PHYS.Org: Bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy discovered by citizen scientist

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with state and federal health agencies to investigate several outbreaks of cyclosporiasis. Efforts to determine and confirm the sources of these outbreaks are still underway. A large outbreak of cyclosporiasis has been reported in at least four Midwestern states. Public health officials are interviewing…

Sometimes weeks go by without anything notable happening in the sky. Then along comes something spectacular, like a total solar eclipse, the peak of a major meteor shower or a bright planet reaching a landmark moment in the evening sky. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, all three occur almost simultaneously. As a bonus, if you…

Hi everyone, yesterday I was shooting a timelapse of the Milky Way using a 720nm infrared filter to reduce light pollution from the city. My sky is Bortle Class 8, so the Milky Way is barely visible without the filter. During my test shots, I noticed a distinct dark line in the sky. Initially, I…

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Credit: CN-STR/AFP via Getty The latest Chinese-built large language model (LLM) is impressing scientists with its size and capabilities. Last week, Beijing-based Moonshot AI unveiled ‘Kimi K3’, a powerful reasoning LLM that can handle large swathes of text. The company’s own tests found that K3 can match or outperform rival US models on tasks such…

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of ancient stars that formed at roughly the same time from the same cloud of gas, giving those stars similar ages. Around 150 known globular clusters are…