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Lemon Planet Confirmed, LIGO's 390 Waves & First Nuclear CubeSat
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Webb confirms a lemon-shaped, possible diamond-core planet orbiting a pulsar — and no one can fully explain how it formed. Plus LIGO's 390-event gravitational wave catalog, Euclid's record-breaking quasars, and the first commercial nuclear satellite.
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A planet shaped like a lemon, orbiting a dead star, with a possible diamond core and no known explanation for how it got there. That's what the James Webb Space Telescope has just confirmed, and it's the clearest signal yet that our models of planet formation have some serious gaps.
Shift to gravitational waves, where a different kind of accumulation is happening. LIGO has just released its fifth gravitational wave catalog, GWTC-5.0, bringing the total detection count to three hundred and ninety events.
From gravitational waves to ancient light. ESA's Euclid telescope has identified thirty-one quasars from the early universe, including two that set new records.
NASA has released a draft request for proposals requiring commercial space stations to complete a crewed orbital test flight by twenty twenty-nine. The deadline is aggressive.
One quieter development worth tracking. A CubeSat called BOHR, built by City Labs, has been deployed via SpaceX rideshare.
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