August 31, 2023

Space: The CIA knows a lot about other nations’ space programs. You can too with its new ‘World Factbook’ update

Space: The CIA knows a lot about other nations’ space programs. You can too with its new ‘World Factbook’ update . “The United States Central Intelligence Agency, better known as the CIA, has released a new entry in its World Factbook that catalogues the programs and milestones of NASA, as well as other space agencies around the world. Over 90 countries and the European Union are represented in the new Space Programs section of the agency’s factbook, spanning from Algeria to Zimbabwe.”

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July 29, 2023

University of Oxford: Researchers successfully train a machine learning model in outer space for the first time

University of Oxford: Researchers successfully train a machine learning model in outer space for the first time . “For the first time, researchers have trained a machine learning model in outer space, on board a satellite. This achievement could enable real-time monitoring and decision making for a range of applications, from disaster management to deforestation.”

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July 28, 2023

NASA: NASA Launches Beta Site; On-Demand Streaming, App Update Coming Soon

NASA: NASA Launches Beta Site; On-Demand Streaming, App Update Coming Soon. “Later this year, NASA also will launch its new streaming platform, NASA+., and upgrade the NASA app. Through the ad-free, no cost, and family-friendly streaming service, users will gain access to the agency’s Emmy Award-winning live coverage and views into NASA’s missions through collections of original video series, including a handful of new series launching with the streaming service.”

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July 23, 2023

Observer: The Master Recording of NASA’s Voyager Golden Record Heads to Auction

Observer: The Master Recording of NASA’s Voyager Golden Record Heads to Auction. “The call of a humpback whale, a Navajo night chant and the brain waves of a woman falling in love… these are just some of the sounds recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, the phonograph time capsule affixed to spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2. As the space-faring record continues on its now 46-year journey through the emptiness, the Golden Record’s master recording is expected to fetch $600,000 at auction later this month.”

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June 14, 2023

BBC Sky at Night Magazine: How CCTV cameras can play a huge role in meteor science

BBC Sky at Night Magazine: How CCTV cameras can play a huge role in meteor science. “When my husband and I set up our first meteor camera back in 2018, we did it not only to learn more about the orbits of the meteor events we observed and captured with our DSLR cameras, but also to see what we were missing while we slept. We loved our first meteor camera so much that we soon set up three more and we now have almost full sky coverage. We had no idea back then just what an important and valuable contribution they would make to so many aspects of meteor and asteroid science.”

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June 13, 2023

Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT scientists unveil Citizen Science Project to search for distant galaxies

Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT scientists unveil Citizen Science Project to search for distant galaxies. “In collaboration with NASA, RIT unveiled a website asking for volunteers to join an effort to take critical measurements that will aid astronomers in identifying the ‘fingerprints’ of different chemical elements present in galaxies and measuring their distances.”

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May 30, 2023

Phys .org: Want to be an asteroid miner? There’s a database for that

Phys .org: Want to be an asteroid miner? There’s a database for that. “Asteroid mining is slowly but surely coming closer to reality. Many start-ups and governmental agencies alike are getting in on the action. But plenty of tools that would help get this burgeoning industry off the ground are still unavailable. One that would be particularly useful is a list of potential candidate asteroids to visit. While the information has been available in various places, no one has yet combined it into a single, searchable database until now.”

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April 6, 2023

Caltech: Scientists Unveil a 5.7 Terapixel Global Image of Mars

Caltech: Scientists Unveil a 5.7 Terapixel Global Image of Mars. “The mosaicked image—comprising more than 5.7 trillion pixels (5.7 terapixels)—was generated at the Murray Lab by merging 110,000 individual images taken by the Context Camera (CTX) aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). It covers 99.5 percent of the surface of Mars between 88° South and 88° North.”

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March 28, 2023

Eos: Deluges of Data Are Changing Astronomical Science

Eos: Deluges of Data Are Changing Astronomical Science. “For scientists who study the cosmos, hard-to-grasp numbers are par for the course. But the sheer quantity of data flowing from modern research telescopes, to say nothing of the promised deluges of upcoming astronomical surveys, is astounding even astronomers. That embarrassment of riches has necessitated some serious data wrangling by myself and my colleagues, and it’s changing astronomical science forever.”

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February 26, 2023

Phys .org: Over one billion galaxies blaze bright in colossal map of the sky

Phys .org: Over one billion galaxies blaze bright in colossal map of the sky. “By creating comprehensive maps of even the dimmest and most-distant galaxies, astronomers are better able to study the structure of the universe and unravel the mysterious properties of dark matter and dark energy. The largest such map to date has just grown even larger, with the tenth data release from the DOE’s Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Survey.”

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January 9, 2023

Scientific American: Audio Astronomy Unlocks a Universe of Sound

Scientific American: Audio Astronomy Unlocks a Universe of Sound. “To realize their dreams, [Sarah] Kane and other budding blind or visually impaired (BVI) researchers are betting big on efforts to turn scientific data into sound, also called sonification. At a conference at the Lorentz Center in the Netherlands last December, a motley crew of scientists, sound engineers and educators representing the leaders of the nascent field of astronomical sonification gathered to discuss current projects and chart a course forward.”

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December 11, 2022

Ars Technica: Fifty years later, remastered images reveal Apollo 17 in stunning clarity

Ars Technica: Fifty years later, remastered images reveal Apollo 17 in stunning clarity. “Earlier this year, a British photographer named Andy Saunders published a book titled Apollo Remastered, which showcases 400 photos from the Apollo missions to the Moon. Astronauts took about 20,000 images on Hasselblad cameras during the Apollo program…. To mark the historic launch of Apollo 17, Saunders shared eight high-resolution images from his book with Ars, along with captions.”

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December 7, 2022

Futurism: Fun Website Lets You Simulate An Asteroid Impact In Your Hometown

Futurism: Fun Website Lets You Simulate An Asteroid Impact In Your Hometown. “First, you select the asteroid’s composition. Iron? Gold? Stone? Have fun with it — the space rock, as they say, is your oyster! You then pick its diameter, which can range from a relatively tiny three feet to a honkin’ mile-wide big boi. Finally, you pick that asteroid’s speed and angle, and voilà: the site will provide extremely precise estimates of death and destruction…”

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