From:- Space.com By Julian Dossett Edited by: Amal Udawatta A photo from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. (Image credit: T. Currie/Subaru Telescope, UTSA) While our ability to view distant worlds with advanced telescopes has come a long way in a short time, we can still only photograph a tiny fraction of the planets throughout our cosmos with the technology we have today. However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan’s Subaru Telescope , which sits atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. These new celestial discoveries represent the first findings from OASIS (Observing Accelerators with SCExAO Imaging Survey), a program that relies on the Subaru Telescope, as well as data from other sources. The exoplanet that the astronomers found is called HIP 54515 b. It's 271 light-years away from Earth and orbits a star in the Leo cons...
From - DW In focus Murali Krishnan 12/02/2025 Edited by Amal Udawatta https://p.dw.com/p/54d6v Hundreds of people have died and hundreds more are missing after Cyclone Ditwah made landfall in Sri Lanka Officials in Sri Lanka are facing immense pressure for their alleged mishandling of Cyclone Ditwah, with the crisis highlighting deep cracks in the country's emergency response system. Days after Cyclone Ditwah tore through Sri Lanka , over 1.46 million people across all 25 of the nation's districts remain affected by the island's worst flooding disaster in two decades. According to the government's Disaster Management Center, the official death toll stands at 410, with 336 people still missing. More than 64,000 people from 407,000 affected families are sheltering in nearly 1,450 government-run safety centers across the country. Thousands trapped, isolated Multiple countries have responded to Sri Lanka's appeal ...