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Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins looks almost unrecognizable on the cover of Ralph magazine that reappears

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Images of Jennifer Hawkins looking almost unrecognizable early in her modeling career have had fans scratching their heads. This week, the cover image of Jennifer’s 2004 Ralph magazine resurfaced on the Instagram influencer watchdog account Celeb Spellcheck. The lewd photo was taken months after Jennifer won the prestigious Miss Universe pageant, and shows the blonde posing suggestively in a skimpy red bikini. The cover of Jennifer Hawkins’ 2004 Ralph magazine has resurfaced online, prompting fans to comment on how different Miss Universe Australia looked at the start of her career. Pictured is the cover of Jennifer’s 2004 Ralph Many users commented on how different Jennifer looks, with one caption: ‘Wow Jen Hawkins is unrecognizable!’ ‘It doesn’t even look like her’, another user agreed, while another added: ‘It can’t be Jennifer Hawkins – really?!’ At the time of her Ralph shoot, Jennifer wore pencil-thin eyebrows and had lips that looked much thinner. The raunchy

Neutrino Factory in Space: Elementary Particles From the Depths of Our Universe

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Embark on a Journey through the Universe: The Discovery of the Extragalactic Neutrino Factory. Credit: © Benjamin Amend For the first time, researchers have uncovered the origin of neutrinos, elementary particles that reach our planet from the depths of the universe. Highly energetic and difficult to detect, neutrinos travel billions of light years before reaching Earth. Although it is known that these elementary particles originate from the depths of our Universe, their exact origin remains a mystery. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Würzburg and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), sheds light on one aspect of the puzzle: neutrinos are thought to have been born in a blazar, the core of a galaxy filled with supermassive black holes. These results were published on July 14 in the journal Astrophysics Journal Letter . The atmosphere of our planet is constantly being bombarded by cosmic rays. It consists of electrically charged particles with very high ene

The elusive particle: Scientists embark on a quest to find dark matter

In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquefied gas, scientists have begun a search for what so far has not been able to find: dark matter. Scientists are pretty sure invisible objects make up most of the mass of the universe and say we wouldn’t be here without them – but they don’t know what they are. The race to solve this great mystery has taken one team to the depths beneath Lead, South Dakota. The question for scientists is basic, says Kevin Lesko, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “What is this great place I live in? Right now, 95% of it is a mystery.” The idea is that a mile of dirt and rock, a giant tank, a second tank, and the world’s purest titanium will block out nearly all of the cosmic rays and particles that glide around – and penetrate – all of us every day. But dark matter particles, scientists say, can avoid all those obstacles. They hoped someone would fly into a vat of liquid xenon in the inner

AI Just Found Alternative Physics Independently

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Pick up any physics textbook and you’ll find formula after formula that explains how things sway, fly, turn, and stop. The formula describes actions that we can observe, but behind each can be a series of factors that are not immediately apparent. Now, a new AI program developed by researchers at Columbia University appears to have found its own alternative physics. After being shown videos of physical phenomena on Earth, AI did not rediscover the current variables we used; instead, it actually comes up with a new variable to explain what it sees. To be clear, this does not mean that our current physics is flawed or that there is a more suitable model to explain the world around us. (Einstein’s laws have proven to be very powerful.) But they can only exist because they are built on a pre-existing ‘language’ of theories and principles established by centuries of tradition. Given an alternate timeline where other minds tackle the same problem from a slightly different perspective, wou

Studying the first stars through the mists of the early universe

Observing the birth of the first stars and galaxies has been the goal of astronomers for decades. This will explain the evolution of the universe. The Cambridge University team has created a technique that allows them to see and study the first stars through the hydrogen cloud that covered the universe some 378,000 years after the Big Bang. Their methodology, part of the REACH (Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen) experiment, will improve the quality and reliability of observations from radio telescopes that see this important new time in the Universe’s development. Dr. Eloy de Lera Acedo of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory, lead author of the paper, said, “By the time the first stars formed, the Universe was largely empty and made up mostly of hydrogen and helium. Due to gravity, the elements eventually came together due to gravity, and the conditions were just right for nuclear fusion, which formed the first stars. But they are surrounded by a cloud called neutral

The Southern Hemisphere's first deep sky telescope seeks to uncover the secrets of the universe

