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JWST and the sorites paradox
Where does beauty end and ugliness begin? Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, ergodicity, James Webb Space Telescope, modus ponens, sorites paradox
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Ways of seeing
A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving. Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, cryo-electron microscopy, Foldscope, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Large Hadron Collider, Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment, SESAME, Thirty Meter Telescope, Udaipur Solar Observatory
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The pitfalls of thinking that ASTROSAT will be ‘India’s Hubble’
The Hubble Space Telescope needs no introduction. It’s become well known for its stunning images of nebulae and star-fields, and it wouldn’t be amiss to say the telescope has even become synonymous with images of strange beauty often from distant cosmic … Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Patrick McCray, Ritchey-Chrétien design, X-ray astronomy
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Money for science
Spending money on science has been tied to evaluating the value of spin-offs, assessing the link between technological advancement and GDP, and dissecting the metrics of productivity, but the debate won’t ever settle no matter how convincingly each time it is … Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, GDP, James Webb Space Telescope, productivity, public spending for science, Yuri Milner
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Why you should care about the New Horizons probe nearing Pluto
The Wire May 29, 2015 https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/603533857523044352 Alex Parker is a planetary astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute, Texas, and he posted his tweet just as I started writing this piece. And not just for Parker – it’s an exciting time for everyone, an … Continue reading
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Tagged Charon, James Webb Space Telescope, Kuiper Belt, NASA New Horizons, Pluto, protoplanetary disk
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Looking for life? Look for pollution.
Four-thousand years on Earth and we’ve a lot of dirt to show for it. Why would an advanced alien civilization be any different? That’s the motivation that three astrophysicists from Harvard University have used to determine that powerful telescopes could look for signs … Continue reading
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Tagged absorption spectroscopy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, James Webb Space Telescope, tetrafluoromethane, trichlorofluoromethane
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