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It is a problem for the entire PL

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Scientists who measure the position of the earth in the universe with a millimeter precision have been experiencing a growing problem in their measurements for years. The exponential increase in wireless traffic, which goes from WiFi connections to the Internet by satellite and mobile data network, is interfering with astronomical observations that allow to locate our planet in the cosmos. This is not turkey mucus, because without these measurements, everyday services such as GPS, online banking or global supply chains could collapse. Black holes measurements. For satellites to work properly, we need to know exactly where they are at every moment. This task depends on Geodesya science that establishes precise reference frameworks using astronomical objects such as anchor points. The most stable and distant we know are the Supermasive black holes located in the distant galaxies center. When stars and gas devour, they emit radiation jets that radio telescopes can detect by means of a technique called Interferometry very long base. An increasingly saturated network. Radiolescopes need specific frequencies of the Radioelectric spectrum To capture these weak signals from deep space. For decades, this “traffic” was scarce and scientists could use bands not reserved exclusively for astronomy. But the situation has changed dramatically. Six generations of mobile telephony, increasingly powerful wifi networks and thousands of satellites sending the Internet The spectrum has satiated directly to Earth. Terrestrial signals are now so intense that they prevent geodesic observatories “see” through them. Collapse. The “global geodetic supply chain“Sustains modern technological infrastructure. Without precise measurements of the earth’s position, satellite navigation systems They would lose accuracyelectrical networks could be unconpired and international trade would be compromised. Hence the importance of radio telescopes and the rest of precise measurement technologies can continue to function without problems thanks to the work of geodesists. Release more frequencies. The geodesists They claim more frequencies Dedicated to astronomy within the radio spectrum, and for this international treaties must be reviewed in world conferences. Solutions such as radio silence areas are also studied around essential telescopes and agreements with satellite operators to prevent their emissions from these instruments. An example is The people of Green Bankwhich prohibits mobile networks because there are civil and military radio. Any solution must be global, since geodetic measurements require connected telescopes from all continents. The first step, however, is to become aware of the problem. Cover image | Juan de Dios Santander Vela In Xataka | NASA ignores Harvard’s study on an alleged extraterrestrial ship: “It is an interstellar kite”

The AI erasing the entire code of your app

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He ‘Vibe Coding‘is all A revolution. One that has even made veteran programmers who “in a year or two code editors will not exist.” However, it is also causing Very large damage in the code. Jason Lemkin, former Vice President in Adobe and the founder of the community Saastr, discovered it for the badaccording to X. Colega, where is my code? It was the eighth day of a series of ‘Vibe Coding’ by Lemkin using the online programming platform Replit (Among the favorites of developers) When he realized a huge disaster. Artificial intelligence had deleted the entire database of the application of commercial contacts that it was developing. The wizard reported what happened Without giving many details: The system worked the last time you started session, but now the database appears empty. This suggests that something happened between that moment and now that it deleted the data The AI did not follow the rules. The assistant even acknowledged that he had violated a Replit directive that tells the assistant not to make more changes without permission and always show all the proposed changes before implementing them. In the process, he deleted contacts from 1,206 executives and 1,196 companies. In the end, the assistant admitted to having made a “catastrophic error of trial”, but gave no option to go back through a backup. Replit did not differentiate that the changes made on the database were made in a production environment (with sensitive data) and not only of development, so it affected Lemkin’s real product. Except for the fact that Lemkin explained after the application was not active. “If it had been 2 to 4 weeks later, it could have been much worse,” he said. The application was almost ready, but not finished. Replit, the company, to the rescue. After becoming known in networks, Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, confirmed the case and admitted that it was “unacceptable” and that something like that “should never be possible.” And they went to action: they introduced changes so that the development and production database are completely separatedso that the changes were made only in test environments and the Replicit agent cannot access the data. Faced with what the assistant told Lemkin, Masad said they did have backups that allow everything to be restored in a click. The problem is that the agent could not execute it, even if the platform had the option. Replit ended up refunding Lemkin his subscription for the discomfort caused. An example of a whole paradigm. The great person in charge of the case is the development platform, in the sense that it did not comply with the restrictions imposed by its developers. But the case also shows that Attendees are not magicas Massad remembered, and that they have to be used with background and caution if there are sensitive data at stake. Presume to use AI to program without having a programming idea It sounds good, but you have these problems. Software engineers will have a lot of work. Yeah, fixing pifias. “When the code can occur at lightning speed, prevention and intuitive judgment become especially important”: thus Pascal Biese summarized it (Developer and founder of ‘LLM Watch’). Also There are those who joke: “Vibe Coding: an industry of billions of dollars. Fix/maintain written code with AI: Industry of one billion dollars.” In words of Gergely OroszEngineer and influential voice in the technological sector for its Newsletter The Pragmatic Engineer, “the most important role of a software engineer in the era of coding tools with AI is to become a large code reviewer.” Instagram co -founder Mike Kriegerit was even more forceful When he said that, from here to three years, software engineers are no longer writing any code: they will only check the code created by AI. Image | Mohammad Rahmani In Xataka | Openai is raining blows on all sides: the last one signs Google “raising” his commitment to Vibe Coding

