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We Finally Know How The Lights Turned on at The Dawn of Time By Michelle Starr 31 March 2026 We may finally know what first lit up the cosmic dawn in the early Universe. According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic dawn were small dwarf galaxies that flared to life, clearing the fog of murky hydrogen that filled intergalactic space. A paper about the research was published in February 2024. "This discovery unveils the crucial role played by ultra-faint galaxies in the early Universe's evolution," said astrophysicist Iryna Chemerynska of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris... [ED Lots of words and theories put out, but they really don't know...] Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-the-lights-turned-on-at-the-dawn-of-time 1min 24sec video; Pic Description: The field of view for Abell 2744. (NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe/ Swinburne University of Technology, R. Bezanson/University of Pittsburgh , A. Pagan/STScI)

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I used a '3rd party's syncing process that combined (synced) all the notes files across my 3 devices. It also could not handle playlists. Fortunately, I picked this up during my 'personal testing' time. Hence, I always have an 'export' of all my playlists in a seperate folder. In this way, I keep a seperate backup of them all. It sounds like you did some extensive exploring. I am sure one day, there will be a 'syncing' step. And one day there will be a way to transfer the library to a new device, and keep all the download items as well. In the meantime, I enjoy watching the growth.

Astrophotographer captures spectacular photo: Antennae Galaxies dueling in space By Anthony Wood published 3 hours ago The Antennae galaxies are witnessed in the process of merging into a single elliptical galaxy. The deep space image captures a fleeting moment in a titanic struggle that has lasted hundreds of millions of years, as the gravitational influence of the galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 pulls at one another to create chaos on a truly cosmic scale. "I have a Sky-Watcher Esprit 120 [telescope] with a focal length of 840mm, which is a little short for most galaxies, this being galaxy season now," Meyer told Space.com in an email. "So whenever I see a picture of a galaxy, I see if it is within reach for me by checking Astrobin for photos taken with the same scope. And since this is such a cool image of 2 galaxies, with an amazing backstory, I had to go for it... Article link: https://www.space.com/stargazing/astrophotography/astrophotographer-captures-spectacular-photo-of-antennae-galaxies-dueling-in-deep-space Pic Description: Meyer's shot reveals the orange-yellow cores of the dueling galaxies glowing in a maelstrom of interstellar dust, gas and stars, from which a pair of sweeping "tidal tails" made from elongated spiral arms reach out for light-years on either side. The sweeping structures bear a striking resemblance to the sensory organs sported by members of the insect world, which eventually granted them the nickname of the Antennae Galaxies. (Image credit: Greg Meyer)

Webb and Hubble share most comprehensive view of Saturn to date Infrared and visible observations show layers and storms in the ringed planet’s atmosphere 25 March 2026 weic2606 — Photo Release Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, Webb and Hubble are providing scientists with a richer, more layered understanding of the gas giant’s atmosphere. Both sense sunlight reflected from Saturn’s banded clouds and hazes, but where Hubble reveals subtle colour variations across the planet, Webb’s infrared view senses clouds and chemicals at many different depths in the atmosphere, from the deep clouds to the tenuous upper atmosphere. Together, scientists can effectively ‘slice’ through Saturn’s atmosphere at multiple altitudes, like peeling back the layers of an onion. Each telescope tells a different part of Saturn’s story, and the observations together help researchers understand how Saturn’s atmosphere works as a connected three-dimensional system. Article link: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2606/ Pic Description: Side-by-side views of Saturn from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (left) and Hubble Space Telescope (right) reveal the planet in infrared and visible light. Hubble highlights subtle cloud banding and color variations, while Webb’s infrared vision probes different atmospheric layers, bringing out storms, waves, and glowing ring structures in striking detail.

Research Reveals Elephant’s Amazing Sense of Touch By David Coppedge 16 March 2026 🐘 It must have been fun and enlightening for researchers at the Max Planck Institute to test the touch sensitivity of Asian elephants. Watching with amazement at their subjects’ ability to smell, lift, and transport a delicate potato chip without breaking it, they started asking questions. How does the animal do it? Paying attention to the little whisker hairs in the tip of the trunk, they wondered if they work the same way as whiskers on rats or other animals. Answer: their whisker hairs are more like those of cats than rats. In this short video they discuss what they found: Read more: https://scienceandculture.com/2026/03/research-reveals-elephants-amazing-sense-of-touch/

