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New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond The Brink
Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return. View the plunge in 360 video on YouTube “People often ask about this, and simulating these difficult-to-imagine processes…
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Using Deep Learning To Image The Earth’s Planetary Boundary Layer
Lincoln Laboratory researchers are using AI to get a better picture of the atmospheric layer closest to Earth’s surface. Their techniques could improve weather and drought prediction. Haley Wahl | MIT Lincoln LaboratoryMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/using-deep-learning-image-earths-planetary-boundary-layer-0418) Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface, the planetary boundary layer…
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Three MIT Alumni Graduate From NASA Astronaut Training
Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class. Sandi Miller | Department of PhysicsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-training-0307) “It’s been a wild ride,” says Christopher Williams PhD ’12, moments after he received his astronaut pin, signifying graduation into the NASA astronaut corps.…
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Skunk Works® Rolls Out X-59, NASA’s Newest X-Plane
PALMDALE, Calif., Jan. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) rolled out the X-59, a unique experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. The ceremony marked a significant milestone in Lockheed Martin’s and NASA’s decades-long journey to solve one of the most persistent challenges of supersonic flight – the…
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A Carbon-Lite Atmosphere Could Be A Sign Of Water And Life On Other Terrestrial Planets, MIT Study Finds
A low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres, which the James Webb Space Telescope can detect, could be a signature of habitability. Jennifer Chu | MIT Newshttps://news.mit.edu/2023/carbon-lite-atmosphere-life-terrestrial-planets-mit-study-1228 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…