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Was Odysseus’ Ithaca Never an Island? Scholars Challenge Centuries-Old Assumption

Paliki peninsula on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Image credit: Christos Vittoratos / CC BY-SA 3.0.

For as long as readers have pored over Homer’s Odyssey they have pictured Ithaca, the homeland Odysseus fights for ten years to reach, as an island unto itself.

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Astronomers Uncover Hidden Structures Surrounding Orion Nebula

Extended Orion nebula shell sampled by HI emission from the combined VLA and FAST observations (shown in red), HΞ± emission from the European Southern Observatory Digitized Sky Survey (shown in green), and 3.4-ΞΌm emission registered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite (shown in blue). Image credit: Juan D. Soler, University of Vienna / NRAO / VLA / NASA / WISE.

Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) s and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have created the sharpest-ever radio maps of neutral hydrogen around the Orion Nebula.

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