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No matter what, you do not want to find yourself near a neutron star.
These stellar beasts, made mostly of neutrons, are basically ultra-dense cosmic corpses roaming around space and, with incomprehensibly strong gravitational fields, torturing everything in their paths.
A tumultuous week on the surface of the sun will provide a nice opportunity to see the Aurora Borealis (in the northern hemisphere) and Aurora Australis (the southern equivalent) late Friday and early Saturday.
Our local star has generated a fair amount of solar flares in recent days, along with a few coronal mass ejections, which are the blasts of charged plasma that can trigger bright auroras farther away from Earth's poles than normal when they collide with our planet's magnetic field.
It may be one of the most widely observed space rocks no one knew existed just a day earlier. An asteroid officially named 2023 CX1 (it also went by the temporary label Sar2667 during its approach toward Earth) was discovered Sunday evening by an observatory in Hungary. Just seven hours later, it could be spotted burning up as a brilliant fireball over the English Channel before a potential audience of millions.
This marks just the seventh time ever that a meteoroid has actually been spotted in space before it impacted the atmosphere, according to the European Space Agency. The tiny size of the mini bolide -- it was just one meter across at the time of discovery -- makes the feat all the more impressive. It was first spotted by Krisztián Sárneczky at the Piszkéstet Observatory, who also made a similar discovery of asteroid 2022 EB5 last year just before it met its own demise in our atmosphere.
*Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information.
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers quantified the magnitude and rate of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant outbreak in China following the abrupt exit from the ‘zero-coronavirus disease (COVID)’ guidelines.
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet released last November with a truly hilarious and mind-boggling amount of graphical glitches and bugs. But have no fear: Nintendo just announced a huge February update that should bring us closer to the quality we usually expect from the Pokémon series. The developers also added quality of life improvements to the Pokémon storage box system.
Heres what the developers promised to fix:
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Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin und der belarussische Staatschef Alexander Lukaschenko haben in Moskau über die Zusammenarbeit beider Länder in Wirtschafts- und Sicherheitsfragen gesprochen. Dabei unterstrich Lukaschenko nach russischen Agenturberichten die technologische Kooperation der zwei verbündeten, aber international isolierten Nachbarstaaten. Sie lasse die Sanktionen ins Leere laufen, die wegen des russischen Angriffs auf die Ukraine verhängt worden sind, behauptete er.
Die Länder des Westens hätten Russland und Belarus nicht um ihr Potenzial in der Computertechnologie gebracht, sagte Lukaschenko bei dem Treffen in Putins Residenz Nowo-Ogarjowo. Auch produziere Belarus jetzt schon etwa 1.000 Bauteile für die zivilen russischen Flugzeuge MS-21 und Suchoi Superjet. Sein Land sei mit etwas russischer Hilfe auch in der Lage, Erdkampfflugzeuge herzustellen, sagte Lukaschenko. Solche Maschinen dienen der Unterstützung eigener Infanterie-Einheiten und können gegnerische Ziele am Boden angreifen.
