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Three flares from sunspot region 4455 — M9.3, M7.7, and X1.0 — fired off in roughly 10 hours and lit up Earth-directed CMEs

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Webb caught a massive galaxy that doesn’t spin at all, breaking the rule that young galaxies still rotate

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Webb spotted a fully formed barred spiral galaxy in the early universe, where astronomers expected only chaos

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Webb identified an ongoing five-galaxy merger that is already redistributing heavy elements into the void

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Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 swung past Earth at 57,000 miles — closer than the Moon — only eight days after being spotted

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NASA’s Curiosity drilled a Martian rock containing 21 organic molecules, seven of them never before detected on Mars

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Five named asteroids will sail past Earth in June, starting with 2021 KN2 on June 3 and finishing with 2003 LN6 on June 18

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NASA’s Webb just confirmed MoM-z14 as the most distant galaxy ever directly observed

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Webb found benzene, methane, and the highly reactive methyl radical packed inside a dust-cloaked luminous infrared galaxy

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Webb just captured the speed at which the most massive star clusters scrub away their birth gas — burning through their nurseries far faster than smaller clusters do

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ESA’s Juice and NASA’s Europa Clipper just imaged both sides of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at once — picking up unexpectedly heavy carbon emissions streaming off its surface

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A giant galaxy from less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang turned out not to spin at all — a trait usually only seen in much older galaxies

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Webb just rendered the clearest cosmic web map ever made — 164,000 galaxies threaded together along the invisible scaffolding holding the universe in place

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Webb just found a rare Saturn-sized world 330 light-years away with Earth-like temperatures and a methane-rich atmosphere — TOI-199b unlike anything in our solar system

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NASA’s Webb just clocked a giant planet 700 light-years out with rock-mineral clouds that form every morning and vanish by night — the first daily weather cycle on a hot Jupiter

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS just turned out to carry 40 times more heavy water than Earth’s oceans — chemistry impossible to make inside our solar system

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A CME from the Sun delivered a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field this weekend — Kp 4 readings, just below the threshold of a minor geomagnetic storm

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Webb just clocked the speed at which the most massive star clusters clear the gas clouds that build them — far faster than smaller clusters, rewriting how stars are born

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Astronomers just found 10,000 candidate exoplanets hiding in old NASA TESS data — buried signals an AI sifter pulled out faster than any human survey could

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ESA’s Juice spacecraft just spotted unexpectedly heavy carbon emissions streaming off interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS — sharper than anything seen in native comets

By BeckhamLangford

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