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We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

news.ycombinator.com Jack Meserve 2025-11-13 06:25:53

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters by Christine Webb • Avery • 2025 • 336 pages • $32 Suppose that you are walking at night, and you see someone on your side of the street coming toward you, about to pass you. Is his face angry, or is he just thinking seriously about something? Your answer to that question may well depend on the faces that you are used to seeing. If you tend to encounter a lot of very angry faces, your threshold for considering a face “angry”

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Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-05 08:31:19

It's not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they've found a new one — and it's just four light years away. Using the James Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the team found strong clues of a mysterious gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, the nearest star system to Earth. Tantalizingly, the suspected world appears to be o

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Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 20:45:01

Earlier this month, astronomers made a fascinating discovery: a mysterious object with interstellar origins, now dubbed 3I/ATLAS, that's hurtling toward the inner solar system at extreme speeds. As scientists race to get a better understanding of the rare visitor — it's only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system — some intriguing theories have emerged. One particularly eyebrow-raising possibility beyond the mainstream suggestions of it being either a co

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James Webb Discovers First-Ever Exoplanet by Taking a Picture of It

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-21 03:45:33

Okay, that's pretty cool. World's First Scientists harnessing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took what appears to be the first-ever direct picture of an exoplanet resulting in its discovery, in yet another accomplishment for the mighty space observatory. An international team of astronomers published a paper on the historic finding in the prestigious journal Nature. "If confirmed, this would represent Webb’s first direct image discovery of a planet," they wrote of the finding, "and the li

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Webb telescope discovers and photographs its first exoplanet

techspot.com Shawn Knight 2026-02-25 12:53:00

What just happened? The James Webb space telescope has captured what is likely to be the first exoplanet discovered using the advanced observatory. An international team of astronomers uncovered the planet candidate in the debris field surrounding TWA 7, a low-mass star in the constellation Antlia that is located around 111 light-years away from Earth. They used Webb's mid-infrared instrument to suppress the overwhelming glare from the host star, revealing faint objects that would have been too

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NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of an exoplanet

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 08:23:48

NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of a planet outside of our solar system, which is the first time it has accomplished such a feat. This is a very big deal because exoplanets don't put out much light, so researchers typically discover new planets through indirect methods like keeping track of shadows as they pass across a host star. Webb, however, didn't have to do all that. It has directly captured images of a planet called TWA 7 b . Scientists believe the planet is

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Webb Telescope Just Did Something It’s Never Done Before—and Astronomers Are Thrilled

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-02-28 17:00:50

Since it began its science operations in July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has been probing the atmospheres of alien planets to study their potential for habitability. For the first time, however, Webb has discovered its own exoplanet, finding a young system hidden in a swirling cloud of dust and debris. Webb has captured a previously unseen exoplanet, the lightest planet imaged so far—an accomplishment made possible by the space-based telescope’s advanced capabilities. The recent disco

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We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

James Webb Discovers First-Ever Exoplanet by Taking a Picture of It

Webb telescope discovers and photographs its first exoplanet

NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of an exoplanet

Webb Telescope Just Did Something It’s Never Done Before—and Astronomers Are Thrilled

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We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

James Webb Discovers First-Ever Exoplanet by Taking a Picture of It

Webb telescope discovers and photographs its first exoplanet

NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of an exoplanet

Webb Telescope Just Did Something It’s Never Done Before—and Astronomers Are Thrilled

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