Milky Way Disk May Have Flipped, Altering Solar System's Orbit
Supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way's spiral disk may have rotated by 90 degrees in the distant past, potentially changing the solar system's path and explaining the galaxy's unusually slow stellar halo rotation
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NASA Prepares Roman Space Telescope for 2026 Launch to L2 Orbit
NASA has fueled the Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation infrared observatory scheduled for launch in August 2026, aiming to collect hundreds of terabytes of cosmic data annually and expand studies of dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets
VLT Reveals Strongest Evidence Yet for Betelgeuse's Companion Star
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope have obtained the clearest direct image to date of a faint companion star near Betelgeuse, advancing a century-long search for evidence that the red supergiant is part of a binary system
Rescale to Integrate Agentic AI with US Lab Simulation Tools
Rescale has secured US Department of Energy funding to embed agentic AI into advanced simulation codes, aiming to make national laboratory-developed modeling tools more accessible to manufacturers and engineering teams