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The Southern Hemisphere’s first deep-sky telescope is poised to shed new light in some of the darkest parts of the universe, as it begins its survey of western New South Wales. Developed by Macquarie University, the Hunter Telescope has been unveiled at the Siding Spring Observatory, nestled among the mountains of the Warrumbungle Range near Coonabarabran. Project team member Sarah Caddy says the Huntsman design allows for highly specialized research into the formation and evolution of galaxies. “When we look for very dim objects, objects with low surface brightness, we want to collect as much light as possible,” he said. Built almost entirely from ready-to-use technology, the Hunter’s “eyes” are Canon’s 10 telephoto lenses. ( ABC Western Plains: Nic Healey ) “With traditional mirror-based telescopes, they can scatter light into parts of the field of view that we don’t want … that makes it very difficult to find very dim things around galaxies. “What we do is we have 10 lenses, all l

The James Webb Space Telescope May Have Found The Oldest Galaxy Ever

Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist analyzing the data said Wednesday. Known as GLASS-z13, this galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang, about 100 million years earlier than anything previously identified, Rohan Naidu of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics told AFP. “We are potentially seeing the light of the most distant star that anyone has ever seen,” he said. The further away the object is from us, the longer it will take for its light to reach us, and so gazing back into the distant universe is looking into the deep past. JWST has the potential to break records, discovering galaxies that existed when the universe was only 300 million years old! Light from GLASS-z13 took 13.4 billion years to reach us, but the distance between us is now 33 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe! pic.twitter.com/5AcOBwHuO1 — Dr. Ja

Astrophysicists Think They've Found a Mysterious Source of High-Energy Neutrinos

Some of the brightest and most energetic objects in the Universe are the mystery source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, new research has confirmed. A comprehensive analysis has been convincing enough to link the galaxies that host the fiery cores known as blazars with these mysterious particles. It’s a result that provides a completely unexpected solution to a problem that has kept astrophysicists scratching their heads for years. “The results provide, for the first time, irrefutable observational evidence that the PeVatron blazar sub-sample is a source of extragalactic neutrinos and thus an accelerator of cosmic rays,” said astrophysicist Sara Buson of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg in Germany. Neutrinos are the odd little things at the best of times. These subatomic particles are ubiquitous and are among the most abundant in the Universe. However, their mass is almost zero, they are electrically neutral, and they interact very little with anything else in the universe

Perth astrophysicists study of 'beautiful spirals', 'mosh pits' driven by new space telescope

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From a young age, astrophysicist Robin Cook had a deep desire to understand the world around him. “It’s never nice enough to take things at face value … I’ve always wanted to understand how things work,” he said. It was this natural curiosity that led him to pursue a career researching space and the unknown. “It’s not too surprising that I naturally went into astronomy,” he said. “There are so many unanswered questions in astronomy, we actually have pretty limited knowledge of what’s really out there. “And for me, it’s very interesting.” Seeing the galaxy’s ‘beautiful spiral’ Dr Cook is a research associate at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), which is run by Curtin University and the University of Western Australia. Founded in 2009, the research center conducts data-intensive astronomy, engineering and science. Dr Cook studies the structure of galaxies. ( Provided: Robin Cook ) Dr Cook’s area of ​​research at ICRAR is on the evolution of galaxies, more sp

Images of the Carina Nebula from the Webb and Hubble telescopes paint a stunning view of the universe

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A stellar nursery discovered more than 250 years ago will teach astronomers new things about how stars come to life with the help of sharp vision from the James Webb Space Telescope. The powerful new $10 billion observatory, located in space about 1 million miles from Earth, takes new images of the star-forming region within the Carina Nebula. The image captures incredible detail previously unseen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Carina Nebula has been a popular target for study for many years because it exhibits cosmic events lasting for a very short time – only about 50,000 to 100,000 years. The nebula lies in the Milky Way about 7,600 light-years away and is home to other well-known cosmic objects, such as the Keyhole Nebula and the unstable supergiant star, Eta Carinae. Astronomers have given its features several pet names as well, such as Mystic Mountain and Cosmic Cliffs. SEE ALSO: The first stunning cosmic image from the James Webb telescope is here A new Webb photo (seen a

The most detailed snapshot ever taken of our cosmos is coming soon. This is to be expected

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Get ready to travel back into the universe earlier this week as scientists prepare to reveal the most detailed snapshot ever taken of our cosmos. One of the first full-color images released from the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) promises to catapult us further into the past than we’ve ever seen before. Load “We will give humanity a new view of the cosmos,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. The image, which will reveal some of the earliest galaxies and stars that formed after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, is one of four to be released at 12:30 a.m. (AEST) on Wednesday. “What I’ve seen has moved me as a scientist, as an engineer, as a human being,” said NASA deputy administrator Pam Melroy. Along with the deepest views of the universe, other images the team promised to blow our heads include: The spectacular dust cloud known as the Carina Nebula, the birthplace of stars A group of colliding galaxies called Stephan’s Quintet A large gas bubble known as the Southern Ring