Ancient Star Seen Zooming Through Space at 600 Kilometers Per Second

(07-08-2025, 10:19 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Scientist or Science have a lot to learn from this object about our Sun & Solar System.
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NASA recently spotted 3i Atlas, a strange comet-like object, racing through the *solar system* at incredible speed. This *cosmic phenomena* challenges our understanding of comets.
https://youtu.be/gN7bYQM7yy0?si=A2DmshCK267hAL4H
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(21-08-2025, 01:42 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  NASA recently spotted 3i Atlas, a strange comet-like object, racing through the *solar system* at incredible speed. This *cosmic phenomena* challenges our understanding of comets.
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Quantum-Level Confirmation of Angular Momentum Conservation: Physicists first time, shown a single photon obeys nature’s strictest rules: Achieved only once in a billion attempts. A needle-in-a-haystack success proves a cornerstone law of physics @smallest scale path advanced quantum technologies, from entangled states to secure communication. ✓Schematic of a single photon with zero angular momentum (green) splitting into 2-photons (red) w/either zero or opposite angular momenta (sketched through the spatially varying color), adds up to zero confirming fundamental angular momentum conservation law. Credit: Robert Fickler / Tampere University.

1 - 1 Equals Zero: A rule, photon w/o OAM splits into 2, resulting photons must cancel each other out. For instance, Put simply, equation 1 + (-1) = 0 must always hold, rules has tested many-times in laser-based optics experiments. OAM is conserved when a single photon drives process confirms a conservation law @most fundamental level, Dr. Lea Kopf, lead. Only a billionth photon is converted photon pair, such measuring conservation OAM for single photons resembles confirm fundamental conservation law. First Signs of Quantum Entanglement confirming OAM conservation, suggests technique can be extended to create complex photonic quantum states, i.e., in space, time polarization. Prof. Robert Fickler, who Experimental Quantum Optics group.

Future Directions in Quantum Photonics
Researchers overall efficiency scheme develop better strategies mean generated future photonic needles can be found in laboratory haystack, aim at leveraging generated multi-photon quantum states for novel fundamental quantum tests, quantum photonics applications such as quantum communication network schemes.

Harvard and MIT Scientists Create Never-Before-Seen Form of Matter
Photons Traverse Optical Obstacles as Both a Wave and Particle Simultaneously
New System Converts Laser Beam Into Controlled Stream of Single Photons
Molecules as Antennas Transmit Signals of Single Photons
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(07-08-2025, 10:19 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Scientist or or Science have a lot to learn from this object about our Sun and Solar System.
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NASA's Plan to Intercepted as it nearer to enter our Solar System, this object..is very fast travelling too fast. I think NASA have problems... Tongue
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(21-08-2025, 01:42 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  NASA recently spotted 3i Atlas, a strange comet-like object, racing through the *solar system* at incredible speed.
https://youtu.be/gN7bYQM7yy0?si=A2DmshCK267hAL4H

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NASA news on 3i Atlas, strange comet-like racing through our *solar system* at incredible speed. Like a *cosmic phenomena* challenges our understanding of comets **astronomy**. think this as a new era for **space science**?. Something sometime, our thinking, think is like a easy work. Big Grin
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(24-05-2025, 12:45 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  From 16 Million Kilometers Away!. NASA has just pulled off a groundbreaking achievement that feels straight out of science fiction. A laser message from space has traveled a staggering 16 million kilometers, setting the stage for a new era in space communication. Over 14 billion miles beyond Earth, NASA's famous spacecraft, launched in 1977

Voyager 1 how many miles from earth?.
15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth, making it the farthest human-made object in space. This equates to roughly 166.278 AU (Astronomical Units) away from Earth.

