From Around the Web

NASA spots active galaxy that totally looks like a Star Wars TIE fighter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 28, 2020
Now we just need to find a galaxy shaped like an X-wing fighter.

By David Aragorn
How cold was the ice age? Researchers now know 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 28, 2020
A University of Arizona-led team has nailed down the temperature of the last ice age—the Last Glacial Maximum of 20,000 years ago—to about 46 degrees Fahrenheit (7.8 C).

By David Aragorn
Half the atoms in the planet could be digital data by 2245 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 27, 2020
Changing the world, bit by bit

By David Aragorn
If bacteria band together, they can survive for years in space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 27, 2020
Dead outer microbes protect inner ones in clumps attached to the International Space Station

By David Aragorn
Archaeologists Find 7,000-Year-Old Stone Monuments in Northern Arabia 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 27, 2020
An international team of archaeologists has found and studied 104 enigmatic stone structures called ‘mustatils’ in the southern part of the Nefud Desert in northern Arabia. They’ve also provided the first chronometric age estimate for this type of structure — a radiocarbon date of 5000 BCE — and described their landscape positions, architecture and associated culture.

By David Aragorn
Rainbow meteorite discovered in Costa Rica may hold building blocks of life 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- August 27, 2020
It’s a good time to be a Costa Rican meteorite-hunter.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Just Narrowed Down The Age of Earth’s Inner Core 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 26, 2020
At some point in Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history, its entirely liquid iron core cooled enough to form a solid ball in the center.

By David Aragorn
Tantalizing oddity found in exotic atom—but physicists aren’t hyping it 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 26, 2020
A property of positronium—an exotic atom consisting of an electron bound to its antimatter partner, a positron—differs significantly from theoretical predictions, a team of physicists reports.

By David Aragorn
UFO Sightings In Florida: What Witnesses Saw 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 26, 2020
2020 isn’t a typical year. People all over Florida have reported seeing things in the sky they just can’t explain.

By David Aragorn
Free-Floating Exoplanets May Outnumber Stars in Milky Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 26, 2020
Free-floating, or rogue, exoplanets — free-floating planetary-mass objects that do not orbit a star and instead travel through space — could be surprisingly common in our Milky Way Galaxy; and NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will detect at least 250 such free-floating planets with masses down to that of Mars, according to a new paper published in the Astronomical Journal.

By David Aragorn