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A new measurement record for strongest magnetic field in universe

Jul 15
2022

Breaking the previous record by 60 percent.

The team behind the first Chinese X-ray astronomy satellite, Insight-HXMT, has discovered the strongest magnetic field directly measured in the universe hitherto.

It is a known fact that neutron stars generate the strongest magnetic fields in the universe. These magnetic fields, close to a neutron star’s surface, can only be measured accurately and directly by looking for cyclon resonance scattering features (CRSF). The Insight-HXMT team discovered a cyclotron absorption line with an energy of 146 keV in the neutron star X-ray binary Swift J0243.6+6124, which translates to a surface magnetic field of more than 1.6 billion Tesla.

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NASA reveals glorious new James Webb images of the ancient universe

Posted by Gemechu Taye in space

Jul 14
2022

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A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Observable Universe

Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in space

Jul 14
2022

Scientists believe we’ve only discovered about 5% of the universe. Here’s a map of what we’ve found so far, visualized using a log scale.

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How the Webb Telescope team built those startling images

Posted by Atanas Atanasov in space

Jul 13
2022

There’s a whole lot going on under the hood of the five images that dropped this week.

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NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe

Posted by Quinn Sena in space

Jul 12
2022

Scientists and astronomers have been busy at work to monitor the sky, and they have updated the course of an asteroid that was meant to strike Earth.

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What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality?

Posted by Dan Breeden in physics, space

Jul 12
2022

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Neils Bohr said, “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.” Well it turns out that if we pay attention to this subtle difference, some of the most mysterious aspects of nature make a lot more sense.

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First images from the James Webb Space Telescope

Posted by Future Timeline in space

Jul 12
2022

Following several months of testing and configuration, the first suite of images has been released from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Gods & Monsters: Space as Lovecraft Envisioned it

Posted by Dan Breeden in futurism, space

Jul 12
2022

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H.P. Lovecraft is known as the father of the Cosmic Horror genre of fiction. The creator of Cthulhu and many other terrifying dark gods in his novels paints a bleak and decaying view of our world and the Universe. Today we’ll examine what it might imply if that nihilistic and grim view of reality was correct.

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Webb Telescope’s first images are out — here’s the science hiding in the 5 pictures

Posted by Atanas Atanasov in science, space

Jul 12
2022

The first full-color images from the James Webb Telescope are gorgeous, but they’re also full of substantial science.

Images of galaxy clusters, deep fields, dying stars, birthing stars, and exoplanet spectra electrified the astronomy community Tuesday.

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The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works

Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in space

Jul 12
2022

The James Webb Space Telescope has the potential to rewrite the history of the cosmos and reshape humanity’s position within it. But first, a lot of things have to work just right.

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