Scientists in Germany have created a new family tree of our Milky Way galaxy, showing how it has grown over billions of years from chaotic mergers with smaller galaxies. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/milky-way-family-tree-progenitor-galaxy-collisions-kraken…
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Tesla Full Self-Driving System’s Beta Developer Settings Leaked
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It’s a long time coming for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature, and it hasn’t been a cheap journey. The price for the self-driving feature has increased multiple times and is currently available for supported Teslas for $10,000.While Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta continues to expand to more Tesla owners ahead of a planned…
Malicious npm Packages Caught Installing Remote Access Trojans
The security team behind the “npm” repository for JavaScript libraries removed two npm packages this Monday for containing malicious code that installed a remote access trojan (RAT) on the computers of developers working on JavaScript projects. From a report: The name of the two packages was jdb.js and db-json.js., and both were created by the same author and described themselves as…
Galaxy survives black hole’s feast—for now
Black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material that they put an end to the life of their host galaxy. In that process they create a highly energetic object called a quasar which was previously thought to halt star birth. Now researchers have found a galaxy that is surviving the ravenous forces of a quasar by continuing to…
Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop
As the coronavirus swept across the world, it picked up random alterations to its genetic sequence. Like meaningless typos in a script, most of those mutations made no difference in how the virus behaved. But one mutation near the beginning of the pandemic did make a difference, multiple new findings suggest, helping the virus spread more easily from person to person…
Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow! signal
Amateur astronomer and YouTuber Alberto Caballero, one of the founders of The Exoplanets Channel, has found a small amount of evidence for a source of the notorious Wow! signal. In his paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, Caballero describes searching the Gaia database for possible sun-like stars that might host an exoplanet capable of supporting intelligent life. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-11-amateur-astronomer-alberto-caballero-source.html…
Who Will Be the First Guest Host of Jeopardy, Alex?
thomst writes: Variety is reporting that uber-champion Ken Jennings will be the first of a series of guest hosts to substitute for the late, great Alex Trebek on trivia-maven game show Jeopardy! Executive Producer Mike Richards revealed that, when production resumes on November 30, Jennings will be the first of a series of guest hosts of the program, as the show…
SoftBank CEO Says He Doesn’t Understand Bitcoin, and Watching the Price Fluctuate Was ‘Distracting My Focus On My Own Business’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son said that he “doesn’t understand” bitcoin, and that he spent a good chunk of his time tracking its movement while invested in the cryptocurrency. Son, who made the remarks at The New York Times DealBook conference, said he was told by a friend to invest “1% of his…
‘Strange rays’ crowdsourced on social media shed light on black hole illumination
Sparked by an image uploaded to Twitter, new research indicates that the light produced by black hole accretion may be bright enough to reflect off of dust, illuminating the host galaxy, and creating light and dark rays similar to the effect of crepuscular rays on Earth. The research is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-11-strange-rays-crowdsourced-social-media.html…
We’ve seen a planet being born while its star is still forming
Astronomers may have seen a Jupiter-like planet begin to form while its host star is still growing, proving a long-held theory about planet formation Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2260005-weve-seen-a-planet-being-born-while-its-star-is-still-forming/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…