Tag: astrophysics
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How and why we’re sampling asteroid Bennu – with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team
Help us improve this podcast: take our short survey. How did our early solar system form? What are the origins of life? How likely are we to get hit by a dangerous asteroid? A daring NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx hopes to find the answers to these big questions at an asteroid named Bennu. This week,…
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Hubble, most of world’s telescopes likely have glitch, new study finds
A newly discovered error in the way electronic systems record light casts doubt on data collected by many of the world’s telescopes–and even those off-world, like the Hubble Space Telescope. WATCH: Miles revisits the time the Hubble had a different technical issue, right after it launched. An international team of astrophysicists discovered the glitch while…
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Artificial intelligence gains an intuition for hunting exoplanets
For the first time, astrophysicists and computer scientists have partnered together to find planets outside our solar system with artificial intelligence. One of these planets is even the first eighth planet ever discovered in a system other than our own. Chris Shallue, senior software engineer at Google Brain, their artificial intelligence research hub, had just…
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There’s gold in them thar stars!
August 17, 2017 started like any other summer Thursday for Syracuse University gravitational wave researcher Duncan Brown. He had just dropped his kid off at daycare and arrived at work a bit early. As part of the extended Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) family, Brown’s hours ahead would be spent poring over gravitational wave data,…
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Witnessing the Collision of Two Neutron Star is a ‘Textbook Changer’. Here’s Why.
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Newly discovered planet best candidate alien life search
This super-Earth is an instant top priority for a new generation of telescopes.
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