A Window on the Dark Universe to Will Alien Life be Incomprehensible?

Today's stories include: Elon Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe” and more.

The Dark Universe Comes Into Focus--The LIGO experiment opened a whole new window to the universe. We asked Rainer Weiss, one of LIGO’s lead architects, what gravitational-wave astronomy could reveal next, reports Scientific American.

This Telescope Could Collect 100x More Light Than the James Webb--" the Nautilus Space Observatory, would replace large, heavy mirrors with a novel, thin lens that is much lighter, cheaper, and easier to produce than mirrored telescopes. Because of these differences, it would be possible to launch many individual units into orbit and create a powerful network of telescopes, reports Singularity Hub.

New 3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by Webb--"a new scientific visualization of data from the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey. The video represents Webb’s exploration of the region known as the Extended Groth Strip, revealing many galaxies that have never been seen before. It displays a wealth of galaxies across the universe and concludes on Maisie’s Galaxy, which resides 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth. 

The Tantalizing, Lonely Search for Alien Life--Scientists disagree about what life on other planets even means. Would we know it when we saw it? "A truly alien alien is so incomprehensible that stories about them just become stories about human beings,” Jaime Green writes in her new book, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Universe, reports The New Republic.

The James Webb Space Telescope wraps 1st year peering across the universe. What has it discovered so far? reports Rebecca Sohn for Space.com. "This is for the next generation."

Elon Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”--xAI will feature veterans from DeepMind, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla, reports Ars Technica.