Lagoon and Triffid Nebula (M8 & M20)

Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe has always been packed full of strange creatures and occurrences. It’s not just vampires populating this world; a powerful network of witches, as well as the secret order known as Talamasca, are also skulking in the shadows. That said, as AMC works to adapt Rice’s novels into live-action, there hasn’t been…

G189.6+3.3, a faint supernova remnant, appears as a mottled cloud of blues, greens and magentas, overlapping the well-known Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443; just right of center) in a multi-wavelength composite that strips away IC 443’s bright emission to reveal its neighbor. A filament of gas arcing between the two remnants (center; shown in violet) marks…

Mink numbers in Kent could be cut by 90% within two years under a new project aimed at protecting wildlife. The Waterlife Recovery Trust (WRT) has received a £20,000 grant from the BASC Wildlife Fund to expand trapping and monitoring across Kent, which once had one of Britain’s highest densities of invasive American mink. Conservationists…

The galaxy on the screen represented an early population, but the most ancient galaxy discovered by JWST so far existed only 280 million years after the Big Bang. The telescope’s bewildering discovery of bright, early galaxies initially led some scientists to suggest that our understanding of fundamental cosmology, the laws that govern the behavior of…

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The Nobel Prizes are arguably the world’s most prestigious recognition anyone can receive for their work in the sciences, medicine, literature, or for world peace. For most winners, getting the call to tell them they won marks the high point of their lives. Note that I said most. Not all are so joyful. Some just don’t…