The Xiaomi Su7 has surprised the entire industry. So much that Hyundai is taking them to Korea to inspect them

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A Xiaomi Su7 Max It has been sighted being transported to the Hyundai offices in Seoul. It has been caught since it carried a provisional research registration. As affirms The South Korean medium Bloter, Hyundai has imported several units of Chinese electric Berlin to analyze them in depth in their R&D centers. Xiaomi is hoarding great success In the world of motor racing with its latest proposals and everything indicates that the South Korean firm seeks to decipher the keys to the success of a model that has revolutionized the market. Hyundai also asks the question. Su7 has become the phenomenon of the year in the world of electric car. Xiaomi has achieved something that seemed impossible: to match the performance of a Porsche Taycan in a car that costs significantly less. With more than 300,000 units sold in just 15 months and The nürburgring record For a production electric, the Chinese model is raising blisters in traditional manufacturers. Su7 Max being carried by a truck to the Hyundai Research Center. Image: Weibo A car to investigate. The South Korean company You will transfer the units acquired to your research center Namyang in Hwaseong and his Seoul headquarters to submit them to an exhaustive analysis. In the reverse engineering process they seek to understand every technical aspect of the vehicle, from its electrical architecture to its Hyperos infotainment system, inherited from Xiaomi’s experience in smartphones. What interests most. Hyundai engineers will pay special attention to the user interface and the SU7 entertainment system, which They have been compared Favorably with Bluelink Connect of the Korean brand. Xiaomi has a great career in the software of its phones, and its work in the SU7 has been so prominent that it has become one of the aspects most valued by users and experts in the sector. A generalized concern. The Chinese advance in the automobile sector is sitting like a jug of cold water to traditional manufacturers. Euisun Chung, executive president of the Hyundai group, already He warned In an internal meeting that “there are inevitable challenges ahead”, clearly referring to competitors such as Byd and Xiaomi. Hyundai’s investment in this segment has grown 15% in the last year, reaching 32.4 billion dollars. And now what. With an expected investment of 17.6 billion dollars by 2025, almost half aimed at R&D, the company seeks to maintain its competitive position in a market where the rules of the game They are changing at a dizzying speed. Although SU7 will not officially reach Europe until 2027, its influence is already predicting an earthquake in the sector. Cover image | Xiaomi In Xataka | Xiaomi will try to repeat in 2027 what worked with mobile phones: that Europeans forget that they need expensive cars

