At https://phys.org/news/2026-02-extreme-plasma-monster-explanation-fast.html … extreme plasma acceleration in monster shocks may explain fast radio bursts in the universe, as seen in earth bound telescopes. Simulation of monster shocks reveal how extreme events on what are called magnetars. Rather, within the magnetospheres of magnetars. These magnetars are thought to be young neutron stars – with very strong magnetospheres. They are normally associated with prolific x-ray activity.
At https://phys.org/news/2026-02-cosmic-brought-ionization-dark-cloud.html … scientists claim to have measured the effect of cosmic radiation in a molecular cloud. It showed that charged high energy particles influence clouds of gas – and these clouds, we are told, are where stars are born.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/new-comet-could-become-brightest-in-years/ … a story about an approaching comet, C/2026, that will come close to the Sun. What is known as a sun grazer. Will it survive the experience? It is thought the comet will grow an enormous tail in the process as it approaches perihelion in April.
At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/more-than-43-000-years-ago-neanderthals-spent-centuries-collecting-animal-skulls-in-a-cave-but-archaeologists-arent-sure-why …. this is basically around the time of the Laschamp event, or in its aftermath. Or even prior to the event – if the dating of the sediments is correct. It concerns a collection of animal skulls in Spain. All the skulls come from horned animals, or those with antlers. The horns were important. Very often it was just the top of the skulls – the lower jaw being missing as if unrequired. These included steppe bison and aurochs. Over 1400 stone tools were also recovered at the same level of the cave sediment. Horned animals and those with antlers continued to be important right through the Upper Palaeolithic and down into the Holocene. They appear to have had an extraordinary effect on the human population. What might they visually represent? One idea that has been floated, but not in the above link, is the coma of a comet. Two horns, as in a bull god, represent not just the coma but the outgassing of material in a bright column from the surface of the nucleus.