Month: March 2024

Enlarge / Tesla halted production at the factory near Berlin and sent workers home after a fire at a high-voltage pylon caused power failures throughout the region. (credit: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Tesla has had to suspend operations at its factory in Berlin, Germany, today. Early this morning there was a suspected arson attack on a nearby electrical transformer that led to the factory being evacuated, according to the German publication BZ. The fire has also left parts of Berlin without power, as well as towns in Brandenburg.

According to BZ, the transformer fire happened at 4:50 am CET, with Tesla's factory losing power an hour before the start of today's shift. Other companies based at the industrial estate next to the Tesla factory have also had to suspend work.

The fire brigade and power company's work to restore power was slowed by the discovery of a tent apparently occupied by climate activists protesting water pollution at Tesla's factory, as well as a planned expansion of the site. A sign warning of unexploded ordnance resulted in the first responders calling in the bomb squad.

Enlarge / This image from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument shows a portion of the GOODS-North field of galaxies. (credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, et. al.)

Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we're going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.

Good morning. It's March 5, and today's image comes from the James Webb Space Telescope.

It's a new deep-field image from the infrared space telescope, showcasing a portion of the "Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey" region of space that has previously been observed by other space telescopes, including Hubble and Chandra. Almost everything in this image that doesn't have lines emanating from it is a galaxy.