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FLIP's 15x Boost, Einstein Telescope Splits & ISS 100th Spacewalk
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A new software technique called FLIP boosts JWST exoplanet detection sensitivity by up to fifteen times — no new hardware required. Plus the Einstein Telescope gets a two-site design, ISS hits its 100th US spacewalk, and Falcon 9's retirement starts to sting.
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A planet that was sitting in JWST's data, hidden in plain sight, has now been recovered using a software technique that boosts detection sensitivity by up to fifteen times. That's the signal worth leading with today.
A panel of more than two hundred gravitational-wave scientists has formally endorsed a two-site design for the Einstein Telescope, splitting the facility between Sardinia and Saxony, roughly eleven hundred and sixty-five kilometers apart. The key distinction versus a single triangular tunnel in one location is precision.
The International Space Station reached a quiet but meaningful milestone this week. NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk completed the hundredth US spacewalk, a seven-hour and eleven-minute excursion to install the station's seventh roll-out solar array.
JWST has also delivered a new infrared portrait of the Cat's Head Nebula, embedded within the broader Carina Nebula at around seven thousand five hundred light-years out. The cat-shaped structure includes a glowing formation that maps closely to what you'd expect from an embedded young star heating surrounding gas.
On the commercial side, the Falcon 9 retirement is beginning to bite. Government and commercial operators are running into booking delays and cost pressure as SpaceX phases out the rocket.
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