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the Solar System's edge, and the interstellar medium between the stars. One by one, they both hit the "wall of fire" at the boundaries of our home system, measuring temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin (54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit) on their passage through it.....Big NASA news: Voyager 1 starts exhibiting unusual behavior – it hasn’t done this since the ’80s. https://share.google/GUI26Lzk8wD4fdWfI
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(23-08-2025, 10:40 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the Solar System's edge, and the interstellar medium between the stars. One by one, they both hit the "wall of fire" at the boundaries of our home system, measuring temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin (54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit) on their passage through it.....Big NASA news: Voyager 1 starts exhibiting unusual behavior – it hasn’t done this since the ’80s. https://share.google/GUI26Lzk8wD4fdWfI

Big NASA news: Voyager 1 starts exhibiting unusual behavior – it hasn’t done this since the ’80s. Too big, too strange — This new planet?. is rewriting space science. Strange space body stuns NASAIt failed as a star, but won’t stop burning. Strange red dots spotted across deep space. Astronomers baffled by their shape and size?.

& half of 50 yrs, NASA Voyager 1 spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In Oct went through a complete communication blackout, after weeks of quietness, NASA engineers recapture contact through an alternate transmitter been in dormancy for more than 40 yrs? What’s incredible is proves wonderfully ingenious, team manage it>>15 mil miles been able to create things. Voyager 1 struggles to generate own power: So shutdown systems central to fault protection. Voyager 1’s fault protection system activated, indicating an increase in power consumption on Oct-16. It auto shuts down all non-vital systems to conserve power, however, also cuts off primary X-band transmitter – the major communication ticket w/Earth caused signal can't received by NASA’s Deep Space Network. Engineers immediately acted to clear problem, trying talk once again. By-18th, faint X-band signals detected but disappeared on following day, turned spacecraft quiet...The starting point could be a very high-stakes diagnostic process complicated by distance between Voyager 1 to Earth: 23 hrs per signal travel hence, every step required extraordinary precision patience, further investigation revealed autonomous switch on Voyager 1 had occurred to backup S-band transmitter intended for early mission use, never turned on since 1981. The signal was weaker from this transmitter, making things even more difficult, team NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) pressed on, pushed ahead w/doing everything could to get communications restored. Voyager 1 has since lived long because, although its technology is aging, it still stands in resilience to show forth NASA’s prescience inventiveness. Recent communication difficulties only amplify demand for fragility room for innovation in such long-term missions, all consolidate Voyager 1’s recognition as a special testament to human curiosity and perseverance. Reuniting w/Voyager 1 spacecraft is nothing but a feather in the cap for exploration and ingenuity. Now engineers are at work trying to restore its X-band transmitter, vehicle serve as inspiration to scientists & dreamers alike. Victory through adversity, Voyager 1 illustrates infinite expansion of science, even such distance, still reminds us our reach extends to stars, continuing its legacy of discovery.
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(23-08-2025, 11:34 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Big NASA news: Voyager 1 starts exhibiting unusual behavior – it hasn’t done this since the ’80s. Too big, too strange — This new planet?. is rewriting space science. Strange space body stuns NASAIt failed as a star, but won’t stop burning. Strange red dots spotted across deep space. Astronomers baffled by their shape and size?.

& half of 50 yrs, NASA Voyager 1 spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In Oct went through a complete communication blackout, after weeks of quietness, NASA engineers recapture contact through an alternate transmitter been in dormancy for more than 40 yrs? What’s incredible is proves wonderfully ingenious, team manage it>>15 mil miles been able to create things. Voyager 1 struggles to generate own power: So shutdown systems central to fault protection. Voyager 1’s fault protection system activated, indicating an increase in power consumption on Oct-16. It auto shuts down all non-vital systems to conserve power, however, also cuts off primary X-band transmitter – the major communication ticket w/Earth caused signal can't received by NASA’s Deep Space Network. Engineers immediately acted to clear problem, trying talk once again. By-18th, faint X-band signals detected but disappeared on following day, turned spacecraft quiet...The starting point could be a very high-stakes diagnostic process complicated by distance between Voyager 1 to Earth: 23 hrs per signal travel hence, every step required extraordinary precision patience, further investigation revealed autonomous switch on Voyager 1 had occurred to backup S-band transmitter intended for early mission use, never turned on since 1981. The signal was weaker from this transmitter, making things even more difficult, team NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) pressed on, pushed ahead w/doing everything could to get communications restored. Voyager 1 has since lived long because, although its technology is aging, it still stands in resilience to show forth NASA’s prescience inventiveness. Recent communication difficulties only amplify demand for fragility room for innovation in such long-term missions, all consolidate Voyager 1’s recognition as a special testament to human curiosity and perseverance. Reuniting w/Voyager 1 spacecraft is nothing but a feather in the cap for exploration and ingenuity. Now engineers are at work trying to restore its X-band transmitter, vehicle serve as inspiration to scientists & dreamers alike. Victory through adversity, Voyager 1 illustrates infinite expansion of science, even such distance, still reminds us our reach extends to stars, continuing its legacy of discovery.

