A satellite launched when slide rules still ruled has jolted astronomers in 2025. NASA’s Relay 2, silent since the summer of 1967, fired off a single radio pulse so bright it briefly eclipsed every cosmic source above Earth.
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James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems
So much for heliocentrism.
An international team of astronomers using observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence of massive planets out there that’re capable of forming their own planetary systems — without a…
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Sharpest-ever images of the Sun’s surface reveal magnetic ‘stripes’
The sun never sits still, yet until recently our best snapshots blurred its fine threads. Now an image set from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on Haleakalā resolves details just 20 kilometers wide, letting researchers watch bright and dark…
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