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We're joined by Andrew Pontzen, professor of cosmology at University College London. In his new book, The Universe in a Box, he explains how physicists model the universe’s most exotic phenomena.
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On this episode we're joined by renowned astronomer and science communicator Philip Plait to discuss his new book Under Alien Skies. He also hosts 2 events at Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City this weekend.
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Space Dynamics Laboratory built the deep-set radio now being used to help NASA learn about a type of orbit that allows for good communication with less energy.
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The moon will block the view of Mars for about an hour in an event called a "lunar occultation." The event will be visible to the naked eye.
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During September, Jupiter will reach opposition on the 26th. It will be closer to the Earth since 1963 and won’t be this close again until 2129.
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The night sky and its constellations have guided sailors and traveler since time immemorial. Similar principles are used to identify a satellite’s position through the use of a camera-like instrument called a star tracker. The Paris-based space instrumentation company, Sodern, displayed their star tracker at USU's 36th annual Small Sat conference.
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Rapidly improving technology is making access to outer space cheaper and more accessible — even high school kids have satellites in space. But it's also increasing deeper space explorations to other planets.
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STP-H6-SSIVP was attached to the International Space Station from 2019-2022 and was designed to test supercomputing in space. Evan Gretok says his work was to use artificial intelligence to train the satellite to autonomously identify and classify satellite imagery.
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On April 16, 2022, Koichi Itagaki, an amateur astronomer in Japan, discovered a Supernova in a galaxy that is 63 million light years away.
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The Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University recently delivered a critical subsystem to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab for their Nancy Grace Roman telescope.