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“Beyond What’s Possible” – Webb Space Telescope Discovers Mysterious Ancient Galaxies – SciTechDaily
- “Beyond What’s Possible” – Webb Space Telescope Discovers Mysterious Ancient Galaxies SciTechDaily
- James Webb Space Telescope tracks a galaxy’s history back to just after the Big Bang Space.com
- Discovery of unexpected ultramassive galaxies may not rewrite cosmology, but still leaves questions Phys.org
- JWST Discovers Another “Beyond Possible” Galaxy And We Have To Rethink Everything IFLScience
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LeVar Burton discovers he’s descended from Confederate soldier: ‘There’s some conflict roiling inside of me’ – Yahoo Entertainment
- LeVar Burton discovers he’s descended from Confederate soldier: ‘There’s some conflict roiling inside of me’ Yahoo Entertainment
- ‘I Would Have Fought You’: LeVar Burton Claps Back at Troll After Learning His Great-Great-Grandfather Was a White Confederate Soldier Atlanta Black Star
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- ‘Roots’ actor LeVar Burton learns he’s descended from a Confederate soldier on ‘Finding Your Roots’ Yahoo Life
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Baldur’s Gate 3 player discovers disturbing owlbear detail – Dexerto
- Baldur’s Gate 3 player discovers disturbing owlbear detail Dexerto
- BG3 players might want to check their mods still work after horrifying patch discovery Dot Esports
- Baldur’s Gate 3 trickster deals potentially record-breaking damage to a late-game boss by giving them 87000 gold and dealing at least 1160 damage in a single hit Gamesradar
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American Airlines Discovers Fake CFM Engine Parts – Simple Flying
- American Airlines Discovers Fake CFM Engine Parts Simple Flying
- Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, wreaking havoc on flight delays and cancellations as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight Yahoo Finance
- As more airlines find fake parts, Safran CEO says he can’t quantify the scandal’s magnitude: ‘I can’t tell you what I don’t know’ Fortune
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Teen discovers hidden camera in airplane bathroom after taking off in Charlotte – WBTV
- Teen discovers hidden camera in airplane bathroom after taking off in Charlotte WBTV
- Family says 14-year-old daughter discovered iPhone taped to back of toilet seat on flight to Boston The Associated Press
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- Officials investigate after family says their 14-year-old found iPhone taped to a toilet seat on flight to Boston WBUR News
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User discovers brand-new Core i9-13900K turns out to be a 13700K with swapped IHS – VideoCardz.com
- User discovers brand-new Core i9-13900K turns out to be a 13700K with swapped IHS VideoCardz.com
- Intel’s Next-Gen Core i9-14900K 6 GHz CPU Benchmarked: Up To 9% Faster Than 13900K In Single-Core Tests Wccftech
- Intel Core i9-14900K 6.0 GHz ES CPU shows up in first CPU-Z test, 8-10% faster than Core i9-13900K VideoCardz.com
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Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate : ScienceAlert
Paleontologist Matt Friedman was surprised to discover a remarkably detailed 319-million-year-old fish brain fossil while testing out micro-CT scans for a broader project.
“It had all these features, and I said to myself, ‘Is this really a brain that I’m looking at?'” says Friedman from University of Michigan.
“So, I zoomed in on that region of the skull to make a second, higher-resolution scan, and it was very clear that that’s exactly what it had to be. And it was only because this was such an unambiguous example that we decided to take it further.”
Usually, the only remaining traces of such ancient life are from more easily preserved hard parts of animals, like their bones, since soft tissues degrade quickly.
But in this case, a dense mineral, possibly pyrite, seeped in and replaced tissue that had likely been preserved for longer in a low-oxygen environment. This allowed scans to pick up what look like cranial nerve and soft tissue details of the small fish, Coccocephalus wildi.
The ancient specimen is the only one of its kind, so despite having been in the hands of researchers since it was first described in 1925, this feature remained hidden as scientists would not risk invasive methods of investigation.
“Here we’ve found remarkable preservation in a fossil examined several times before by multiple people over the past century,” explains Friedman.
“But because we have these new tools for looking inside of fossils, it reveals another layer of information to us.”
This prehistoric estuary fish likely hunted insects, small crustaceans, and cephalopods, chasing them with fins supported by bony rods called rays.
Ray-finned fish, subclass Actinopterygii, make up over half of all living backboned animals alive today, including tuna and seahorses, and 96 percent of all fish.
This group split from lobe-finned fishes – some of which eventually became our own ancestors – about 450 million years ago. C. wildi then took its own evolutionary path from the groups of fishes still living today around tens of millions of years ago.
“Analyses place this taxon outside the group containing all living ray-finned fish species,” University of Michigan paleontologist Rodrigo Figueroa and colleagues write in their paper.
“Details of the brain structure in Coccocephalus therefore have implications for interpretations of neural morphology during the early evolutionary stages of a major vertebrate lineage.”
Some brain features would have been lost to decay and the preservation process, but the team could still make out specific morphological details. This allowed them to see that the way this prehistoric forebrain developed was more like ours than the rest of the living ray-finned fishes alive today.
“Unlike all living ray-finned fishes, the brain of Coccocephalus folds inward,” notes Friedman. “So, this fossil is capturing a time before that signature feature of ray-finned fish brains evolved. This provides us with some constraints on when this trait evolved – something that we did not have a good handle on before the new data on Coccocephalus.”
This inward fold is known as an evaginated forebrain – like in us, the two brain hemispheres end up embracing a hollow space like a ‘c’ and its mirror image joined together. By comparison, everted forebrains seen in still-living ray-finned fishes have two puffed-up lobes instead, with only a thin crevice between them.
The researchers are keen to scan other fish fossils in the museum’s collections to see what other signs of soft tissue may be hiding within.
“An important conclusion is that these kinds of soft parts can be preserved, and they may be preserved in fossils that we’ve had for a long time – this is a fossil that’s been known for over 100 years,” says Friedman.
“That’s why holding onto the physical specimens is so important. Because who knows, in 100 years, what people might be able to do with the fossils in our collections now.”
This research was published in Nature.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers ice at ringed asteroid Chariklo
The most comprehensive plans need a sprinkle of luck, even in space.
In October 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) watched as Chariklo, a tiny ringed asteroid, eclipsed a star. This event, called an occultation, marked a first for Webb. At the month’s end, Webb turned toward Chariklo again and notched another victory: For the first time, astronomers analyzing the telescope’s data spotted clear signs of water ice, the presence of which was only hinted at until now. These observations will guide astronomers to better understand the nature and behavior of tiny bodies in the outer reaches of our solar system.
But the two feats almost did not happen.
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Although it is the largest of its kind, Chariklo is still too small and too far for even the mighty Webb to photograph directly. Instead, astronomers decided to study it through occultation, which is an indirect but powerful method to study small bodies like Chariklo. But the team did not know if and when a star — without which an occultation would not occur — would fall into Webb’s field of view. This made Chariklo part of Webb’s target of opportunity (opens in new tab) program: If the asteroid happened to cross in front of a star, the program would allow astronomers to temporarily interrupt the telescope’s schedule to observe the event.
The team calculated only a 50% chance that Webb would spot a star bright enough with an interesting object like Chariklo crossing in front. After its launch in 2021, as Webb went through routine course corrections to hold it steady in its parking spot in space, the team continued predicting and revising its list of possible occultations. Late last year, astronomers ended up on the favorable side of that 50% when they discovered “by remarkable good luck” that Chariklo was on track to occult a star that also fell into Webb’s view.
“This was the first stellar occultation attempted with Webb,” the team wrote in a NASA statement (opens in new tab) published Wednesday (Jan. 25). “A lot of hard work went into identifying and refining the predictions for this unusual event.”
On Oct. 18, 2022, Chariklo and its system of two rings crossed in front of a star. Using Webb’s near-infrared camera (NIRCam), astronomers monitored the star’s brightness for an hour. Resulting data showed two dips in the star’s brightness as expected: When the asteroid’s rings first hid the star as the eclipse began, and again when the last of its rings wrapped up the occultation.
“The shadows produced by Chariklo’s rings were clearly detected,” the team wrote in the statement, “demonstrating a new way of using Webb to explore solar system objects.”
