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🚀 Are We Surrounded by “Blazing” Alien Metasocieties? 🌌 Astronomer Brian Lacki from Breakthrough Listen suggests some galaxies might blaze with technosignatures — signals from countless alien civilizations. It’s a bold new take on the Fermi Paradox: if life is common, why haven’t we found it? Lacki argues that some galaxies could host billions of inhabited worlds while others remain silent. Instead of hunting individual civilizations, he proposes searching for radio emissions from entire galaxies — a cosmic census of advanced life. ✨ Maybe the universe has been talking all along — we just weren’t listening. #FermiParadox #AlienLife #SETI #Technosignatures #SpaceExploration #Astrobiology #Cosmos #ScienceNews

Astronomers are still analyzing data on 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar system — and it’s unlike anything we’ve seen before. While many think it’s a comet, new findings suggest it’s far from ordinary. In a recent (yet-to-be peer-reviewed) study, researchers using the European Very Large Telescope’s UVES instrument found that 3I/ATLAS has an “extreme abundance ratio” of nickel to iron in its gas plume — a signature unseen in typical comets or even 2I/Borisov, the interstellar comet discovered in 2019. At such cold distances, nickel and iron shouldn’t vaporize at all — making their presence deeply puzzling. The UVES data showed nickel in every observation, while iron only appeared when 3I/ATLAS came within about 2.6 astronomical units of the Sun. In short, 3I/ATLAS continues to defy expectations as it races through our solar system. #Space #Interstellar

Two Tesla influencers were riding in a brand new Model Y “Juniper,” a refreshed version of the automaker’s most popular car, when they came across an object in the road ... and the car’s “Full Self-Driving” mode barreled right into it. It was especially awkward because they were just 60 miles into what was supposed to be a cross-country trip demonstrating the greatness of the technology. Neither passenger was hurt, but the car took a beating.