NASA recently shared an eye-catching image of our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Located about 2.5 million light-years from our Sun, Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The image shared by NASA on …
Current quantum computing systems are susceptible to noise and disruptive factors in the environment. This makes quantum computing noisy-resulting in loss of information in qubits by getting out of sync. This process is called Decoherence. To overcome the limitations of current quantum computers, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are developing simulations that provide …
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NASA’s rover, Curiosity, has clicked a picture of some bizarre but amazing rock pillars on Mars. These twisted rock formations on the Red Planet were found by the long-running rover on May 15. This rover is also about to complete its first decade of work on the planet on August 6. It has been regularly …
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The first results from the initial description of the sample from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft published in the British online journal, Nature Astronomy, December 21, 2021. /JAXA The first results from the initial description of the sample from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft published in the British online …
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Scientists create “time machine” simulations studying the lifecycle of ancestor galaxy cities. Many processes in astrophysics take a very long time, making their evolution tricky to study. For example, a star like our sun has a lifespan of about 10 billion years and galaxies evolve over the course of billions of years. One way astrophysicists …
SpaceX’s next cargo mission to the International Space Station won’t launch this week after all. The robotic flight, called CRS-25, will send a SpaceX Dragon capsule toward the orbiting lab atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The liftoff had been scheduled for Friday (June 10), but that’s not going …
388097 01: Gliding past the planet Jupiter, the Cassini spacecraft captures this awe inspiring view … [+] of active Io, Jupiter’s third largest satellite, with the largest gas giant as a backdrop, offering a stunning demonstration of the ruling planet’s relative size, April 20, 2001. The Cassini spacecraft itself was about 10 million kilometers from …
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Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first time, the Ingenuity team on Earth lost contact with Ingenuity on sols 427 and 428, or Martian days that correspond with May 3 and May 4. The little chopper’s engineers spent a week …
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Tyler Harvey National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA June 6, 2022• Physics 15, 80 Scanning electron microscopes using laser-engineered electron quantum states enter the quantum optics ring. R. Shiloh et al.[1]; adapted by APS/Carin Cain Figure 1: An ultraviolet laser pulse (purple) triggers photoemission of an electron …
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AIAA Statement on Blue Origin’s Successful NS-21 Mission Press Release From: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Posted: Monday, June 6, 2022 The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Executive Director Dan Dumbacher made the following statement: “On behalf of the 30,000 professional and student members of AIAA, we congratulate the Blue Origin team …
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