Week in images: 20-24 October 2025

Discover our week through the lens

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures the meandering course of the Likouala-aux-Herbes river in the Republic of the Congo.

London, UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
Self-exclusion is a popular responsible gambling tool to prevent yourself from gambling for a specific period of time. Online casinos licensed by the UK Gambling Commission are obliged to register with Gamstop and prevent players who have decided to take a break from gambling.

Image: Focusing on NGC 3370

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
An international collaboration has successfully charted extensive regions of CO-dark molecular gas within Cygnus X, a vibrant star-forming segment of our Milky Way. Utilizing data from the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope, the team produced unprecedented maps showcasing previously invisible material crucial to star birth. Cold molecular hydrogen gas, the essential component in

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
An international scientific team, including Penn State researchers, has identified a super-Earth exoplanet named GJ 251 c orbiting a nearby dwarf star less than 20 light-years away. The planet is estimated to have nearly four times the mass of Earth and is likely rocky. Suvrath Mahadevan, professor of astronomy at Penn State, explained, "We look for these types of planets because they are

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered an exoplanet positioned in the habitable zone of its host star, where conditions may allow liquid water to exist on the surface. This newly identified exoplanet is a super-Earth, several times more massive than our own planet, and potentially rocky. The planet, named GJ 251 c, orbits an M-dwarf star only about 18 light-yea

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
Researchers have examined over 400 glass particles collected from the far side of the Moon during the Change-6 mission, identifying 178 impact glass beads to analyze their microstructures and composition. These beads, formed from meteor impacts and subsequent regolith gardening, preserve physical and chemical details of the lunar surface's evolution. Compared to similar samples from Change