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academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
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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

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#LBT images - and https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/41424 now adds that the observer describes the object on the so far unpublished pictures as a "freaky little space guy" ...

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

The #ArtemisII mission has quite an impact on ... the operation of the James Webb Space Telescope as #JWST operations plan currently assumes roughly a quarter of the usual #DeepSpaceNetwork (DSN) access will be available, which has a direct impact on the number of science visits that can be executed and the volume of data that can be downlinked."

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
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"A High-Stakes Lawsuit Against a French Oil Giant Is Closely Watched in Africa"
#Africa #FossilFuels
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A High-Stakes Lawsuit Against a French Oil Giant Is Closely Watched in Africa

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
If you are a filter feeder how to you deal with a gummed up feeding mechanism? Cladoceran zooplankton have a post abdominal claw with a sharp pointed tip which acts as a combination toothpick and anchor to clear out the feeding groove of the carapace. Some groups also grasp algal filaments or plants with it. These claws are distinctive to species based on the si…

Dynamical masses of young stellar objects with the VLBA - DYNAMO-VLBA | Radio binary stars in Orion: #Stars: https://public.nrao.edu/news/unraveling-the-mass-mystery/ - NSF VLBA Tracks Orbital Dances to Weigh Stars in Iconic Stellar Nursery.

Heute vor 72 Jahren: Am 26. April 1954 kam es zum ersten Test der thermonuklearen Waffe TX-14, einer der ersten in den #USA eingesetzten thermonuklearen Bomben. Castle Union war der Codename für einen der Tests der US-#Atomtestserie Operation #Castle.

The registration and contributed talk/poster submission form are still open - through Thursday March 26 - for the #Indiana MAA meeting at #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 April 10-11. The event includes the Indiana College Math Competition, invited speakers including Noelle Sawyer and @…

Spring 2026 — MAA Indiana Section
The Spring 2026 meeting will take place at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Check-in begins at 3:00 PM on Friday, April 10. The local organizer is Adam Coffman ( coffmana@pfw.edu ).

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

"In Mexican Forests, Monarch Butterflies Halt Their Decline"
#Mexico #Butterflies #Insects

In Mexican Forests, Monarch Butterflies Halt Their Decline

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

Just out from Yale Medicine. This story on the work being undertaken by the Medical and Divinity schools to explore the intersection of #spirituality and #mentalhealth.

The Drivers of the Decline in Supermassive Black Hole Growth at z < 2: #BlackHoles Hit the Brakes on Growth: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_032426.html / https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/bhgrowth/ -> Chandra Explains Why Black Hole Growth Slowed Since Cosmic Noon: https://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/954

Nice report and overview.
#AI #Stanford

The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

Real hot shit: #scratch

🐚 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.

"Energy Crisis Spurs Global Push for Remote Work"
#Energy
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/iran-war-energy-crisis-remote-work

Energy Crisis Spurs Global Push for Remote Work

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

Tonight (Wed, March 18) at 6:30 pm (EDT) a public event on "Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature" by Bob Hazen and Mike Wong. ⚒️🧪 #mineralogy
Virtual registration at https://carnegiescie…

Time's Second Arrow
Join Carnegie Science researchers Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong for a lively discussion about their proposed "second arrow of time"—a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvelously complex constituents of our universe came to be.

Bookmarked: Two New Interactive Maps | Ancient World Mapping Center #Geographie

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

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.

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

This group "The Library of Babel" is confronting the invasion of #genAI into everything we do, seems interesting:
"a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression. "

🐧 #science Using ankle bands on penguins for chemical surveillance.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/penguin-toxicologists-find-pfas-chemicals-r…

Penguin ‘Toxicologists’ Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia
Penguins can serve as living monitors of their environment by using small, chemical-detecting leg bands, according to a study from UC Davis and SUNY-Buffalo.

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.

"Zambia Under Pressure to Clean Up Shuttered Lead Mine Poisoning Town"
#Zambia #Environment
https://e360.yale.edu/d…

Zambia Under Pressure to Clean Up Shuttered Lead Mine Poisoning Town

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
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It's #EarthDay! To mark the occasion, we share this piece by YDS ethics professor Ryan Darr written for our Reflections magazine, asking the question: What do we love too much to lose? https://

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/

Radio Pulse Power Distribution of Lightning in Jupiter's 2021–2022 Stealth Superstorms: #Lightning bolts on #Jupiter pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s flashes: #Juno

AI is improving all the time but don't be too worried about AGI, take for example this clockwatching benchmark.
Source: #AI

Polarity-resolved far-side magnetograms based on #helioseismic measurements: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-42917-x -> NSF-NOAA GONG Maps Hidden Magnetism on the Sun’s Far Side: https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-noaa-gong-maps-hidden-magnetism-on-the-suns-far-side/

stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
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🚨Job Alert!🚨 Geochronology and Thermochronology Lab Manager, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Manage and operate laser-ablation U/Th-Pb and U/Th-He laboratories and accompanying mineral separation facilities. #geology ⚒️🧪

