Новости за 31.12.2023

Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 01, 2024 - While many holiday traditions involve feasts of turkey, soba noodles, latkes or Pan de Pascua, this year, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is bringing you a holiday chicken. The so-called Running Chicken Nebula, home to young stars in the making, is revealed in spectacular detail in this 1.5-billion-pixel image captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO's Paranal site in Chile.

This vast stellar nursery is located in the constellation Centaurus (the Centaur)... Читать дальше...

Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 01, 2024 - New theoretical analysis places the likelihood of massive neutron stars hiding cores of deconfined quark matter between 80 and 90 percent. The result was reached through massive supercomputer runs utilizing Bayesian statistical inference.

Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities reached in our present-day Universe, with as much as two solar masses of matter compressed inside a sphere of 25 km in diameter. These astrophysical objects can indeed be thought of as giant atomic nuclei... Читать дальше...

Paris (ESA) Jan 01, 2024 - This Hubble Picture of the Week features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side of the image is NGC 1356; the two apparently smaller spiral galaxies flanking it are LEDA 467699 (above it) and LEDA 95415 (very close at its left) respectively; and finally, IC 1947 sits along the left side of the image.

This image is a really interesting example of how challenging it can be to tell whether two galaxies are actually close together... Читать дальше...

New York (AFP) Dec 24, 2023 - Artists under siege by artificial intelligence (AI) that studies their work, then replicates their styles, have teamed with university researchers to stymy such copycat activity.

US illustrator Paloma McClain went into defense mode after learning that several AI models had been "trained" using her art, with no credit or compensation sent her way.

Washington (AFP) Dec 27, 2023 - The New York Times sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft in a US court on Wednesday, alleging that the companies' powerful AI models used millions of articles for training without permission.

Through their AI chatbots, the companies "seek to free-ride on The Times' massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment," the lawsuit said.

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 28, 2023
Less than three hours after the launch of a mysterious space plane atop a Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX launched a second launch Thursday night, at 11:01 p.m. EST, deploying its latest batch of Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. The secretive space plane went into orbit earlier in the evening via a Falcon Heavy rocket as part of a payload that also includes scores of livin

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 01, 2024
KULR Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE American: KULR), a pioneer in thermal management and battery safety solutions, has recently marked a significant milestone in the space exploration sector. The company announced receiving an initial purchase order from one of the world's most prominent privately held space exploration companies. This order is focused on enhancing battery safety testing solutions

London, UK (SPX) Dec 31, 2023
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a prominent player in the global satellite communications arena, has announced a significant development in collaboration with Safran Data Systems. The two companies are joining forces to introduce InRange, a novel solution designed to provide real-time telemetry data for launch missions. This innovative system promises to revolutionize how launch providers and space

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 01, 2024
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, has successfully launched three experimental satellites into space. The launch occurred on Saturday morning, marking another milestone in the development of space-based internet technologies. These satellites, part of the Space-based Internet Technology Demonstrator series, were developed by the China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing.

Beijing (XNA) Dec 27, 2023
Responding to media inquiries about United States Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns' recent claim that Beijing has no plan to cooperate with the US in lunar exploration, a spokesperson for the China National Space Administration denied the allegation, stating the real obstacle is the barriers Washington has erected. Burns' comment stemmed from a US complaint that the Chinese space agency

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 01, 2024
Above: Space Development Corp., which designs and develops adaptable, space-based microgravity platforms for government and commercial customers, has announced the successful test of its proprietary propulsion control system for its Prometheus free-flying orbital mission by Q4 2024. All tests performed as expected. The scalable Prometheus will include three regulated voltage rails and up t

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 01, 2024
A new era in space observation will begin for Germany and Europe in 2024. The German Experimental Space Surveillance and Tracking Radar (GESTRA), developed and built by the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR) on behalf of the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), began final testing in December

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 31, 2023
The VIPER team is hard at work building the flight vehicle that will be going to the surface of the Moon this time next year! In fact, we're about halfway through the build, and you can interactively watch the process and hear from experts on the team, in various livestreams throughout the process. All the science instrument teams have delivered their payloads to the VIPER Systems Integrat

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 31, 2023
Earth planning date: Friday, December 22, 2023: Many of us over the holidays like to celebrate with friends and family over a lengthy meal, looking back over the year that has been, and forward to the year to come. Curiosity's holiday plans could be thought of as similar, albeit instead of food, with a steady diet of science. The eleven (!) sol holiday plan is built like a finely-constructed gou

Houston TX (SPX) Dec 31, 2023
As 2023 comes to a close, the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory wraps up a banner year supporting research and technology development (R and D) in low Earth orbit (LEO). The ISS National Lab and NASA work in unison to utilize the orbiting outpost to its fullest capacity, and the achievements from this year demonstrate the increasing demand for access to space for R and D amon

West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 31, 2023
The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India's Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA's Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will target the Moon.

Boston MA (SPX) Jan 01, 2024
Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers' best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence, rather than the presence, of a chemical feature in their atmospheres. The researchers propose that if a terrestrial planet has substantially less carbon dioxide in its atmosphere compared to other planets in th