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19h Sept 2026: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Receives $3.6M from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Advance Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), part of the Center for Astrophysics, has been awarded $3,597,771 from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF) to enable the first full-color, high-definition movies of black holes.

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17h Sept 2026: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets.

NASA’s newly launched Roman Space Telescope is heading a million miles from Earth to map the universe at extraordinary speed and uncover some of its deepest mysteries.

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25th Feb 2026: Can Solar Storms Trigger Earthquakes? Scientists Propose Surprising Link.

Scientists have proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity disturbs the ionosphere, it may generate electric fields that penetrate fragile fracture zones in Earth’s crust. If a fault is already critically stressed, this extra electrostatic pressure could help trigger a quake. The idea doesn’t claim direct causation, but it offers a fresh way to think about how space weather and seismic events might interact.

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16th Feb 2026: Link between long-period transients and white dwarf pulsars.

Long-period transients are repeating radio pulses of mysterious origin with minute-to-hour periods. The longest-lived of these — GPM J1839–10 — is now shown to be a binary system and seemingly mirrors the more rapid white dwarf pulsars, in which interaction of a stellar remnant with a companion star generates powerful radio beams.

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2nd Feb 2026: Scientists Use JWST to Examine Ancient Monster Stars That May Reveal the Birth of Black Holes

A new study shows that mysterious “Little Red Dots” seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are likely supermassive stars, shedding light on the earliest days of our universe:

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1st Feb 2026: How manipulating gravitational waves could reveal gravity’s quantum secrets.

Scientists may be on the verge of not just detecting gravitational waves—but gently reshaping them to probe the quantum secrets of gravity itself.

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