Here are the latest rugby headlines for Friday, June 21. Botham has the ‘X Factor’ James Botham has been tipped to bring some X-Factor to Wales’ back row in Jac Morgan’s absence. The Cardiff star has been plagued by injuries in recent seasons and would certainly have won more than ten caps had he stayed … Read more
Aurora Borealis glows on the horizon of NE Minnesota Lake in the Superior National Forest. Getty It may have shorter nights and fewer bright stars than the winter night sky, but the Northern Hemisphere’s summer offers the best views of our Milky Way. The sight of the Milky Way arcing across the sky in the … Read more
Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever physically gestures as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. On Wednesday, former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced he is forming a new company called Safe Superintelligence, Inc. (SSI) with the aim of safely building ‘superintelligence’, a hypothetical form of artificial intelligence that … Read more
In February 2016, astronomers spread the news that the star system T Coronae Borealis had entered a “phase of unprecedented activity.” Eight years later, that solar activity could eventually result in a nova event large enough to be visible from Earth with the naked eye. The upcoming sky show is due to an expected outburst … Read more
Corner down icon An icon in the shape of a corner pointing downwards. NASA aims to launch a mini satellite the size of a breadbox that could become one of the most important astronomical instruments by the end of this decade. RomoloTavani/Getty Images NASA approved the $19.5 million Landolt Space Mission to send an artificial … Read more
Planets could survive the death of their star and be able to sustain life – and now astronomers are hunting for them. Stars don’t survive forever, the sun included. In about five billion yearsEarth’s star will begin to deplete its supply of hydrogen used to generate energy nuclear fusion at its core. The Sun’s core … Read more
A stunningly fast star that is one of the oldest in the Milky Way has been spotted crossing our Milky Way by astronomers looking for something completely different. The scientists noticed that the fast star was moving at a speed of 2.1 million kilometers per hour, almost three times the speed of our own Sun, … Read more
Shrouded in a dense cloud of gas and dust, a young star in the constellation Ophiuchus that astronomers have studied for decades turns out to be a duo. It also appears that both members of the pair are surrounded by a disk of material within which planets have just begun to merge. The twin stars, … Read more
If you were attacked by a ravenous vampire star or risked falling into two dueling black holes, you’d probably run too! One of these terrifying scenarios is likely responsible for sending a low-mass star flying through the Milky Way at a staggering million miles per hour (1.6 million kilometers per hour). That’s about 1,500 times … Read more
Actress Kirsty Curtis has expressed her heartfelt thanks to her fellow cast members and the rest of the team in EastEnders as she reflected on her time on the soap on Instagram. Kirsty’s character Keeley Wainwright first came onto the show when Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty) went to Milton Keynes. The two women hooked up … Read more