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Tracking the Gold Rush in the Sky
Every gold rush triggers legal, political and environmental questions. Who owns the wealth? Whose power guarantees ownership? And who has to deal with the mess left behind? Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Be Part of Transformative Change with the CCPA–BC The BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is…
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Space Expert Arlen Kam ’05 Returns to Punahou
Arlen Kim ’05 (right) was invited to Punahou by her former teacher, Yunus Peer, who instructs the World Civilizations class. On Wednesday, Punahou welcomed back an alumna with a career that’s literally out of this world: Arlen Kam ’05, an astrodynamics engineer and spacecraft missions operations expert. Talking to Academy students in the Astronomy and…
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Volunteers with a passion for astronomy share the amazing night sky through Stars of Hope
The next Stars of Hope event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Westin in Kaanapali. <!– SHOW ARTICLE –> KAANAPALI — For the past couple of months, a group of amateur astronomers, under the direction of Dr. J.D. Armstrong, educational outreach coordinator for the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA), have been…
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Search for intelligent aliens explores new radio-frequency realms
A new European search for extraterrestrial radio signals at low, uncharted frequencies is underway, having already listened to over 1.6 million star systems. SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has traditionally focused on radio frequencies higher than a gigahertz, such as the hydrogen-line frequency at 1.42 GHz. SETI astronomers tend to shy away from lower…
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Why Titan should be on humanity’s must-visit list
Titan’s dense atmosphere (dark blue) extends hundreds of miles above the world’s surface, as seen in this false-color mosiac captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute When it comes to worlds for humans to visit, Titan may not naturally jump to the top of any travel agency’s list. This frigid moon of Saturn…
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Astronomers capture formation of a powerful cosmic jet
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NASA Tech Breathes Life Into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design
Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very serendipitous call from his mother. Taking the call, he shut off the stove and stretched plastic wrap over the pot to keep the pudding fresh. By the…
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Here’s how NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will hunt for lonely black holes and distant exoplanets
NASA has revealed how its next big space telescope will allow astronomers to peer deeper than ever before into the heart of the Milky Way after it launches in May 2027. According to the space agency, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, or just Roman, will provide an unparalleled view of the center of our galaxy,…
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Astro Brief: K2-18b with Sarah Morrison
Recenty, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered several complex molecules on a nearby exoplanet. A mere 120 light years away, this exoplanet orbits the dwarf star k2-18. Join us this week as Mike and Sarah discuss the exoplanet K2-18b and what it’s composition means. Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space…
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China’s youngest-ever crew of astronauts heads to space station
BEIJING, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The youngest-ever crew of Chinese astronauts departed for China’s space station on Thursday, paving the way for a new generation of “taikonauts” to advance the country’s space ambitions in the future. The spacecraft Shenzhou-17, or “Divine Vessel”, and its three passengers lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the…
