The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo stack is set to enter Mercury orbit on November 21, 2026. Nine flybys, a power glitch, a magnetic field about one-hundredth of Earth's, and what Mio's first image would really be.
Japan's XRISM, its main instrument still behind a jammed door, and Earth-sized radio arrays found that 3C 120's cold disk stops at about 20 gravitational radii and the jet starts inside it.
An international team used NAOJ's ATERUI III to show how a newborn black hole could look like one of Webb's little red dots. NAOJ's Japanese release says 'closing in'; its English one says 'explained.'