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Webb's Earliest Jellyfish Galaxy, Mars Rubies & Solar Flare Alert
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The James Webb Space Telescope has shattered records with the most distant jellyfish galaxy ever seen, rewriting our timeline of cosmic evolution — and that's just the start. Today's episode also covers corundum discovered on Mars, a solar flare risk spike, a new microgravity startup, and Europe's first total solar eclipse in 27 years.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
The James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant jellyfish galaxy ever observed, and what it's showing us is forcing a rethink of how violent the early universe really was. The galaxy sits eight and a half billion light-years away.
On Mars, the Perseverance rover has identified corundum in rock samples from Jezero Crater. Corundum is the mineral that forms rubies and sapphires.
The sun is getting complicated. Two active regions, AR4507 and AR4506, have both developed complex magnetic configurations.
In commercial space, a New Zealand startup called Outlier Space has closed a seven point three five million dollar pre-seed round to develop reusable orbital research capsules. Their target is a test flight in twenty twenty-eight.
Finally, Europe saw its first total solar eclipse in twenty-seven years on August twelfth. The path crossed Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain, drawing large-scale observation efforts across the region.
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