Discovery Bit | Jones Brown | Activity https://www.discoverybit.com/members/sweenymidas/activity/ Activity feed for Jones Brown. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:52:59 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 398d198184f435790cd46b3203cd9f23 Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: Astronomers Using The NSF–DOE Rubin Discovered Asteroid 2 […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44802/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:40:23 -0600 Astronomers Using The NSF–DOE Rubin Discovered Asteroid 2025 MN45 In The Main Asteroid Belt. ~710m Wide, It Spins Once Every 1.88 Mins—The Fastest Ever Recorded For An Asteroid Over 500m. Unlike Typical Rubble-Pile Asteroids, Its Solid, Dense Rock Lets It Exceed The Usual Spin Limit, Revealing Clues About Asteroid Structure & Evolution.

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]]> 0 c27cf930b34135a2b2ff136b51b7c473 Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: NASA & ESA Confirmed The First Discovery Of Cloud-9, A Gia […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44728/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:42:25 -0600 NASA & ESA Confirmed The First Discovery Of Cloud-9, A Giant Starless Gas Cloud And Failed Galaxy. First Detected By The FAST Telescope In 2023 & Confirmed By Hubble In Jan 2026, It Contains Only Hydrogen Held By A Dark Matter Halo. Located 14M Ly Away Near Messier 94, It Is A Rare Early-Universe Relic Showing Why Some Galaxies Never Form.

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]]> 0 4e5e197d6a9bd162a2631c7bc1abb1ee Jones Brown posted an update in the group Animal: Scientists Discovered The World's First Natural Fiber-Optic […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44706/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:12:21 -0600 Scientists Discovered The World’s First Natural Fiber-Optic Cables In Heart Cockle Shells. Aragonite Tube Bundles And Microlenses In The Shell Focus Sunlight To Symbiotic Algae That Feed The Clam, While Blocking UV. Unlike Man-Made Fibers, No Coatings Are Needed To Trap Light. The Clam May Inspire Cheaper Optics, UV Protection, & Adv Tech.

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]]> 0 6441b444c8d24243e408db39b8b1d6e0 Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: For The First Time, NASA Found Traces Of Tryptophan, An […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/44682/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:27:56 -0600 For The First Time, NASA Found Traces Of Tryptophan, An Essential Earth Amino Acid, In Bennu (BN) Samples. This Brings BN’s Total # Of Protein-Building Amino Acid To 15 Of 20 Used On Earth. BN Also Holds All 5 Nucleobases & Water Signs. These Finds Support The Idea That Carbon-Rich Asteroids Delivered Life’s Building Blocks To Early Earth.

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]]> 0 8aebafc656688d2be2adb70de524f79d Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: Scientists, For The First Time, Observed A Star Explode Into […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/42478/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 04:57:42 -0600 Scientists, For The First Time, Observed A Star Explode Into A Supernova. The Star, ~120 Million Light-Years Away, Was Observed, For 130 Days Before It Exploded, Using The University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS Telescope In Maui. Supernovas Are Usually Only Detected, But A Few Of A Different Type Stars Have Also Been Caught In An Exploding Act.

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]]> 0 12605c1f17a5e83ec23ad988ddfad4bc Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: NASA, Using The Chandra X-Ray Telescope, May Have Discovered […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/42336/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 23:58:46 -0600 NASA, Using The Chandra X-Ray Telescope, May Have Discovered The First Exoplanet Outside Of Our Galaxy. The New Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Is Said To Be 28 Million Light-Years From Earth In The Messier 51 Galaxy. All Of The ~5000 Exoplanets Discovered Were Within The Milky Way. And Most Of Them Are Less Than 3,000 Light-Years From Earth.

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]]> 0 f5ccdd889b6e243a2c9cfdd593fd186f Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: A New Study Is Indicating That Glycine, And Probably Other […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36629/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 19:58:00 -0600 A New Study Is Indicating That Glycine, And Probably Other Amino Acids, Which Are Building Blocks Of Life, Can Form In Very Cold Dense Interstellar Clouds Before The Clouds Become Stars And Planets. This Notion Is Supported By Glycine Discovery In Comet 67P. Glycine Formation Was Previously Thought To Require The Presence Of Energy.

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]]> 0 c546d51a2d2c2de0406c71c7933f9fac Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: Stars Leave Something Behind When They Die. Majority Of Them […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36427/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:06:52 -0600 Stars Leave Something Behind When They Die. Majority Of Them Become White Dwarfs–Dense Stellar Remains With Temperatures That Reach 100,000 Kelvin, While Some Stars Explode In A Supernova, Turning Into A Black Hole Or A Neutron Star. The White Dwarf Remnants Are Said To Be The Main Source Of Carbon, A Crucial Element For Life.

