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Landsat 9 watched a New Mexico reservoir rise nearly 60 feet in seven weeks.
After back-to-back storms in the Four Corners, Navajo Reservoir went from 60% of its average level for the date (Sept. 20) to 108% (Nov. 7), its highest since 2019.
Via NASA Earth Observatory
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Glass keeps heat in your windows. Stretched into a thread one atom wide, it lets heat straight through.
A CU Boulder team measured that heat flow in discrete steps, each 40% of the quantum limit for one channel.
Via CU Boulder (Nature Nanotechnology) phys.org/news/2026-11-glass-…
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A 63-year-old prediction, now seen in a 3D metal: electrons flowing like a thick liquid.
In cadmium samples 65 µm or smaller, resistance bottomed out near 5 K, then rose as they got colder. Before this, it was confirmed only in graphene.
Via Physics Magazine (PRL)
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Next Wednesday, Voyager 1 becomes the first human-made object one light-day from Earth.
At 5:16 a.m. EST on Nov. 18, it'll be 16.09 billion miles out. A signal sent then takes 24 hours to arrive, and the reply another 24 to come home. Launched in 1977.
Via NASA
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Gravitational waves could reveal a new kind of exoplanet: worlds circling pairs of dead stars.
A planet tugging on a tight white dwarf binary adds faint sidebands to its wave signal, NASA-led studies show. ESA's LISA could catch them; Webb could confirm the nearest.
Via NASA
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NASA's twin ESCAPADE probes are now headed to Mars, slingshotted by Earth's gravity.
A NASA first for Mars: after a year looping near L2, each fired its engine ~9 min while swinging past Earth (Nov. 7 and Nov. 9). Mars arrival: Sept. 2027.
Via NASA
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Primordial black holes over 100 billion suns can't be a big share of dark matter.
Scattered at random, they'd leave the early universe grainy, with patchy dark matter vs. radiation. Planck's map of the Big Bang's afterglow shows no such grain.
Via Phys.org (PRL)
Primordial black holes weighing at least 100 billion suns cannot supply much dark matter under an equal-mass model—their predicted imprint is missing from the Big Bang’s afterglow. @physrevlett @arxiv phys.org/news/2026-11-stupen…
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NASA is hiring its next astronaut class, set to join as the agency builds a Moon Base. 🌕
The basics: U.S. citizen, STEM master's (or an approved alternative), 3 years' experience, and passing a long-duration flight physical. Applications close Dec. 3.
Via NASA
Do you want to be an astronaut?
Applications are now open to join NASA's astronaut corps. Join us as we expand the frontiers of discovery in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, and beyond — apply by Dec. 3: go.nasa.gov/4iGqLqu
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"If anything is real, the quantum state is real." That's Matthew Pusey on the PBR theorem he co-authored.
Under its assumptions, the wave function can't be just our missing knowledge of a hidden reality. What's left: a surreal reality, or none.
Via Quanta Magazine
Matthew Pusey took on Einstein’s notion of reality and — without originally intending to — delivered a killing blow. quantamagazine.org/a-strange…
ALT A person stands outdoors in a garden setting, wearing a dark coat and a knit sweater. Lush green foliage and some autumn-colored leaves are visible in the background.
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Europe's newest weather satellite imaged the continent every 2.5 minutes.
From 36,000 km up, MTG-I2's first rapid-scan catches fog over central Europe, storms over the Mediterranean, and smoke from a Portugal wildfire.
Via EUMETSAT
Jointly developed by EUMETSAT & ESA, MTG-I2 will deliver faster data over Europe in real time once operational.
An accompanying rapid-scan animation starting on 3 Nov brings Europe's weather to life, showing observations taken every 2.5 minutes.
More at: bit.ly/4kieFqj
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NASA is sending a nuclear-powered rover to hunt ice in the Moon's permanently shadowed south pole.
PROMISE, built at JPL from spare Curiosity and Perseverance parts, can work through the long lunar night. A drill will sample about a meter down. Targeted for late 2028.
Via NASA
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Atoms in orbit reached 9.7 picokelvin—four times lower than the previous record.
Lasers on China's space station formed a Bose-Einstein condensate. Released, the cloud expanded for 7 seconds—enough to test if gravity tugs equally on all matter.
An atom cloud in space reached an equivalent temperature four times lower than the previous record: 9.7 picokelvin, with its expansion tracked for seven seconds. @sciencemagazine phys.org/news/2026-11-scient…
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Starship Flight 15 aims for a first: catch the upper stage at the tower after orbit.
Target Nov. 13 from Starbase. After ~21 hours on orbit and reentry, Mechazilla would grab the ship—full recovery instead of splashdown.
Via SpaceX
Starship is preparing for catch
Flight 15 is targeting to launch as early as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval → spacex.com/launches/starship…
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NASA's next asteroid hunter can search the sky near the Sun, where ground telescopes struggle. ☀️
NEO Surveyor's 20-ft sunshade keeps glare out of its infrared telescope and doubles as its only power source: 864 solar cells, up to 2 kW.
Via NASA
Nice shades. 😎
This sunshade will fly on NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft that will spot nearby asteroids and comets that ground-based telescopes might miss. The sunshade will help by harnessing the Sun’s power and blocking its blinding glare: go.nasa.gov/47Ze1GP
ALT Two strips of inky black solar arrays cross diagonally over the scene. In the background is a stark white clean room. A technician in clean room attire is inspecting the hardware in the foreground. Credit: BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems
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A black hole’s event horizon—built from ultracold atoms. 🕳️
UCSB used laser sheets as vibrating mirrors and lithium matter waves as the light. Within a few cycles, diffuse atoms bunched into a one-way pulse matching horizon math.
Via Physics Magazine (PRL)
Researchers have created a resonant cavity for matter waves by corralling ultracold atoms between two sheets of light — an experimental platform that could be used to study exotic phenomena like black hole event horizons.
Read more in the Focus: go.aps.org/3Ub77Lm
ALT An image shows the evolution of matter waves created in a resonant cavity by confining ultracold atoms between two sheets of light — nine rows of blue horizontal zig-zag patterns colored blue against a black backdrop. The matter waves initially fill the whole cavity, but moving one of the light barriers at relativistic speeds causes the waves to become concentrated into a single moving pulse — similar to what is observed for light propagating near a black hole.
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Falcon 9 stuck the landing after USSF-432. 🚀
Liftoff from Vandenberg at 4:48 p.m. PT; the booster’s 8th flight touched down on Of Course I Still Love You.
Droneship landing or tower catch—which would you rather see live? Via SpaceX
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NASA just flew a quantum link. ✈️⚛️
From a Pilatus PC-12, Glenn researchers sent single photons to a ground station—the first U.S. air-to-ground quantum channel. Any eavesdropper would scramble the signal.
Planes, satellites, or fiber—which node would you add first? Via NASA Glenn
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We’re taking quantum communications to new heights! ✈️
Late last month, @NASA researchers made history when they successfully sent tiny light particles, or photons, between an aircraft and a ground station over a quantum channel, the first time this has been achieved in the U.S. (1/3)
ALT Side view of a white and blue NASA aircraft (tail number N606NA) on a paved runway taxiway under a clear sky. Credit: NASA
ALT Three NASA team members inside a communications operations room monitoring real-time flight tracking software, maps, and system telemetry across multiple computer screens and rack-mounted server hardware next to an open exterior doorway. Credit: NASA
ALT Optical tracking and laser communication equipment set up on an outdoor rooftop platform under a clear blue sky, and a blue hydraulic scissor lift cart supporting additional sensors and electronic control hardware. Credit: NASA
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