NASA X-Ray Mission Gets Fresh Look at 2,000-Year-Old Supernova By Michael Allen 24 Mar 2026 NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have observed. When astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory previously targeted RCW 86, they discovered that a large “cavity” region around the system led the supernova to expand more rapidly than expected. The low-density cavity region could have led to RCW 86’s unique shape as well. Now, IXPE has observed the outer rim of this supernova, where its expansion is suspected to have halted at the edge of the “cavity,” creating the reflected shock effect highlighted in purple. Article link: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-x-ray-mission-gets-fresh-look-at-2000-year-old-supernova/ Pic Description: NASA’s IXPE observed the outer rim of the supernova remnant highlighted in purple in the inset. Data from IXPE is combined with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. The yellow represents low-energy X-rays, while blue shows high-energy X-rays detected by Chandra and XMM-Newton. The starfield in the image comes from the National Science Foundation’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOILab). NASA/ X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-NEWTON, IXPE: NASA/MSFC; Optical: NSF/NOIRLab; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/ RCW86-Xray.mp4

Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion 23 March 2026 10am Release ID: 2026-009 Movement in the Crab Nebula is clearly detectable between Hubble images In the year 1054, careful observers of the stars noted a new light in the sky, which was so bright it could be seen during the day for 23 days, and remained visible in the night sky for more than a year afterward. It was a supernova, a massive star exploding 6,500 light-years away. The remnant of the supernova was first seen through telescopes in the 1700s. It was eventually, and somewhat puzzlingly, nicknamed the Crab Nebula, likely a result of leggy-looking filaments extending from a central mass as seen through early telescopes. In the mid-twentieth century, Edwin Hubble was one of several astronomers who connected the Crab to Chinese astronomical records. On the cusp of a new millennium, the telescope named for Hubble captured an intricately detailed portrait of the full supernova remnant, and 25 years later it has turned again to the ancient site to track the nebula’s expansion and ongoing evolution. Article link: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-009.html Video link: Pic Description: This 2024 image that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured of the Crab Nebula, paired with its past observations and those of other telescopes, allows astronomers to study how the supernova remnant is expanding and evolving over time. Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, William Blair (JHU); Image Processing: Joseph De Pasquale (STScI).

Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up Wednesday 18 March 2026 10:00am Release ID: 2026-010 Researchers’ long-sought experiment happened serendipitously. When scientists recently trained the Hubble Space Telescope on a comet, they got much more of a show than they expected—the comet was crumbling before their eyes! Comet K1, whose full name is Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), had just passed its closest approach to the Sun and was heading out of the solar system. Though it had been intact just days before, K1 fragmented into at least four pieces while Hubble was watching. The odds of that happening while Hubble viewed the comet are extraordinarily low. Each piece looked like a tiny comet, with a fuzzy envelope of gas and dust surrounding it. From its perch in space, Hubble clearly resolved the fragments, though from the ground they appeared only as barely distinguishable blobs. ...a happy twist of fate.... Article link: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-010.html?utm_source=hubble&utm_campaign=inbox_astronomy&utm_id=2026-010 4 min video explanation: Pic Description: This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was taken over the course of three consecutive days: Nov. 8, 9, and 10, 2025. This is the first time Hubble has witnessed a comet so early in the process of breaking up. Image: NASA, ESA, Dennis Bodewits (AU); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Flight path is also illustrated.

Largest-Ever Radio Map of The Sky Reveals 13.7 Million Hidden Objects 13 March 2026 By Ivan Farkas Our view of the cosmos changes completely based on how we observe it. Now, astronomers have released the data from the largest-ever sky survey at radio wavelengths, revealing nearly 13.7 million celestial objects in light the human eye literally cannot see unaided. This is the third data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR3). It provides an unprecedented collection of cosmic objects that emit radio waves. These include some of the most extreme phenomena in the Universe, including galaxies being whipped into weird shapes by Death-Star-like beams from supermassive black holes. The survey covers 88 percent of the northern sky and comprises approximately 13,000 hours of data collected over years. Article link: https://www.sciencealert.com/largest-ever-radio-map-of-the-sky-reveals-13-7-million-hidden-objects Pic Description: A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can result from the activity of black holes and their interaction with the environment. (Maya Horton/LoTSS-Team)

