Colleen Sifford

Scientists Used JWST To Create The Largest-Ever Universe Map, Showing ~800k Galaxies (G) Stretching Across 13 Byrs Of Cosmic History. JWST Spent 255 Hrs Scanning The COSMOS (C) Field, A Clear Patch Of Sky 3× The Moon’s Size, Revealing 10× + G Than Expected & Hidden Supermassive Blackholes. The Map Is Public Via The C Interactive Map Viewer.

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UMa3/U1, 20 Ly Wide With ~60 Stars And 16 Solar Masses, May Be The Smallest Dark-Matter Galaxy Or An 11B-Yr-Old Star Cluster; Dynamics Suggest The Latter, Pending Future Data. Meanwhile, Andromeda XXXV, 3M Ly From Earth, & A Satellite Of Andromeda Galaxy, Is Confirmed As The Smallest Known Dwarf Galaxy, Defying Early-Universe Destruction.

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The Sundaland Fossil Site, Once A Rich Savannah In Indonesia’s Madura Strait, Is The World’s First Underwater Hominin Fossil Site. It Includes A 140k-Year-Old Homo Erectus Skull & 6,000+ Animal Fossils, Revealing Hunting, & Tool Use, Reshaping Human Migration Theories In SE Asia. The Site Was Home To Elephants, Stegodons, Bovids, Deer, Etc

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Astronomers Found A New Dwarf Planet, 2017 OF201, With The Longest Known Solar System Orbit —25k Yrs Long & Spanning 45–1,600 AU From The Sun. It’s 435 Miles Wide & Was Spotted In A 7-Year Blanco (Chile) & Hawaii Telescope Archived Images. Its Extreme Path May Be Shaped By Neptune Or The Milky Way, But It Doesn’t Support Planet 9 Theories.

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A 43kyr-Old Granite Pebble From Central Spain May Be Europe’s Oldest Portable Art & The Earliest Known Abstraction Of A Human Face. This Depiction May Have Emerged When A Neanderthal (ND) Marked The Rock With A Red Color Resembling A Nose & Left The World’s Oldest Complete Fingerprint, Suggesting ND’s Symbolic Thinking & Artistic Abilities.

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