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Quantum correlation, classically not possible. D(X|Y):=I(X,Y)-C(X|Y) | Q(X|YZ) ≥ Q(XY)+Q(XZ)
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160 days isolated from job, abandoned by administrations.
September 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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159 of silence at job. I am scared. All my institutions have abandoned me!
September 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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We Can Use Black Holes Particle Accelerators www.universetoday.com/articles/we-...
We Can Use Black Holes Particle Accelerators
The Large Hadron Collider has changed particle physics, and now scientists are dreaming up even bigger supercolliders. But humanity can't match the raw particle-colliding power of a supermassive black...
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June 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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New Measurements for M87's Supermassive Black Hole: Spin and Accretion Rate www.universetoday.com/articles/new...
New Measurements for M87's Supermassive Black Hole: Spin and Accretion Rate
The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is one of the largest in our vicinity and was the ideal first target for the Event Horizon Telescope. Scientists hav...
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June 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Jupiter and Ganymede in Near-UV and Blue - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/236XVjE
A new Jupiter to add to the Hubble Jupiter collection, this time in near-ultraviolet and visible blue light. Note this is not far enough into ultraviolet to view the auroras, just in case you were wondering. The Great Red Spot is just coming into view as the planet and its bands rotate about its axis. However, at these wavelengths, it is quite dark, and appears blue with this processing. Red Spot Junior is also prominently visible as another dark blue spot. Of particular interest to me, and why I chose this dataset, was the presence of Ganymede within the frame, floating at top left in front of Jupiter. I did not know what Ganymede looked like in near-ultraviolet, but apparently now I do. I wasn't sure what to expect, but the leading and trailing side of the moon are quite different in near-ultraviolet compared to how they are in visible light. The trailing side is a bit darker, and the leading side a bit lighter, which is why Ganymede appears to have this fascinating red gradient over it. I don't know why this is; all I know is that I didn't force it to be that way, and it's not a mistake. This image represents Jupiter and Ganymede as they would have appeared on 2017-02-02 at 12:16 UTC. This was another image of Jupiter captured jointly with the Juno craft. See the following proposal: Wide Field Coverage for Juno (WFCJ): Jupiter's 2D Wind Field and Cloud Structure Red: WFC3/UVIS F343N (id9o23xyq) Green: WFC3/UVIS F275W (id9o23xzq) Blue: WFC3/UVIS F225W (id9o23y0q)
June 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Strange Object is Releasing Regular Blasts of Both X-Rays and Radio Waves www.universetoday.com/articles/str...
Strange Object is Releasing Regular Blasts of Both X-Rays and Radio Waves
Just when astronomers think they're starting to understand stellar activity, something strange grabs their attention. That's the case with a newly discovered stellar object called ASKAP J1832-0911. It...
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June 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The hunt for mysterious 'Planet Nine' offers up a surprise phys.org/news/2025-05...
The hunt for mysterious 'Planet Nine' offers up a surprise
It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the edge of our solar system, evading all our efforts to spot it.
phys.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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astronomy.blue
The Astronomy feeds now include 11 (!!!) brand new specific subfeeds! 🔭

The subfeeds try to cover every part of astronomy research with at least one feed.

All subfeeds automatically crosspost to the main Astronomy feed, too!

Here's a thread with links to all of them ⬇️
September 12, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Leinweber Institutes for Theoretical Physics www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpr...
Leinweber Institutes for Theoretical Physics
I don’t know how cuts for DOE and NSF funding will affect theoretical physics, but there’s news today of a very large gift that will may help make up for such cuts. The Leinweber Founda…
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May 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Herbig Haro 24 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25052...
APOD: 2025 May 28 - Herbig Haro 24
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25052...
APOD: 2025 May 27 – Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Milestones at the Origin of Life arxiv.org/abs/2412.14754
Milestones at the Origin of Life
Living organisms have some common structures, chemical reactions and molecular structures. The organisms consist of cells with cell division, they have homochirality of protein and carbohydrate units,...
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May 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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One Star Once Orbited Inside the Other in this Bizarre Binary System. www.universetoday.com/articles/one...
One Star Once Orbited Inside the Other in this Bizarre Binary System.
Astronomers have spotted a pulsar in a binary system, taking about 3.6 hours for the stars to orbit one another. Their orbit is so close that, from our vantage point, the pulsar’s radio signals vanish...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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How Likely Are Habitable Exo-Moons? www.universetoday.com/articles/how...
How Likely Are Habitable Exo-Moons?
Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we've discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars. Most are giant planets; either gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, or ice gia...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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drgavinplamb.bsky.social
Two papers pioneering gamma-ray bursts and multi-messenger sources as gravitational wave candidates will be published in a special issue of the Royal Society Philosophical Transactions A on the 10th and 24th April 2025.
Pre-print for articles I co-authored tinyurl.com/5x27jz2j
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Astrophysics Data System
A powerful, streamlined new Astrophysics Data System
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April 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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NGC6366 vs 47 Ophiuchi apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25052...
APOD: 2025 May 23 - NGC6366 vs 47 Ophiuchi
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Curly Spiral Galaxy M63 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25052...
APOD: 2025 May 22 - Curly Spiral Galaxy M63
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May 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Our Solar System May Have a New Planetary Sibling: Another Dwarf Planet www.universetoday.com/articles/our...
Our Solar System May Have a New Planetary Sibling: Another Dwarf Planet
Our understanding of our Solar System is still evolving. As our telescopes have improved, they've brought the Solar System's deeper reaches into view. Pluto was disqualified as a planet because of it....
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May 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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science.esa.int
A JAXA/NASA collaborative mission with ESA participation, #XRISM studies the Universe in X-ray light with an unprecedented combination of light collecting power and capability to distinguish X-rays of different energies.

Find out more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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XRISM factsheet
Overview of the XRISM mission
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March 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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The new, farthest galaxy has been found by JWST, only 280 million years after the Big Bang phys.org/news/2025-05...
The new, farthest galaxy has been found by JWST, only 280 million years after the Big Bang
The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a galax...
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May 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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GEMS out of this world: Astronomers find a new Saturn-like exoplanet around an M-dwarf star phys.org/news/2025-05...
GEMS out of this world: Astronomers find a new Saturn-like exoplanet around an M-dwarf star
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The newfound GEMS, designated TOI-5573 b, is comparable in size to Saturn and its mas...
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May 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Cosmic Copycat – The First Detection of Water Ice in an Exo-Kuiper Belt astrobites.org/2025/05/22/w...
Cosmic Copycat – The First Detection of Water Ice in an Exo-Kuiper Belt
JWST has found the first evidence of water ice in a Kuiper Belt around another star - and the water ice in this one bears a striking resemblance to that in our own Solar System's Kuiper Belt.
astrobites.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Is Mars Storing its Water Underground? www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Is Mars Storing its Water Underground?
Mars' oceans, lakes, and rivers are long gone. They've left behind evidence of their time here in river channels, deltas, paleolakes, and other features. The water's existence isn't a mystery, but its...
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May 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Lunar Landing Pads Will Need to be Tough www.universetoday.com/articles/lun...
Lunar Landing Pads Will Need to be Tough
As humanity heads back to the Moon, a silent danger lurks: exhaust plumes from multiple spacecraft will blast lunar dust into orbit, creating a potentially deadly obstacle course for future missions. ...
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May 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM