by dankeelan | Mar 23, 2023 | Astronomy, Featured, Satellites
Astronomers are becoming increasingly concerned about light pollution in the night sky caused by the growing number of satellites, and also space junk, in low-Earth orbit. Sunlight reflecting off the surfaces of the satellites and junk negatively impacts the...
by dankeelan | Jul 21, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy
When most people picture an astronomer, they think of a lone person sitting on top of a mountain, peering into a massive telescope. Of course, that image is out of date: Digital cameras have long since done away with the need to actually look though a...
by dankeelan | Jun 30, 2022 | Astronomy, Satellites, Space
We’re about to have an entirely new perspective on the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first high-resolution color images on July 12. One of those images “is the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” said...
by dankeelan | Aug 31, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Featured
British researchers have identified 50 new planets using artificial intelligence, marking a technological breakthrough in astronomy. Astronomers and computer scientists from the University of Warwick built a machine learning algorithm to dig through old NASA...
by dankeelan | Aug 12, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Featured
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral galaxies in those images. This technique, in...
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