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Special weather statement calls for possible snowfall midweek halifax.citynews.ca/2026/02/09/s... The national forecaster said most of the province could see between 10 and 25 centimetres of snow.

#STARTALK ☀️ How to Launch A Spacecraft Out of the Solar System www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3SK... Neil & Chuck explain the slingshot effect and the spacecraft that we’ve sent out of the solar system with it

Strong Solar Flare www.nasa.gov/image-articl... This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star

Miranda Revisited apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020... What is Miranda really like? Visually, old images from NASA's Voyager 2 have been recently combined and remastered to result in the featured image of Uranus's 500-kilometer-wide moon

In Green Company: Aurora over Norway apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021... Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds -- mostly

“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFVX... news.mit.edu/2026/science...

Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... Caffeinated tea also found to slow cognitive decline in study

Winter Grips Japan science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... The country's northern regions are accustomed to snow, but unrelenting storms have snarled transportation and caused other challenges this winter.

Icy Hudson River www.nasa.gov/image-articl... During a stretch of frigid weather in late January 2026, ice choked the Hudson River along Manhattan’s western shore

A quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat news.mit.edu/2026/quick-s... The flexible material could enable on-demand heat dissipation for electronics, fabrics, and buildings

Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable news.mit.edu/2026/study-p... Removing just a tiny fraction of the crowdsourced data that informs online ranking platforms can significantly change the results

THE DANGER OF SUNSPOTS THAT TURN AWAY FROM EARTH: Look at this diagram. Lines of magnetic force coming out of the western limb curve around and touch our planet. spaceweather.com/repeat_image... spaceweather.com

THE DANGER OF SUNSPOTS THAT TURN AWAY FROM EARTH: Big sunspot AR4366 is about to disappear over the sun's western limb. This makes it uniquely dangerous. Scroll past this farewell shot from astronomer David Wilson @ Inverness, Scotland to find out why spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

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Cyclone Alerts 🌀 Indian Ocean www.nhc.noaa.gov www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html

Space Weather Alerts 🌌 Electron Storm spaceweather.com www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ale...

Weather Europe Alerts 🇪🇺 Andorra, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland & UK www.meteoalarm.org

Weather Canada Alerts 🍁 Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec & Yukon weather.gc.ca

Falcon 9 Deorbit Failure Grounds SpaceX... for a minute | This Week In Spaceflight with @elysiasegal.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOn...

Booster 19 has completed its grueling proof-testing campaign and is set to roll back to the production site for Raptor 3 engine installation—all key milestones on the road to Flight 12, the maiden flight of the Block 3 Starship. ➡️https://youtu.be/z-PlAutKMkw

Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 tonight (Sunday, February 8th), from approx. 11:59pm CST (5:59 UTC Monday) as Starship Super Heavy Booster 19 returns to the Production site, from Masseys! youtube.com/live/uJYPj2P...

A Grand, Snow-Rimmed Canyon science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... A dusting of white highlighted the Colorado Plateau around the deep gorge, while shadows created a visual illusion.

Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020... An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, labelled AR 4366, is much larger than the Earth and has produced several powerful solar flares over the past ten days

Crescent Enceladus apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020... Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of tantalizing inner moon Enceladus poses in this Cassini spacecraft image

THIS SUNGRAZING COMET COULD BE INTERESTING: Puerto Rican amateur astronomer Efrain Morales photographed Comet MAPS (C/2026 A1) on Feb 6th spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

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International Disasters Charter Alerts 🗺️ Columbia disasterscharter.org/web/guest/home

Cyclone Alerts 🌀 Indian Ocean www.nhc.noaa.gov www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html

Space Weather Alerts 🌌 Radio Burst & Electron Storm spaceweather.com www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ale...

Weather Europe Alerts 🇪🇺 Andorra, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, N. Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine & UK www.meteoalarm.org

Weather Canada Alerts 🍁 NL, Northwest Territories, Nunavut & Yukon weather.gc.ca

#Yoga en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga Brings healing, balance and control to physical, emotional and spiritual energies and can help heal injuries, even arthritis, without surgery and is generally great for energy, health and balance.

Arctic sea ice volume is at a record low for the time of year, as it has been for well over a year. The image shows Arctic sea ice volume through February 5, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/horr...

Booster 19 underwent a full cryoproofing test without issue, surpassing the milestones of the first Block 3 booster achieved, after that vehicle popped early into testing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1wh...

Grading 2025’s Biggest Predictions and What They Signal for 2026 news.gatech.edu/news/2026/02... Experts provide a measured review of forecasts across automation, AI, consumer behavior, and the economy

T. Alan Hatton receives Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education news.mit.edu/2026/t-alan-... Former Chemical Engineering Practice School director recognized by the National Academy of Engineering for advancing immersive, industry-centered learning at MIT

A satellite language network in the brain news.mit.edu/2026/satelli... Researchers find a component of the brain’s dedicated language network in the cerebellum, a region better known for coordinating movement.

Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models news.mit.edu/2026/helping... EnCompass executes AI agent programs by backtracking and making multiple attempts, finding the best set of outputs generated by an LLM. It could help coders work with AI agents more efficiently

New vaccine platform promotes rare protective B cells news.mit.edu/2026/new-vac... Based on a virus-like particle built with a DNA scaffold, the approach could generate broadly neutralizing antibody responses against HIV or influenza.

Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere news.mit.edu/2026/some-ea... A new study suggests aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.

I’m walking here! A new model maps foot traffic in New York City news.mit.edu/2026/new-mod... The first complete charting of foot traffic in any US city can be used for infrastructure decisions and safety improvements.

Hubble Spots Lens-Shaped Galaxy www.nasa.gov/image-articl... This new Hubble image, released on Jan. 30, 2026, is the sharpest taken of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus

A Winter Blanket Covers North Carolina science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... In late January 2026, a strong, moisture-laden storm dropped snow across nearly the entire state, spanning from the Appalachians to the Atlantic Coast.

Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020... This sharp NIRCam image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the still-hot filaments and knots in the supernova remnant.

BRIGHT COMET ALERT: It took a million years to get here, and now “this lovely comet is gracing southern skies,” reports Ian Griffin, who photographed Comet Wierzchoś (C/2024 E1) last night from Middlemarch, New Zealand spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

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Volcano Alerts 🌋 19 Active volcano.si.edu/reports_week...

Cyclone Alerts 🌀 Indian & Pacific Oceans www.nhc.noaa.gov www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html

Space Weather Alerts 🌌 Coronal Holes & Geomagnetic Storm spaceweather.com www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ale...