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Since white dwarfs have around the mass of the sun in a size comparable to the Earth, the matter in them is quite exotic. Astronomer's have speculated that these hypervelocity stars (moving at a few tenths of a percent the speed of lig
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ALMA Finds Most-Distant Oxygen in the Universe(public.nrao.edu)
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Does anyone know of erlang being used for scientfic computing? The ideas and "let it crash" scheme outlined in the article are really cool, and it made me think how it would actually be very useful for making robust data pipelines
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New technology offers to broaden vision for radio astronomy(public.nrao.edu)
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Powerful flare from star Proxima Centauri detected with ALMA(public.nrao.edu)
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chkservice – A tool for managing systemd units from the linux terminal(github.com)
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Shellen: interactive shellcoding environment to easily craft shellcodes(github.com)
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Very cool, this works uses a lot of observational data from different telescopes. The LBT [1] is, depending on how you measure, the largest optical telescope in the world (two 8 meter mirrors on the same mount versus 10.4 m GCT [2]). But on
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by autocorr 9y ago
I'm surprised that I didn't see hand fatigue mentioned, which is probably the number one reason cursive is actually useful, not that it is fast or "aided in cognitive development". Business scripts (like Spencerian in th
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GNU Lightning(gnu.org)
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Donald Kagan is amazing. The lectures to his Introduction to Greek History course at Yale are also on Youtube [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL023BCE5134243987
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I find this essay very curious, especially the strong view against the Bullet Cluster supporting the model of Dark Matter. This is the first time in professional astronomy I've seen this brought up. The details in the linked essay say
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That's very cool. I hope if it becomes semi-pernanent that they're able to keep the balloons from hitting the Arecibo Radio Observatory with radio frequency interference.
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From an observational astronomy point of view, perhaps the most interesting thing about the report is that by including the Virgo detector with both LIGO detectors, the uncertainty in the direction the gravitational wave event was reduced b
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Political polarization and media habits [2014](journalism.org)
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Pew Research put out a very good analysis of polling data on political polarization and media habits up to 2014 [1]. It generally finds the same top in WSJ, BBC, NPR, and PBS. Incidentally, I really enjoy looking at the different results yo
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ALMA telescope captures explosive star birth(almaobservatory.org)
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Cassini Reveals Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan(jpl.nasa.gov)
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Stunning close-up of Saturn’s moon, Pan, reveals a space empanada(sciencemag.org)
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Judging by the the first individual in the press release, Michael Gillon of the University of Liege, this may have something to do with their discovery published last year in Nature [1] on terrestrial planets with moderate surface temperatu
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This is a neat article, but I'd just like to point a common misconception that's made in the "How bright is the moonlight?" section. For a field that studies light, astronomers and physicists have made quite a few words
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A number of statistical and machine learning techniques have "gone mainstream" in astronomical research right now, so it has made a very exciting time. There is even a good textbook out now on the subject, Statistics, Data Mining
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Listen to Wikipedia(listen.hatnote.com)
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Unfortunately not, the largest individual objects are ~10 m in size and these images have a spatial resolution of 550 m, so they can't be resolved (at least in this orbit). The particles range between 1 cm to 10 m, but what's inte
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Interestingly this is the first issue of Nature Astronomy, I hadn't known until now that they were making a topical journal (similar to Nature Geoscience, etc.) Looking through the different abstracts in the issue, I have to be honest,
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The high-resolution image of Daphnis is pretty astonishing [1]. You can see the moon back-illuminating a thin silver lining around the crest of the trailing density wave. I missed it just looking at the thumbnail picture! Both of the moons
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by autocorr 10y ago
If you happen to be a quiet place it will likely be easier to concentrate without the rain sounds. "Easier" in this sense is a bit relative, however. An environment with fewer external distractions will lead to a selection effect
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I'm not the OP, but it is an important distinction, breath control (pranayama) is yogic. While I can't speak for other traditions that feature meditation, at least in Theravada Buddhism, training of the breath is an essential part
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> Max Buddha would mean sitting until death, with no dissatisfaction for lack of nutrients or air or self actualization. If "Max Buddha" is meant to be "non-reactivity taken it's logical extreme," then that'
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For those curious, this supernova is unfortunately too old to find the supernova remnant that was left behind. The most famous SNRs are Cas A [1] and M1/the Crab Nebula [2]. When the core of a massive star collapses, the resulting expl

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