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Intrigue in the universe.. not thanks to James Webb but instead our old friend the Hubble!! 

Rumors Circulating That James Webb Has Discovered Life on Another World No, But... Ars Technica reports that the persistent rumor that the James Webb Space Telescope has found a planet with strong signs of life h YAHOO NEWS Rumors sure.. but it is more than likely that NASA will not Admit to such—though it just seems entirely impossible that earth is the only inhabitable planet in the universe.. But all that aside, Futurism reports this: Though a NASA official told Ars that no “definitive evidence” has been found so far, they acknowledged the possibility of a huge discovery on the horizon that — sorry, folks — would take years worth of followup research to confirm. “It is anticipated that JWST observations may lead to the initial identification of potential biosignatures that could make habitability more or less likely for a given exoplanet,” Knicole Colón, the James Webb’s deputy project scientist for exoplanet science, told Ars. “Future missions will be needed to conclusively establ...

This seems to be pretty historic! A green bright comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is set to make its closest approach to Earth in two weeks, the comet was discovered in March when transiting through Jupiter's orbit, E3 will reach perihelion on January 8, after that will be visible without glasses.. This is pretty rare, as space sites are reporting. Here is what is known: It was discovered in March 2022. NASA reported that the rare green comet was spotted using a wide-field survey camera at CalTech's Zwicky Transient Facility within Jupiter's orbit. Since then, it has hurdled ever closer to the Sun, and as NASA noted in a post about the comet, it will reach its perigee, or closest point to us on Earth, on February 1. From everything mainstream sources are reporting, This phenomenon has not happened in 10,000 years.. And get this! NASA data suggests that the last time this gorgeous green goblin came this close to Earth was about 50,000 years ago.. In reality that means that the l...

One of the 18 golden segments of the James Webb Space Telescope’s giant mirror was hit by a micrometeoroid in May, according to an   update from NASA .  Scientists believe that the space observatory is still on track to share its first high-resolution, full-color images on July 12. This July 12 set of pictures should be breathtaking..  A micrometeoroid is a particle in space that is smaller than a grain of sand.  Earth’s atmosphere is hit by millions of meteoroids and micrometeoroids on a regular basis, but most are vaporized when they hit the atmosphere, according to NASA.

An interesting news release from the IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON New Result From Large Hadron Collider Challenges Leading Theory in Physics – Cannot Be Explained by Our Current Laws of Nature Imperial physicists are part of a team that has announced ‘intriguing’ results that potentially cannot be explained by our current laws of nature. The LHCb Collaboration at CERN has found particles not behaving in the way they should according to the guiding theory of particle physics – the Standard Model. The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that particles called beauty quarks, which are measured in the LHCb experiment, should decay into either muons or electrons in equal measure. However, the new result suggests that this may not be happening, which could point to the existence of new particles or interactions not explained by the Standard Model. “It’s too early to say if this genuinely is a deviation from the Standard Model but the potential implications are such that these results are t...

The global rate of twin births has risen by a third since the 1980s, from 9 per 1000 births to 12 per 1000. Christiaan Monden at the University of Oxford and his colleagues generated the figures by gathering existing data from 165 countries from 1980 to 2015.  Twins are also more likely to survive now, thanks to medical advances. “The rates are higher than they have been for 50 years,” says Monden. “This is likely to be an all-time high.” Most of the increase has been in fraternal or non-identical twins, who develop from separate eggs and sperm. The rate of  identical twins , caused by an embryo splitting in two in the first few days after fertilisation, has stayed about the same. Read more:  https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270822-the-number-of-twins-in-the-world-is-the-highest-it-has-ever-been/#ixzz6p0ENTExY