Supersonic Winds on Exoplanet WASP-127b Discovered
In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, astronomers have unveiled the fastest jet stream recorded on a planet to date, reaching speeds of up to 33,000 km/h (approximately 9 km/s). The study reveals that these winds travel around the equator of WASP-127b and are remarkably impactful on the planet's weather patterns. The discovery sheds light on the dynamic atmosphere of WASP-127b and provides insights into the atmospheric processes occurring on distant exoplanets.
https://blog.joshuniverse.com/supersonic-winds-on-exoplanet-wasp-127b-discovered/
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APOD - Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun
Why does Comet ATLAS have such colorful tails? Last week Comet C/2024 G3
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Imaging Exocomet Belts: A Breakthrough Study
Website: https://joshuniverse.com/imaging-exocomet-belts-a-breakthrough-study/
Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have made a groundbreaking discovery in the realm of astrophysics by imaging a large number of exocomet belts surrounding nearby stars. This research, deemed pivotal, marks the first time that such a substantial number of these mysterious structures have been captured in high-resolution images, revealing not only the belts themselves but also the tiny millimeter-sized pebbles embedded within them. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of this significant advancement in space science.
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Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
Astronomy Picture of The Day 1/17/25
Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After only a few million years for the most massive stars, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the supernova explosion that created this remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light 11,000 years to reach us. This sharp NIRCam image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the still hot filaments and knots in the supernova remnant. The whitish, smoke-like outer shell of the expanding blast wave is about 20 light-years across. A series of light echoes from the massive star's cataclysmic explosion are also identified in Webb's detailed images of the surrounding interstellar medium.
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Astronomy Picture of The Day - Jan 16
M83: The Southern Pinwheel
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft has detected an unprecedented X-ray signal coming from the very edge of a supermassive black hole.
This defies how we thought matter falls into black holes, and points to a potential source of gravitational waves for ESA’s future LISA mission.
ESA Writeup: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/XMM-Newton_catches_giant_black_hole_s_X-ray_oscillations
(Artist impression: NASA/Sonoma State University, A. Simonnet)
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Green Tea Protects Brain Health in Older Adults
Research conducted by the Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences reveals a significant correlation between the consumption of green tea and a reduction in cerebral white matter lesions among older adults who do not have dementia. The findings suggest that ingesting three or more cups of green tea daily may confer protective benefits for brain health, while similar effects were not noted for coffee consumption.
https://biohackers.media/green-tea-protects-brain-health-in-older-adults/
Shibata, S., et al. (2025). Green tea consumption and cerebral white matter lesions in community-dwelling older adults without dementia. npj Science of Food.
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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/
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Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells1. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body.
“I can eat sugar now,” said the woman, who lives in Tianjing, on a call with Nature. It has been more than a year since the transplant, and, she says, “I enjoy eating everything — especially hotpot.” The woman asked to remain anonymous to protect her privacy.
James Shapiro, a transplant surgeon and researcher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, says the results of the surgery are stunning. “They’ve completely reversed diabetes in the patient, who was requiring substantial amounts of insulin beforehand.”
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Check Out the Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA's Juno Spacecraft
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just released stunning images of Jupiter, captured during its 66th flyby of the largest and oldest planet in our solar system.
The Juno mission has been studying the Jovian system—Jupiter, along with its rings and many moons—to learn about the giant planet’s formation and evolution with the hope that it might shed light on the development of the entire solar system, per a NASA statement. The solar-powered spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in August 2011 and reached Jupiter in July 2016.
“Jupiter is the Rosetta Stone of our solar system. Juno is going there as our emissary—to interpret what Jupiter has to say,” Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator and associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute’s Science and Engineering Division, says in the statement.
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We Just Got More Evidence That Long COVID Is a Brain Injury
The exact nature of long COVID is still coming to light, but we just got some of the best evidence yet that this debilitating condition stems from a brain injury.
Using high-resolution scanners, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have shown microscopic, structural abnormalities in the brainstems of those recovering from COVID-19.
Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
"We show that the brainstem is a site of vulnerability to long-term effects of COVID-19, with persistent changes evident in the months after hospitalization," the authors of the study conclude.
https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awae215
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Amateur Astronomers Detect Voyager 1 Using Vintage 1950s Telescope After Glitch
And yet a team of amateur astronomers in the Netherlands was able to receive Voyager’s signals on a 1950s telescope designed to detect weak, low-frequency emissions from deep space: NASA uses the [Earth-based] Deep Space Network (DSN) to communicate with its spacecraft, but the global array of giant radio antennas is optimized for higher frequency signals. Though NASA’s DSN antennas are capable of detecting S-band missives from Voyager — it can also communicate in X-band — the spacecraft’s signal can appear to drop due to how far Voyager is from Earth. The Dwingeloo telescope, on the other hand, is designed for observing at lower frequencies than the 8.4 gigahertz telemetry transmitted by Voyager 1, according to the C.A. Muller Radio Astronomy Station… [W]hen Voyager 1 switched to a lower frequency, its messages fell within Dwingeloo’s frequency band. Thus, the astronomers took advantage of the spacecraft’s communication glitch to listen in on its faint signals to NASA.
The astronomers used orbital predictions of Voyager 1’s position in space to correct for the Doppler shift in frequency caused by the motion of Earth, as well as the motion of the spacecraft through space. The weak signal was found live, and further analysis later confirmed that it corresponded to the position of Voyager 1. Thankfully, the mission team at NASA turned Voyager 1’s X-band transmitter back on in November, and is currently carrying out a few remaining tasks to get the spacecraft back to its regular state. Fortunately, radio telescopes like Dwingeloo can help fill in the gaps while NASA’s communications array has trouble reaching its spacecraft.
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Six-planet system discovered that moves in perfect mathematical harmony
Researchers have identified a fascinating six-planet system that offers a different take on planetary configurations. The newly reported configuration features six planets around a single star. Their orbits line up in a synchronized manner, which astronomers call resonance.
When planets move in resonance, their orbital periods stay in a fixed ratio for millions or even billions of years. This pattern can be so exact that it reminds some observers of musical tempos.
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Other countries have confirmed
Apollo moon landings.
Here's a photo of the Apollo 11
landing site, including Eagle descent,
stage and its shadow, from India's
Chandrayaan spacecraft orbiting the
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No, this is not a painting or photoshop, this is
real and extremely rare atmospheric
phenomenon that appears under very rare
conditions. lts known has Sprites or Red
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Stem Cells Combat Aging: Study in Mice
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