Aphantasia Makes It Harder to Visualize Your Past And Future, Study Shows

A rare condition that makes people unable to visualize images in their imagination could have further-reaching effects on the mind than we knew, scientists report.

Aphantasia, sometimes referred to as being 'blind in the mind', has been known about since the 19th century, but has only attracted significant scientific attention in recent years.

Although we can't yet estimate the extent of the impact, the researchers say it's clear the ability to generate visual imagery is important for the mental construction of events, whether reconstructing real-life memories, or imagining scenarios that haven't taken place.

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Mathematical calculations show that quantum communication across interstellar space should be possible

A team of physicists at the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy has used mathematical calculations to show that quantum communications across interstellar space should be possible. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review D, the group describes their calculations and also the possibility of extraterrestrial beings attempting to communicate with us using such signaling.

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CAPSTONE had a successful trajectory correction maneuver today at 9:30 am MT. The “burn” confirms the spacecraft remains on its path to the Moon with scheduled arrival on November 13th.

More details to come.
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Fast-Moving Star Orbits Milky Way’s Central Black Hole in Just Four Years

The newly-found star, named S4716, reaches a speed of 8,000 km/sec and comes as close as 98 astronomical units (Average distance between Earth and Sun) to Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.

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After analyzing data gathered when #OSIRISREx collected a sample from Bennu, scientists discovered the asteroid’s exterior is made of loosely packed & lightly bound rock. So, if you were to step onto Bennu, it would feel like stepping in a plastic ball pit

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NASA will unveil the James Webb Space Telescope's 1st science photos this week. Here's how to watch.

The main image release event will take place on July 12 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT).

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NASA Is About to Unveil The Deepest View of The Universe Ever – A Day Ahead of Schedule

The space agency announced that they'd actually be releasing one the very first image a day ahead of schedule – at 5pm EST (2100 UTC) today.

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👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: http://nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
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This isn’t the farthest back we’ve observed. Non-infrared missions like COBE & WMAP saw the universe closer to the Big Bang (~380,000 years after), when there was only microwave background radiation, but no stars or galaxies. Webb sees a few 100 million years after the Big Bang.
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‍If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image. Imagine — galaxies galore within a grain, including light from galaxies that traveled billions of years to us!
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