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/nasa-voyage...e_vignette
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(23-08-2025, 11:27 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  #jameswebbspacetelescope
NASA on 3i Atlas, strange comet-like racing through our *solar system* at incredible speed. Like a *cosmic phenomena* challenges our understanding of comets astronomy. think this as a new era for space science?. Something sometime, our thinking, think is like a easy work. Big Grin

This morning, THE TIMES of London published an excellent article about my open-minded view on nature of the new interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Reporter messaged me spent half an hour telling the story “They were absolutely gripped,” he wrote. In a follow-up radio interview, I asked myself: “Will I be happier if future data on 3I/ATLAS in next couple of mths shows it be a natural comet rather than a spacecraft?” My answer was: “Yes would be relieved to know is an icy rock, b'cos in that case humanity'll not face risk.”

But in another Q&A on Zoom over a hundred high net-worth individuals, I asked why they should invest in my research? I explained that an encounter with alien technology might have great financial benefits in case we access future technologies that take us a long time to develop on our own. In such a discovery may inspire us to reach interstellar space, beyond our current travel plans for the Moon and Mars. So to establishing an alert system of monitors & interceptors around Sun to protect Earth from a global threat by alien technology & inform us on what else lies beyond our current horizon.

In a subsequent podcast recording, I clarified, I'm not naïve, so I realize our financial or political systems respond to such a potential threat in earnest only after our first encounter with alien technology. Tobe aware of encounter, we must study each of dozens of interstellar objects that we discovered  by new NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory in next decade using best telescopes at our disposal.
The discovery of an extraterrestrial artifact would reset our priorities to explore beyond Earth instead of just focusing on terrestrial conflicts. Humanity desperately needs a wakeup call. With perspective in mind, be better if 3I/ATLAS happens to be a spacecraft?.

Complacency with traditional ideas is the enemy of scientific curiosity. A threat to astro-archaeology a research frontier in search of interstellar artifacts. insist that all interstellar objects are rocks. archeologists were convinced digging deep into ground would only uncover rocks, they would have never invested time & resources in searching for artifacts. The 2nd biggest threat to discovery might be artifacts are too rare in interstellar space for us to find any of them. Only way to figure out how rare they are is to search for them. Their scarcity away from Earth might be compensated for by mission to visit the habitable regions around stars.

Our search could be far more efficient if we were to deploy large telescopes with survey volumes that outperform the Rubin Observatory. We should always keep in mind the possibility of a Trojan Horse appears as a rock from outside but carries sophisticated technologies in its belly. The way to unravel its nature would be to detect the heat or artificial signals emitted by its engine or to notice unusual maneuvers. Given risk from alien technologies never documented in recent centuries, one wonder whether we can assume risk must be low on an annual basis. This argument loses its validity if a visit is triggered by our latest technological advances which attract alien attention.

