The Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan on April 20, wrapping up a seven-month mission aboard the ISS.
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Dear Lord! Fill our parents with Thy choicest blessings;
enrich their souls with Thy holy grace;
grant that they may faithfully
and constantly guard that likeness to Thy union with Thy Church,
which Thou didst imprint upon them on their wedding day.
Fill them with Thy spirit of holy fear,
which is the beginning of wisdom;
inspire them to impart it to their children.
May they ever walk in the way of Thy commandments,
and may we their children be their joy on earth …
In an interview last night, I was asked two scientific questions. First, there was the news report about the discovery of the `strongest evidence yet’ of life on a distant planet, K2–18b. I was asked: “If life is confirmed there, what would be the next step? Should we try to establish some sort of contact? Generally, do you think it is a good idea to reach out to extraterrestrials once we know where they are?” I explained that the new paper is based on the JWST detection of the spectral fingerprint of a single molecule, dimethyl sulfide, in the atmosphere…
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This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 light-years distant from Earth, this dusty sculpture is refreshed with the use of new processing techniques.
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Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster
are scattered across this nearly 4 degree wide
telescopic field of view
Dolphins are among the most intelligent and sociable animals on Earth, and now it appears that scientists have found a way to communicate with them. A new large language model of an AI system could soon allow humans to communicate with dolphins, with the technology set to be unveiled in the coming months, reports Popular Science. The new language model is called DolphinGemma, and its companion system is called Cetacean Hearing Augmentation Telemetry (CHAT). The language models are expected to debut in the coming months after scientists conduct tests to see if the new technology can translate and mimic some…
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Dyson spheres—hypothetical mega-structures advanced civilizations might use to enclose a star and harness its energy—are catastrophically unstable. However, an engineer now claims a solution: using two stars. In the 1960s, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced society could disassemble a planet to build a spherical shell around a star, capturing vast energy and living space. Dyson calculated that a shell made from a planet with the mass of Jupiter could completely enclose the sun at roughly the orbit of Earth. But gravity inside a hollow shell cancels out, meaning the star could crash into it, destroying the structure. In…
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Astronomers have discovered a dwarf galaxy called FCC 224, which is located about 60 million light years from Earth. In this galaxy, scientists have not found any dark matter, the main component needed to create galaxies. The results of the study were published in the journals Astrophysical Journal and Astronomy & Astrophysics, writes Phys. According to scientists, globular star clusters are often used to estimate the amount of dark matter in galaxies. We remind you that this form of matter is invisible and its existence can only be judged by the gravitational influence on ordinary matter, which makes up stars…
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There are a lot of ways that individual people can help the environment. Recycling correctly, not buying clothes from Shein, and cutting down on using fossil fuels as much as possible are great ways to give back to the Earth, especially considering we’re right in the middle of Earth Day season. Even though it is admirable to try to use less, there is only so much a person can do to help the environment. If you think a community garden in the middle of the city will do much for climate change, you have another thing coming. If you wear your clothes until your rags and don’t replace them in the name of environmentalism, you’re only making yourself look silly. If you stand in front of the Doomsday clock in Union Square and cry from 8 AM to 8 PM every day, you’re not doing anything to help Mother Earth.
