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Maurice El Medioni, Algerian-born Jewish musician and mentor to young performers, died on 25 March 2024, leaving a legacy of musical production on three continents – Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Maurice El Medioni lived his…

NEW YORK, October 3, 2022 – Recently, nonprofit organizations the Ad Council and Opportunity@Work, alongside nearly 50 national organizations and companies, launched Tear the Paper Ceiling. Announced at an event co-hosted with LinkedIn,…

NEW YORK, October 3, 2022 – Today, nonprofit organizations the Ad Council and Opportunity@Work, alongside nearly 50 national organizations and companies, launched Tear the Paper Ceiling. Announced at an event co-hosted with LinkedIn, the…

  GLASS-z12, a very early galaxy viewed by the James Webb Space TelescopeNaidu et al, P. Oesch, T. Treu, GLASS-JWST, NASA/CSA/ESA/STScI Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to reveal…

2 min read Renowned Mexican mixed-martial artist Irene Aldana teamed up with PETA for a powerful ad, delivering a compelling message about how imperative it is to keep cats indoors. In this knockout campaign, she emphasizes that…

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Our Sun is both our best friend and our worst enemy. On the one hand, we owe our very existence to our star. Earth and the other planets in the Solar System formed out of the same cloud of gas and dust as the Sun. And without its…

Artist’s impression of a planet skimming the surface of its starK. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) At least one star in every 12 seems to be a devourer of planets. This may be because star systems are readily…

Stars of the popular ’90s sitcom “Boy Meets World” have announced they’re working on a new documentary. While appearing at ‘90s Con in Connecticut on Saturday, former castmates Danielle Fishel (Topanga), Rider Strong (Shawn) and Will…

1 IntroductionLow-mass stars with convective outer layers, also known as solar-like stars, can sustain internal dynamos and have the potential to harbor magnetic activity. Magnetic fields and magnetic cycles are generated by an…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) has identified a variety of complex organic molecules that are present in interstellar ices surrounding two protostars. These molecules, which are key ingredients for…

Stars wear pins calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as well as the release of captives at the Academy Awards.Celebrities, including musicians Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Poor Things star Mark Ruffalo, and comedian Ramy…

Some massive white dwarf stars seem to stop ageing for billions of years. Now we may know whyNASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz and University of Cambridge), K. Sahu (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI)…

1 IntroductionBosonic stars are formed when the density of bosons in a region of space becomes high enough to allow them to gravitationally attract each other and form a self-gravitating configuration overcoming their quantum-mechanical…

An artist’s impression of WD 0816-310, where astronomers have found a scar imprinted on its surface left when the star ingested a planetESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have found a white dwarf star with a strange metallic…

Illustration of a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disc of planet-building dustNASA/JPL-Caltech The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which resident space expert Leah Crane…

The Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars might be headed for a showdown in one of the first two rounds of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs. And while regular-season matchups are largely irrelevant once the postseason begins, the Avs have…

Have a professor or service worker in mind who deserves some recognition? Nominate them for Professor of the Year or Stars in Service! The 2024 Professor of the Year and UR Stars In Service Nomination form is accepting…

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star.Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, C. Fransson (Stockholm University), M. Matsuura (Cardiff University), M. J. Barlow (University College…

1. IntroductionIn many respects, observational appearances of neutron stars (NSs) are determined by their spin period and magnetic field. Thus, on the one hand, an understanding of magneto-rotational evolution is necessary to explain…

Sunlift Garage Doors announces its sixth consecutive win of the Home Stars Best of Award for 2024, along with the esteemed Best of the Best Award. We never compromise on the quality of our garage door services.”— Reginald…

Nothing like a little friendly competition to bring an entire community together. On second thought, who are we kidding? The battle is on, bragging rights are up for grabs, and remember, there is no crying in the “Battle of the Stars.”…

For most of humanity’s existence, we have observed the universe using light, but these days photons aren’t the only game in town, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

LOS ANGELES —  Las Vegas will be flooded with so many pre- Super Bowl events that Shaquille O'Neal lowered the prices to his popular carnival-themed "Shaq's Fun House." Instead of raising the rate, O'Neal decided to offer potential…

