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#astronomy An article published in the journal "Nature" reports a study on the #exoplanet TOI-849b, which appears to be the core of a gas giant stripped of its atmosphere.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/07/05/toi-849b-is-a-bare-planetary-core

#astronomy An article published in "The Astronomical Journal" reports a study on the characteristics of the orbit of the #exoplanet KELT-9b, an ultra-hot Jupiter very close to its star.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/07/04/new-oddities-discovered-in-the-exoplanet-kelt-9b-and-its-star

#technology #industry The Covid-19 #pandemic has stopped or at least slowed down many industries' operations with a number of consequences and ramifications.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/07/03/industrial-processing-and-covid-19

#astronomy #ESO #VLT An article published in the "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" reports the mysterious disappearance of a massive star of the luminous blue variable type in the Kinman dwarf galaxy.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/07/02/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-a-luminous-blue-variable-star-in-the-kinman-dwarf-galaxy

#ScienceFantasy #ScienceFiction #scifi #fantasy #TheBrokenEarth My review of the novel “The Fifth Season” by N. K. Jemisin
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/07/01/the-fifth-season-by-n-k-jemisin/

#astronomy An article published in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" reports a study of V407 Cygni, the first known gamma-ray #nova.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/06/30/a-study-of-v407-cygni-the-first-known-gamma-ray-nova

#cinema It's the special effect master Ray Harryhausen's 100th birth anniversary https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/06/29/ray-harryhausen-was-born-100-years-ago

#astronomy #SupermassiveBlackHole An article accepted for publication in "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports the discovery of a very bright primordial #quasar that was cataloged as J100758.264+211529.207, or simply J1007+2115, and named Pōniuāʻena.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/06/28/a-primordial-supermassive-black-hole-has-a-mass-that-is-difficult-to-explain

#astronomy An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports multi-epoch observations conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope of the star HBC 672 and the movement of the shadow projected by its protoplanetary disk onto an interstellar cloud.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/06/27/a-cosmic-flapping-generated-by-the-star-hbc-672-and-its-protoplanetary-disk

#DoctorWho #EleventhDoctor #11thDoctor #ScienceFiction #scifi My review of "Doctor Who" novel “The Way Through the Woods” by Una McCormack
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/06/26/the-way-through-the-woods-by-una-mccormack/

#astronomy #LIGO #Virgo An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports a study on the origin of gravitational waves detected in the event cataloged as GW190814 on August 14, 2019, in which a black hole with a mass about 23 times the Sun's merged with an object with a mass about 2.6 times the Sun's whose nature is uncertain.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/06/25/gravitational-waves-detected-from-a-merger-of-a-black-hole-with-an-object-of-uncertain-nature

#tachnology #hardware The Japanese #supercomputer Fugaku was crowned the new king of the Top 500 ranking by passing Summit, which held the title for two years.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/06/24/fugaku-is-the-new-king-of-supercomputers-in-the-june-2020-top-500

#astronomy An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports a study of over 2,000 active galactic nuclei (AGN) among which some may have two supermassive black holes.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/06/23/possible-new-pairs-of-supermassive-black-holes-identified

#ScienceFiction #scifi My review of the novel “Transmission” by Morgan Rice
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/06/22/transmission-by-morgan-rice/

#astronomy #astrophysics The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has published an X-ray universe map obtained thanks to the #eROSITA instrument, which the institute built for the Spektr-RG space telescope. This map includes about a million objects related to the hot and energetic part of the universe.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/06/21/the-first-x-ray-sky-map-created-thanks-to-the-erosita-instrument/

#paleoanthropology #paleogenetics An article published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" reports a high-quality sequencing of the DNA of a #Neanderthal woman.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/06/20/a-high-quality-dna-sequencing-of-a-neanderthal-woman

#astronomy #NeutronStar An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports a study on Swift J1818.0-1607, the youngest #pulsar discovered so far, which offers evidence that it's at the same time a #magnetar and one of the very few to also have radio emissions.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/06/18/the-youngest-known-pulsar-is-also-a-magnetar

#technology #robotics An article accepted for publication in the journal "Robotics and Automation Letters" describes the design of a low-cost quadruped #robot made available on GitHub under the free / open source BSD 3-clause license having been developed under the aegis of the Open Dynamic Robot Initiative.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/06/17/solo-8-is-a-quadruped-robot-that-anyone-can-build-thanks-to-the-projects-free-license

#astronomy #ALMA An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports a study of the triple system of GW Orionis, or simply GW Ori, and in particular of the interactions between the three #stars that compose it and the disk of gas and dust that surrounds it, divided in three rings.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2020/06/16/three-rings-for-the-three-stars-of-gw-orionis

#ScienceFiction #scifi #Paratwa My review of the novel 'Liege-Killer' by Christopher Hinz
https://english.netmassimo.com/2020/06/15/liege-killer-by-christopher-hinz/