A week before crowds flocked to Loring Park for the annual Twin Cities Pride Festival, Grace Seelinger pulled up in front of a nondescript gray building just a few blocks away: 19 Bar. “I don’t really feel like there’s another place like it,” Seelinger said. “I haven’t found a place that really scratches that itch … Read more
Astronomers have gained new insight into the formation of planets around twin stars that orbit each other. Despite the fact that we are most familiar with planets orbiting a single central star – such as the arrangement of our Solar System – more than 50% of the stars in the cosmos exist in a binary … 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
Webb’s mid-infrared instrument, which was managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until launch, also revealed jets of gas streaming into space from the twin stars. Scientists recently got a big surprise from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope when they pointed the observatory at a group of young stars called WL 20. The region has been … Read more
There’s a lot to happen during next week’s WWDC 2024 keynote. The stakes of the presentation are much higher than your standard post-event market moves. The pressure on Tim Cook and his team to deliver the goods is, in a very real sense, even greater than in the run-up to last year’s Vision Pro announcement. … Read more
The discovery of Gliese 12 b, a planet similar to Venus and only 40 light-years away, offers new perspectives for understanding life-supporting conditions in the universe. This ‘evil twin’ receives significantly more radiation from its star than Earth, raising intriguing questions for future research with advanced telescopes. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Recent findings from a Venus-like planet, … Read more