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Objects like Chariklo are called centaurs, thanks to their hybrid nature. (Centaurs are mythological horse-human hybrids.) They look like asteroids but behave like comets — complete with visible tails. Their home, an unstable orbit between Jupiter and Neptune, hosts thousands of centaurs of varying shapes and sizes. As interesting as they are, their small size and vast distance make them difficult to study. The composition of even the biggest centaur, Chariklo — which is still tiny at just 160 miles (250 km) in diameter and distant at a whooping 2 billion miles (3.2 billion km) from us — is poorly understood. Also, past research hinted at water ice somewhere in Chariklo’s system, but had yet to conclusively detect it.
In this latest research, astronomers pointed Webb at Chariklo again. This time, they used the telescope’s Near-infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument to measure the sunlight reflected by Chariklo and its two rings. The resulting spectrum showed three absorption bands of water ice, marking the first clear indication of crystalline ice.
The presence of crystalline ice likely indicates that Chariklo is subject to constant bombardment, according to Dean Hines, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland. “Because high-energy particles transform ice from crystalline into amorphous states, detection of crystalline ice indicates that the Chariklo system experiences continuous micro-collisions that either expose pristine material or trigger crystallization processes,” Hines said in NASA’s statement.
Read more: Centaurs Rising: NASA Eyes Missions to Weird Asteroid-Comet Hybrids
Astronomers have gotten one step closer to studying the Chariklo system, but there is still much that remains unknown about the centaur. The spectrum analyzed in the latest research includes information about the system as a whole, but at the moment, it is difficult to distinguish the data between Chariklo and its two rings.
For example, although astronomers spotted the first clear signs for crystalline water ice, they do not yet know for sure where in the asteroid’s system the ice is present. In the coming months, researchers hope to use Webb’s high sensitivity to dig up individual features of Chariklo and its two rings, Pablo Santos-Sanz, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Spain who took part in this research, said in the statement.
“We hope [to] gain insight into why this small body even has rings at all, and perhaps detect new fainter rings,” Santos-Sanz said.
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NASA’s James Webb Telescope Discovers Star Formation In Dusty Ribbons Of A Cluster
NGC 346, shown here in this image from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA’s James Webb telescope, described as the world’s most powerful telescope, captured some stunning images of our universe last year, captivating space enthusiasts. Now, the telescope has found a star formation in a dynamic cluster that lies within a nebula 200,000 light years away, as per the American space agency.
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) star-forming region NGC 346 is one of the most dynamic in nearby galaxies. The SMC is a dwarf galaxy close to the Milky Way with lower metal concentrations. Since metals, which are heavier than hydrogen or helium, make up the majority of space dust grains, scientists predicted that there would be little dust and that it would be challenging to detect. However, the data released by the space agency states the opposite.
Stars across the spectrum! ⭐
These two views of NGC 346 show a dynamic, massive star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way.
What’s going on in NGC 346? pic.twitter.com/UrItoCROR9
— Hubble (@NASAHubble) January 11, 2023
Margaret Meixner, an astronomer at the Universities Space Research Association and principal investigator of the research team said in a press release, “A galaxy during cosmic noon wouldn’t have one NGC 346 like the Small Magellanic Cloud does; it would have thousands” of star-forming regions like this one. But even if NGC 346 is now the one and only massive cluster furiously forming stars in its galaxy, it offers us a great opportunity to probe conditions that were in place at cosmic noon.”
By observing protostars that are still forming, scientists can assess whether the star formation process in the SMC varies from what is observed in the Milky Way. The primary focus of earlier infrared observations of NGC 346 was protostars with masses greater than five to eight times that of the Sun.
NASA states that as stars form, they collect gas and dust from the surrounding molecular cloud, “which appears as ribbons in Webb imagery.” Astronomers have previously detected gas around protostars in NGC 346 but the telescope’s near-infrared observations are the first to detect dust in these discs.
“We’re seeing the building blocks, not only of stars, but also potentially of planets,” said Guido De Marchi of the European Space Agency, a co-investigator on the research team, in a press release. He continued, “And since the Small Magellanic Cloud has a similar environment to galaxies during cosmic noon, it’s possible that rocky planets could have formed earlier in the universe than we might have thought.”
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