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  By Pallab Ghosh BBC - Science correspondent Edited by -Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, NASA Image caption, The actual explosion captured by a Nasa space telescope. Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the largest explosion ever detected. The explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any recorded exploding star - known as a supernova. So far it has lasted more than three years, much longer than most supernovae which are usually only visibly bright for a few months. One theory is that the blast was caused when a vast cloud of gas was swallowed up by a black hole. A flash in the sky was first automatically detected and recorded in 2020 by the Zwicky Transient Facility in California. But it wasn't until a year later that it was picked up by astronomers combing through the data. They called the event AT2021lwx. At the time they thought it was unremarkable because there was no indication of how far away it was and therefore it wasn't possible to calculate its bright

  From Earth Unreal The jewel caterpillar is a remarkable creature that belongs to the family of moths called Dalceridae. It is covered in brightly-colored, translucent spines that makes it look like a cute little pile of gummy candies. These spines are actually made of a gelatinous substance that can easily break off when touched. This may help the caterpillar escape from predators by leaving behind a sticky mess. The jewel caterpillar is also slightly toxic, which may deter some animals from eating it. The jewel caterpillar can be found in Mexico, Costa Rica and some Caribbean islands, where it feeds on various plants. When it is ready to pupate, it sheds its spines and transforms into a fuzzy orange moth. The adult moth is not as brightly colored as the caterpillar, but it is still a beautiful creature. The moth has a wingspan of about 1 inch and is typically found in the rainforest canopy. The jewel caterpillar is a fascinating creature that is sure to capture the attention of any

 From - Sky & Telescope,  By - Arwen Rimmer,  Edited by - Amal Udawatta, The Hope probe captured this composite image of Deimos and Mars. Emirates Mars Mission The Emirates Mars Mission’s Hope probe has been observing the Red Planet since 2021. Now, surprising new results from the spacecraft call the origin of its smaller moon into question. The United Arab Emirates Space Agency’s Hope Probehas made important contributions to our understanding of Mars’  atmosphere ,  dust storms , and  aurorae . At the annual meeting of the European Geological Union (EGU) in Vienna, the mission’s science team, led by Hessa Al Matroushi (Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre), presented the latest observations and imagery, along with an exciting “bonus” look at Deimos, Mars’s smaller moon. Until now, all the satellites we’ve sent to Mars have had very close orbits in order to better study the planet’s atmosphere and surface. But the Hope team took a different approach, choosing instead to park the spacec

    From- Sky & Telescope,   By - Kit Gilchrist,  Edited by - Amal Udawatta, This image of the dusty debris disk surrounding the young star Fomalhaut is from JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument. It reveals an inner belt, akin to the solar system's asteroid belt but dustier and more extended; an intermediate belt; and a previously imaged outer belt that's analogous to our Kuiper Belt. The inner two belts had never been imaged before. NASA / ESA / CSA / A. Pagan (STScI) / A. Gáspár (University of Arizona) Continuing its run of ground-breaking discoveries, the James Webb Space Telescope has snapped the clearest images yet of the dusty disk around the young star Fomalhaut. Fomalhaut , a bright, young star 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, illuminates a disk of planet-forming debris. Such debris disks contain clues about exoplanets and even smaller bodies that would otherwise remain hidden. András Gáspár (University of Arizona) and his team present in  Nature

  From - Sky & Telescope, By - Jennifer Wills, Edited by - Amal Udawatta M82 (left) and M81 (right; also known as Bode's Galaxy) Jared Bowens /  S&T Online Photo Gallery This  was going to be the year I finally did some galaxy hunting — other than Andromeda (M31). I had  plans , y’all. For months, I dreamed of settling outside on clear nights in March, April, and into May, and zipping through a GoTo alignment before slewing around to new-to-me fuzzy dots in the sky. Part of stargazing’s allure is the idea that I’m turning my attention to other worlds — at least to the suns illuminating those distant planets. When it comes to galaxies, each blurry smudge in my eyepiece has the potential host to tens of billions of planetary systems. But I also have to be realistic. I don’t have a light-bucket Dobsonian or wide-aperture SCT in my telescope arsenal, but I did recently purchase a NexStar 127SLT from my astronomy club’s library. Not true galaxy quest equipment, but the 127SLT —

  By Rob Corp BBC News, Edite by - Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE Scientists have named a new group of butterflies after the villain Sauron from the Lord of the Rings novels. Experts hit on the name Saurona because the black rings on the insect's orange wings reminded them of the all-seeing eye described in JRR Tolkien's books. The Natural History Museum in London hopes the unusual title will draw attention to the species and help generate more research. Two species of butterfly have been added to the newly named Saurona genus. Saurona triangular and Saurona aurigera are the inaugural members of the group but it's expected many more species will join them. The name was picked by Dr Blanca Huertas, curator of the butterflies at the museum, who is part of an international team who described the new genus in a paper published in the scientific journal Systematic Entomology. A group of 30 scientists from around the world have spent a decade studying the butterfly subtribe Euptychi

  By the Visual Journalism Team, BBC News, Edited by - Amal Udawatta, Millions of people across the UK and beyond have celebrated the coronation of King Charles III - a symbolic ceremony combining a religious service and pageantry. The ceremony was held at Westminster Abbey, with the King becoming the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned there since 1066. Queen Camilla was crowned alongside him before a huge parade back to Buckingham Palace. Here's how the day of splendour and formality, which featured customs dating back more than 1,000 years, unfolded. King's Procession to the abbey The formal celebrations started with a procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey at 10:20 BST. In a break from tradition, King Charles and Queen Camilla were in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach rather than the older, more uncomfortable, Gold State Coach. The procession moved along The Mall to Trafalgar Square, then down Whitehall and Parliament Street before turning into Parliament Squa