This article is a local version of our Disrupted Times newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to receive the newsletter three times a week. Discover all our newsletters here Today’s top stories Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the war cabinet he created after the Hamas attack on October 7, following the resignation of two … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a marvel of modern astronomy, has provided a glimpse into the dynamical processes that shape planetary systems. Recently, JWST detected a major event in the Beta Pictoris system: a colossal collision between two asteroids. This event, discovered by the JWST, has given astronomers a rare opportunity to study the … Read more
Astronomers have had a big surprise with the discovery that a star known as WL 20S, which has been studied extensively since the 1970s, is actually not one but a pair of stars. The discovery of the surprising twin was made with the James Webb Space Telescope during a survey of a group of young … Read more
Astronomers have observed a giant asteroid collision in Beta Pictoris using data from the Webb and Spitzer telescopes. The event, which took place 20 years ago, provides new insights into early planetary formation in this young galaxy. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: NASA New observations illuminate the volatile processes that shape star systems like ours, offering a … Read more
Refresh 04-06-2024T17:17:08.532Z No news is not necessarily good news (Image credit: OpenAI) While the team at OpenAI is supposedly hard at work trying to figure out why ChatGPT is down, the rest of us are still in the dark. The company’s website still shows the status as ‘Research’. The last update was posted at 10:33 … Read more
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15, 2022 in the Pacific kingdom of Tonga. It caused a tsunami that triggered warnings throughout the Pacific basin and sent sound waves around the world several times. A new study published in the Journal of climate examines the climate effects of this eruption. Our … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked preprint trusted source proofread OK! by Tomasz Nowakowski, Phys.org RGB (three-color) image of Abell 2566 obtained by appropriate combination of emission measured at 1.4 GHz with VLA C configuration (red), Pan-STARRS r-band (green) and Chandra X-ray soft band (blue). Credit: Kadam et al, 2024 × close … Read more
A new catalog of 126 extrasolar worlds contains a plethora of newly discovered planets – some extreme and exotic in nature, but others could potentially support life as we know it. The mix of planets in the catalog is further evidence of the vast and wild variety of worlds beyond our cosmic backyard; it even … Read more
Arrowhead’s chaotic alien shooter Helldivers 2 became PlayStation’s fastest-selling game ever, but despite its initial success, player numbers have since dwindled. A look at the game’s Steam charts shows a steady decline since February when the game launched. According to SteamDB, at its peak in February, shortly after launch, there were 458,709 concurrent players. For … Read more
Bing.com, Microsoft’s search engine, was hit by a major outage early on Thursday, with the problem apparently spreading to the brand’s application programming interface, meaning services like DuckDuckGo were also down. According to reports, the outage will also affect ChatGPT and Ecosia. Despite Google’s dominance in the world of web search, Bing’s API has numerous … Read more