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Space News: Milky Way's fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin
This sequence of images, taken with the GRAVITY instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), show several stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. One of these stars, known as S301, was recently found to pass much…
Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest marks seasonal transition
The Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest is transitioning into winter management. Photo courtesy of Cal Fire. LAKE COUNTY NEWS REPORTS COBB, Calif. — Cal Fire’s Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit said Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest is transitioning to winter season management.…

California has nation’s highest count of homeless infants and toddlers, report says
By Betty Márquez Rosales This story was originally published by EdSource . Sign up for their daily newsletter . California’s estimate of nearly 86,000 infants and toddlers to have experienced homelessness in 2023-24 is the highest in the nation, according to a report published…

Newsom clamps down on California data centers as voters turn against the industry
By Katherine Ortiz , CalMatters A block of Equinix data centers sit across the street from a Prime data center on Great Oaks Blvd. in South San Jose on Aug. 31, 2026. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters . Sign up for their…

Space News: NASA’s Hubble, Webb find far-out solar system objects ‘remember’ past
This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object, a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. These objects are so small that even with NASA’s Hubble and Webb space telescopes, they appear only as tiny points of light. Artwork: NASA, ESA, Leah…
California enacts laws restricting chatbots and banning teens from ‘addictive’ social media
By Colin Lecher , CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters . Sign up for their newsletters. California teens will be barred from “addictive” social media products and limited in their interactions with chatbots under two of the 13 bills signed into law by Gov.…