California has plenty. So why do millions still struggle for food, water, and safety?
#california

Abundance | Basic Needs - Possibility Lab

jung: JUNG and javax class dependencies (2012)
A network of software class dependency within the JUNG 2.0.1 and javax 1.6.0.7 library namespaces edu.uci.ics.jung and java/javax. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6120 nodes and 138706 edges.
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The #CosmologicalConstant from a Quantum Gravitational θ-Vacua and the Gravitational Hall Effect: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14886 -> Could the mathematical ‘shape’ of the universe solve the cosmological constant problem? https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-20/cosmological-constant-problem

A Mass Transferring Brown Dwarf #Binary on a 57 Minute Orbit: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae486e -> How Two Dim Stars Came Together to Shine Brightly: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/how-two-dim-stars-came-together-to-shine-brightly

"War Brings Black Rain to a Parched Iran"
#Iran #Environment
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/iran-war-

War Brings Black Rain to a Parched Iran

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope - A Test of the #GravitationalForce Law on Cosmological Scales Using the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14327 -> Gravity follows Newton and Einstein’s rules, even at cosmic scales: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/gravity-follows-newton-and-einsteins-rules-even-cosmic-scales - by tracking galaxy clusters hundreds of millions of lightyears apart, Penn physicist Patricio Gallardo and collaborators find that the laws of gravity written by Newton and Einstein still hold, leaving little doubt that invisible dark matter exists.

Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans: #Mars: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bathtub-ring-is-new-evidence-for-an-ancient-ocean-on-mars

"Global News Coverage of Climate Change Falls for Fourth Straight Year"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://e360…

Global News Coverage of Climate Change Falls for Fourth Straight Year

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
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academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
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"A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View"
#Oceans #Environment
https://e360.y…

A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View
Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.

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

Seas to Rise Around the World — but Not in Greenland

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.

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
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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

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
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A Merger within a Merger - Chandra Pinpoints the Short #GRB230906A in a Peculiar Environment: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a2f -> NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_031026.html / https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2026/nsmerger/ -> How the Most Energetic Explosions in the Universe Are Formed: https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/blog/node/951

"Brazilian Amazon on Track for Record Low Deforestation"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Deforestation #Trees

Brazilian Amazon on Track for Record Low Deforestation

Theory of striped dynamic spectra of the #CrabPulsar high-frequency interpulse: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/article/theory-of-striped-dynamic-spectra-of-the-crab-pulsar-highfrequency-interpulse/66FDEA9FA0464343A7EAA1E2EFF44A29 -> Study reveals cosmic tug-of-war behind the Crab Pulsar’s zebra stripes: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/study-reveals-cosmic-tug-of-war-behind-the-crab-pulsars-zebra-stripes

X-ray Evolution of Young Stars - Early Dimming and Coronal Softening in Solar-Mass Stars with Implications for Planetary Atmospheres: #YoungStars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_041426.html and https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2026/dimming/

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
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"Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling?"
#Nature #Environment
https://e360.yale…

Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling?
When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover. If new species don’t replace old ones, they say, ecosystems may have less flexibility to respond to habitat loss and climate change.

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

jung: JUNG and javax class dependencies (2012)
A network of software class dependency within the JUNG 2.0.1 and javax 1.6.0.7 library namespaces edu.uci.ics.jung and java/javax. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6120 nodes and 138706 edges.
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"Even a Few Scattered Trees on Farmland Can Be a Boon for Wildlife"
#Trees #Environment #Nature

Even a Few Scattered Trees on Farmland Can Be a Boon for Wildlife

jung: JUNG and javax class dependencies (2012)
A network of software class dependency within the JUNG 2.0.1 and javax 1.6.0.7 library namespaces edu.uci.ics.jung and java/javax. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6120 nodes and 138706 edges.
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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

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

India Says Its Grasslands Are 'Wastelands.' Medieval Folklore Suggests Otherwise

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
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A second-generation star in a relic dwarf galaxy: #Star Discovered Inside Ancient Relic Dwarf Galaxy: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2607/ - the star is the first unambiguous example of chemical enrichment by the first stars in the Universe within a primordial environment.

"Even in Antarctica, Insects Are Eating Microplastics"
#Antarctica #Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Even in Antarctica, Insects Are Eating Microplastics

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.

Little Red Dots and Their Progenitors from Direct Collapse Black Holes: #LittleRedDots - New Clues from the Early Universe: https://tacc.utexas.edu/news/latest-news/2026/04/16/little-red-dots-new-clues-from-the-early-universe/ - TACC supercomputer simulations shed light on the mysterious origins of these enigmatic cosmic objects.