A lack of curiosity about interstellar objects maintain our ignorance about frequency of technological fly-bys, unaware of communication satellites flying over our heads, incurious attitude serves function of blinders that restrict peripheral vision of horses by preventing from noticing events outside boundaries of that they are supposed to follow. In recent days, I received many message suggesting consideration of 3I/ATLAS as a possible alien technology inspires the public. Science is supposed to appeal to public b'cos it supported by taxes. Yet, when discussion on 3I/ATLAS became viral, several colleagues chose to throw cold water arguing based on preliminary data 3I/ATLAS must be a comet. Science work in progress, Insisting 3I/ATLAS must be a comet is unwise, it does not exhibit a cometary tail & trajectory. As of now, glow of light ahead of 3I/ATLAS can be maintained for 6 mths by ablation of a millimeter-thick layer of dirt on surface of a 20-kilometer object.

Last week, I hired 4 new postdoctoral fellows, all excited to join Galileo Project in search for extraterrestrial artifacts,
way to encourage fledgling scientists to innovate is allowing them to explore ideas outside beaten path. Major discoveries are definition, unexpected. Latest data on 3I/ATLAS, I rank it so far as `4’ on the Loeb Scale of interstellar technological threats ranges 0 to 10. Having a 40% chance. Of course, 3I/ATLAS might be an unusually large comet on rare trajectory. Given scarcity of large interstellar comets, worthwhile to collect as much data on it as possible as it approaches Sun. It their arrival to our backyard saves us the need to take lengthy trip. Astro-archeology does not imagine every interstellar object near Earth to be of alien manufacture, does ask that we evaluate every interstellar object near earth object for its potential to be of alien manufacture. Science offers us best way to satisfy curiosity through the collection of data. Open-minded appeals to public is way for scientists to stay relevant to society.
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(07-08-2025, 10:19 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Scientist or Science have lot to learn from this object about our Sun & Solar System.
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3I/ATLAS is Large and Releases Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Avi Loeb
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Above are three images of 3I/ATLAS, taken by SPHEREx Space Observatory. 

The images were observed at wavelengths of 3.0, 4.26, and 4.7 micrometers, corresponding to prominent emission lines of H2O, CO2 
and CO gas, from >>>@ left to right respectively. 3I/ATLAS is undetected in H2O & CO. By contrast, a bright CO2 cloud is observed out to at least 348,000 km. (Credit: C.M. Lisse et al, 2025)

The team of NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory just reported tantalizing new data on the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (accessible here). The observations were made between August 8–12, 2025 when 3I/ATLAS was at distance from Sun of 3.2 times the Earth-Sun separation (AU) at a distance from ✓>Earth of 2.6 AU.
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(25-08-2025, 01:17 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  3I/ATLAS is Large and Releases Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Avi Loeb
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Above are three images of 3I/ATLAS, taken by SPHEREx Space Observatory. 

The images were observed at wavelengths of 3.0, 4.26, and 4.7 micrometers, corresponding to prominent emission lines of H2O, CO2 
and CO gas, from >>>@ left to right respectively. 3I/ATLAS is undetected in H2O & CO. By contrast, a bright CO2 cloud is observed out to at least 348,000 km. (Credit: C.M. Lisse et al, 2025)

The team of NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory just reported tantalizing new data on the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (accessible here). The observations were made between August 8–12, 2025 when 3I/ATLAS was at distance from Sun of 3.2 times the Earth-Sun separation (AU) at a distance from ✓>Earth of 2.6 AU,.

The new observations reveal a cloud of carbon dioxide (CO2) around 3I/ATLAS corresponding to a mass loss rate of about 70 kilograms per second. No water (H2O) cloud was detected with an upper limit of 4.5 kg per second on water mass loss rate. This is an order of magnitude below the previous claims of water detection with a mass loss rate of order 40 kilograms per second at a larger distance from Sun of 3.5 AU. These early claims from two research teams were unsubstantiated by the reported data, as I argued in a previous essay (accessible here). The excellent SPHEREx report notes that “The lack of a bright water gas coma is Thinking puzzling as 3I/ATLAS was not too far outside Solar system’s “water ice line” at 2.5 AU during the observations.”


Although no water (H2O) in gas form was identified, some absorption features in the reflected spectrum from the surface of 3I/ATLAS were consistent with a mix of water & carbon dioxide ices combined with organics, as often found on surfaces of Kuiper belt objects in the Solar system which are similarly exposed to interstellar cosmic-rays. Could it be that 3I/ATLAS is not a water-rich comet as envisioned by comet experts when it was discovered?

