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fromMail Online
1 week ago

Scientists baffled by mysterious blue flashes coming from deep space

Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients are rare, extremely hot, fast blue flashes possibly caused by black hole or neutron star collisions with Wolf-Rayet stars.
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fromThe Verge
2 months ago

The Rubin Observatory's alert system sent 800,000 pings on its first night

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's automated alert system launched publicly, generating 800,000 alerts nightly about asteroids, supernovas, and black holes, with millions expected as operations scale up.
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