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The universe’s first stars probably ignited 100–250 million years after the Big Bang and died within a few million years. Their ancient light can still reach Earth, but individual stars are so distant and rare that none has been conclusively identified—although cosmic gravitational lenses may finally bring one within JWST’s view.
20+ hour, 8+ min ago (707+ words) Population III stars remain inferred rather than individually confirmed. Extreme cluster lensing may give Webb the magnification needed to isolate one ancient, metal-free source....
The torch of the Statue of Liberty has been closed to the public since 1916, when German saboteurs blew up a munitions depot nearby and shrapnel tore into the statue's arm — in the 110 years since, no visitor has been allowed back up the ladder
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (31+ words) A century-old act of sabotage still keeps visitors from reaching the Statue of Liberty's highest point, a restriction so obscure that most Americans don't know it exists....
After more than 50 years, a solar telescope in New Mexico is being pulled down, after liquid mercury from the bearing that let its 250-ton optical system turn was found inside the tower. Crews found the metal on January 5.
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (575+ words) By The Daily Orbit Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the…...
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure."
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (173+ words) The line arrives without ceremony. Marcus Aurelius wrote, "How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but...
NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (231+ words) A decade of planning and a quarter-billion dollars in funding vanished in seconds when two teams speaking different measurement languages sent a spacecraft crashing into Mars....
The United States is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes, existing coordinates will move by as much as four meters, and the million survey marks in the ground will no longer be what the system is measured from
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (43+ words) The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system stop being accepted after January 13, 2027....
For decades visitors tossed coins and trash into Yellowstone's Morning Glory Pool, and the debris clogged its vent and cooled the water — the spring named for its deep blue now runs green and orange, and rangers say the original color may never come back
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (484+ words) A century of coins and trash transformed one of Yellowstone's most iconic hot springs from brilliant blue to murky green and orange—and scientists say the damage may be permanent. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit It is also a crime…...
Physicist Bhupal Dev at Washington University used the debris from GW170817 — the 2017 neutron star merger — to squeeze new limits on axion-like particles, treating the hot post-collision remnant as a natural forge for dark-matter candidates
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (302+ words) Physicist Bhupal Dev and colleagues have used the multi-year record of GW170817 — the 2017 neutron star merger seen in both gravitational waves and light — to tighten bounds on axion-like particles, treating the hot post-collision remnant as a natural forge for dark matter…...
Beneath New York’s water system lies an 85-mile underground river that carries roughly half the city’s drinking water — parts of it run more than a thousand feet below ground and are so inaccessible that engineers inspect them with robotic submarines
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (257+ words) A century-old gravity-fed tunnel buried deep beneath New York carries half the city's drinking water—and nobody knows if it's about to fail....
In 1996, astronauts paid out 19.7 kilometres of cable from the shuttle Columbia to test electricity generation in orbit — the system reached 3,500 volts before an electrical arc burned through the tether and sent the satellite drifting away from its ship.
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (673+ words) Columbia’s TSS-1R experiment deployed 19.7 kilometres of tether before electrical arcing caused a break. The lost satellite still left useful data about electricity generation in orbit....