Astronomers uncover enormous bubble bigger than our Solar System

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star – the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as much mass as the Sun, was blown out in…

Ancient solar system crash may explain Bennu and Ryugu’s origin

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they were originally part of the Polana collisional family in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The study compared spectroscopy data from Polana with spacecraft and…

Voyager missed it, but James Webb Just Found Uranus’ hidden moon

Southwest Research Institute led a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) survey, discovering a previously unknown tiny moon orbiting Uranus. A team led by SwRI’s Dr. Maryame El Moutamid discovered the small object in a series of images taken on Feb. 2, 2025, bringing Uranus’ total moon count to 29. “As…

Maltempo: allagamenti in Veneto, nubifragi e fulmini in Toscana – Notizie – Ansa.it

Maltempo in estensione sull’Italia: oggi allerta arancione in Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Lombardia, Toscana e Veneto; gialla in Campania, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, e Umbria. Persiste il caldo al Sud: bollino giallo oggi a Bari, Catania e Palermo.   Per approfondire Agenzia ANSA Meteo Italia, tra nubifragi ‘monsonici’…

Milano, in corso sfratto al centro sociale Leoncavallo – Notizie – Ansa.it

 La polizia sta eseguendo, con l’ufficiale giudiziario, l’ordine di sfratto emesso nei confronti dello storico centro sociale Leoncavallo a Milano.L’ordine era stato rinviato numerose volte.  Lo sfratto del centro sociale di via Watteau era stato rinviato un centinaio di volte e lo scorso novembre il ministero dell’Interno era stato condannato…

Astronomers stunned by the strangest supernova ever seen

An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected a never-before-seen type of exploding star, or supernova, that is rich with silicon, sulfur and argon. When massive stars explode, astrophysicists typically find strong signatures of light elements, such as hydrogen and helium. But the newly discovered supernova,…

How hidden cosmic highways feed the Universe’s biggest stars

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible for us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more than 330,000 that of our Earth, and yet there are stars in the universe that completely dwarf our sun. Stars with masses more than eight times…

The surprising reason timber plantations explode into megafires

The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love — dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the…

This is where tree planting has the biggest climate impact

More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study. The study, published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, found that tree planting is generally a net positive for the climate because it helps pull warming carbon…

Stunning galaxy blooms with pink nebulae in Hubble’s new image

Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week offers a closeup of a nearby spiral galaxy. The subject is NGC 2835, which lies 35 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (The Water Snake). A previous Hubble image of this galaxy was released in 2020, and the NASA/ESA/CSA James…

Khelif ‘non combatte più’, ma é giallo con smentita – Notizie – Ansa.it

“Non combatte più”. A dare la notizia sul presunto addio al ring di Imane Khelif è il suo ex manager Nasser Yesfah, attraverso il giornale ‘Nice-Matin’. Parole però smentite su Facebook dalla stessa pugile algerina, nonché campionessa olimpica. Yesfah “non mi rappresenta più in alcun modo – sottolinea – Non…

L’ex manager: ‘Imane Khelif non combatte più’ – Notizie – Ansa.it

“Non combatte più”. Parole, riferite a Imane Khelif, che sembrano un triste finale E’ passato solo un anno, ma sembra un secolo.   L’Olimpiade di Parigi è stata quella, fra le altre cose, delle forti polemiche provocate dal match fra Khelif, che poi avrebbe vinto l’oro, e Angela Carini. Ma…

L’ultimo abbraccio di Militello a Pippo Baudo – Notizie – Ansa.it

Per l’ultimo saluto a Pippo Baudo, duemila persone provenienti da ogni parte della Sicilia, ma non solo, hanno gremito la piazza Santa Maria della Stella, a Militello Val di Catania, per assistere al funerale dell’artista celebrato in una chiesa piena in ogni angolo. Tanta la commozione dentro e fuori il…

Il centrosinistra si sblocca al Sud, arriva il sì di Tridico – Notizie – Ansa.it

Pasquale Tridico è pronto a correre per il centrosinistra in Calabria. Dopo alcuni giorni di riflessione, l’europarlamentare del M5s ha sciolto le riserve confermando la propria disponibilità alla coalizione, e l’ufficializzazione della candidatura alle Regionali potrebbe arrivare venerdì, quando si riunirà la direzione regionale del Pd. Nei prossimi giorni sono…