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"Tough, But Necessary": Nissan To Shutter Flagship Japanese Plant By March 2028
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by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Jul 15, 2025 - 10:00 PM
Nissan Motor will cease vehicle production at its flagship Oppama plant in Kanagawa by March 2028, a move CEO Ivan Espinosa called "a tough but necessary decision" and one of "significant pain," according to Nikkei
Production of current and upcoming models will shift to Nissan Motor Kyushu in Fukuoka, cutting manufacturing costs by an estimated 15%. Espinosa explained, "We are aiming to reduce fixed costs while increasing plant utilization rates to 100%."
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tough-necessary-nissan-shutter-flagship-japanese-plant-march-2028
Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system
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By Nola Taylor Tillman published 13 hours ago
"It remains possible that there are other unseen planets in the system. The challenge is finding them!"
Scientists have detected a hidden alien planet by examining the orbits of the known worlds in the star system, known as Kepler-139.
The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of Earth, and it takes 355 days to orbit its star, astronomers reported in a study published May 2 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Despite its giant size, Kepler-139f had evaded detection.
That's because the initial yield of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which discovered nearly 3,000 planets in its nine years of operation, relied on worlds transiting — passing between their star and Earth. The resulting dimming of the star allowed astronomers to identify planets and calculate their size. But Kepler couldn't see planets traveling above or below the wedge of space between it and the star, so any outliers remained unseen.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/astronomers-discover-giant-alien-planet-35-times-more-massive-than-earth-hiding-in-a-known-star-system