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⋅ October 30, 2024
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Space.com

Saturn’s moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
Space.com
“If life exists in Titan’s ocean under the thick ice shell, any signs of life would need to be transported up Titan’s ice shell. This is more likely to occur if Titan’s ice shell is warm and connecting.” Comments (0). When you purchase through links on …
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1st image of our Milky Way’s black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say
Space.com
“We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT’s imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, rather than the actual astronomical structure.” Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an …
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Can ‘failed stars’ have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues
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Infrared image of the center of the Orion Nebula taken with the NIRCam instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Inserts mark protoplanetary disks around brown dwarfs. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA, Mark McCaughrean/ESA, Massimo Robberto/STScI/JHU, …
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NASA’s Perseverance rover gets stunning view of big Mars crater from slippery slope (video, photos)
Space.com
NASA’s Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping grounds. The car-sized Perseverance landed on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) Jezero Crater in February 2021 to hunt …
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NASA’s Perseverance rover unexpectedly finds green-ish spots on Mars
Space.com
The green spots that can be seen in Perseverance’s new image are also common in red rocks on Earth, and are formed when liquid water seeps through sediment before hardening into rock. This process supports a chemical reaction that transforms oxidized iron …
Space.com

Astrophotographer captures comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS growing an anti-tail (photos)
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Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an ‘anti-tail.’ Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, …
The New York Times

Two Black Holes Are Giving the Cosmos a Fright
The New York Times
The system lies about 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It features one of the oldest known black holes, a beast nine times as massive as the sun that is sucking gas from a nearby star that orbits it every six days — a typical X-ray …
Yahoo News

SpaceX’s Starship booster was ‘1 second away’ from aborting epic launch-tower catch
Yahoo News
Musk revealed part of that conversation on X on Friday (Oct. 25), in a post that showed the billionaire’s progress in the online game Diablo IV. That post depicted three minutes of Musk’s Diablo IV gameplay, which occurred while he was talking to three …
The New York Times

Fossil Reveals Oldest Known Tadpole That Grew to the Size of a Hot Dog
The New York Times
This incredible anatomical rejiggering is easy to take for granted. But tracking the evolution of frog metamorphosis has been tricky. The fossil record of adult frogs is known dating back to the Triassic Period, 217 million …
BBC News

Spider relative 3D fossil preserved in fool’s gold
BBC News
A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by fool’s gold. The new species, which is distantly related to arachnids such as scorpions and horseshoe crabs, was found by a research team lead by the …