"As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can’t Break Its Coal Addiction"
#China #Renewables #Energy

As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can't Break Its Coal Addiction
Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new five-year plan will ensure further coal plant expansion and jeopardize China’s ability to deliver on its climate promises.

notre_dame_web: Webgraph (Notre Dame)
The web graph of Notre Dame University (nd.edu), as collected in 1999.
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https://networks.skewed.de/net/notre_dame_web
Ridiculogram…

ASSESSING SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY OF NASA’S SPACE MISSIONS BY COST: #Missions Produce the Least Science: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/why-nasas-cheapest-missions-produce-the-least-science

Before and after pictures of the rocket test 100 years ago today, from the fantastic #Goddard collection at https://commons.clarku.edu/goddardlaunch/ - articles about the historical event and its context also at https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-031626a-robert-goddard-liquid-fuel-rocket-centennial-where-nell.html (small parts of the hardware may have survived after all), https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-origins/ -> https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-space-craze/ -> https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-legacy/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/2-seconds-that-changed-the-world-the-1st-liquid-fueled-rocket-launched-100-years-ago-today

"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

Exploring the Interior Structure of (16) Psyche Through Basin-Scale Collisions: #Psyche: https://news.arizona.edu/news/large-craters-offer-clues-origin-asteroid-16-psyche

stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
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A Galactic Transformation - Understanding the SMC’s Structural and Kinematic Disequilibrium: #SmallMagellanicCloud

Modeling Wind-Driven #Waves on Other Planets - Applications to Mars, Titan, and Exoplanets: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025JE009490 -> Waves hit different on other planets: https://news.mit.edu/2026/waves-hit-different-on-other-planets-0416 - from lazy ripples to towering breakers, waves should vary widely from one planet to another, according to a new model.

A jet bent by a stellar wind in the #BlackHole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02828-3 -> ‘Dancing jets’ from black hole reveal their immense power: https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/dancing-jets-from-black-hole-reveal-their-immense-power/

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.

"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

#DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2610/ and https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/desi-completes-planned-3d-map-of-the-universe-and-continues-exploring/ - the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos ever conducted, finished all observations for its originally planned 3D map of the Universe.

Direct collapse black hole candidates from decaying dark matter: #SupermassiveBlackHoles: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/04/15/dark-matter-could-explain-earliest-supermassive-black-holes - dark matter decays could be the missing ingredient explaining how giant black holes formed before the first stars.

Hints of Primordial Magnetic Fields at Recombination and Implications for the Hubble Tension: #HubbleTension and other cosmic mysteries: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-03-13-primordial-magnetic-fields-could-resolve-hubble-tension-and-other-cosmic-mysteries - an international team of researchers simulated magnetic forces in the early universe and found they could bridge the gap between the observed and calculated rates of the universe’s expansion.

Uncovering the rapidly evolving orbits of the dynamic TOI-201 system: #exoplanets

#TidalDisruptionEvents with SPH-EXA - Resolving the Return of the Stream: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae4748 -> How Black Holes Light Up the Dark: https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/physics/news/how-black-holes-light-up-the-dark/ - new hydrodynamical simulations explain how tidally destroyed stars reveal hidden supermassive black holes and why no two of these cosmic collisions look the same.

Carbon Cycle Imbalances on Arid Terrestrial Planets with Implications for #Venus: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae4faa -> Planets need more water to support life than scientists previously thought: https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/04/15/planets-need-more-water-to-support-life/

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.

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.

Gaia-GIC-1 - An Evolving Catastrophic #Planetesimal Collision Candidate: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae3ddc -> UW astronomers collect rare evidence of two planets colliding: https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/03/11/uw-astronomers-spot-planet-collision-evidence/

Lense-Thirring precessing magnetar engine drives a superluminous supernova: #magnetar, confirming link to some of universe’s brightest exploding stars: https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/11/astronomers-capture-birth-of-a-magnetar-confirming-link-to-some-of-universes-brightest-exploding-stars/

The Local Distance Network - A community consensus report on the measurement of the #HubbleConstant at ∼1% precision: https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202557993 - the result is 73.5 /-0.8 (essentially 74, as I've said for years :-) km/s/Mpc, in huge tension with the CMBR -> A community-built distance network sharpens the Hubble constant and broadens the evidence behind the “Hubble tension” / The Local Universe’s Expansion Rate Is Clearer Than Ever, but Still Doesn’t Add Up: https://www.issibern.ch/hubble-constant-press-release/ / https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2611/?lang

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

The privately funded large space telescope #Lazuli now has a company (SSTL) that will build the spacecraft bus and a university (UofA) building two of its three instruments: https://www.sstl.co.uk/media-hub/latest-news/2026/sstl-joins-the-eric-and-wendy-schmidt-observatory-system’s-lazuli and https://news.arizona.edu/news/u-build-instruments-new-space-telescope

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.

A nearly pristine #star from the Large Magellanic Cloud: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21643 -> A class of undergraduate students at University of Chicago has used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to discover one of the oldest stars in the universe, a star that formed in a companion galaxy and migrated to the Milky Way: https://www.sdss.org/ancient-immigrant/ and https://carnegiescience.edu/found-most-pristine-star-universe