🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Space Space is entering its forensic era. China’s Einstein Probe detected a faint X ray flash from a galaxy roughly 500 million light years away. Within an hour, telescopes were watching the source become SN 2026gzf, capturing a massive star almost from the moment its explosion reached the surface. (NOIRLab) There was no powerful gamma ray burst. No obvious high velocity jet. Only a weak first signal followed by a rapidly brightening supernova. The discovery suggests massive stars may die through more varied pathways than current models fully explain. The deeper breakthrough is speed. Astronomy is beginning to observe causes instead of only studying aftermaths. Then a discarded Falcon 9 rocket stage struck the Moon near Einstein Crater at roughly 5,400 miles per hour. Observatories detected sodium from the lunar surface and possible lithium from the rocket inside the impact plume. (Reuters) Space debris became an accidental science experiment. It al...