From a garden on planet Earth, 38 hours of exposure
with a camera and small telescope produced
this cosmic photo
of the M81 galaxy group
It is conceivable that the Earth-mass planet Proxima b, which lies in the habitable zone of the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, hosts a civilization similar to ours. Owing to minor differences between their and our history, it is possible that they had reached our current technological state slightly in advance. Consider a tiny margin of head start for Proxima b science, of order 0.00002 of the age of the Earth. This amounts to 100,000 years, meaning that Proxima’s astronomers had used telescopes to discover Earth a hundred millennia ago, in the way that we discovered Proxima b…
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The rocky planet L 98-59 c orbits a red dwarf star 35 light-years away, considered close in cosmic terms. The planet is slightly larger than Earth and scientists believe it has an atmosphere. Scientists say L 98-59 c may be the first world smaller than twice the diameter of Earth to be positively found to have an atmosphere. The study was published in the Astronomical Journal. The star L 98-59, which is a red dwarf, meaning it is smaller than the Sun, is home to at least four confirmed planets that were discovered six years ago. Focus has already written…
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Saint Julie Billiart spent many years suffering from incapacitating ailments, but she never lost her drive to work for the Kingdom of God. Her desire to educate led her to help found the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may harbor life. Scientists have found out what it might look like, where it is most likely to be found, and in what quantities. The study was published in The Planetary Science Journal, reports Phys. Saturn’s moon Titan is a unique world. It is the only satellite of a planet in the solar system that has a thick atmosphere and liquid on the surface. However, it is not water, but liquid methane, and it is found in lakes and rivers that are located in the middle of a surface covered with ice rocks and sand. It…
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Why are there so many moonquakes?
Analyses of
seismometers
left on the moon during the
Apollo moon landings reveal a surprising number of
moonquakes occurring within 100 kilometers of the surface
In dramatic silhouette against a cloudy daytime sky over Paris, France,
gargoyles cast their monstrous gaze outward from the
west facade
of Notre Dame Cathedral
The near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in December 2024, and initial observations of its orbit suggested a potential impact with Earth in 2032. The impact probability rose from 1.2% to 2.3%, then to 2.6%, peaking at 3.1% on 18 February 2025, before dropping to nearly 0% by the end of February. To better assess the asteroid’s threat, NASA directed the James Webb Space Telescope toward YR4, revealing a new possibility—it might collide with Earth’s Moon instead. Key data from Webb revised the asteroid’s estimated size from 131-295 feet (40-90 meters) down to 174-220 feet (53-67 meters)—roughly the height of…
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A 26 hour old Moon
poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian
Dolomites in this twilight mountain and skyscape
Can the Sun appear to rise twice at the same time?
This was just the case a few days ago from
Les Escoumins,
Quebec,
Canada as our
Solar System’s bright central orb rose just
as it was being
partially eclipsed by the Moon
In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star’s life can be utterly beautiful – as is the case with this planetary nebula called the Helix Nebula. Astronomers study these objects by looking at all kinds of light. This images show X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (magenta), optical light data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (orange, light blue), infrared data from the European Southern Observatory VISTA telescope (gold, dark blue), and ultraviolet data from GALEX (purple) of the Helix Nebula.
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What if the Sun and Moon rose together?
That
happened yesterday over some northern parts of
planet Earth as a
partial solar eclipse occurred shortly after sunrise
Tony Milligan: There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there’s still time to worry about bad things arriving from above. The most recent is the asteroid 2024 YR4, which could be a “city killer” if it hits a heavily populated area of our planet in the early years of the next decade. The chances of that happening are now estimated to be around 0.001%. But there was a brief moment after the asteroid’s discovery last year when the estimated danger of a direct hit crossed the 1% threshold of comfortable risk. There’s a need to worry about planetary defence…
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Why is the Moon so dusty?
On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand
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The instrument enclosure of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic Chamber A at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in December 2024.
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For centuries, there have been unconventional beliefs about the shape of the Earth. This post provides a historical overview of alternative theories about the Earth’s form.
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One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth’s sky is similar in size
to our Milky Way Galaxy: big,
beautiful Messier 81
Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will explode and irradiate all life, a black hole will engulf the Earth, a Mars-sized interstellar asteroid with our name on it. A cataclysm that will end all life on Earth. We could accept our fate and face our ultimate extinction together. We could gather the archives from libraries across the world and launch them into space in the hopes that another civilization will find them, reports universetoday.com. Or we could build a fleet of arks containing life from Earth. Not people, but…
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What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse?
