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NASA Telescope Spots Cosmic Question Mark In Deep Space

NASA telescope spots cosmic question mark in deep space

By Kristen Rogers and Ashley Strickland, CNN
Published 8:00 AM EDT, Sun August 13, 2023

A cosmic object in the shape of a glowing question mark has photobombed one of the latest images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope — and scientists think they know what it might be.

The original near-infrared image, released July 26, depicted a pair of young stars named Herbig-Haro 46/47. Found 1,470 light-years away in the Vela constellation within the Milky Way galaxy, the stars are still actively forming and closely orbiting each other.

The two have been observed and studied by space and ground-based telescopes since the 1950s, but the highly sensitive Webb telescope allowed for the highest-resolution and most detailed image yet. It has the capacity to observe the universe with longer wavelengths of light than other space telescopes.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/world/question-mark-galaxy-space-james-webb-telescope-scn/index.html

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The Doomsday Clock and The Final Countdown

The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation

By Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Tue January 24, 2023

From left: Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Siegfried S. Hecker, Daniel Holz, Sharon Squassoni, Mary Robinson and Elbegdorj Tsakhia stand for a photo with the 2023 Doomsday Clock in Washington, DC, on January 24.

The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for 76 years. But it’s no ordinary clock.

It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.

On Tuesday, the clock was set at 90 seconds until midnight — the closest to the hour it has ever been, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which created the clock in 1947. Midnight represents the moment at which we will have made Earth uninhabitable for humanity. From 2020 to 2022, the clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/world/doomsday-clock-2023-climate-scn/index.html