteroids, exploding stars, and other changes in the night sky; this milestone marks the launch of a system expected to eventually produce up to seven million alerts per night.

The First Triple Radio Active Galactic Nucleus in an Ongoing Galaxy Merger: #AGN / Radio Black Hole Trio Lights Up in Rare Galaxy Merger: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/555300/unique-discovery-astronomers-identify-first-triple-radio-agn / https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-black-hole-trio-lights-up-in-rare-galaxy-merger/ - first confirmed system of three radio-bright active galactic nuclei reveals how supermassive black holes grow as galaxies collide.

"EPA Removes Information on Human Drivers of Warming from Its Website"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://…

EPA Removes Information on Human Drivers of Warming from Its Website

The First Radio View of a Type Ibn Supernova in SN 2023fyq - understanding the Mass-loss History in the Last Decade before the Explosion: #Supernova Reveal Star’s Final Years: https://as.virginia.edu/news/first-radio-signals-rare-supernova-reveal-stars-final-years

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Caltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch of his rural SoCal home: #Grillmair was a specialist for #TidalStreams of #galaxies as his publications (as first author) listed in https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q= first_author:"Grillmair"&sort=date desc, bibcode desc&p_=0 show.

"A Year of Clean Energy Milestones"
#Energy #Climate #ClimateChange

A Year of Clean Energy Milestones

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The final (8th) #AAS247 presser #Lazuli, described in detail the paper #ArgusArray to the astronomical community: https://carolinastories.unc.edu/developing-the-worlds-largest-sky-survey-telescope/ and https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/ and https://www.astronomy.com/science/eric-and-wendy-schmidt-to-fund-space-telescope-three-ground-based-observatories/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/former-ceo-of-google-spearheads-4-next-gen-telescopes-3-on-earth-and-1-in-space and https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schmidt-sciences-announces-plan-for-lazuli-a-private-space-telescope/

Historic #LickObservatory closes to public following significant wind damage: https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/12/historic-lick-observatory-closes-to-public-following-significant-wind-damage/ - early on Thursday, Dec. 25, severe winds gusting up to 183 km/h tore loose half of the shutter on the 140-year old 36-inch Great Refractor dome; no one was injured.

Finally an RGB image of comet #3IATLAS from images taken by #GeminiNorth during the 26 November #shadowTheScientists session: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2532/ - the coma has become bluer due to more gas emission. Also published today: an X-ray image by XMM-Newton at https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/XMM-Newton_sees_comet_3I_ATLAS_in_X-ray_light with explanations in http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005646.txt which also contains more 3I news.
Meanwhile the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae2915 claims an upper limit for 3I's nucleus diameter of only some 750 meters from the measured non-gravitational acceleration (NGA) parameters: that would be waaay more stringent than the 5.6 km upper limit from early Hubble observations reported in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf8d8 (where also a lower limit of 440 meters is stated).

The Magnetic Fields of the Dusty Nuclei and Molecular Outflows of Arp 220: #Arp220, an ultraluminous infrared galaxy.

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results - Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing: #DarkEnergy come together in a single experiment for the first time. Also Dark Energy Survey - DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14864. And CosmoSlider - An educational tool for cosmology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16919

The penultimate #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBq0KdXU9c about High Redshifts and High Energies dealt e.g. with An Unlensed Barred Spiral Before Cosmic Noon (https://www.newswise.com/articles/pitt-student-finds-familiar-structure-just-2-billion-years-after-the-big-bang and https://www.umass.edu/news/article/astronomers-find-one-oldest-barred-spiral-galaxies-universe), A precessing jet from an active galactic nucleus (https://public.nrao.edu/news/record-breaking-stream-of-super-heated-gas/ and https://keckobservatory.org/vv340a/ and https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ecz5crtdymxrlodycogpt/AB32N_1Bh3pyI2SyzbRGkTs?rlkey=zbyz1muz40y1rh8ierpw1yfok&e=1&st=ebs24tqb&dl=0) and the papers AT2024wpp: An Extremely Luminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient Powered by Accretion onto a Black Hole & Multiwavelength Modeling of the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2024wpp (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03337 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03372 with https://docs.google.com/document/d/1foKS2AQJlWvI4_ZzUlV8pYfkyAsElzkRQ5yo82VWy4s/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0 and https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2026/1/6/cow and https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-telescopes-uncover-invisible-gas-around-record-shattering-cosmic-explosion/).

In Antarctica, balloon lands after 23-day search for particles from outer space: #PUEO caught a ride aboard a NASA #balloon in search of high-energy #neutrinos.

On the Deepest Search for #GalacticCenter Pulsars and an Examination of an Intriguing #MillisecondPulsar Candidate: #Pulsar in the Milky Way’s Center: https://news.columbia.edu/news/researchers-announce-discovery-possible-pulsar-milky-ways-center - confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics.

Molecular Gas in Major Mergers Hosting Dual and Single AGNs at <10 kpc Nuclear Separations: #BlackHoles May Be Picky Eaters: https://public.nrao.edu/news/super-massive-black-holes-may-be-picky-eaters/ - new ALMA research reveals galaxy mergers that feed black holes may be not be a the buffet astronomers previously thought.

ASASSN-24fw - Candidate Gas-rich #Circumsecondary Disk Occultation of a Main-sequence Star: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1fd9 -> Massive Cloud With Metallic Winds Discovered Orbiting Mystery Object: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2602/ - astronomers using the Gemini South telescope achieve unprecedented detection of vaporized metals within a dusty, gaseous cloud during rare stellar occultation.

Dripping to Destruction - Exploring Salt-driven Viscous Surface Convergence in Europa’s Icy Shell: #Europa

Tracking the Evolution of Plasma Instabilities from the Prominence–Corona Transition Region into Interplanetary Space with Total Solar Eclipse and PSP/WISPR White Light Images: #corona: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2026/02/17/eclipse-research-suns-corona/

Juno's high-spatial-resolution ultraviolet observations of Ganymede's auroral patches - constraints on the magnetospheric source region: #Ganymede and Earth: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/university-of-liege-scientists-reveal-similarities

ALMA and JWST Identification of Faint Dusty Star-forming Galaxies up to z ∼ 8 and Their Connection with Other Galaxy Populations: #galaxies almost 13 billion years old, helping to revise the history of the universe: https://www.umass.edu/news/article/international-team-astronomers-led-umass-amherst-may-have-just-found-one-missing-links