An entire PS4 Games Library

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Four volunteers 378 isolated days passed In a NASA simulated Martian base growing lettuce, maintaining equipment and … also spending time playing video games. The first experiment of Chapea He ended successfully in 2024, but not without surprises about how future Martian astronauts could spend their free time. What is this about. The Chapea mission (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) locked four volunteers in Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D printed habitat of 157 square meters in Houston, Texas. The objective was to simulate the living conditions on Mars for more than a year. Anca Selariu, Nathan Jones, Ross Brockwell and Kelly Paston were the Indian bunny of this experiment that seeks to prepare future missions crew to the red planet. Videogames: Yes. Before entering isolation, from the podcast ‘Houston We have to Podcast’ They asked To the crew how they were going to decide to spend their free time. Among the proposals given, there was one that also caught the attention: they had prepared a complete library of PS4 games. Kelly Paston, commander of the mission, explained that they had “several PS4 games” with special emphasis on world construction titles, in addition to more conventional others such as F1. The idea was to have planned activities for team nights and special celebrations. THE OBJECTIVE: How the members spent time. For decades, NASA has studied the isolation and confinement of astronauts. Among the alternatives that astronauts have at hand in these missions, board games, books, movies, video games and other hobbies help to unrive the crew in times of continuous insulation. With regard to video games, it makes a lot of sense that the genres in which they focus on the construction of worlds are in the crew library, since they face the reality of literally building a new world on an uninhabited planet. Hobbies of all kinds. Of course, the four volunteers have not spent the year playing. They have cultivated tomatoes and lettuce to complement their liophilized meals, have made “Martian walks” simulated in an outer enclosure with red sand, and have maintained all habitat systems. Anca Selariu, Microbiologist of the US Navy, described The experience as “absolutely stimulating” and highlighted the emotional importance of seeing green plants grow in such an artificial environment. The experiment continues. This was only the first of the three planned chape missions. The next will begin this year and a third in 2027, all in the same installation. The data collected on the life of the members in the simulated environment will be key to design the future real Martian bases that NASA expects to establish, ambitiously, in the 2030s. Cover image | POT In Xataka | NASA set out to send a woman to the moon before China does. It is getting more and more

Byd is breaking the car market with very low prices. Now it has the entire industry against

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China has entered a new price war in its automobile market. Many months after Byd and Tesla gave the battle by lowering their prices to try to get out of their competition, the Chinese company has relieved the power it has in their hands to impact their rivals. And along the way, criticism has been taken from analysts, their competitors and even the Chinese government itself. An already known play. In April 2024Byd and Tesla played hand in a race to see who could reduce the prices of their cars. Then, Elon Musk’s company looked from you to your sales from BYD but for a few months the Chinese company has stayed at the top of the table. Then we knew that the strategy could be taken ahead to some of its competitors. Byd played with its ability to sell at volume to put cheaper and attractive cars on the market while Tesla had a wide margin of benefits To press your rivals. Returning to the streets. Now it has been byd, alone, the one that has put all the meat on the grill. And the industry upside down. The company has lowered prices very aggressively, to the point that the Byd Qin Plus DM-Ia plug -in hybrid sedan, has dropped its price by more than 40% in the last two years. These discounts are applied for less than a month But they are the continuation of sales that were already applied in April. Some of its models They have reduced their price by 34% In these last sales but, above all, it is surprising that a car like the Byd Seagullwhich is already the cheapest car on the market, now is available 20% cheaper. A dangerous trend. These BYD pricing sales have been pushing the rest of the industry in the last year. The data reflects them Bloomberg In a powerful graphic: of the 30 best -selling cars in China, only one has increased its price. It doesn’t matter if you look at Chinese manufacturers or foreigners, only Tesla Model and is now more expensive (update through) than two years ago. This, according to its analysts, is a problem with the industry. They ensure that if the customer does not have the assurance that prices are maintained, it is very possible that they delay their purchase. That could be wearing part of current car sales. The second perspective is that of manufacturers. Reuters He already pointed out in 2023 that much of the automobile manufacturers in China were not profitable. According to his accounts, Byd did earn net money with each car sold but his great rivals like Xpeng or Nio lost between $ 10,000 and $ 20,000 per unit sold. Rain of criticism. Byd’s last movement seems to have tired the rivals. China Chongqing Auto Forum has been a reflection of the tensions that exist in the automobile industry. Collect in Carnewschina That the attacks between competitors have flown throughout the talk. While from ByD they insisted again on the idea that They are suffering coordinated defamatory attacksfrom Geely they have assured that their competitor behaves like a hypocrite. The specialized media in the Chinese industry argues that Victor Yang, vice president of Geely and in charge of public relations and communication snapped at his rival a hard Isn’t This just a case of the Thief Crying Thief? What could be translated by something like “the thief is believed that all are of his condition.” It was not the only poisoned dart of the event, they point out in Carnewschina. Among those responsible for Huawei and Xiaomi there were also cross statements according to their electric vehicles and only from Chery it seems that the waters were tempered with a more politically correct message, noting that the intense competition made the market better. “An Evergrande” Byd’s rivals attacks have not been a novelty either. Only a few days ago that from Great Wall Motors, another of the big Chinese companies, they said that the car market lived in a bubble that could already be defined as “an evergrande” referring to the collapse of its largest construction company. Without giving names, Wei Jianjun, head of Great Wall Motors, pointed out that The industry situation was not healthy And that vehicle automatures were being too high, with the ultimate goal of makeup the results. Lei Yunfei, responsible for BYD’s public relations, soon answered Weiboreferring the criticisms that the company was receiving. And the state answers. After pulling and loosening between Great Wall Motors and Byd, institutions called the main manufacturers to attend the problem of automatrications. Little or nothing is known about what was treated there but Reuters He showed this movement was a call of attention to Byd. Days after that meeting, People’s Daily (means of communication that is one of the spokesmen of the Chinese Communist Party) collected in an article Related to new energy car sales (electric and plug -in hybrids) Calls to flee “price wars.” It specified that both the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) had made appeals not to fall into this type of practices because they pointed out that “recently the industry has seen a decrease in profitability, largely due to the increase in competition marked by disorderly price wars.” Photo | Byd In Xataka | Byd has decided to sink the price of electric cars. It is a strategy that is already affecting the Byd value itself

