The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first direct image of a planet in a distant star system nearly 400 light years away, producing an image with a clarity that exceeds JWST’s designers’ expectations by about ten times. HIP 65426 b is a Jupiter-sized gas planet 385 light years awayread more
A study of unrelated individuals that otherwise look very much alike has discovered that the uncanny physical resemblance shared between some individuals runs much deeper than their looks, with many doppelgangers sharing similar behaviors, habits and even matching heights and weights. The study made use of three different facial recognition algorithms toread more
A sunspot on the far side of the Sun has been discovered to be so large that “it is affecting the way the sun vibrates,” according to Spaceweather.com. The same region also produced a major coronal mass ejection and radiation storm on September 5; luckily for us the eruption isread more
Whitley and his experiences at his family cabin in upstate New York are the focus of a new documentary titled Shock Docs: The Visitors, airing on the Travel Channel and streaming on discovery+ on Monday, September 5. After nearly three decades Whitley returns to the cabin where his 1985 encounter with the Visitors took place, documentedread more