The Milky Way Beyond Earth's Horizon.🔭 International Space Station
Researchers at Microsoft say they have created so-called topological qubits, which would be exceptionally resistant to errors, but their claim has been met with scepticism.
Microsoft has a new quantum computer - but does it actually work?
Researchers at Microsoft say they have created so-called topological qubits, which would be exceptionally resistant to errors, but their claim has been met with scepticism
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Yay! The asteroid 2024 YR4 appears to be even more unlikely to hit us. The y-axis is the time of closest approach, and x is when an estimate of its TCA was made. As of 2/20, the asteroid should pass us at 09:00 ±2ish hours, missing Earth (it has to pass us at 14:00 to hit).
Ned Wright@mapping3k.bsky.social · last yr.Update 2/20/25: the uncertainty has dropped by a factor of 3.7 and the estimated time of closest approach has bounced around but stayed away from the yellow zone, so it is now ~2.5 standard deviations away from impact. The probability of impact should drop significantly.
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj
Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time
The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.
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First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
It is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman's over a century ago.
bbc.co.uk
🌍🛰️ Almost 40% of glaciers in Central Europe were lost between 2000 and 2023. A new study, using data from various satellite observations -including our CryoSat mission- reveals alarming insights about the declining rate of glaciers. Read the full study🔗 esa.int/Applications...
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Corey S. Powell@coreyspowell.bsky.social · last yr.The advances in astronomy during my lifetime have been spectacular. Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time). Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST. 🧪🔭 ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/A...
The Manicouagan Crater from Space.🔭 The Manicouagan Crater Quebec, Canada. International Space Station
At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.
Next month will see two eclipses: 14th March- Partial Lunar Eclipse. 29th March- Partial Solar Eclipse. Visible from the UK and the rest of Europe. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography
New composite image of the Tarantula Nebula from Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory and ALMA Radio Telescope.🔭
#NASARoman: NASA has successfully joined the sunshade to the Roman observatory’s ‘exoskeleton.’ The visor-like sunshade will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope: go.nasa.gov/4hQItFR
Continuing our #ICYMI series on @bsky.app, we bring you the largest photomosaic ever assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of our neighbouring #Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. Access full res 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪
#PPOD: This ESA/Webb picture features the gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly 6 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Crater. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Nierenberg 🧪 🔭
New processing of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large galaxy neighbor. Just under 4 hours with my Seestar S50 🔭🧪 I've been waiting for a few software improvements, and I'm pleased with the results from this beta test! Software: Siril 1.3.6-dev, GraXpert, GIMP
Wow, just look at this perfect Einstein ring captured by the Euclid Telescope. It is almost a perfect circle.🔭
Astronomers have spotted the closest ever Einstein ring, which Albert Einstein himself thought would be impossible to observe. www.newscientist.com/article/2467...
Stunning image shows the closest ever Einstein ring
Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has picked one up just 600 million light years from Earth
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Astronomers discover Quipu, the largest known structure in the universe. Quipu, a massive cosmic structure spanning 1.3 billion light-years, is now the largest known formation in the universe, reshaping our understanding of space. #Astronomy #Space www.thebrighterside.news/post/astrono...
Astronomers discover Quipu, the largest known structure in the universe
Quipu, a massive cosmic structure spanning 1.3 billion light-years, is now the largest known formation in the universe.
thebrighterside.news
Astronomers will turn the James Webb Space Telescope towards asteroid 2024 YR4 next month. The most powerful telescope ever launched into space will provide a more accurate estimate of the size of the asteroid, which has a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2032. blogs.esa.int/rocketscienc...
Our dark Universe detective 🕵️ Euclid has discovered a stunning Einstein ring! 💍 It surrounds galaxy NGC 6505, which is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a distant galaxy behind it. Why is this rare phenomenon so useful for scientists? 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪 #cosmology
Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. It is oriented directly edge-on to us (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko, R. Jansen)
My friend Martin Ratcliffe recently shared his photo montage of the 2023 annular solar eclipse over Bryce Canyon, Utah. I may be biased, but I think it's spectacular (and it got selected for an astronomy picture of the day). 🧪🔭 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23101...
☄️ We aren’t just waiting for an asteroid to strike. We are taking active measures to help Earth defend itself against a potential impact. Which is why we are endorsing the the United Nations' designation of 2029 as the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence.
ESA endorses Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence
The European Space Agency (ESA) has endorsed the United Nations' (UN) designation of 2029 as the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence.The initiative will foster international...
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Hubble has captured this image of the nine rings of LEDA 1313424, nicknamed the Bullseye. Its observations helped confirm a blue dwarf galaxy (seen to its left) flew through the Bullseye 50 million years ago, leaving these rings behind.🔭 Credit: NASA, ESA, I. Pasha (Yale), P. van Dokkum (Yale)
#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented resolution. This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disc surrounded by jets and a disc wind. It is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. 🧪 🔭
It is hard to believe that there are people on this planet who do not believe in climate change.