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“When we put everything together, we saw drops in brightness that were not caused by Quaoar, but that pointed to the presence of material in a circular orbit around it,” said Bruno Morgado of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in a statement. “The moment we saw that we said, ‘Okay, we are seeing a ring around Quaoar.’”

Quaoar is part of a collection of about 3,000 dwarf planets known as trans-Neptunian objects, which are beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune.

Scientists are now wondering why the dense material in Quaoar’s ring has not come together to form a small moon, because the ring itself is “at a distance of almost seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar,” the ESA said.

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But the disgraced CRISPR scientist admits his mistakes: “I did it too quickly.”

When dying stars explode as supernovae, they usually eject a chaotic web of dust and gas. But a new image of a supernova’s remains looks completely different — as though its central star sparked a cosmic fireworks display. It is the most unusual remnant that researchers have ever found, and could point to a rare type of supernova that astronomers have long struggled to explain.

“I have worked on supernova remnants for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Robert Fesen, an astronomer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, who imaged the remnant late last year. He reported his findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on 12 January and posted them in a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper on the same day.

An exploration of 8 New Alien Signal SETI Candidates and how they were detected through machine learning technology in previously collected data.

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The Twilight Zone — Season One, Episode Fourteen — Third from the Sun, with Fritz Weaver, Joe Moross, Edward Andrews, Lori March, Denise Alexander, and Jeanne Evans.

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Scientists have developed a molecular compound that’s so effective in killing off disease-causing fungi that it’s been named after Keanu Reeves. The people of Hollywood may as well pack up and finish awards season early this year, because nothing is going to beat this honour. From The Matrix to John Wick, Keanu Reeves has shown us time and time again how much of a badass he is, and now the science world is ready to recognise him for it.

Experts welcome new neuron-density data, but say findings are premature.

Research probes the neurological impact of losing one’s social status.