A space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR's search for extraterrestrial life

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...
Lookout Local Santa Cruz

UCSC astronomy Ph.D. survived war and helped build Kosovo’s first observatory. Now she’s bringing the cosmos to Bay Area classrooms.

After surviving the Kosovo War and witnessing her first solar eclipse as a child, UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. student ...

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life

Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...
The Journal

‘Silent Sky’ by Sunflower Troupe to illuminate Henrietta Leavitt’s legacy in astronomy

The Sunflower Troupe is preparing to present “Silent Sky” at the Sunflower Theatre starting at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 7. The play, written by Lauren Gunderson, highlights the “remarkable” story of ...
GitHub

BUG: Import intellisense/autocomplete recognizes a new Astro component, but only once

If I make a new Astro component, autocomplete will pick up the new component and let me import it like usual. However, after I import that new component, if I make any more components, it won't pick ...
Bleeping Computer

Chinese hackers abuse geo-mapping tool for year-long persistence

Chinese state hackers remained undetected in a target environment for more than a year by turning a component in the ArcGIS geo-mapping tool into a web shell. The ArcGIS geographic information system ...
Space.com

Citizen scientists just discovered the most powerful 'odd radio circle' twins in space we've ever seen

The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across. Citizen scientists have found several new "odd radio circles<" or ORCs, in distant, ...
Live Science

Astronomers spot the most powerful and distant 'odd radio circle' ever seen

With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have spotted the most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) yet. The discovery could give astronomers a better understanding of how these unusual objects — ...
Space.com

Strange 'puffy' alien world breaks every rule for how planets should behave

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on? If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: Windows 11 Media Creation Tool broken on Windows 10 PCs

Microsoft says the latest version of the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) no longer works correctly on Windows 10 22H2 computers. The Windows 11 MCT is a free utility that downloads the latest ...
GitHub

Razer Synapse Download Tool

Razer Synapse centralizes all your Razer device settings in one place — configure lighting, macros, performance, etc. Razer Synapse is an advanced configuration utility for Windows that manages Razer ...