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Tatahouine: 'Star Wars meteorite' sheds light on the early Solar System

Locals watched in awe as a fireball exploded and hundreds of meteorite fragments rained down on the city of Tatahouine, Tunisia, on June 27, 1931. Fittingly, the city later became a major filming location of the Star Wars movie series. The desert climate and traditional villages became a huge inspiration…

The Conversation

8 stunning James Webb Space Telescope discoveries made in 2023

The oldest ever black holes, a preview of our solar system's gory demise, and a measurement of distant starlight that threatens to bring the standard of cosmology crashing down — here are the JWST's wildest discoveries of 2023.

LiveScience

See the moon and Jupiter enjoy their final meet-up of 2023 in the night sky tonight

The moon and Jupiter will meet-up with Jupiter for one last time in 2023 on Friday (Dec. 22), with the two bodies making a close approach to each other in the sky as they reach conjunction.

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Potential alien planets spotted in 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope confirmed its first exoplanet sighting and much more

Salon

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Delivery by Margarita García Robaya; The Book of Paradise by Itzik Manger; The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada; Nothing Belongs to You by Nathacha Appanah

The Guardian - UK

“Don’t steal this groove”: Vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton shows you a classic Nile Rodgers recording technique as he lays down a filthy double-tracked guitar part

“That’s what we’re doing right now; that is an Al McKay kind of guitar part from Earth Wind and Fire, played on the Nile Rodgers sound”

MusicRadar

The Ursids peak tonight, offering the last meteor shower of 2023 tonight

The annual December meteor shower, the Ursids, peaks overnight on Dec. 22, allowing skywatchers willing to brave the cold the chance to spot meteors streaking through the sky ahead of Santa Claus.

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10 out-of-this-world solar system discoveries made in 2023

From Mercury to Pluto (and maybe even Planet Nine), here are some of 2023's most intriguing discoveries about the planets, moons and other bodies in our solar system.

LiveScience

What's the ‘Christmas Star’ and how to observe it this December

Here’s what the bright star in the east after dark is and why it has appeared just in time for the holidays

Cygnus cargo craft departs the ISS Dec. 22 for fiery re-entry in new year (video)

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Dec. 22, and will make a re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in January.

Space

Distant nebula looks like fleeing turkey in festive new Very Large Telescope photo

A festive image from the Very Large Telescope shows the clouds of the 'Running Chicken Nebula' looking like a turkey fleeing a cosmic Christmas dinner.

Space

SETI Research Say Aliens Could Use Black Holes as Quantum Computers

A recent paper suggests that alien civilizations might make tiny black holes to use as quantum computing hardware. Then, it gets weird.

Inverse

Arctic Volcano Eruption Subsiding, But Further Activity Still Possible

Witness the incredible eruption of an Icelandic volcano as lava and gas explode from a two-mile fissure in the earth. The intensity may be diminishing, but...

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What octopus DNA tells us about Antarctic ice sheet collapse

If we want to understand the future, it’s often useful to look at the past. And even more useful if you use octopus DNA to peer into worlds long gone.

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10 jaw-dropping dinosaur fossils unearthed in 2023

From a teenage tyrannosaur's last meal to a fossilized voice box and a cliff covered in footprints, here are the 10 best dinosaur fossils unearthed this year.

Space

Spectacular 'rainbow clouds' light up northern skies in a rare skywatching treat (photos)

Nacreous clouds also known as polar stratospheric clouds have been appearing across northern skies. We've rounded up some of the best photos of these rare 'rainbow clouds'.

Inverse

Astronomers Used This Old Tech To Snapshot An Elusive Gamma-Ray Beam

Not all scientific breakthroughs are high-tech ones.

Space

Steve Wozniak's start-up Privateer develops ride-sharing spacecraft to reduce orbital clutter

Steve Wozniak's space sustainability start-up Privateer launched a prototype of its Pono space module to encourage users to share 'stuff' in space.

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Johnson's rise comes at a steep cost

Inside the Christian supremacy movement that propelled Johnson to the top

WhatToWatch

Wilderness with Simon Reeve: release date, trailer, destinations, what happens, interview and everything you need to know

Wilderness with Simon Reeve is the the explorer’s latest adventure series on BBC2.

Autosport

Autosport Top 50 of 2023: #47 Tomoki Nojiri

After two years of dominating Super Formula, Nojiri returned to earth in 2023 amid his struggles to come to terms with the new SF23 aero package, with its reduced rear downforce and resultant shift towards oversteer. That showed when he suffered an uncharacteristic pre-season testing crash.

LiveScience

Poisonous gas wave may have snuffed out half of all sea life in Earth's 1st mass extinction

About 510 million years ago, a deadly combination of low oxygen and surging hydrogen sulfide may have been what decimated 45% of all ocean life.

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: A Muslim community buries its dead after an earthquake in China

Her relatives cleaned her body and wrapped it in a white cloth in the bare emergency shelter issued to her family.

Dynamite News

Large language models validate misinformation, finds study

According to new research on massive language models, they perpetuate conspiracy theories, negative stereotypes, and other types of misinformation. Read Further on Dynamite News:

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'Alien: Earth': Release window, plot, cast & everything we know

After Alien: Romulus, there's a first-ever Alien TV show in development for FX on Hulu. Here's everything we know about 'Alien: Earth' so far.

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