Students at a preparatory school are being given old-fashioned ‘brick’ phones as smartphones become increasingly restrictive. Brighton College Prep School in London’s posh Kensington and Chelsea district is to give pupils aged 10 and up a basic Nokia phone, which will only allow them to receive text messages and calls. The £30,000-a-year school will become … Read more
By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline 07:59 09 Jul 2024, updated 08:29 09 Jul 2024 Share or comment on this article: She’s back with a brand new single and a new album – her first music in 10 years – and it’s safe to say a lot has happened for Pixie Lott in that time. In … Read more
Despite all the fuss about the total solar eclipse last April, the event didn’t inspire much conspiracy thinking. The same can’t be said for the comet that flies over Ruby Todd’s debut novel, “Bright Objects.” Todd’s comet, named St. John, is a fictionalized version of Comet Hale-Bopp, which visited our solar system in 1997 and … Read more
Researchers investigated three mysterious objects in the early universe. Shown here are their color images, compiled from three NIRCam filter bands aboard the James Webb Space Telescope. They are remarkably compact at red wavelengths (giving them the name “little red dots”), with some evidence of spatial structure at blue wavelengths. Credit: Bingjie Wang/Penn State; JWST/NIRSpec. … Read more
A binary star system containing a massive star and what is likely a black hole, which together are a source of intense X-rays, has been shown to be a smaller-scale example of some of the brightest quasars in the world. the universe. The new findings, from an international team that used NASA‘S Imaging X-ray Polarimetry … Read more
A celestial body nicknamed the ‘Blaze Star’ (because it bursts into temporary brightness about every 80 years) is about to live up to its name with a sudden outpouring of light, astronomers say. Officially known as the T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB for short, the Blaze Star is not a single object, but in … Read more
Scientists have directly imaged eight dim objects in Gaia’s data catalog that accompany very bright stars, including so-called “failed stars,” also known as brown dwarfs. The stars and their companions were originally identified from millions of stars in the Gaia catalog. They were considered ideal for follow-up research with the ground-based GRAVITY instrument, an advanced … Read more
Scientists have directly imaged eight dim objects in Gaia’s data catalog that accompany very bright stars, including so-called “failed stars,” also known as brown dwarfs. The stars and their companions were originally identified from millions of stars in the Gaia catalog. They were considered ideal for follow-up research with the ground-based GRAVITY instrument, an advanced … Read more
The internet is on fire with images of a meteor streaking through the night sky over Portugal and Spain, lighting up the sky in a blue-green fireball. The meteor was confirmed by the European Space Agency (ESA), which caught the fireball with its cameras in Cáceres, Spain, on Saturday (May 18) at 6:46 PM EDT … Read more