Leo Villareal’s “Interstellar” Generates the Visual and Sensorial Beauty of Code
A seductive and serene feeling pervades the artist's lighting-based artworks on view at NYC's Pace Gallery
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Useful Secrets Within a 4.2-Billion-Year-Old Asteroid
Three tiny fragments were collected by a Japanese spacecraft in 2005 from a 4.2-billion-year-old asteroid known as Itokawa. Smaller than the diameter of a hair, these components contain information that could help …
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An Astrophysicist on Why We Haven’t Heard From Extraterrestrials, Yet
In a recent paper penned by Amri Wandel, the astrophysicist aims to explain why extraterrestrials still haven’t made contact with us here on Earth. Wandel dives into numbers to illustrate “the size …
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“Cosmic Fingerprint” Captured by James Webb Telescope
Emanated by the duo of stars called the Wolf-Rayet 140 system, 17 dust rings thousands of light years away have been captured by the James Webb Telescope. The image of these concentric …
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NASA Releases “Remix” of Sounds From a Black Hole
NASA has debunked the misconception that space is silent by releasing a “remix” of sound from a black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster, captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory—and it’s haunting. …
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Record-setting diamonds, prehistoric reptiles, a supernova discovery and more from around the web
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James Webb Space Telescope’s First Supernova
While not its primary function, the James Webb Space Telescope might have just found its first supernova. Astronomers have observed a bright object within a galaxy called SDSS.J141930.11+5251593 dimming “just slightly twice …
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Webb’s First Deep Field Image Provides An Astounding View
A super-sharp image of space has been taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, showing thousands of galaxies in just a tiny section of the universe. The shot (known as Webb’s First …
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The Most Detailed Map of the Moon Ever Made
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s Institute of Geochemistry and other organizations worked together to compile all known information about the moon’s surface in a new project that culminated in …