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Japan's first Setouchi Art and Industry festival (3-31 Oct 2026) turns seven working factories - a 197-year-old salt works, a uniform maker, a battery plant, a denim street - into a dispersed art museum across Okayama and Ehime. Here's what's inside, and how to visit.
A month-long August festival is giving Phuket’s seven-colour lobster a warm new spotlight. With more than 140 launch-day vendors, 122 participating restaurants, and a goal of welcoming over 30,000 visitors, the island is turning one local catch into a community-wide food story.
In Phang Nga, Thailand Surf Therapy is turning beginner-friendly waves, guided breathwork, and community-led coastal experiences into one of the country’s most thoughtful new travel ideas. The result feels less like a trend and more like a warm, practical way to reconnect with the sea.
A newly tracked star named S301 is racing around the Milky Way’s central black hole at 25,000 kilometres per second. Its remarkably tight 8.7-year orbit may give astronomers their clearest direct measurement yet of how Sagittarius A* spins.
In Phuket, mother-of-pearl still reads less like nostalgia and more like quiet light. A craft shaped by shell, lacquer, and patient hands is surprisingly well suited to today’s calm coastal interiors.
Phuket’s Andaman Sustainable Tourism Festival will bring five provinces, more than 60 stalls, and free public entry to Laem Phromthep from 28-30 August 2026. The bigger idea is just as attractive: community craft, food, routes, and conservation sharing one bright public stage.
On 12 August 2026, Ao Tang Khen Bay near Cape Panwa hosts a free Dugong Festival filled with documentary screenings, recycled-art workshops, and a community beach clean-up. It is a warm, practical way to meet one of Thailand’s most beloved marine animals while learning why seagrass matters so much to Phuket’s coast.
Scientists have mapped a vast whale graveyard in the Diamantina Zone of the southeastern Indian Ocean, where ancient bones and active whale falls are supporting deep-sea life almost 7 kilometres down. The discovery is giving researchers a rare, beautifully specific look at biodiversity, carbon storage, and whale history across 5.3 million years.
A Falcon 9 upper stage left a fresh crater on the Moon on 5 August 2026, and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter quickly turned it into a wonderfully clear lesson in lunar detective work. From a six-day wait for the right viewing angle to bright and dark ejecta that reveal different layers of regolith, this tiny impact is full of big clues.
Booking.com’s Traveller Review Awards 2026 placed Phang Nga among the world’s most welcoming regions. The lovely part is that the honor is easy to understand once you slow down for a sunrise at Samet Nangshe, a calm bay ride, or a long Khao Lak beach walk.
TCDC Phuket has opened inside the 1907 Chartered Bank House, bringing exhibitions, a design library, studios, and free public access into one welcoming new creative address for the island.
At TCDC Bangkok, The Superlative Artistry of Japan turns one free exhibition into a beautifully paced tour of Meiji-era masterpieces, lacquered clamshells, silk embroidery, and tiny contemporary figures. It runs only through 23 August 2026, making this a lovely last-week visit for anyone who enjoys design, craft, and patient making.
Hubble’s newest Milky Way result turns ancient globular clusters into cosmic keepsakes. By reading 39 of them, astronomers found strong evidence that a dwarf galaxy named LKH merged with our young galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago.
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