Altair Publications

07/07/2025

JWST Captures Its First Direct Image of an Exoplanet—And It’s a Game-Changer

In a groundbreaking achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first-ever direct image of a potential exoplanet—marking a new era in planetary discovery. The faint source of infrared light, located about 111 light-years away in the debris disk surrounding the young star TWA 7, is likely a Saturn-mass planet dubbed TWA 7 b.

This discovery is especially significant because it wasn’t made using indirect methods like shadows or wobbles, but through Webb’s powerful coronagraph, which blocks out the star’s blinding light to reveal faint nearby objects.

What makes TWA 7 b particularly intriguing is its low mass—roughly 10 times less than any planet previously imaged directly—and its possible role in shaping the surrounding disk. The planet sits about 50 times farther from its star than Earth is from the Sun, nestled in a gap between dust rings. Though there’s a small chance the signal came from a background galaxy, modeling and follow-up analysis strongly support the planet hypothesis.

If confirmed, this would be the first time an exoplanet has been directly linked to sculpting its host star’s debris disk, and a major demonstration of JWST’s unmatched ability to study young, low-mass worlds in distant solar systems.

RESEARCH PAPER 📄
A.-M. Lagrange et al, "Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 disk ", Nature (2025)

07/06/2025

This "spooky action at a distance," as Einstein called it😁
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07/04/2025

Friedrich Nietzsche
A radical thinker who challenged morality and truth, Nietzsche emphasized the will to power and creative self-overcoming.

🌟 "All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

What we call “truth” is often just the dominant narrative. Reality is shaped less by facts and more by who has the authority to define them.

07/02/2025

The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! ~ Galen
Source: Galen, On the Natural Faculties, Bk. 1, sect. 13; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 57.

07/01/2025

"Everything in the universe is within you.
Ask all from yourself."
— Rumi

Artist/Photographer:
Unknown

06/30/2025

/ Emily Dickinson /
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
"Emily Dickinson, (born Dec. 10, 1830, Amherst, Mass., U.S.—died May 15, 1886, Amherst), U.S. poet. Granddaughter of the cofounder of Amherst College and daughter of a respected lawyer and one-term congressman, Dickinson was educated at Amherst (Mass.) Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She subsequently spent virtually all her life, increasingly reclusive, in her family home in Amherst. She began writing in the 1850s; by 1860 she was boldly experimenting with language and prosody, striving for vivid, exact words and epigrammatic concision while adhering to the basic quatrains and metres of the Protestant hymn. The subjects of her deceptively simple lyrics, whose depth and intensity contrast with the apparent quiet of her life, include love, death, and nature. Her numerous letters are sometimes equal in artistry to her poems. By 1870 she was dressing only in white and declining to see most visitors. Of her nearly 1,800 poems, only 10 are known to have been published during her lifetime. After posthumous publications (some rather inaccurate), her reputation and readership grew. Her complete works were published in 1955, and she has since become universally regarded as one of the greatest American poets." (Britannica)
Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

06/29/2025

Raising Your Frequency

06/28/2025

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06/27/2025

Hexes and Heauxs...
...Fake News • Post-Truth • One Big Hoax.•●

"Truth does not do
so much good in the world,
as the appearance of it
does evil."

—François de la Rochefoucauld

"The Dark Forces have created countless troll farms to relentlessly spam the Internet with their agendas. Trillions of fake accounts are used to create disinformation, create a fake majority opinion about topics, bully people who are putting out information the Dark Forces don't like, and get people arguing with each other to create negative energy."

—Jasun Ether, "The Beasts of Success"

"Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally 'lost the plot'. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life."

—Anthon St. Maarten, "Divine Living"

"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth."

—Garry Kasparov

"The rules were simple ... Being correct had nothing to do with substance and everything to do with style."

—Joshua Krook, "Black Friday 2050"

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Art from "Le Pater"
by Alphonse Mucha (1900)

"Awareness Creates
Opportunities To Trance•End" • —RLR—

06/26/2025

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

Artist Credit:
Marie Beschorner

06/25/2025

06/24/2025

“Magick happens when you step into who you truly are and embrace that which fulfills your soul.”
― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Artist Credit:
Li Fan Viki Lee