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NASA and ESA now agree that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses virtually no danger to Earth but retains a small — and carefully watched — chance of striking the Moon on 22 December 2032, a scenario that would be spectacular to observe yet could create short-term hazards for satellites and cis‑lunar...

Perched atop the windswept heights of Chile’s Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its ambitious survey of the night sky, capturing the universe in unprecedented detail with the world’s largest digital camera. In its very first ten hours of operation, the...

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I missed that unlike the JWST :iee:

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I have an old Acer computer that I would like to run for 5 different things in Windows XP. My biggest interest is shown in the image. It's a telescope mirror analysis program which is called FigureXP. I have an XP install disk on the way. Most of the time the computer will not be on and I can...

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At Mix 11 Link Removed from Microsoft Research showed a demo of Worldwide Telescope using Kinect as a controller. I stopped by during Mix 11 to get more details about what it does, how it works, and when we'll be able to play with this ourselves. Link Removed More...

A few weeks ago Microsoft Research held an event on Microsoft Campus called TechFest. We show a lot of new projects and prototypes from our labs but we keep a lot of stuff behind closed doors. Many of you have seen what the enthusiast community has been doing with Kinect – there is an...

LOS ANGELES – NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects. Link Removed due to 404 Error Many of the targets in the celestial...

Gliese 581g - Scientists Find What May Be The First Truly Habitable Exoplanet The researchers estimate that the average surface temperature of the planet is between -24 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-31 to -12 degrees Celsius). Actual temperatures would range from blazing hot on the side facing...

So when relaxing from Astronomy, I did a DualBoot Windows 7 and Ubuntu, I did post some pictures of my setup in General Computing, and I also listen to Japanese music and rate these songs on animenfo radio and chat there, my nickname on animenfo radio is Rukasuzu. I chat on Ubuntu Irc...

Windows 7 and Ubuntu Grub2 Dual Boot, here are some screen shots. Windows 7 The picture of the moon Is mine, Meade ETX LS 6' ACF telescope and Canon EOS Rebel XS, I use it as a background on my desktop on Windows 7 Link Removed due to 404 Error Here is Ubuntu I have not yet done anything to...

I'm going UP North Thursday and will be not available for two weeks, maybe one week. I'm gonna try to take pictures of the stars and hopefully they will come out correctly. I bought a Canon Rebel XS and the adapters for my telescope Meade ETX LS ACF I already figured out how to take exposure as...

A planet outside of our solar system, said to be the first ever directly photographed by telescopes on Earth, has been officially confirmed to be orbiting a sun-like star, according to follow-up observations. The alien planet is eight times the mass of Jupiter and orbits at an unusually great...

MS now have their version of Googles star map. For further details check out the site: Link Removed due to 404 Error Thought I'd post the min' req's: For PC: Microsoft® XP SP2 (minimum), Windows® Vista® (recommended) PC with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 gigahertz (GHz) or...