SPHEREx images show 3I/ATLAS as a point source. No dust coma resolved, implying that the glow of scattered sunlight around object in its Hubble Space Telescope image is compact & amounts to a small amount of dust.

SPHEREx images were taken at specific wavelengths near the characteristic emission lines of water-H2O (3.0 micrometers), carbon dioxide-CO2 (4.26 micrometers) and carbon monoxide-CO (4.7 micrometers). No coma was detected in water or carbon monoxide. However, CO2 image shows a symmetric cloud around I/ATLAS with a brightness that declines with projected distance to power of -3/2 out to distances of at least 348,000 kilometers. This corresponds to a steeply declining CO2 density with 3D-radius to the power of -2.5. Stories from Avi Lowb's.
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James Webb Space Telescope takes 1st look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unexpected results.  NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical contents of its halo.
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NASA’s Voyager spacecraft is on the verge of making history by becoming the first human-made object to travel a full light-day away from Earth—a distance so vast that light itself takes 24 hours to cover it. This awe-inspiring milestone, set for November 2026, reminds us just how colossal the universe truly is and how tiny our fastest spacecraft seem in comparison.

Launched back in 1977, Voyager 1 has journeyed nearly 16 billion miles from Earth and is still sending signals home as it ventures further into the vastness of space. Crossing the light-day mark is not just about numbers—it’s a tribute to human curiosity, endurance, and our desire to reach beyond what was once thought possible.

The remarkable journey of Voyager 1 beyond the solar system
Voyager 1 is much more than an old spacecraft; it is a trailblazer that first crossed the heliopause, marking the boundary where the solar wind from our Sun gives way to the mysterious realm of interstellar space. Moving at roughly 38,000 miles per hour, it has steadily traveled outward for decades. Yet, despite its incredible speed, radio signals from Voyager take nearly 24 hours to make the trip back to Earth.

On November 15, 2026, Voyager will be 16 billion miles from Earth—matching the distance light travels in a day. By January 28, 2027, it will also reach that same light-day mark from the Sun. This isn’t just a cold statistic but a testament to how far human ingenuity and ambition can stretch. It’s inspiring to think that a tiny probe launched before the personal computer era has kept moving forward into the unknown, carrying priceless data and digital greetings into deep space.

This journey serves as a vivid reminder of just how enormous space is and how each step beyond our solar system opens new windows into the universe’s vast mysteries.

Why traveling at light speed will remain a dream for now.
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(26-08-2025, 10:39 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  James Webb Space Telescope takes 1st look@interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unexpected results. NASA's $10 bil space telescope studied 3rd interstellar object that enter solar system, measuring
chemical contents of its halo.

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NASA’s brand-new SPHEREx telescope has made its first discovery: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Faster and larger than any visitor before it, ATLAS is rich in carbon dioxide, with only faint traces of water and carbon monoxide. Together with JWST and Hubble, SPHEREx is revealing what this alien traveler is — and isn’t.
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(28-08-2025, 11:06 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  NASA’s brand-new SPHEREx telescope has made its first discovery: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Faster and larger than any visitor before it, ATLAS is rich in carbon dioxide, with only faint traces of water and carbon monoxide. Together with JWST and Hubble, SPHEREx is revealing what this alien traveler is — and isn’t.

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The 3I/ATLAS latest been said to be at 2.85 astronomical units from the Sun & 
expected to reach the perihelion (closest approach) of the Sun on October 30, newfound discoveries of its chemical composition also attributing to its antiquity dating at least seven billion years old, calls for a retrograde approach in research, combined by the JSWT (James Webb Space Telescope), NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) funded by NASA based out of Chile,which lead the investigation for the third-ever interstellar object set to pass our solar system.

