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Spheres on Spheres
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Spheres on Spheres
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The SETI Institute During one of his visits to ’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astrophotographer and Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky was fortunate enough to capture this breathtaking sight: three celestial spheres — each very different! — lined up beautifully in the sky. 26h
We can now predict dangerous solar flares a day before they happen
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Large solar flares can put astronauts’ health at risk and damage satellites, but we haven’t had an early warning system for them – until now
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The SETI Institute New method to predict solar flares could help us to prepare for potential disasters caused by these eruptions on the sun. “A big flare is a potential risk to our society,” says Kanya Kusano at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research in Japan. 5d
The real science behind SETI’s hunt for intelligent aliens
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Inside the current hunt for "technosignatures" in radio waves.
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The SETI Institute The real science behind SETI’s hunt for intelligent aliens - Inside the current hunt for “technosignatures” in radio waves. Featuring . #SETI 9d
Our Sun, as Never Seen Before
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The first images of the sun from the European Space Agency/NASA’s Solar Orbiter have been released and are stupendous.  They are the closest photos ever taken of the star that we orbit, and have already revealed some fascinating features that nobody...
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The SETI Institute The first images of the sun from / 's have been released and are stupendous. They are the closest photos ever taken and have already revealed some fascinating features that nobody knew existed. 19d
Frontier Development Lab: Knowledge Discovery Framework
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NASA has an exceptionally large archive of Earth Science data. How can machine learning and artificial intelligence unlock new insights and enable new types ...
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The SETI Institute TOMORROW, 2pm PDT: #SETILive with - The Knowledge Discovery Framework team is developing tools that allow users to provide an example image so #AI can find similar images in the data, addressing a gap in current tools. Watch live: 23d
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The SETI Institute TODAY, 2100 UTC: #SETILive with - The Knowledge Discovery Framework team is developing tools that allow users to provide an example image so #AI can find similar images in the data, addressing a gap in current tools. Watch live: 22d
Comet NEOWISE Could Be Spectacular: Here’s How to See It
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Already visible to the naked eye, the object may soon brighten to create the greatest celestial light show in decades—or it could simply fade away
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The SETI Institute Comet NEOWISE Could Be Spectacular: Here's How to See It - “Comets are like cats,” says , an astronomer at the SETI Institute. “They are unpredictable.” After this encounter, expect #CometNEOWISE to bid farewell for quite some time. 25d
Deep Space 1 Spacecraft at 2.3 Million Miles from Earth
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June 30 is Asteroid Day.
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The SETI Institute This image was taken using the 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain by astronomers at of the Deep Space 1 spacecraft at a distance of 2.3 million miles (3.7 million kilometers) from Earth. #iotd 35d
High stakes AI research for NASA still possible during the era of Covid-19 | SETI Institute
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The SETI Institute High stakes #AI research for still possible during the era of #COVID19: – an AI research accelerator for space science – kicked off its 2020 program last week on a virtual platform with researchers and faculty from across the globe. 37d
Boom goes the star
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The SETI Institute The Cygnus Loop is a supernova remnant some 2,500 light-years away. It has many components: at the top is the Witch’s Broom (NGC 6960), and Pickering’s Triangle (no designation) lies down and to the lower left of the Broom. C: Naresh Singh 41d
Viewing the Red Planet
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This artist's concept shows an astronaut on Mars, as viewed through the window of a spacecraft.
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The SETI Institute This artist's concept shows an astronaut on #Mars, as viewed through the window of a spacecraft. is returning astronauts to the Moon and will test technology that will be useful for sending the first astronauts to the Red Planet. 48d
Evidence for Volcanic Craters on Saturn’s Moon Titan
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This image compares nested, multi-collapse craters on Titan (upper left), Mars (upper right), and two on Earth (below).Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn’s moon Titan by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive...
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The SETI Institute Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of #Titan by could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Senior Scientist Charles A. Wood and coauthor of . 50d
#ShutDownSTEM June 10 | SETI Institute
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The SETI Institute Tomorrow, a grassroots action, #ShutDownSTEM is taking place in scientific community. This is an opportunity for those of us who are not Black, and especially those of us who are white, to educate ourselves, listen to members of the Black community... 57d
Astronomen voorspellen bombardement van asteroïden en kometen in ander planetenstelsel
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(English follows Dutch)Het planetenstelsel rond de ster HR8799 lijkt opmerkelijk veel op ons eigen Zonnestelsel. Het heeft vier gasreuzen tussen twee asteroïdegordels. Onderzoekers van de RuG en SRON hebben deze gelijkenis gebruikt om de aanvoer te...
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The SETI Institute The planetary system around star #HR8799 is remarkably similar to our Solar System. A research team led by and used this similarity to model the delivery of materials by asteroids, comets and other minor bodies within the system. 67d
How Will we Receive Signals From Interstellar Probes, Like Starshot? - Universe Today
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A new study takes a look at the challenges of sending and receiving data over interstellar distances using tight-beam lasers
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The SETI Institute How Will We Receive Signals From Interstellar Probes, Like Starshot? - In a recent study, #Starshot Systems Director Dr. Kevin L.G. Parkin analyzes the possibility of using a laser to transmit data back to Earth. 69d
A tale of two oceans | Scienceline
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New Horizons's successor, a future probe to Pluto, could help look under Pluto's surface, at a subsurface ocean -- one that does not exist on Pluto's moon Charon
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The SETI Institute Scientists hypothesize that, like Pluto’s, Charon’s ocean would have been made of a mixture of water and other chemicals — in particular, ammonia. When Charon first formed, it would have been warm enough to be liquid. 88d
Four billion times better
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Four billion times better
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The SETI Institute This beautiful #POTW shows the #MilkyWay stretching over the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ’s Paranal Observatory. The star-studded Milky Way is so bright that on a dark night it can cast shadows of the people and objects beneath it! Credit: P. Horálek 99d
Astronomy: six planets (almost) in rythm - Communiqués de presse - UNIGE
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The SETI Institute An international team has discovered a six-planets system. In the planetary system #HD158259, all pairs of subsequent planets are close to the 3:2 resonance - the inner one completes about three orbits as the outer completes two. 102d
SETI Institute in the News – Media Roundup. April 1 – April 15, 2020. | SETI Institute
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The SETI Institute In the News: April 1–15 * Habitable-Zone Earth-Sized Planet Discovered in #Kepler Data * Life as We Don’t Know It * New search methods ramping up the hunt for alien intelligence * Democratizing Observational Astronomy All these plus and more: 105d
One Step Closer to Touching Asteroid Bennu
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Yesterday, OSIRIS-REx performed the first practice run of its sample collection sequence.
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The SETI Institute After the successful completion of its “Checkpoint” rehearsal, ’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft is one step closer to touching down on asteroid Bennu. NASA’s spacecraft performed the first practice run of its sample collection sequence 112d
Life as We Don’t Know It
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If we’re going to find extraterrestrials, we need to stop assuming they’ll think like humans
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The SETI Institute There’s something missing in our approach to the search for off-world intelligence. It’s time to move beyond the idea that extraterrestrials would think like us or use technologies like ours. Let’s also look for biosignatures. 118d