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This Week in 2016 Primatologist Tells Court That Macaque Monkeys Are, Like, Super Smart, So They Should Totally Get Copyrights Will DNC Email Hacking Make Legislators More Friendly To Encryption? Traitor 47 On Intellectual Property: China Is Bad Botnet Bill Could Give FBI Permission To Take Warrantless Peeks At TheContinue Reading

Water and Dust Found Surviving near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found that IRS 3 — a bloated giant star orbiting just 0.55 light-years to Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole — is still forging silicate dust and harboring water molecules despite the Galaxy’s most extreme radiation environment. Mid-infrared image of the IRS 3Continue Reading