NASA’s Juno mission saw particles accelerated by Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field to near the speed of light.
The findings may unlock a 100-year-old mystery about even faster particles reaching Earth from distant supernovas. 🔎⚡
Published today: https://t.co/yMv3Yv2PgM
Congratulations to Zimbabwe on being elected for a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council.
Zimbabwe's credentials:
🇿🇼 Torture
🇿🇼 Child labor
🇿🇼 Tainted elections
🇿🇼 Jails critics and journalists
🇿🇼 Authoritarian rule over decades
🚨 It’s finally happening.
In November 2026, NASA’s Voyager 1 will cross the "one light-day" threshold, making communication with Earth a 48-hour round trip.
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to redefine the limits of human achievement as it traverses the silent void of interstellar space. By November 2026, the probe will officially be one light-day away from Earth, a distance of approximately 16 billion miles. At this staggering range, radio signals traveling at the speed of light will require a full 24 hours to reach the spacecraft, turning every command and response into a two-day marathon. This symbolic milestone underscores the sheer scale of our solar system and the incredible longevity of a machine designed nearly half a century ago.
Despite its age and the extreme conditions of deep space, Voyager 1 remains a functional scientific outpost beyond the reach of the sun's influence. It continues to beam back invaluable data about the mysterious environment between stars, carrying with it the "Golden Record"—a time capsule of Earth’s sounds and images for any intelligence it might encounter. As it drifts further into the cosmic dark, the probe serves as a testament to human curiosity, proving that our technological reach now spans distances measured not in miles, but in the time it takes light itself to travel.
Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2025) Voyager 1: The Farthest Human-Made Object. NASA Science Mission Directorate.
🚨 James Webb just uncovered a serious problem with our understanding of the universe.
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope confirms a major discrepancy in the universe's expansion rate, suggesting our current understanding of physics may be fundamentally incomplete.
For years, astronomers have been caught in a tug-of-war over the "Hubble tension," a baffling disagreement between two methods of measuring how fast the universe is growing. While measurements of the early universe suggest one speed, observations of local stars suggest another. Many scientists hoped this gap was simply the result of measurement errors; however, new high-precision observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have now confirmed the discrepancy is undeniably real. By analyzing more than 1,000 pulsating stars across galaxies millions of light-years away, the telescope has validated previous findings and ruled out the possibility of technical glitches.
This confirmation puts modern cosmology at a crossroads. If the math is right but the numbers do not match, it suggests that our standard model of the cosmos is missing a vital ingredient. This could mean the existence of unknown subatomic particles, a new form of dark energy, or a fundamental misunderstanding of how gravity behaves on a universal scale. As we continue to push the boundaries of space exploration, these results prove that the universe still guards secrets that may eventually force us to rewrite the textbooks on how reality itself is structured.
source: Riess, A. G., et al. JWST Observations Reject Unrecognized Crowding of Cepheid Photometry as an Explanation for the Hubble Tension at 8σ Confidence. The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Cosmic photobomb: Earth and Moon in perfect alignment 🌍🌕
Captured by Japan’s Himawari satellite from geostationary orbit (~35,766 km), the Moon appears to peek from behind Earth in a rare, perfectly timed shot.
A striking contrast between Earth’s blue, cloud-covered glow and the Moon’s rugged surface against deep space — a stunning reminder of the elegance of the Earth–Moon system.
What's up for June?
The solstice brings summer to the Northern Hemisphere. Jupiter and Venus will appear close together in the night sky, and Mercury will join them soon after. The Moon will also pass in front of Venus on June 17. Learn more: https://t.co/Ujal0GZVJU
Retrocausality is the idea that the future can influence the past. In certain interpretations of quantum mechanics, events can be affected by future conditions or measurements, challenging the conventional understanding of cause and effect. ✍️
Iran has just been nominated to preside over the UN Committee for the protection of women's rights, human rights, and the prevention of terrorism.
YES, IRAN. And it was supported by the United Kingdom, Spain, and France.
This is not a joke. It's real.
- @isaacrrr7
On May 30, 1971, Mariner 9—the first spacecraft to enter into orbit around another planet—launched to Mars.
Mariner 9 mapped 85% of the Martian surface and sent back more than 7,000 images, including our first clear images of Olympus Mons and the Valles Marineris canyon system.
BREAKING: Author of U.N. report placing Israel on sexual violence blacklist admits she has not personally viewed any evidence. “I made it clear to Israel I would not visit any detention facility, even if offered. It's not the responsibility of my office to do any verification.”
Thank you for being here today. Your support means a lot to the whole team. We will get back to flight, and we will get to the Moon. Gradatim Ferociter.
Albert Einstein kept a photo of Maxwell on his study wall, alongside pictures of Michael Faraday and Isaac Newton. He referred to Maxwell's work as the "most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton."
Maxwell's equations were integral to the development of Einstein's theory of special relativity.
There was a time when @antonioguterres spoke with genuine moral clarity about the Jewish people — even acknowledging that Spain and Portugal suffered profoundly after the destruction of Jewish life during the Inquisition. He understood that when societies turn against Jews, they ultimately turn against themselves.
That is why it has been so deeply troubling to witness the shift in tone and moral equivalence emerging from parts of today’s United Nations leadership.
The @UN was created in the shadow of the Holocaust to ensure that the horrors inflicted upon the Jewish people would never happen again. But when the world’s only Jewish state, @Israel, is constantly treated as uniquely illegitimate — or worse, rhetorically compared to the terrorists of Hamas — something has gone terribly wrong.
Criticism of governments is legitimate. The normalization of narratives and conspiracies that demonize the Jewish state is not.
Institutional change is in order. The credibility of international organizations depends on their ability to consistently reject antisemitic double standards, and remember why they were created in the first place.
🇪🇺 seems to behave like a judge, saying: “I approve — I condemn!” We as 🇪🇺 citizens need actions following the judgment.
No war against the Evil is “Not Our War” @NATO@AtlanticClubBG@eu_eeas
Statement by 🇪🇺 Spokesperson on the latest attack of 🇮🇷 https://t.co/9c9Yi9ImZr
🚨: Voyager 1 is now so far from Earth that a signal traveling at the speed of light takes 23 hours, 32 minutes and 35.444 seconds to reach it — so when engineers send a command, they can wait nearly two days to know whether the spacecraft responded.
@Mico_Vlahovic I will double check, but the event is designed in a shorter than half a day format & objectively not all Black Sea and Balkan dozen+ countries could be represented.
🇸🇾🇩🇪 Syria has rejected Germany’s plan to return over 700,000 Syrian refugees to their home country.
"We categorically reject any attempts at forced deportation,” said Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani.
He added that Syrians in Germany are a “strategic resource” rather than a burden.