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Our SOLAR SYSTEM.....not planet....not Sun.....our forking solar system is a dot next to this thing.
 

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Scientists have tracked an intense radio signal coming from deep in space to its origin – and been left shocked by what they found.

For years, researchers have been looking to explain fast radio bursts, or FRBs, which are very short and very powerful blasts energy coming from deep in space. Possible explanations have included everything from black holes to alien technology.

Researchers hope to be able to understand more about them by following them back to their original galaxies, in the hope of seeing what extreme conditions might send out such powerful blasts across the universe.

Now, scientists have tracked one of those blasts back to its home galaxy. But that galaxy is very old and dead, as well as being strangely shaped.

Previously, researchers have only found FRBs coming from much younger galaxies. As such, it breaks our existing understanding of where they might be coming from.

The discovery might mean that the mysterious cosmic events are coming from much more diverse places than we ever realised, scientists say.

“This new FRB shows us that just when you think you understand an astrophysical phenomenon, the universe turns around and surprises us,” said Northwestern’s Wen-fai Fong, a senior author on two studies reporting the new findings. “This ‘dialogue’ with the universe is what makes our field of time-domain astronomy so incredibly thrilling.”...........

 
Scientists have discovered the fastest known jet stream, with winds reaching a staggering 20,500 miles per hour (33,000 km/h).

The winds on the exoplanet WASP-127b make even Neptune’s impressive 1,200 miles per hour winds seem like a gentle breeze, and Earth’s 275 mph barely a breath. The discovery sets a new record for the fastest jet stream winds observed on any planet.

Located 520 light-years from Earth, in a tight orbit around a star similar to our sun, WASP-127b is a gaseous giant orbiting a sun-like star in our Milky Way galaxy.

The supersonic winds are concentrated around WASP-127b’s equator, further adding to the planet’s unusual characteristics……..

 
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place.

These bursts of plasma, called chorus waves, ripple at the same frequency as human hearing. When converted to audio signals, their sharp notes mimic high-pitched bird calls.

Researchers have captured such sounds in space before, but now they have sensed the chirping waves from much farther away: over 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) from Earth, where they’ve never been measured before.

“That opens up a lot of new questions about the physics that could be possible in this area,” said Allison Jaynes, a space physicist at the University of Iowa who was not involved with the work.

Scientists still aren’t sure how the perturbations happen, but they think Earth’s magnetic field may have something to do with it.…….

 
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place.

These bursts of plasma, called chorus waves, ripple at the same frequency as human hearing. When converted to audio signals, their sharp notes mimic high-pitched bird calls.

Researchers have captured such sounds in space before, but now they have sensed the chirping waves from much farther away: over 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) from Earth, where they’ve never been measured before.

“That opens up a lot of new questions about the physics that could be possible in this area,” said Allison Jaynes, a space physicist at the University of Iowa who was not involved with the work.

Scientists still aren’t sure how the perturbations happen, but they think Earth’s magnetic field may have something to do with it.…….

Except for birds....

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  • For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western Mediterranean basins were suddenly refilled during an event known as the Zanclean megaflood.
  • Now, a new study finds evidence of this flood in ridges along the Sicily Sill and in channels that likely formed from this sudden and powerful deluge.
 

The new planet, named HD 20794 d, has a mass six times that of Earth and orbits a star similar to our Sun, located just 20 light years away. Its orbit places it within the habitable zone of the system, meaning it is at the right distance from its star to sustain liquid water on its surface, a key ingredient for life as we know it.

Imagine trying to walk on it with gravity that strong...
 
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