Category: 2. Space
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EnduroSat raises $49 million to mass produce larger satellites
TAMPA, Fla. — Bulgaria-based microsatellite specialist EnduroSat announced $49 million in funding May 27 to ramp up production of a larger and more capable class of satellites.
The company currently builds 12–15 cubesats per month that…
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Empyreum, Italy’s new satellite platform for the constellation era
Empyreum, Italy’s new satellite platform for the constellation era – SpaceNews
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New adaptive optics shows stunning details of our star’s atmosphere
May 27, 2025 Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date.
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Johnson’s Paige Whittington Builds a Symphony of Simulations
What do music ensembles and human spaceflight have in common? They require the harmonization of different elements to create an inspiring opus.
NASA’s Paige Whittington has experience with both.
As a principal flutist for Purdue…
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Quasar-Powered Galaxy Attack Revealed in Stunning Detail
In a dramatic galactic showdown dubbed the “cosmic joust,” astronomers have captured an extraordinary cosmic event: a quasar-powered galaxy stabbing another with a blast of radiation during a collision 11 billion years ago. For the first time,…
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A Monster Galaxy Is Forming Stars 300x Faster Than the Milky Way – And It Has a Perfect Spiral
A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the Milky Way, without signs of a galactic collision. Using Webb and ALMA, researchers discovered that its bar structure,…
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Very-wide-orbit planets from dynamical instabilities during the stellar birth cluster phase
Tremaine, S. The distribution of comets around stars. ASP Conf. Ser. 36, 335–344 (1993).
Wyatt, M. C., Bonsor, A., Jackson, A. P., Marino, S. & Shannon, A. How to design a planetary system for different scattering outcomes: giant impact sweet…
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Deep learning-driven likelihood-free parameter inference for 21-cm forest observations
Simulations of the 1D power spectrum of the 21-cm forest
The differential brightness of the observed 21-cm absorption signal relative to the brightness temperature of the background radiation at a specific direction (hat{{{bf{s}}}}) and…
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