Hollywood screen siren Stefanie Powers shared a group photo this weekend with some big name actresses.The 81-year-old Hart To Hart looked thrilled to be in the company of her pals from the 1980s.Can you name all of them?With the Hart To…

Hollywood screen siren Stefanie Powers shared a group photo this weekend with some big name actresses.The 81-year-old Hart To Hart looked thrilled to be in the company of her pals from the 1980s.Can you name all of them?With the Hart To…

Could a nearby super Earth host life?Steven Hobbs/Stocktrek Images/Alamy To prepare for one of the most advanced searches for life on other planets, astronomers have examined the stars that a new multibillion-dollar…

Could a nearby super Earth host life?Steven Hobbs/Stocktrek Images/Alamy To prepare for one of the most advanced searches for life on other planets, astronomers have examined the stars that a new multibillion-dollar…

Star-shredding black holes are everywhere in the sky if you just know how to look for them. That’s one message from a new study by MIT scientists, appearing today in the Astrophysical Journal. The study’s…

By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky Way galaxy, MIT physicists have found that stars further out in the galactic disk are traveling more slowly than expected compared to stars that are closer to…

Artist’s impression of a red giant star throwing out a cloud of smoke and dustPublic domain Astronomers have discovered stars that appear to be blowing out plumes of smoke. The “old smokers”, as they have been…

Webb’s image shows a region containing approximately 50 young stars, all of them similar in mass to the Sun, or smaller. The darkest areas are the densest, where thick dust cocoons still-forming protostars. Huge bipolar jets of molecular…

1 IntroductionMassive stars (≳ 8 M⊙) end their lives in spectacular supernovae, leaving behind either a neutron star (NS) or a black hole (BH) (Heger et al., 2003). NSs are very compact (having masses of ≈1.4 M⊙ and radii of ≈10 km), and…

For the first time astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope to study the well-known supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). As described in our latest press release, this work…

CHULA VISTA, CA, UNITED STATES, January 5, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- History and fiction are two genres that, technically, do not go together. However, with a combination of an epic historical war, a narrative about surviving…

The 2023 NIEHS Science, Teachers, and Research Summer (STaRS) Experience attracted 30 science teachers from North Carolina and nearby states. The professional development workshop was held July 10-14 as a virtual event. Teachers also had…

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a stellar explosion throwing out sheets of debris in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy on July 7, 2003. Since its 1990 launch, Hubble has changed our fundamental understanding of…

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® today announced a star-studded lineup of celebrity appearances coming to CES 2024®, January 9-12 in Las Vegas.…

The Webb telescope has opened a new window onto the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. On Dec. 25, NASA will celebrate the two-year launch anniversary of…

MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY IT ALL seemed so simple when we knew the date of Earth’s demise. In 5 billion years from now, so the story went, the solar system will have dramatically transformed. Instead of…

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (AFNS) --  On Dec. 6, NASA announced their newest astronaut candidates. Among the 10 individuals selected was previous 71st Fighter Training Squadron T-38 Talon and…

The remnants of a supernovaMPIA/NASA/Calar Alto Observatory Artificial intelligence can accurately predict the age of supernovae and other rare stellar explosions within milliseconds of a telescope spotting them.…

The central region of the Milky Way galaxy as captured by the Subaru Telescope. The image shows many stars in a field of view about 0.4 light-years across. The star…

An artist’s rendering of the view from LHS 3154b towards its tiny host starPenn State An enormous planet orbiting a tiny star may break our ideas about planet formation. Astronomers have found a world more than 13…

Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you need is your curiosity. Visit the Amazon rainforest, explore faraway…

Artistic impression of a magnetar, where a neutron star emits radio light powered by the energy stored in the ultra-strong magnetic field, causing outburst which are…

Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. In this show, NASA is your tour guide. This season, we fight wildfires, defend the Earth from asteroids, and explore the invisible world of gravitational…

Above, the phase-folded light curve of TOI-4377 b from TESS is shown, with the individual flux observations in blue and the larger white-filled points representing a…