NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look

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Comet 3I/ATLAS

Comet 3I/ATLAS Cataloguing the journey of comet 3I/ATLAS through the solar system. Because the object comes from outside our solar system, it is just passing through – so we use all the tools at our disposal to observe it before it disappears back into the cosmic dark. A host of NASA missions are coming together to observe this interstellar object, which was first discovered in summer 2025, before it leaves forever. While the comet poses no threat to Earth, NASA’s space telescopes help support the agency's ongoing mission to find, track, and better understand solar system objects. https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2026/06/01/nasas-webb-detects-methane-on-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas/

Gravity Waves From Super Typhoon Sinlaku

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/gravity-waves-from-super-typhoon-sinlaku/ In mid-April 2026, Super Typhoon Sinlaku churned across the North Pacific Ocean and brought heavy rain and flooding to the Mariana Islands. The storm reached “violent typhoon” status—the highest intensity on the scale used by the Japan Meteorological Agency and roughly equivalent to a category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. Sinlaku was one of only a handful of tropical cyclones of that intensity known to have occurred so early in the year in the region, meteorologists noted.

Scientists find traces of rare 'imperial' Tyrian purple dye found in Roman infant burials in York ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM MAY 9, 2026 15:44

Scientists find traces of rare 'imperial' Tyrian purple dye found in Roman infant burials in York Tyrian’s costly nature comes from the difficulty of its creation - made in a process similar to that of tekhelet, the blue dye traditionally used in Judaism to color strings of the tzizit. https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-895583 ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM MAY 9, 2026 15:44

Wooden platform older than Stonehenge found hidden beneath man-made island in Scotland ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM MAY 9, 2026 15:47

Wooden platform older than Stonehenge found hidden beneath man-made island in Scotland The analysis found that the crannog started out as a circular wooden platform, measuring at around 23 meters across, and topped with brushwood. https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-895581

Eight-year-old boy visiting Ramon Crater finds over 1,700-year-old statue fragment hidden in rocks ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM MAY 12, 2026 07:32

Eight-year-old boy visiting Ramon Crater finds over 1,700-year-old statue fragment hidden in rocks “I was looking for special things on the ground that I could show in class,” Wolynitz shared. “ Suddenly, I noticed an interesting stone with stripes lying on the ground, and picked it up.” https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-895768 ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM MAY 12, 2026 07:32

Central-Eastern Europe's oldest Neanderthal group identified by DNA taken from teeth - study ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM MAY 13, 2026 09:35

Central-Eastern Europe's oldest Neanderthal group identified by DNA taken from teeth - study Notably, three of the teeth - two belonging to children and one to an adult - taken from different sediment layers within the cave, all shared identical mitochondrial DNA. https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-895960 ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM MAY 13, 2026 09:35