BWC: Man walking down street with handgun points it at Seattle officers twice before fatal OIS

by quasarn01 | Dec 8, 2025 | Police Lives Matter

Seattle Police officers ordered the man, who was reportedly pointing the gun at passing drivers, to drop the weapon; instead, he pointed it at the responding cops Go to Source

Peculiar supernova SN 2021ukt transitions from Type IIn to Type Ib

by quasarn01 | Dec 8, 2025 | Astronomy

Astronomers from the University of California (UC), Berkeley and elsewhere have performed spectroscopic and photometric study of a peculiar supernova designated SN 2021ukt, which underwent a transition from Type IIn to Type Ib. Results of the new study, presented Nov....

Musk denies reports of SpaceX seeking $800 billion valuation

by quasarn01 | Dec 8, 2025 | Astronomy

Elon Musk has denied news reports that his rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is seeking a $800 billion valuation through a share sale. Go to Source

Cosmic gas flows, not collisions, explain Milky Way’s double chemical signature

by quasarn01 | Dec 8, 2025 | Astronomy

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study. Go to Source

Icy hot plasmas: Fluffy, electrically charged ice grains reveal new plasma dynamics

by quasarn01 | Dec 8, 2025 | Latest in Physics

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth state of matter (along with solid, liquid, and gas). When we think of plasmas, we normally think of extremely hot phenomena such as the sun,...