According to NASA, 3I ATLAS comet, was formed in another star system which was likely ejected into interstellar space, a space between the stars, and has been travelling millions and billions of years. Its source is said to be the constellation Sagittarius, which is where the center of our galaxy Milky Way is located.

Also read: What happens when comets get close to sun? New findings from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on 3I/ATLAS
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Scientists traced a brightest known fast radio burst to its origin in space, a milestone achievement hope will provide clues about what's driving these mysterious cosmic flashes. Powerful signal, FRB 20250316A, was 1st spotted in March by Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, a radio telescope in British Columbia.Scientists have traced brightest known fast radio burst to its origin in [u]space[/u], a milestone achievement they hope will provide clues what's driving these mysterious cosmic flashes. 
The powerful signal, FRB 20250316A, was first spotted in March by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, a radio telescope in British Columbia. Burst lasted less than 1-thousandth of a second but carried more energy than the [u]sun[/u] produces in 4 days. 
What set this event apart was what happened next. Using a new network of CHIME "Outrigger" stations — three miniature versions of the radio antenna in California, West Virginia, and British Columbia — researchers were able to home in on the burst’s location. That led them to a specific spot in the [u]spiral galaxy[/u] NGC 4141, about 130 million [u]light-years[/u] away in the Big Dipper constellation. Scientists say that kind of accuracy is unprecedented for a single burst of this magnitude. Amanda Cook, a McGill University researcher who led one of the studies, likened the precision to spotting a quarter from more than 60 miles away result marks a turning point: Instead of just detecting these mysterious flashes, we can now see exactly where they’re coming from," Cook said in [u]a statement[/u]. "It opens the door to discovering whether they’re caused by dying stars, exotic magnetic objects, or something we haven’t thought of yet." Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were 1st discovered in 2007, thousands have detected since. They super-short flashes of radio energy[b] from distant galaxies. Historically, they have vanished too quickly to analyze — faster than the blink of an eye — leaving their origins uncertain, [/b]this radio burst, nicknamed RBFLOAT for Radio Brightest Flash of All Time, was so powerful, it gave researchers a chance. Several teams quickly mobilized investigate, producing
2[u] papers[/u]  in [u]The Astrophysical Journal Letters[/u]. What set apart was what happened next. Using a new network of CHIME "Outrigger" stations — three miniature versions of the radio antenna in California, West Virginia, and British Columbia — researchers able to home in on burst’s location led them to a specific spot in spiral galaxy NGC 4141, about 130 million light-years away in the Big Dipper constellation.

Scientists say accuracy unprecedented for a single burst of this magnitude. Amanda Cook, a McGill University researcher who led studies, likened the precision to spotting a quarter from more than 60 miles away, "result marks a turning point: Instead of just detecting these mysterious flashes, we can now see exactly where they’re coming from," Cook said in a statement. "It opens door to discovering whether they’re caused by dying stars, exotic magnetic objects, or something we haven’t thought of yet." Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, were first discovered in 2007, thousands have been detected since. They are super-short flashes of radio energy from distant galaxies. Historically, they have vanished too quickly to analyzefaster than the blink of an eye — leaving their origins uncertain, this radio burst, nicknamed RBFLOAT for Radio Brightest Flash of All Time, was so powerful, it gave researchers that chance. Several teams quickly mobilized to investigate, producing two papers that appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

It so bright our pipeline initially flagged it as radio frequency interference, signals often caused by cell phones or airplanes that are much closer to home," said Wen-fai Fong, a coauthor from Northwestern University, in a statement. "It took some sleuthing by members our collaboration to uncover it was a real astrophysical signal.” The CHIME team provided the initial detection & pinpointed signal’s origin. Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii MMT Observatory in Arizona then studied the host galaxy and found that the burst came from just outside a star-forming region. B'cos area was relatively clear of gas & dust, telescopes could get rare unobstructed view. While scientists using James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA its European and Canadian counterparts, examined same spot in invisible infrared light & detected a faint glow. They think it could be a red giant — a puffed-up old star — or even residual heat from the radio blast itself. This marked the first time a possible stellar companion has been linked directly to a fast radio burst.

