Betelgeuse is recovering from blowing its top

Betelgeuse blew its top in 2019. The explosion kicked up a dust cloud, which made the star look dimmer from Earth. The star is slowly recovering.

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Priceless Lost Jewels From Legendary Maravillas Shipwreck Are Finally Found in Bahamas

A sunken crown jewel hidden in The Bahamas since 1656—the shipwrecked remains of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders)—goes on display this week for the first time. The huge ship was part of a fleet headed back to Spain from Cuba, loaded with royal and private consignments. Also onboard […]

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Wolf-Rayet stars are the most massive and brightest stars known

Wolf-Rayet stars make our sun look tiny. They can be hundreds of times more massive, millions of times brighter, and tens of thousands of degrees hotter.

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Fungi Species New to Science Discovered in Scottish Highlands

What happens when you take 216 teaspoons of dirt from 55 remote Scottish mountains? Discovery, that’s what. Scientists doing a survey of soil-born microorganisms in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park found a bounty of notable DNA strands, including a species of fungi that is entirely new to science, and two that are new to the UK. […]

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Weird holes on ocean floor baffle scientists

Scientists with NOAA Ocean Exploration say they found weird holes on the Atlantic ocean floor on July 23 while exploring an underwater volcano. What made them?

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CNN’s ‘Climate Correspondent’ Predicts All Life Will End, Must Kill Filibuster

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! Well, not today, maybe not tomorrow, but from what you read and see lately, one would assume that we, and the rest of the planet, are on life support. All life on earth. Maybe even cockroaches….

Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming – ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is a partnership between ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine. Late on May 31, 2018,…

Why aren’t Jupiter’s rings glorious, like Saturn’s?

Jupiter’s rings are not nearly as dramatic as Saturn’s. Why? A new study says that the planet’s 4 largest moons are to blame.

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Why do corals glow? To lure their prey

Why do corals glow? Researchers in Israel and the U.S. say they use fluorescent colors to attract prey like plankton, solving a long-standing aquatic mystery.

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Astronomers Detect Radio Pattern ‘Like a Heartbeat’ From a Galaxy Far Away

(Written by Jennifer Chu, MIT News) Astronomers at MIT—and universities in Canada and the US—have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. The signal is classified as a fast radio burst, or FRB — an intensely strong burst of radio waves of unknown […]

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