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Graduating cadets at the California Highway Patrol graduation ceremony on Friday May 30, 2025. Courtesy photo.
On Friday, the California Highway Patrol welcomed 133 new officers who completed 26 weeks of intensive training at the CHP Academy in West Sacramento.
“This graduation marks the beginning of a commitment to protecting and serving others,” said CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee. “These officers have demonstrated their dedication to keeping California’s communities safe and upholding the CHP’s core values.”
The officers will now report to one of the CHP’s 102 Area offices across California to begin their law enforcement careers.
During academy training, cadets receive instruction in traffic enforcement, collision investigation, defensive tactics, firearms, emergency vehicle operations, and community policing.
The curriculum also focuses on legal responsibilities, communication, ethics and cultural awareness to prepare cadets to serve California’s diverse population.
The CHP has sworn in 364 officers in 2025 with this graduating class.
Nearly 300 cadets continue training at the West Sacramento facility, and another 160 are scheduled to begin instruction on June 9 as part of the department’s ongoing efforts to strengthen public safety statewide.
The CHP continues to seek motivated individuals who are ready to make a difference in communities throughout California. A career with the CHP offers comprehensive training, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
To learn more about joining the CHP, please visit https://chpmadeformore.com/ to take the first step towards a rewarding career in law enforcement.
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“Sahara.” Photo courtesy of Clearlake Animal Control.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. — Clearlake Animal Control has many unique dogs waiting to be adopted this week.
The shelter has 51 adoptable dogs listed on its website.
This week’s dogs include “Sahara,” a female Doberman pinscher mix with a black and tan coat.
Shelter staff said Sahara is a well-behaved dog who walks well on a leash. “She has a unique way of interacting — if you stop petting her, she will pet you back for attention.”
Staff said Sahara gets along well with other dogs, making her a good fit for multi-pet households.
“She also enjoys wearing sweaters, adding a touch of charm to her personality. Overall, Sahara is a friendly and affectionate companion,” they said.
The shelter is located at 6820 Old Highway 53. It’s open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
For more information, call the shelter at 707-762-6227, email
This week’s adoptable dogs are featured below.
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CDFW wolf collaring January 2025 photo by Malia Byrtus/California Wolf Project.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — The California Department of Fish and Wildlife reported Tuesday that three new wolf packs have been confirmed in the state.
These new wolf families are the Ishi pack in eastern Tehama County, the Tunnison pack in central Lassen County and the Ashpan pack in eastern Shasta County.
This brings California’s total current known number of packs to 10.
“How wonderful to witness another year of continued growth in California’s recovering wolf population,” said Amaroq Weiss, a senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s inspiring to watch this renaissance and we should do everything we can to ensure California’s wolves have every chance to thrive.”
Confirmation of these new packs shows the ongoing progress in wolf reestablishment and recovery across the West Coast.
The first packs were confirmed in 2008 in Washington and Oregon and in 2015 in California. By the end of 2024 there were 75 individual wolf pack territories across the three states.
A new time-lapsetime-lapse map prepared by the Center depicts the renaissance of wolves across the West Coast region from 2008 to 2024. The map also confirms that wolves here are still in the early stages of recovery since there’s abundant identified suitable wolf habitat that has not yet been occupied. Confirmation of the Ishi, Tunnison and Ashpan packs brings the tally to at least 78 wolf family territories on the West Coast.
California’s other seven packs consist of the Whaleback pack in Siskiyou County; the Lassen pack ranging across parts of Lassen and Plumas counties; the Diamond pack straddling portions of Plumas and Lassen counties; the Beyem Seyo pack which inhabits Sierra County; the Ice Cave pack whose territory touches portions of Lassen, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties; the Harvey pack ranging in parts of Lassen and Shasta counties; and the Yowlumni pack in Tulare County.
There are additionally two known small groups of two to three wolves each in northern California, one in southern Modoc County and the other in southern Plumas County, which do not yet qualify as packs. The latest wolf map posted by the department shows where each pack and each small group of wolves are ranging.
The department’s quarterly report provided information on California’s wolves from the start of 2025 up to the end of March. The report mentioned that a dispersing wolf was detected on a camera trap in central Kern County. It also reported that the deaths of two wolves from the Yowlumni pack in Tulare County were discovered this quarter and are under investigation.
“It’s been a bumpy road lately for California wolves as some northern counties have enacted emergency resolutions based on misunderstanding and misinformation,” said Weiss. “Decades of research shows that conflicts between livestock, wolves and people are rare and preventable. These magnificent animals have immense value because they help keep nature wild and healthy, and that ultimately benefits humans as well.”
Background
The first wolf in nearly a century to make California part of his range was OR-7, a radio-collared wolf from Oregon that entered California in late 2011. OR-7 traveled across seven northeastern counties in California before returning to southwestern Oregon, where he found a mate and settled down, forming the Rogue pack.
