The two babies were born in October before being separated earlier this week in a Texas hospital. Doctors at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, performed a successful sᴜʀɢᴇʀʏ to separate conjoined twins on Jan. 23 in a procedure that took 11 hours and involved 25 medical professionals. James Finley and Amanda Arciniega of Saginaw, Texas, are the parents of twin girls AmieLynn and JamieLynn, who were born last October, according to NBC Fort Worth affiliate KXAS. In a segment that aired Jan. 26 on TODAY, the couple recalled the shock of finding out they were having conjoined…
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Photographer Lindsay Foster specializes in capturing births and cute sessions with newborn babies. The professional saw her popularity grow when she released, on the 28th of July, the photos of the birth of Milo, the son of BJ Barone, 34, and Frankie Nelson, 44, both teachers from Toronto, Canada. The images show the parents’ emotion when they received the child after the birth, on July 27, and became a hit on social networks. Very emotional, they accompanied all the labor. The most shared photo shows the two receiving the boy shortly after birth, next to their bare backs – a…
Using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, scientists have discovered new clues that could help predict when and where the next solar flare might blast from the Sun. Researchers were able to identify small flashes in the upper layers of the corona – the Sun’s atmosphere – found above regions that would later flare in energetic bursts of light and particles released from the Sun. The scientists compared the flashes to small sparklers before the big fireworks. “We can get some very different information in the corona than we get from the photosphere, or ‘surface’ of the Sun,” said KD…
Like Gravitational Waves (GWs) and Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are one of the most powerful and mysterious astronomical phenomena today. These transient events consist of bursts that put out more energy in a millisecond than the Sun does in three days. While most bursts last mere milliseconds, there have been rare cases where FRBs were found repeating. While astronomers are still unsure what causes them and opinions vary, dedicated observatories and international collaborations have dramatically increased the number of events available for study. A leading observatory is the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a next-generation radio…
Now that the Perseverance rover has dropped off ten regolith and rock sample tubes for a future sample return mission to retrieve, the plans for such a mission are coming together. The mission is a joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency, and ESA has agreed to build a 2.5-meter-long robotic arm to pick up tubes and then transfer them to a rocket for the first-ever Mars samples to be brought to Earth. ESA says the Sample Transfer Arm (STA) will likely be autonomous, with a large range of movements and seven degrees of freedom. Cameras and sensors…
The coming decades of space exploration will see astronauts return to the Moon, the first crewed missions to Mars, and robotic missions to the outer Solar System (among other things). These missions will leverage innovative technologies that allow faster transits, long-duration stays, and sustainable living far from Earth. To this end, NASA and other space agencies are investigating nuclear applications, especially where energy and propulsion are concerned. Many of these proposals have been on the books since the early space age and have been thoroughly validated. On Tuesday, January 24th, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced…
Detecting exoplanets was frontier science not long ago. But now we’ve found over 5,000 of them, and we expect to find them around almost every star. The next step is to characterize these planets more fully in hopes of finding ones that might support life. Directly imaging them will be part of that effort. But to do that, astronomers need to block out the light from the planets’ stars. That’s challenging in binary star systems. When astronomers need to block out starlight in order to examine a nearby planet, they use a telescopic attachment called a coronagraph. The Hubble Space…
Here’s another striking image from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. These billows of blue and red show a detailed look at a small portion of the famous Orion Nebula. But what really catches the eye are the brilliant stars with the cross-shaped diffraction spikes — a hallmark of Hubble images. In the center is the bright variable star V 372 Orionis and a smaller companion star in the upper left is named BD-05 1307. V 372 Orionis, also known as HD 36917 or Ori 47, is a so-called Orion variable — a variable star which exhibits irregular variations in its…
In a recent paper submitted to The Astronomical Journal in November 2022, a scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne quantifies how the Earth has not heard a radio signal from an extraterrestrial technological civilization over the course of approximately the last 60 years, which is when the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began listening for such signals. They also quantify the potential likelihood pertaining to when we might hear a signal, along with recommending potential strategies that could aid in the ongoing search for detecting a signal from an extraterrestrial technological civilization. “One interesting result of this…
On December 9, 1965, the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania was shaken by an event that would go down in history as one of the most mysterious and debated UFO crashes of all time. The Kecksburg UFO Crash, as it came to be known, has captivated the imagination of people for decades, with theories ranging from government cover-up to extraterrestrial encounters. Table of Contents The Kecksburg UFO Crash on December 9, 1965Official Explanation vs. Witness Accounts Of the Kecksburg UFO CrashInvestigations and Efforts to Uncover the TruthThe Kecksburg UFO Crash on December 9, 1965 According to witnesses, a large, acorn-shaped…
The Aurora UFO crash of 1897 in Texas is a topic that continues to captivate and intrigue people to this day. Despite the lack of concrete evidence, many believe that a UFO crash-landed in the small town of Aurora, Texas in April of 1897. In this article, we will delve into the mysterious incident, examine the evidence, explore the theories and take a look at what some experts have to say about the Aurora UFO crash. Table of Contents The Aurora UFO Crash Incident 1897Evidence and Eyewitness Accounts Of The Aurora UFO CrashTheories and SpeculationsExpert Opinion On Aurora UFO CrashThe…
On May 21, 2007, a young resident of Jackson, Wyoming, USA, named Patricia Lyons, disappeared from her bedroom without a trace. The day before she was preparing for the exam and, as usual, before an important event, she went to bed early. Let’s dig deeper into this strange case of an encounter with squid aliens. The Encounter Of Patricia Lyons With Squid Aliens Her parents claimed that in the morning when they realized that Patricia Lyons was not at home, all the windows and doors in the house were locked, and the keys were in place. That is, the girl could not leave the…