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NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Binaries Project
Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs […]
Posted inTricorders & Sensors
How To Actually Build Your Own Working Tricorder
Editor’s note: Hamzah Abugosh has built a functional tricorder. I share the same fascination he has with the notion of a Tricorder as seen on Star Trek since I was […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Career Opportunities, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Status Report
Rocky Worlds DDT Community Involvement Initiative (CII)
The Rocky Worlds DDT Core Implementation Team is pleased to announce the launch of a new, community-led effort to enable collaboration and coordination around Rocky Worlds DDT science: the Rocky […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astronomy & Telescopes, Citizen Science / Open Science, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Status Report
Rocky Worlds DDT Data Challenge Is Now Open
The Rocky Worlds DDT Core Implementation Team (CIT) is pleased to announce that the Rocky Worlds DDT Data Challenge is now open.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Citizen Science / Open Science, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Stellar Cartography
TESS Planet Hunter Reveals A Map Of The Dazzling Night Sky
NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in gaps from previous observations.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Citizen Science / Open Science, Intelligence & Language, SETI & Technosignatures, Status Report
Results Of Ten Tears Of UCLA SETI Searches With The Green Bank Telescope
We have been conducting a search for narrowband radio signals with the L-band receiver (1.15-1.73 GHz) of the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope (Margot et al., 2023). So far, […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Citizen Science / Open Science, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Status Report, Stellar Cartography
Three Thousand Motion-Confirmed L and T Dwarf Candidates From The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project uses data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer to detect infrared objects with significant motion.
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astrochemistry, Astrogeology, Citizen Science / Open Science, Comets and Asteroids, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Press Release
How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the comet will live on in NASA’s public data archives. More than a […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Citizen Science / Open Science, Intelligence & Language, People Of Astrobiology, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures
SETI@Home Enthusiasts Used Home Computers To Search For ET. Scientists Focus On 100 signals They Found
For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy.