Russian debt defaults are surging, with a quarter of the bond market at risk, while Putin hides in bunkers fixated on his war instead of the economy

https://fortune.com/2026/05/09/russian-debt-defaults-bond-market-risk-putin-bunker-ukraine-war-economy/

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NASA Image of the Day

Astronaut Jessica Meir

Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-astronaut-jessica-meir-2/

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Neblina Tapaculo

Small tapaculo found only at very high elevations in the eastern Andes of Peru. Male is gray with black and brown barring on lower underparts and rump. Female is browner with more extensive barring. Similar to several other tapaculos, and best identified by range, habitat, and voice. Inhabits scrubby treeline woodland and adjacent grasslands. Song is a long, leisurely series of chips.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/nebtap1
Photo Location: Peru

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Supernova in a Sideways Spiral
Video Credit: Hunter Outten & Kaleb Jordan
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

Explanation: A long time ago, in a distant galaxy, a massive star was destroyed in a supernova explosion. The light of this event travelled for tens of millions of years and reached Earth last week as Supernova 2026kid. The featured video shows a time-lapse over three nights of the host galaxy NGC 5907, an edge-on spiral also known as the Splinter or Knife Edge Galaxy, as the supernova appears and becomes brighter. (The occasional streaks are satellites in Earth orbit.) At its brightest, a supernova can outshine the sum of all other stars in its galaxy. Supernova 2026kid appears relatively dim, probably because we are seeing it through the edge-on disk of the galaxy. Such explosions typically happen about once per century in galaxies similar to the Milky Way, and their light can take months to fade away. The brightest supernova in recorded history was SN 1006; it is reported to have been brighter than Venus, and even visible in the sky during daytime.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260507.html #apod