Magnus Carlsen is considered the best chess player in history. He has not been able to beat the entire world

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Last April 4 began A very special chess chess game. With white pieces Magnus Carlsen, considered the best chess player in history. With blacks, the whole world. And the world managed to force the tables. Carlsen can’t with the world. On May 20 ended This game Freestyle chess, and did it surprisingly. After 32 movements, “the world” forced tables in a lady end thanks to the triple repetition rule. This rule allows a player to claim a draw (tables) if the same position on the board occurs at least for the third time during a game. Magnus vs. The World. The event, organized by the online chess platform Chess.comhe has faced the ex -champion of the world of classic chess – he had that title by not wanting to defend him – against more than 143,000 users of Chess.com who joined strength to try to beat him. Freestyle chess. The game did not use the rules of classic chess, but those of Freestyle chess, the new modality that Magnus Carlsen is promoting. In this modality, the positions of the pieces of the rear row (towers, horses, alfiles, lady and king) are chosen randomly, although two rules must be fulfilled. The first, that the bishops must be in boxes of different color. And the second, can be continued on both sides, so the king must always be between the two towers. Thus ended the game of Carlsen vs The World. Tables by repetition. A legend. Magnus Carlsen, 34 years old, became the world’s largest score player in 2010, at age 19, and has won five world championships. In 2014, it managed to reach the highest elo score in history, 2,882 points. In recent years, tensions with the FIDE and its own tiredness with the classic chess modality have caused the fight to defend the title of World Champion. He continues to play classic chess tournaments, but is especially interested in fast games tournaments and, in recent times, in Promote freestyle modealso known as Chess960 (chess 960) or random chess of Fischer. Voting movement. After each Movement of Carlsen, in the turn of “El Mundo” a voting system was followed that lasted 24 hours and in which all those involved in the game could participate. It was not mandatory to vote in each movement, and to help the players of “El Mundo” there were several “coaches” who shared their own reflections on the best movements with their analysis of the state of the game. A “solid” game. In statements After the game, Carlsen Indian That “in general,” the world “has played a very, very solid chess from the beginning. Perhaps he has not opted for the most entrepreneurial options, but has remained more in the normal chess line, which is not always the best strategy, but this time it has worked well. The world did not risk and worked. In the last movements the players of “The World” discussed whether to force the tables with triple repetition or try to continue playing to win it, even if that supposed the defeat. In the end the votes favored the most conservative strategy, and preferred to force the tables. The world lost against Kasparov and Anand. There have been previous events of this type. In 1999 Garry Kasparov played against more than 50,000 players via Microsoft Network and won after four months. Last year the great teacher Viswanathan Anand He won a game against more than 70,000 players at Chess.com. In both cases they were classic chess games. How was the game? Chess.com analysts have described the game as “a roller coaster” in which there were a couple of dramatic moments. Carlsen came to have a somewhat more advantageous position, but he could not take advantage of it and confesses that from that moment everything was aimed at the tables because “they did not give me a single opportunity.” Image | Frans Peeters In Xataka | A study says that AIs are “cheating” to chess. That’s what we want to think