The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see
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It is customary to search for signs of life on rocky planets in the habitable zone of their host star. There, the planet’s surface is not too hot or too cold, allowing for the chemistry of life in liquid water in the presence of a sufficiently dense atmosphere. One could imagine that other forms of life-as-we-do-not-know-it thrive in other fluids. NASA’s Dragonfly mission, scheduled for launch in July 2028, will search for signs of life in the liquid oceans, lakes and rivers of methane and ethane on the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn. The surface temperature on Titan…
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This popular group leaps into the early evening sky around the
March equinox and
the northern hemisphere spring
The SEC’s Crypto Task Force held a roundtable Friday to air out the issues with how the crypto world interacts with securities laws.
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Recorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this
composited series of images
reveals a pattern
in the seasonal drift of the Sun’s daily motion
through planet Earth’s sky
The latest estimates place the global population at approximately 8.2 billion people. However, a new study by researchers at Aalto University in Finland suggests that this figure may be significantly underestimated. The researchers argue that many datasets used to estimate population sizes undercount the number of people living in rural areas. The study was published in Nature Communications. In an analysis of five leading global population datasets—WorldPop, GWP, GRUMP, LandScan, and GHS-POP—the team found that these sources may be missing between 53 and 84 percent of the rural population. For instance, the most reliable data from 2010 underestimated the rural…
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On March 14 the Full Moon
slid through Earth’s dark umbral shadow
and denizens of planet Earth were treated to a total lunar
eclipse
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Target: Earth Mission: TOPEX/Poseidon , Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech |
In about a billion years, the Sun is forecasted to brighten up and turn the Earth into a desert like Mars. Based on the star formation history of the Milky-Way galaxy, about half of the Sun-like stars formed more than a billion years before the Sun. If some of these suns hosted a habitable Earth-like planet, and life on that planet led to the emergence of an intelligent species more than a billion years ago, then this species must have suffered from a devastating astrophysical catastrophe by now. In that case, it would be appropriate for us, as cosmic citizens…
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Saint Maximilian of Tebessa—not to be confused with Saint Maximilian Kolbe who lived centuries later—refused military service and was martyred as a result.
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Learn about the development of the oscillating scan mirror (a key component of Virginia Norwood’s multi-spectral scanner), which made Landsat I a success, changing the science of earth observation forever. The development of the oscillating scan mirror is documented in the “Virginia Norwood Papers,” a new collection in the Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress.
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Our Father, may everything I do begin with Your Inspiration,
continue with Your Help,
and reach perfection under Your Guidance.
With Your loving care guide me in my daily actions.
Help me to persevere with love and sincerity.
Teach me to judge wisely the things of earth
and to love the things of Heaven.
Keep me in Your presence
and never let me be separated from You.
Your Spirit made me Your child,
confident to call You Father.
Make Your Love the foundation of …
No, this isn’t a deep dive into conspiracy theories or a recap of Erich von Däniken’s speculative writings. This idea comes from entirely serious scientists at METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a nonprofit organization of academics dedicated to the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. For decades, researchers have been grappling with a question: Why haven’t we encountered aliens yet? The universe is vast, filled with countless stars, planets, and solar systems. Our technology has advanced to the point where we can send probes into space and peer deep into the cosmos with powerful telescopes. So, where is everyone? This same…
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The plane of our Milky Way
galaxy extends beyond
the limb of planet Earth in this
space age exposure
captured by astronaut Don Pettit
“Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints”
O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and Charity for His creatures, made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Encouraged by this thought, I implore you to obtain for me (request). O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms; and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. …
Astronomers have uncovered a black hole of such immense size that comprehending its scale could trigger an existential crisis. This colossal black hole, measuring a staggering 36 billion times the mass of the Sun, stands as one of the largest ever observed, according to Live Science. For comparison, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, has a mass of only about one million times that of the Sun. Another contender, TON 618*, is estimated to be between 40 and 60 billion solar masses, located approximately 18.2 billion light-years from Earth. This newly discovered, yet-to-be-named…
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