"This was a unique opportunity to quickly turn JWST’s powerful infrared eye on the location of an FRB for the first time," said Peter Blanchard, a Harvard researcher who led the Webb study, in a statement. "And we were rewarded with an exciting result — we see a faint source of infrared light very close to where the radio burst occurred. This could be the first object linked to an FRB that anyone has found in another galaxy." The observations taken together point to magnetars — super-magnetic dead-star remnants — as leading candidates for producing RBFLOAT (Get it? Like a root beer float). CHIME researchers saw that the burst’s position, near a nursery of young stars, fits the mold of a magnetar that formed inside the stellar clump and drifted outward. Suggests RBFLOAT may have been a one-time explosion, bolstering the idea that multiple catalysts could potentially trigger these bursts. Some fast radio bursts repeat often, while others, like this one, appear to be isolated events. The achievement also showcases growing capability of new telescope networks. By linking antennas, the CHIME/Outrigger system essentially functions as one giant continent-wide telescope. That allowed astronomers to shrink uncertainty of RBFLOAT’s position to within 45 light-years — smaller than a single star clusterScientists say this is just the beginning. CHIME is expected to trace hundreds of bursts each year. With Webb and ground-based observatories ready to follow up, astronomers hope to finally learn what powers these fleeting but colossal explosions
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Repetitive radio bursts from deep space hit Earth hundreds of times - Earth.com https://share.google/XT0665697GR7sc7mh
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(30-08-2025, 10:21 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Repetitive radio bursts from deep space hit Earth hundreds of times - Earth.com https://share.google/XT0665697GR7sc7mh

Highly ordered polarization and fast microstructure often point to emission produced in or very near the magnetic environment of a magnetar, rather than far from the star in an external shock, as seen in other active repeaters. Across pulse window, the polarization angle can stay flat, swing smoothly, or jump between levels, which hints at dynamic geometry or propagation effects in the local plasma around the source.

No optical flash, tighter limits
Alongside the radio work, the team coordinated optical observations with the MeerLICHT telescope and reported a stringent upper limit on any simultaneous optical flash at the burst times

Some models suggest highly magnetized neutron stars undergoing starquakes, others point to interactions between compact objects in binary systems. The extreme activity of FRB 20240619D gives researchers a chance to test these ideas against detailed data. Earlier repeaters such as FRB 20121102A and FRB 20201124A also produced storms of hundreds of bursts per hour, & similarities between them and the new source could mean there is a common underlying mechanism.
Careful comparison of their timing, polarization, and frequency behavior will be crucial for narrowing down which physical processes are responsible
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(26-08-2025, 10:39 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  James Webb Space Telescope takes 1st look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unexpected results.  NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical contents of its halo.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-we...ed-results

NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical contents of its halo.
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In 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will brush past Gliese 445! Understanding the star of Camelopardalis https://share.google/eSUMNRak2BkX39vMH
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(04-09-2025, 05:09 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  
NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical contents of its halo.

New telescope images deliver sharpest-ever view of powerful solar flare. Astronomers have zoomed in on small loops of plasma within a powerful solar flare for the first time, potentially revealing the fundamental building blocks of the sun's violent storms. Images, captured with new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal arcs of hot gas just 10 to 30 miles wide follow sun’s magnetic fields. Earlier instruments could only resolve loops 60 to 100 miles wide. Inouye's images are 2.5 times sharper. Scientists believe so-called "coronal loops" may in fact most basic pieces of solar flares — sudden explosions of energy hurl a torrent of radiation into space & toward Earth.

