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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · 1d

Long-lived gamma ray burst could signal a new kind of cosmic catastrophe | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🔭🧪 @science.org

Long-lived gamma ray burst could signal a new kind of cosmic catastrophe

Some theorists think unusual event could be a black hole devouring a star from within

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · 1d

Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel

Swiss cheese materials called metal-organic frameworks can separate and store gases

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Aug 29

Has a huge blob of dark matter been found in our galactic neighborhood? | Science | AAAS @science.org 🔭🧪https://www.science.org/content/article/has-huge-blob-dark-matter-been-found-our-galactic-neighborhood

Has a huge blob of dark matter been found in our galactic neighborhood?

If confirmed, vast cloud could test predictions about the Milky Way’s hidden architecture

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Aug 20

“If we see one, that’s already amazing. If we see one and we know which direction it came from, that’s doubly amazing.” @science.org 🔭🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Neutrino astronomers set biggest traps ever for messengers from cosmic accelerators

Country-size array of radio antennas could trace ultra–high-energy particles back to supernovae and black holes

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Aug 12

New method reveals perhaps the most massive black hole yet spotted | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🔭🧪

New method reveals perhaps the most massive black hole yet spotted

Big brute 5 billion light-years from Earth is 36 billion times as massive as the Sun

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jul 30

That's what they are, essentially. But not my call.

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jul 29

Early universe’s ‘little red dots’ may be black hole stars | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🔭🧪 @science.org

Early universe’s ‘little red dots’ may be black hole stars

Puzzling objects spotted by NASA’s JWST telescope may be entirely new class of celestial entity

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jul 21

Betelgeuse’s long-predicted stellar companion may have been found at last | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧪🔭

Betelgeuse’s long-predicted stellar companion may have been found at last

Small star could crash into red supergiant in the next 10,000 years

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jul 11

Cosmic inflation will have to remain a mystery for a little bit longer. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🔭🧪

U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation

Now-canceled CMB-S4 project would have searched the afterglow of the Big Bang for signs of cosmic exponential growth spurt

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks for the plug, but the author was Adam Mann, not me!

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper

Phalanx of instruments scrutinize 3I/ATLAS for clues about planet formation elsewhere in the galaxy

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jul 7

What astronomy’s biggest camera yet will reveal about the universe | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org @vrubinobs.bsky.social 🔭🧪

What astronomy’s biggest camera yet will reveal about the universe

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover millions of new supernovae and map billions of galaxies

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Jun 20

This week on the @science.org podcast, @meagancantwell.bsky.social talks with @danclery.bsky.social about the deluge of data to come from the Vera C. Rubin telescope www.science.org/content/podc...

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jun 23

Get ready for the big reveal at 11:00 EDT today. Link below. 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Rubin observatory unveils first images taken with its giant mirror and camera

Pictures are a prelude to a transformative, all-sky survey set to begin in months

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jun 18

The first images from the Rubin Observatory will be revealed live at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday 23 June. youtube.com/@nsfscience

National Science Foundation News

The U.S. National Science Foundation funds a significant proportion of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. We are an independent federal agency cre...

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Vera Rubin Observatory will change everything. Seeing wider, deeper, and faster. Investigating everything from dark energy to Planet 9. Here's all you need to know. 🔭🧪 @science.org @vrubinobs.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

This giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will build an unprecedented map of the universe—and discover billions of fast-changing objects

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jun 16

“I would say that the missing baryons problem is essentially solved” -- Nicolás Tejos of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Radio bursts reveal universe’s ‘missing matter’

Mystery signals used to locate gases in the spaces between galaxies

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jun 2

Roman Space Telescope is safe, for now. www.science.org/content/arti... 🔭🧪 @science.org

Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request

Proposal would end nearly all new major science missions

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Final NSF budget proposal jettisons one giant telescope amid savage agencywide cuts

Trump’s 57% proposed cut to agency would drop grant success rates to 7% and gut education and training

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Apr 17

A study suggests a distant world has gases linked on Earth to algae, but others urge caution before invoking alien slime 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...