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2025-05-03T15:05:19Z

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An eerie spiral lit up the European skies. Here’s why such light shows are becoming more common [https://kra31s.cc Кракен тор]

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast.

Such strange light shows have been a known feature of rocket launches for years. But as humanity rapidly increases the number of objects propelled into space — more people are inadvertently witnessing the phenomena.

“We’re not used to seeing things that are happening in space in these very low (atmospheric) densities,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, referring to the thin atmosphere that exists at high altitudes and in Earth’s orbit.

When a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida last week — flying northeastward as it headed for Earth’s orbit to drop off a spy satellite for the US military — it put on a show for millions over the United Kingdom and the European continent.

Shortly after launch, social media users began to report “strange shapes” dancing in the sky.

The scene was “likely to be caused by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,” according to a post on X that the Met Office, Britain’s national weather service, shared after the launch.

The viral images were reminiscent of the “jellyfish” phenomenon that has accompanied some SpaceX launches from Florida and California. Visible from the North American coasts, the “jellyfish” is marked by a massive teardrop-shaped streak of light that grows and stretches as the rocket flies.

Despite their similarities, however, experts said the phenomena of the jellyfish and spiral are distinct.
A ghostly spiral
The eerie bat signal-like spiral following SpaceX’s March 24 military satellite launch formed after the rocket had already made its delivery. The vehicle was preparing to plunge out of orbit and back into Earth’s atmosphere, twirling toward a safe splashdown in the ocean — and leaving fuel in its wake.

Such maneuvers made to dispose of rocket bodies are common after launches.

The Falcon 9 is designed to break into two parts — or “stages.”

The first stage is the bottommost portion of the rocket with nine engines that fire up at liftoff, powering the 230-foot (70-meter) vehicle off the ground. The first-stage booster is also the same part that SpaceX routinely guides to landing after launch and reuses to save money.

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2025-02-17T01:34:43Z

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Mysterious portrait of a woman revealed beneath Picasso painting [https://kra27c.cc/ кракен]

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface.

The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it, probably a few months afterward, in 1901 to depict his sculptor friend Mateu Fernández de Soto sitting at a table in hues of blues and greens.

But, almost 125 years later, the original portrait’s outlines have been revealed by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, when they examined the artwork using infrared and X-ray imaging ahead of an exhibition.
The portrait of the woman “literally emerged before our eyes … piece-by-piece,” because of the mosaic-like way an infrared camera scans an image, Barnaby Wright, deputy head of the Courtauld Gallery, explained.

Though experts “were fairly convinced there was something lurking underneath the surface because … you can see brushstrokes … that didn’t really relate to the finished portrait,” they didn’t know what they would find once they began scanning it, Wright told CNN on Monday.

They are still unsure of the woman’s identity, though she resembles several other women Picasso painted in Paris in 1901, as she shares the distinctive chignon hairstyle that was fashionable in the French capital at the time.

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2025-01-26T19:22:33Z

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Scientists say they found oxygen where it shouldn’t be. Now, the hunt is on for more answers [https://omgprice10.com/ omgprice10 cc]

A startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean’s seabed, where no light can penetrate, was a scientific bombshell.

Initial research suggested potato-size nodules rich in metals, predominantly found 4,000 meters (13,100 feet) below the surface in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, released an electrical charge, splitting seawater into oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis. The unprecedented natural phenomenon challenges the idea that oxygen can only be made from sunlight via photosynthesis.
Andrew Sweetman, a professor at the UK’s Scottish Association for Marine Science who was behind the find, is embarking on a three-year project to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Sweetman and his team are using custom-made rigs equipped with sensors that can be deployed to depths of 11,000 meters (36,089 feet). The Nippon Foundation is funding the $2.7 million (2.2 million-pound) research project, which was announced Friday.
Uncovering dark oxygen revealed just how little is known about the deep ocean, and the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, in particular. The region is being explored for the deep-sea mining of rare metals contained in the rock nodules. The latter are formed over millions of years, and the metals play a key role in new and green technologies.

“Our discovery of dark oxygen was a paradigm shift in our understanding of the deep sea and potentially life on Earth, but it threw up more questions than answers,” Sweetman, the leader of his institution’s seafloor ecology and biogeochemistry group, said in a news release. “This new research will enable us to probe some of these scientific questions.”

Sweetman said the initial goal of the new project was to determine whether dark oxygen production was replicated in other areas of the CCZ where the nodules can be found and then untangle exactly how the oxygen was being produced.

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2025-01-11T23:12:39Z

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Wolves in Europe
Anti-wolf sentiment is growing elsewhere in Europe too.

A pony belonging to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s was killed by a wolf in 2022. She made a statement in 2023 saying that “the concentration of wolf packs in some European regions has become a real danger for livestock and potentially also for humans,” which prompted several wildlife and conservation charities, including the WWF, to issue a response, calling her words “misleading” and “not based on science.”
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Von der Leyen welcomed the news last month that the Bern Convention committee had decided to adjust the protection status of wolves, calling it “important news for our rural communities and farmers… because we need a balanced approach between the preservation of wildlife and the protection of our livelihoods.”

It’s true that the wolf population in Europe has increased over recent years. Wild Wonders’ Widstrand calls it “a major, fantastic comeback conservation story.”

There are approximately 1,500 wolves in Germany and 3,300 in Italy, according to conservation reports. Widstrand notes there are even 120 wolves in Belgium. “These countries are vastly smaller than Sweden and more densely populated,” he pointed out.

Yet rural affairs minister Kullgren says wolves are affecting Swedish society “more significantly than before.”
Kullgren said there were “parents who are afraid of letting their children play in their backyard, farmers who are afraid to let the animals out to graze due to the risk of wolf attacks and dog owners who are afraid that their beloved pets might get attacked while walking on forest paths.”

But Beatrice Rindevall, chairperson of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, told CNN on Thursday that the government was scaring people unnecessarily and that there hadn’t been a wolf attack on a person since 1821.

“The government is very much adding fuel to the polarized debate,” she added.

Orrebrant, chair of the SCA, said that if the EU follows the Bern Convention committee’s decision, which comes into effect on March 7, and decides to downgrade the wolf’s protection status, “that will allow countries like Germany, Italy or Spain to hunt in the same way that Sweden does.”