The discovery is giving a new window into how our host star makes flares in the first place. Gathering insight may lead to better space weather forecasts, & preventing future solar storms from wreaking havoc on satellites, power grids& radio signals.
"Knowing a telescope can theoretically do something is one thing," said Maria Kazachenko, a co-author in the study, in a statement. "Actually watching it perform at that limit is exhilarating." The solar observatory sits atop a dormant volcano, Haleakalā, towering over Maui at 10,000 feet above sea level. Fittingly, name Haleakalā means "house of the sun" in Hawaiian. But why site was selected for the telescope, summit special environmental conditions allow astronomers to better view sun's corona outer layer of its atmosphere. For study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
https://sea.mashable.com/space/39330/new...olar-flare
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(30-08-2025, 03:13 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  The 3I/ATLAS latest been said to be at 2.85 astronomical units from the Sun & 
expected to reach the perihelion (closest approach) of the Sun on October 30, newfound discoveries of its chemical composition also attributing to its antiquity dating at least seven billion years old, calls for a retrograde approach in research, combined by the JSWT (James Webb Space Telescope), NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) funded by NASA based out of Chile,which lead the investigation for the third-ever interstellar object set to pass our solar system.

According to NASA, 3I ATLAS comet, was formed in another star system which was likely ejected into interstellar space, a space between the stars, and has been travelling millions and billions of years. Its source is said to be the constellation Sagittarius, which is where the center of our galaxy Milky Way is located.

Also read: When comets get close to sun?, findings from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on 3I/ATLAS

A mysterious comet is shooting through our solar system. Scientists so excited about 3I/Atlas?.
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3I/ATLAS interstellar object has become subject global discussion as approaches the Sun on October 30, 2025.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/interna...766177.cms
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(08-09-2025, 08:58 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  3I/ATLAS interstellar object has become subject global discussion as approaches the Sun on October 30, 2025.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/interna...766177.cms

https://astrobiology.com/2025/09/extreme...atlas.html
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(19-08-2024, 07:45 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  TIC TAC UFO Infiltrate attention; secretively... Sick Alien
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New video shows a U.S. missile bouncing off a UFO off the coast of Yemen last year. CBS News' Charlie D'Agata breaks it down
https://youtu.be/1GueHhT1jV0?si=Mb38Bvfw2jLw3_G7
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Alien learn about Voyager 2 then went silent for months, then sent back a message no one expected. More than just data, the signal hinted at something stranger: alien know such so old like a toy systems reactivated, unknown to us their patterns, & echoes of itself. Some believe it’s a glitch. Others think probe crossed into something beyond our understanding—a force, a presence, a structured awareness hiding in the void. What if Voyager didn’t just survive, but made contact? In this video, we explore the eerie signals, the silence that don't followed, and the possibility that space isn’t empty...It’s those alien listening?.
https://youtu.be/-RRQ507BEC0?si=7kNNchuH3adeGIs_
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(11-09-2025, 08:59 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Alien learn about Voyager 2 then went silent for months, then sent back a message no one expected. More than just data, the signal hinted at something stranger: alien know such so old like a toy systems reactivated, unknown to us their patterns, & echoes of itself. Some believe it’s a glitch. Others think probe crossed into something beyond our understanding—a force, a presence, a structured awareness hiding in the void. What if Voyager didn’t just survive, but made contact? In this video, we explore the eerie signals, the silence that don't followed, and the possibility that space isn’t empty...It’s those alien listening?.
https://youtu.be/-RRQ507BEC0?si=7kNNchuH3adeGIs_

https://youtu.be/-RRQ507BEC0?si=nnq0xI36lshbn36t
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“We’re Actually Smashing Into Space Rocks Now”: China Launches Dual Spacecraft Mission to Redirect Asteroid by One Inch

China is set to undertake a pioneering planetary defense mission, launching a spacecraft to alter the trajectory of a distant asteroid, marking a significant step in global efforts to safeguard Earth from potential celestial threats.
China is poised to embark on a groundbreaking mission to test its planetary defense capabilities. The nation is preparing to launch a spacecraft designed to collide with a distant asteroid, aiming to alter its course by a mere inch. This mission could position China as the second nation, after the United States, to achieve such a feat in asteroid redirection. As global interest in planetary defense intensifies, China’s efforts underscore the potential for international cooperation in safeguarding Earth from potential asteroid threats. This mission not only highlights technological advancements but also raises questions about the future of global space collaboration.
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