On Christmas Day, 2021, an Ariane 5 rocket leaped from its launch pad in French Guiana. Perched on the rocket’s nose was the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The JWST was designed to perform several tasks, but one of the most important was to study the first stars and galaxies to come into existence. The telescope has performed magnificently; however, some troubling observations have been reported. When the JWST took its first look at the sky, it seemed to have found galaxies...
The superficially Earthlike appearance of Titan, as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope, is belied by its cold and inhospitable weirdness. Titan is a strange world — a little bit Earthlike, if land were made of water ice, rivers and seas were filled with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, and the atmosphere were thick and hazy, dotted with methane clouds. — Read the rest
Goalkeepers will be punished if they hold the ball for longer than eight seconds. We now know which leagues can trial this rule in a bid to tackle time-wasting. Liverpool have been 'hungover' since Man United dumped them out of the FA Cup - where has their energy gone?
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to effectively ban smoking in the UK.
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Premier League club have voted for a new major rule change to be brought in. The new offside rule will be introduced in autumn after the international break. Which Premier League sides will be relegated this season? Listen to the
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian isn’t doing any DLC for the game, or a Baldur’s Gate 4, or anything to do with D&D in the near future. We know that. It's, uh, far too busy teasing the mysterious new things it is actually working on, and casually announcing that more stuff's going to be added to BG3 soon.Don't get your hopes up too much though, it'll be a while until we actually see those new things, especially the "very big RPG that will rule them all" that Swen Vincke's previously hyped up,...
Washington, Apr 14 (Prensa Latina) The white dwarf star called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) of the Corona Borealis is about to explode and it will be a spectacular and exceptional stampede of a nova that will be visible from Earth, it was reported. The post Cosmic megaexplosion of a nova will be visible from Earth first appeared on Prensa Latina.
In this column Sam Fowles take policies on their own terms. This week he asks whether Labour's plan to revive the high street will work.
The Business & Retail Association of Greece (SELPE) announces in detail the opening hours of its member businesses for the Easter 2024 period throughout the territory. The holiday hours will be as follows: Sunday 28/04/2024 11:00-20:00 PM. Monday 29/04/2024 until M. Thursday 02/05/2024 9:00 – 21:00M. Friday 03/05/2024 13:00 – 21:00M. Saturday 04/05/2024 9:00 – […]
A "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to see the light from a star that exploded 3,000 years ago is coming this year, NASA officials say.
A newly published catalog reveals 2,200 new exoplanet candidates, found in data captured by TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.