Your dedicated button goes against the entire industry

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In Xataka we already have the CMF Phone 2 Pro between hands. The review will take a few days, but we are already testing some of its key points. This phone has a characteristic that, for the moment, no other Android smartphone has shown to date: a button dedicated to a space within the telephone software itself. The Essential Space. CMF is a nothing submarine, and shares software with the mobiles of this company. Essential Space It is one of the nothing mobile applications. It is a peculiar tool for saving ideas and reminders through audio notes, photographs and screenshots. To understand it better, imagine a super Google Keep of multimedia content instead of traditional notes. And now imagine that Keep is able to transcribe audios and analyze the multimedia content itself to establish reminders. The fast access button. Manufacturers are implementing two types of buttons, inspired by The steps that Apple is currently following. The first is a programmable button to be able to put the mobile in silence, launch applications or run any telephone function. The second is usually a camera trigger. CMF has not opted for one or another, its additional button functions as an integration in Essential Space. Its operation is as follows. Double pulsation from the desk: open the essential space A pulsation: screen capture + notes A long pulsation: screen capture + voice note. The integration of AI. The AI ​​in smartphones does not usually have a midpoint: either it works impeccably or is a disaster. In the case of CMF, I have to admit that I liked how this Essential Space works. Imagine you want to make a purchase list. You open the app of any supermarket. You give the Essential Key You add the note you want or the fast audio note Ready. When you go to the Essential Space, you will have a summary of the price, quantities and useful information about the food to buy, and the option to add reminders on it. This is applicable to any idea that you can think of. At least, in my particular case, I make enough screenshots and I have enough ideas too scattered (Instagram post, purchase lists, gift ideas, etc.). Being able to centralize everything in a single app that, in addition, is in charge of the reminders with the button, it seemed like a great idea. Image | Xataka In Xataka | CMF Phone 1, Analysis: To the “What mobile I buy me for 200 euros”? The answer is “this”

Not the entire peninsula was left without stable access to the Internet, there was an exception: "Starlink was better than usual"

