Tsunami warning for Japan's north east coast after a large earthquake.
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#earthquake
#tsunami
#Japan
www.bbc.com/news/live/c0...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Detecting these fragile compounds intact in extraterrestrial material fills a major gap in our models. It supports the theory that the core chemical ingredients for life were delivered to the early Earth by asteroid impacts.
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Maja Lujan Niemeyer and a team including Penn State scientists used Line Intensity Mapping to identify these hidden structures. By sifting through half a petabyte of data, they showed how intergalactic gas influenced the formation of early stars.
2/2 University of Washington researcher Andy Tzanidakis found the star dimming as a huge cloud of hot dust blocked its light. Professor James Davenport notes this crash happened at an Earth-like distance, which could help explain how our own Moon formed.
1/2 Astronomers just spotted a rare planetary collision around the star Gaia20ehk. It is giving us a real-time look at the violent impacts that shape young solar systems. 🔭💥🪐🧪
#Exoplanets #Physics
Paper
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
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"Whether this reflects a genuine change in the near-Earth meteoroid environment, an amplification of reporting through AI and social media, or some combination of both, we cannot yet say definitively. What we can say is that the question deserves both public awareness and scientific attention"
Kenneth Becker
Kenneth Becker
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Astronomers have created the largest 3D map of hydrogen light from the early universe. Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, the team mapped a "sea of light" from faint galaxies existing 9 to 11 billion years ago
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#HETDEX
#Cosmology
Paper
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Update from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Over 11,000 new asteroids discovered.
Official article in the link
#VeraCRubin
#solarsystem
🧪🔭☄️📷
rubinobservatory.org/news/11000-n...
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On March 16, researchers confirmed that all five primary nucleobases of DNA and RNA are present in space. By finding the final missing ones on the asteroid Ryugu, we now have the complete set.
Paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#Astrobiology
#OriginOfLife
#abiogenesis
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This is a good write up from the AMS
The AMS has detected a measurable, unexplained change in fireball data.
"After years of stable baseline activity, something appears to have shifted in Q1 2026, and the signal is consistent across multiple metrics."
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#Meteors
#Fireball
#Bolide
