TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot world

Measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-tess-insights-ultrahot-world.html…

Images of bizarre bright ‘painted’ fish go viral

The team behind a Japanese fishing YouTube channel recently posted up images of their latest peculiar catch. Looking more like something out a cartoon… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337839/images-of-bizarre-bright-painted-fish-go-viral…

New Exotica Catalog will help guide search for ET

“What if extraterrestrial intelligences are not like us, but are found in the frigid reaches of the outer solar system, the extreme gravity of neutron stars, the brilliant cores of active galaxies, or the hearts of the richest galaxy clusters?” Source: https://earthsky.org/space/the-breakthrough-listen-exotic-target-catalog-seti-extraterrestrial-intelligence…

Weird caterpillar uses its old heads to make an elaborate hat

Meet the mad hatterpillar, the invertebrate that keeps its old moulted heads attached to its body to make a beautifully bizarre headpiece Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632881-200-weird-caterpillar-uses-its-old-heads-to-make-an-elaborate-hat/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Game Publisher Cancels Contract With Developer, Then Tries To Poach Its Entire Team

Three months after losing a deal with Take-Two, Star Theory Games was out of business. From a report: One Friday evening last December, employees of game designer Star Theory Games each received the same unusual recruitment message over LinkedIn. It struck them as bizarre for two reasons. One, it came from an executive producer at the publishing company funding their next…

Why it’s better to fall into a big black hole, and other bizarre facts

Black holes exert a powerful pull on our imagination, but their weirdness starts way before you cross the event horizon, says astrophysicist Chris Impey Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2244667-why-its-better-to-fall-into-a-big-black-hole-and-other-bizarre-facts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…