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When the light left yesterday I did not alarmed. Then I realized that I did not have data, nor could I make calls, and I knew something fat It had passed. Starlink was the exception. Without wifi, or mobile connection, many are completely incommunicado. And although some operators they managed to partially restore the service With the generators of their cell towers, only users of Starlink They had means to feed the router and the antenna enjoyed a stable and fast connection throughout the day. With more than 7,000 Starlink satellites in orbitthe constellation of Spacex worked in the Iberian Peninsula without major problem. Satellites have the capacity to communicate with each other and, although they depend on land stations to access the Internet, they have backup equipment in case of energy loss, such as generators, solar panels and batteries. Youtuber Redskull maintained its Internet connection with Starlink and a cargo station A youtuber in the Malaga axarchy. Known as Redskull On YouTube, Alex ran out of light in the province of Malaga between 12:30 and 17:45, but did not recover the mobile connection until the next day. However, he continued connected through Starlink. “It worked throughout the time that the light cut lasted,” he told Xataka. “The discharge and climb speeds were even better than usual: about 300 MB of discharge and 30 mb of climb.” The smallest number of customers using the service by the blackout explains the latter. “Normally, at night, Starlink’s speeds are lower because the network is more congested. Yesterday it was not so.” Alex solved the lack of light with a huge external battery, the Jackery Explorer 1000 V2 Energy Station, which gave him for 12 hours of use, including the feeding of a mesh network that has installed in his house to improve the Wi -Fi coverage. However, he did not need to consume the load during the day thanks to a solar panel of 100 W. The Graells family maintained its Internet connection with Starlink, Solar Energy and Batteries Teleworking in a town in Barcelona. The Graells family He has solar panels and batteries of Tesla in his house, a single -family house of L’Ametlla del Vallès where two people telework. They only found out of the blackout due to the notification of the Tesla app because they also have a Starlink connection. “The connection was the same as any day, very good for particular use,” Eduardo Graells told Xataka. “Ping of 22 ms. Download of about 150-200mbps. Upload of about 15mbps. It was used from the early morning without any interruption until 18:00. At 20:00 we used it for YouTube and some series. Electricity returned to our area at 2:30 in the morning.” In Xataka While almost all Spain immersed in chaos, a place continued to function normally: Mercadona Despite the 14 hours of the blackout, the Graells lived a normal day with an eye on the battery, which went from 70% at the time of light cut to 40% when the supply was recovered. “Starlink can have some disconnection of 1-2 seconds when it seems to change satellite, and very occasionally. You just notice if you are talking in a videoconference. Watching movies, football, formula 1, etc., do not notice, I imagine that for the buffer.” Five stations in Spain. Starlink ends Open two terrestrial stations of Starlink In the Iberian Peninsula, one in the province of Barcelona and another in Santa Olalla, province of Toledo. There are already five, added to the three in Madrid, Huelva and Alicante. And as we have seen, resistant to blackout. {“Videid”: “X86xfvs”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Starlink arrives in Spain! This is the satellite Internet of Elon Musk”, “Tag”: “Webedia-Prod”, “Duration”: “279” These stations are small, but recognizable by the numerous phase antennas, covered with white domes. They maintain the connection of the constellation with the control centers and serve as link doors for the traffic of Internet Starlink customers. Basically, they act as intermediaries, receiving data from satellites and sending them to Internet networks. Image | Starlink In Xataka | Starlink satellites have transformed war: China and Russia work on “Starlink Killers” to be able to disable them (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Not the entire peninsula was left without stable Internet access, there was an exception: “Starlink was better than usual” It was originally posted in Xataka by Matías S. Zavia .

The James Webb has found a galaxy when the universe was 330 million years old. Hide an entire enigma

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The immense capacity of the James Webb space telescope (JWST) to see the confines of the observable universe also allows us to see how our universe was billions of years ago. Recall that, the finitude of the speed of light implies that what we see further in space is also further in time, which makes JWST a kind of time machine. JADES-GS-Z13-1. The James Webb has detected again the light emitted by a very distant and therefore ancient galaxy. The telescope has captured the appearance of Jades-GS-Z13-1 as was 330 million years after big Bang. So old and distant is that its observation implies a new enigma: the enormous density of the universe in that era should prevent its observation billions of years later. And light was made. The original universe was a dark place. If we go back enough, we will reach an era in which the universe was too dense for the light emanating from its particles to travel the space. The cosmos cooled as it expanded, so, when the photons had space to move around, there were no particles to issue them. The thing changed when hydrogen atoms began to join to form the first stars and galaxies when the universe I was a few million years old. In this long process it is called reionization, a byloys in which hydrogen clouds were reactivated and emitted new light. Even in this context, the universe was dense enough to part of the radiation of these first galaxies was overshadowed by a dense layer of neutral hydrogen. This is the case of Lyman-Alfa or Lyman-α. Redshift 13. The team studied the luminous spectrum of the galaxy to estimate its red shift or Redshift. The expansion of the universe means that, in the long run, the frequency of the light emitted by this galaxy is reduced, that is, the universe, when expanding stretches the electromagnetic waves as if it were a magnet. This causes the visible light to store towards the red tones and to the infrared after long trips. The level at which the light comes “stretched”, its value Redshiftallows us to estimate the distance at which the galaxy is found that the broadcast. The observations made from the JWST Nircam instrument allowed the team estimate value Redshift of 12.9 (either z= 12.9) For this galaxy, but to confirm this value, the team decided to study the complete spectrum through the Nirspec instrument (Near-Infrared Spectrgraph), also aboard the space telescope. It turned out that they were infrastiming their distance, which was closer to z= 13. Lyman-α. However, the spectrum study caused the team to detect something strange in this galaxy, at a specific point of the spectrum, the Lyman-α radiation lamade, a type of electomagnetic emission associated with hydrogen atoms. The broadcast captured by James Webb’s instruments was much more intense than it should according to current cosmological models. The details of the study have been published In an article In the magazine Nature. Two possible explanations. In his article, the team speculate with possible explanations To this anomaly. The first involves the possibility that the stars of the galaxy, which would have been some of the earliest in the universe, would have created a “ionized gas bubble” around the galaxy. This possibility would imply that the primal stars would have been “more massive, hotter and more luminous” than the stars formed in later stages of the universe. This possibility would give us new clues about the enigmatic population of stars known as Population III and that represents precisely these early stars of the universe. The second possibility implies the existence of a supermassive black hole in the center of an active galactic nucleus. In Xataka | These real images were unthinkable before the Webb Telescope: they are planets orbiting other stars to 130 light years Image | ESA/WEBB, NASA, STSCI, CSA, JADES COLLLABORATION, BRANT ROBERTSON (UC SANTA CRUZ), BEN JOHNSON (CFA), SANDRO TACCHELLA (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CFA), J. Witstok, P. Jakobsen, A. Pagan (STSCI), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