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Astronomers collect rare evidence of two planets colliding by William Poor, University of Washington. 11 March 2026 Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from Earth near the constellation Puppis. It was a stable "main sequence" star, much like our sun, which meant that it should emit steady, predictable light. Yet this star began to flicker wildly. "The star's light output was nice and flat, but starting in 2016 it had these three dips in brightness. And then, right around 2021, it went completely bonkers," said Tzanidakis, a doctoral candidate in astronomy at the University of Washington. "I can't emphasize enough that stars like our sun don't do that. So when we saw this one, we were like, 'Hello, what's going on here?'" The cause of the flickering had nothing to do with the star itself: Huge quantities of rocks and dust—seemingly from out of nowhere—were passing in front of the distant star as the material orbited the system, patchily dimming the light that reached Earth. The likely source of all that debris was even more remarkable: a catastrophic collision between two planets. "It's incredible that various telescopes caught this impact in real time," Tzanidakis said. "There are only a few other planetary collisions of any kind on record, and none that bear so many similarities to the impact that created Earth and the moon. If we can observe more moments like this elsewhere in the galaxy, it will teach us lots about the formation of our world." The analysis of the star is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Article link: https://phys.org/news/2026-03-astronomers-rare-evidence-planets-colliding.html Pic Descriptions: PIC 1 (Top): Lead author Andy Tzanidakis’s rendering of the planetary collision he suspects occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. Credit: Andy Tzanidakis PIC 2: Star Gaia20ehk—seen here in the center of the orange crosshairs in the inset image—is roughly 11,000 light-years from Earth, near the constellation Puppis. Photo: NASA/NSF NOIRLab

Astronomers Produce the Largest Image Ever Taken of the Heart of the Milky Way By Matthew Williams - 08 March 2026 11:40 PM The central region of our Milky Way, sometimes referred to as the "Bulge," remains something of an enigma to astronomers. Because it is densely packed with stars and clouds of dust and gas, capturing images of its interior has historically been very difficult. But with advances in radio astronomy over many decades, which can capture light that is otherwise blocked at visible wavelengths, astronomers have made some immensely fascinating finds there. In addition to the well-known supermassive black hole (SMBH), Sagittarius A*, there is chemistry at work that could shed light on the origins of life in our galaxy. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has captured the central region of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. The image reveals a region measuring 650 light-years in diameter filled with a complex network of filaments composed of dense clouds of cosmic gas, known as the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). As the largest ALMA image taken to date, the rich dataset will allow astronomers to examine the rich chemistry and how stars evolve in the most extreme region of our galaxy. Article link: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-produce-the-largest-image-ever-taken-of-the-heart-of-the-milky-way [ED: Couple of nice videos in the article.] Video 1: Pic Description: The largest image of the Milky Way's center, captured by the ESO's ALMA array. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Longmore et al./ESO/D. Minniti et al.

Astronomers just watched a star 1,540 times the size of our sun transform into a hypergiant. Will it go supernova? By Robert Lea published yesterday "The future evolution of WOH G64 remains uncertain." Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe's biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel to a powerful supernova explosion that sees this star birth a black hole. The doomed star in question is WOH G64 (also known as IRAS 04553–6825), located in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), around 163,000 light-years away. The star is around 1,540 times the size of the sun, with almost 30 times the mass of our star and a staggering 282,000 times its brightness. Discovered in the 1970s, WOH G64 has always appeared to be a red supergiant star surrounded by a ring, or torus, of dense dust. However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change. A team of astronomers, led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, noticed the star's color changing along with a corresponding increase in its surface temperature. Muñoz-Sanchez and colleagues determined this must represent the transformation of a red supergiant into a rare yellow hypergiant, which could also mean astronomers are witnessing a star "die" in real time. Article link: https://www.space.com/astronomy/stars/astronomers-just-watched-a-star-1-540-times-the-size-of-our-sun-transform-into-a-hypergiant-will-it-go-supernova Pic Description: An illustration of WOH G64's binary system surrounded by a dense ring of dust. (Image credit: Daniel Cea Martinez)

Webb Examines Cranium Nebula Release date: Wednesday, 25 February 2026 10am Two heads are better than one The latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star. Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull..l The telescope used two instruments to capture mind-bending new views of the little-known nebula PMR 1. Astronomers are losing their heads over the latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which bear a striking resemblance to a transparent cosmic cranium, revealing the “brain” inside. The nebula, officially named PMR 1, is being created by an aging star that is expelling its outer layers. Webb’s predecessor in infrared space-based astronomy, the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope, also observed this peculiar nebula, but many of its mysteries remain to be revealed. Article link: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-113.html?utm_source=webb&utm_campaign=inbox_astronomy&utm_id=2026-113 Pic Description: The differences in what Webb’s infrared instruments reveal and conceal within the PMR 1 “Exposed Cranium” nebula is apparent in this side-by-side view. More stars and background galaxies shine through NIRCam’s view, while cosmic dust glows more prominently in MIRI’s mid-infrared. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)