APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The first frame is dark as you peer into the black hole itself. You begin to look up and stars come back into view. Now the stars are more blue than ever before as starlight that has fallenContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The first frame shows a background sky highly distorted by the black hole in the center. The gravity of the black hole is so great that it actually deflects the background starlight. Large light bending effects cause theContinue Reading
In our current cultural conversation, especially post-Weinstein, Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein, the image of the pedophile, the groomer or the elderly creep is a universal villain. His is an insatiable appetite; he is a master manipulator, a wolf seeking an endless supply of lambs. In Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime,” Chris HansenContinue Reading
WASHINGTON — For the third time, the Supreme Court on Friday shut down efforts by Missouri Republicans to use a new congressional map in the midterm elections that are already underway., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Other staff have been struck off after looking up the medical records of relations, acquaintances and ex-partners without authorisation. In 2023 an NHS consultant in Cambridgeshire was investigated by the General Medical Council (GMC) after accessing the health history of a woman who had started dating the doctor’s ex-boyfriend. ThereContinue Reading
Influencer Briel Adams-Wheatley has publicly called out comedian Nikki Glaser over a stand-up joke, via Instagram stories. The exchange began after a fan messaged Adams-Wheatley on Instagram to say they had attended Glaser’s show in Ridgefield, Washington, and felt she should know she was being referenced in the set. TheContinue Reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Al Jazeera a “toxic media outlet.”, NewsFeed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Al Jazeera a “toxic media outlet” and described the media as an “eighth front” in Israel’s war. But Israel has killed Palestinian journalists, shut down Al Jazeera’s operations and restricted mediaContinue Reading
Kylian Mbappe scores the only goal of France’s win in Turkiye, but Real Madrid striker immediately forced off by injury., Kylian Mbappe scores the only goal of France’s win in Turkiye, but Real Madrid striker immediately forced off by injury. Kylian Mbappe scored the only goal of the game beforeContinue Reading
A television ad boosting the image of President Traitor 47, which was paid for by government funds, violates laws prohibiting the use of government resources for propaganda, the Hatch Act, and other related laws, according to a complaint filed today by Public Citizen.The complaint, sent to the U.S. Government AccountabilityContinue Reading
At the United Nations this week, Traitor 47 repeated his attacks on the International Criminal Court and urged other nations to pull out of the global tribunal. The United States earlier this year imposed sanctions on the president of the ICC and a senior prosecutor who was part of theContinue Reading
The Nature of the Universe Debate:Cosmology Solved? Peebles – Turner Baird AuditoriumThe Smithsonian InstitutionNational Museum of Natural History 1998 October 4; Debate Program 1 – 4:30 pm Sponsors: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HistoryNational Science FoundationNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationMichigan Technological UniversityUniversities Space Research Association Program Organizers: Robert Nemiroff, JerryContinue Reading
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has resumed use of its third science instrument, the Burst Alert Telescope, after the mission returned to data collection in August. Flight controllers have also allowed the spacecraft to resume automatically repointing its other telescopes to examine new high-energy flashes in the sky. The returnContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss Debate Proceedings Six published papers from the 1998 debate appeared in the 1999 March issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The proceedings include an opening commemoration of David N. Schramm by the moderator,Continue Reading