Several of OR-7’s offspring have since come to California and established packs. Those include the original breeding male of the Lassen pack and the breeding female of the Yowlumni pack residing in Tulare County. The Shasta pack, California’s first confirmed wolf pack in nearly 100 years, was discovered in 2015 but disappeared a few months later.
The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is native to California but was driven to extinction in the state by the mid-1920s. After OR-7 left Oregon for California, the Center and allies successfully petitioned the state to fully protect wolves under California’s endangered species act. Wolves are also federally protected in California under the federal Endangered Species Act. It is illegal to intentionally kill any wolves in the state except in defense of human life.
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/IPAC; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk.
Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.
As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the SKA [Square Kilometer Array] Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope on Wajarri Country in Australia to study the antics of the discovered object, known as ASKAP J1832−0911 (ASKAP J1832 for short).
ASKAP J1832 belongs to a class of objects called “long period radio transients” discovered in 2022 that vary in radio wave intensity in a regular way over tens of minutes. This is thousands of times longer than the length of the repeated variations seen in pulsars, which are rapidly spinning neutron stars that have repeated variations multiple times a second. ASKAP J1832 cycles in radio wave intensity every 44 minutes, placing it into this category of long period radio transients.
Using Chandra, the team discovered that ASKAP J1832 is also regularly varying in X-rays every 44 minutes. This is the first time that such an X-ray signal has been found in a long period radio transient.
In this composite image, X-rays from Chandra (blue) have been combined with infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light blue, teal and orange), and radio from LOFAR (red). An inset shows a more detailed view of the immediate area around this unusual object in X-ray and radio light.
Using Chandra and the SKA Pathfinder, a team of astronomers found that ASKAP J1832 also dropped off in X-rays and radio waves dramatically over the course of six months. This combination of the 44-minute cycle in X-rays and radio waves in addition to the months-long changes is unlike anything astronomers have seen in the Milky Way galaxy.
The research team argues that ASKAP J1832 is unlikely to be a pulsar or a neutron star pulling material from a companion star because its properties do not match the typical intensities of radio and X-ray signals of those objects. Some of ASKAP J1832’s properties could be explained by a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, called a magnetar, with an age of more than half a million years.
However, other features of ASKAP J1832 — such as its bright and variable radio emission — are difficult to explain for such a relatively old magnetar.
On the sky, ASKAP J1832 appears to lie within a supernova remnant, the remains of an exploded star, which often contain a neutron star formed by the supernova. However, the research team determined that the proximity is probably a coincidence and two are not associated with each other, encouraging them to consider the possibility that ASKAP J1832 does not contain a neutron star.
They concluded that an isolated white dwarf does not explain the data but that a white dwarf star with a companion star might. However, it would require the strongest magnetic field ever known for a white dwarf in our galaxy.
A paper by Ziteng Wang (Curtin University in Australia) and collaborators describing these results appears in the journal Nature. Another team led by Di Li from Tsinghua University in China independently discovered this source using the DAocheng Radio Telescope and submitted their paper to the arXiv on the same day as the team led by Dr Wang. They did not report the X-ray behavior described here.
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray Center controls science operations from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts.
Learn more about the Chandra X-ray Observatory and its mission here: https://www.nasa.gov/chandra and https://chandra.si.edu.
A close-up image of ASKAP J1832 in X-ray and radio light. X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk.
Visual description
This release features two composite images of a mysterious object, possibly an unusual neutron star or white dwarf, residing near the edge of a supernova remnant. The object, known as ASKAP J1832, has been intriguing astronomers from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope with its antics and bizarre behavior.
Astronomers have discovered that ASKAP J1832 cycles in radio wave intensity every 44 minutes. This is thousands of times longer than pulsars, which are rapidly spinning neutron stars that have repeated variations multiple times a second. Using Chandra, the team discovered that the object is also regularly varying in X-rays every 44 minutes. This is the first time such an X-ray signal has been found in a long period radio transient like ASKAP J1832.
In the primary composite image of this release, the curious object is shown in the context of the supernova remnant and nearby gas clouds. Radio data is red and and X-ray sources seen with Chandra are in dark blue. The supernova remnant is the large, wispy, red oval ring occupying the lower right of the image. The curious object sits inside this ring, to our right of center; a tiny purple speck in a sea of colorful specks. The gas cloud shows infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and resembles a mottled green, teal blue, and golden orange cloud occupying our upper left half of the square image.
The second, close-up image shows a view of the immediate area around ASKAP J1832. In this composite image, infrared data from Spitzer has been removed, eliminating the mottled cloud and most of the colorful background specks. Here, near the inside edge of the hazy red ring, the curious object resembles a bright white dot with a hot pink outer edge, set against the blackness of space. Upon close inspection, the hot pink outer edge is revealed to have three faint spikes emanating from the surface.
The primary and close-up images are presented both unadorned, and with labels, including fine white circles identifying ASKAP J1832.
A close-up image of ASKAP J1832 in X-ray and radio light. X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk.
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