The 1803 map that aspired to summarize the entire history of humanity

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He 19th century It is still today one of the most fascinating periods in history. It produced numerous ideological, political and technical revolutions that forever shaped contemporary times. At the same time, he opened the doors of a world, expanding numerous discoveries, contacts between various civilizations and scientific advances. The change was structural and all levels. Hence the cartography also evolved. The dawn of modernity were plagued by graphic innovations that would give way to the cartographic crafts of our time. It was no longer simply to represent the world (after the century it would already be practically explored and uncovered in its entirety), but to locate the human being in it. Nature tamed, wasn’t it time for map To humanity itself? We have already seen how Illustrators like JH Colton either John B. Sparks They tried to do so through an innovative format: the river, a continuous current since the beginning of the times of which They would break down tributaries in the form of cultures and civilizations. Those were imaginative and prisoners of their time, plagued by a rampant Eurocentrism and full of historical and political clichés. However, they were interesting for themselves, because they aspired to capture in a single graph the passage of time. All the time. The work of both, but especially of Colton, would contribute to expand the explanation of history and social geography through graphic tools. But it wasn’t seminal. Such honor may correspond to the author of the probably first histomapa always: Friedrich StrassAustrian cartographer. Entitled Der Strom der Zeiten (The current of time), The Enlightenment would see the light as soon as 1803, time before Napoleon had raised his empire. The excellent graphic and bold finish of the representation would enjoy great success, being translated into several languages ​​and serving of remote influence for other activists, educators, geographers and illustrators (From Emma Willard until Eugene pick). Der Strom der Zeiten I drank in part of Joseph Priestly’s ideasBritish philosopher, and aspired to capture a vertical understanding of the history of human beings. Under the title of “History of the World”, part of a gray nebula of which cultures already known by then. The Greeks, the Assyrians, the Italians, the Chinese or the Phoenicians. Strass focuses your attention in European peoples and cultures, marginalizing the development or prominence of African or Asian empires. The beginning of everything. (David Rumsey Collection) Detail of the first villages. (David Rumsey Collection) The importance of the Roman Empire. (David Rumsey Collection) It was a common evil of the illustrators, intellectuals, scientists and European thinkers of the time. China and India monopolized half of the world’s population and half of its economic production for centuries. However, the Strass river quickly focuses on The Roman Empire Like the Muñidor of so many civilizations of the present, and from which numerous central states would arise to the development of Europe, such as Spain or France. Eastern cultures. (David Rumsey Collection) Latin kingdoms. (David Rumsey Collection) Taxes arise, unify and disappear as time progresses. Strass’s historical gaze was essentially elitist: he listed the monarchs and leaders based on their possessions (Felipe II and Carlos V become the longest river tributary of their time) in chronological way. To the right are felt Asian civilizations. Others, such as African or American, do not even appear. Der Strom der Zeiten It is an incomplete map of human history, but one of great relevance for the development of a different look at the passing of time and the position of the human being in it. And next to all this, it is still beautiful today. In Xataka | The way in which each European language counts up to 99, explained in an interesting map In Xataka | The lunar map of Johannes Hevelius, the first satellite cartography published in 1647

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