Louisville, CO – Tendeg, a leader in advanced deployable space antennas, has received a repeat order from Capella Space, an American space tech company with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and satellite solutions for government and…
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Catherine Staggs: Advancing Artemis Through Contracting Expertise
A lifelong baseball fan, Catherine Staggs set out with her family to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums across the United States. That love of the game eventually led them to settle in Houston about eight years ago – a choice that…
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NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts
More than 280 NASA employees past and present, including at least 4 astronauts, have signed a declaration of opposition to the many drastic changes that the administration of US President Donald Trump is working to enact. The declaration,…
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Accelerated quenching and chemical enhancement of massive galaxies in a z ≈ 4 gas-rich halo
Cimatti, A. et al. GMASS ultradeep spectroscopy of galaxies at z ~2. II. Superdense passive galaxies: how did they form and evolve? Astron. Astrophys. 482, 21–42 (2008).
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how I communicate with spacecraft from the ground
“In this photo, I’m exiting a ground station on top of the Department of Space Science & Engineering at Taiwan’s National Central University, near Taipei. I lead the university’s Upper Air Dynamics Laboratory, where my team and I focus…
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Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood
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This is a summary of: Pérez-González, P. G. et al. Accelerated quenching and chemical enhancement of…
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‘Immortal’ stars have an elixir of youth: dark matter
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Modelling suggests that annihilation of this strange,…
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Two Ultralow-mass-ratio Binary Systems at Critical Evolutionary Stages
In this paper, we present photometric observations and period analysis of two totally eclipsing binaries with extremely low-amplitude light curves. Both binaries exhibit typical W Ursae Majoris-type light curves with total eclipses, allowing for…
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The Multiband Imaging Survey for High-alpha PlanetS (MISHAPS). I. Preliminary Constraints on the Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters in 47 Tucanae
The first generation of transiting planet searches in globular clusters yielded no detections, and in hindsight only placed occurrence rate limits slightly higher than the measured occurrence rate in the higher-metallicity Galactic thick disk. To…
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Sorcha: Optimized Solar System Ephemeris Generation
Sorcha is a solar system survey simulator built for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and future large-scale wide-field surveys. Over the 10 yr survey, the LSST is expected to collect roughly a billion…
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