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]]> 0 20a7209bd4caba5502dcdf09164cb761 Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: The Biggest And Brightest Supernova, Ever Observed, […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36291/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:01:38 -0600 The Biggest And Brightest Supernova, Ever Observed, SN2016aps (3.6–4.6B Ly away), Resulted From The Extremely Powerful Explosion Of A Dying Massive Star (50-100 Times The Sun’s Mass). Discovered In 2016 Data By Scientists At The Center For Astrophysics & Announced In 2020, It Radiated More Than 5x The Explosion Energy Of A Typical Supernova.

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]]> 0 59de21eb5f642156d8328b5976055044 Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: An Extinct Clam Fossil Is Indicating That About 70 Myrs A […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36212/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 03:32:28 -0600 An Extinct Clam Fossil Is Indicating That About 70 Myrs Ago, The Earth’s Day Was Shorter–About 23.5 Hours And The Days In The Year Were Longer–About 372 Days. This Evidence Was Derived By Studying The Growth Patterns And Rhythms On The Clam’s Shell. The Earth/Moon Distance Relationship Is Said To Be Responsible For The Phenomenon.

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]]> 0 5d11ba6e3a631826f22ff289e11c3542 Jones Brown posted an update in the group Other: Betelgeuse, A Star That Is <10 MYr Old And ~643 LY From […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/36097/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 23:38:26 -0600 Betelgeuse, A Star That Is <10 MYr Old And ~643 LY From Earth, Is Said To Be On The Brink Of Going Massive Supernova. This’s Because This 11th Brightest Star In The Night Sky And 2nd Brightest In The Orion Constellation Is Beginning To Fade. The Explosion, Visible From Earth, Will Have No Effect On Earth Due To Its Distance.

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]]> 0 bf93369b095cb82b4a1e1aa626729540 Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: Wow! Scientists From The Event Horizon Telescope Project Have […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/35560/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:15:32 -0600 Wow! Scientists From The Event Horizon Telescope Project Have For The First Time, Using A Virtual Telescope Dish As Large As Earth, Photographed A Real Supermassive Black Hole. The Black Hole Is 55 Million Light-Years From Earth, At The Center Of Galaxy Messier 87, And Has A Mass Some 6.5 Billion Times That Of Our Sun.

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]]> 0 421da6a782add4daa86b815bb5bac65c Jones Brown posted an update in the group Animal: Here Is Something That You Don't See Or Hear of Every day: […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/33349/ Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:14:15 -0600 Here Is Something That You Don’t See Or Hear of Every day: Not Your Typical Animal Being Put To Work. At A French Park, Puy du Fou park, in France, Crows, Specifically The Rook, Are Being Trained To Pick Up Little Bits Of Trash, Like Cigarette Butts, In Exchange For Nuggets Of Food. Cool!

Latest Attraction at French Theme Park: Crows…

]]> 0 fe9b24c9e29872874c122b5b7e39cadb Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: Another Uniquely Brief Low-Frequency Radio Wave (About 580 […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/32739/ Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:24:25 -0600 Another Uniquely Brief Low-Frequency Radio Wave (About 580 MHz), Named FRB 180725A, Has Been Detected, July 25th, 2018, By New Array Of Telescopes In Canada. But Unlike Other Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) That Reach Earth, The Powerful Source Of FRB 180725A Has Not Been Determined. Yes, I can Already Hear Some Folks Screaming Alien Source!!

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]]> 0 15ba9368d901df15123da4a2fb2f4dd5 Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: Scientists May Have Observed, For The First Time, Using […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/31115/ Fri, 20 Jul 2018 21:40:02 -0600 Scientists May Have Observed, For The First Time, Using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray, A Star Consuming Planets. The Discovery, Which Could Help Understand Exoplanets, Was Made In Taurus-Auriga Constellation (450 LY), Where Star RW Aur A Was Observed To Dim Occasionally Due To Iron Rich Veil, From Collision Of Two Planets, Falling Into The Star.

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]]> 0 8b629c13952e24b5aeaa33dba9f1a5ef Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: A Process, Which Probably Helped Shape Galaxies, Was Observed […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/27581/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:58:56 -0600 A Process, Which Probably Helped Shape Galaxies, Was Observed By A Team Of Astronomers From Data Collected Over A 10 Year Period. The Data Showed A Supermassive Black Hole, 20 Million Times The Size of The sun, Devouring A Star. This Event Was Observed In Galaxy ARP 299B, Which Is About 150 M Light Years Away From Earth.

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]]> 0 0d4c0dbc4674e17aa79e19aa368fe89d Jones Brown posted an update in the group Discovery: Wow, A Day On Earth Is Getting Longer Because Of The Moon. A […] https://www.discoverybit.com/activity/p/27142/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 02:47:24 -0600 Wow, A Day On Earth Is Getting Longer Because Of The Moon. A Day On Earth About 1.4 Billion Years Ago Was 18 Hours, And Very Soon, It Could Be 25 Hours. This’s All Thanks To The Moon Moving Away From Earth At A Rate of 3.82 cm Per Year. And Here I was Thinking That The Day Goes By Too Fast. 

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