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16 June 2020 | State House

President Danny Faure chaired another consultative session with key representatives of government and private sector at State House this morning. This sixth session follows a series of collaborative meetings on the economic response to COVID-19.

During the session, the Governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles, Ms Caroline Abel, shared feedback on the points raised in the last meeting following her discussions with representatives of the private sector and the Board of the Central Bank of Seychelles.

Members also reviewed the ongoing implementation of the Financial Assistance for Job Retention programme (FA4JR) that has been extended to December 2020.

Representatives of the private sector expressed their concerns regarding alternative schemes for small and medium sized businesses who are also in need of financial assistance and urged the Government to consider these concerns.

Members present also commented on the proposed establishment of the Seychelles Employee Transition Scheme (SETS) to support those that will be made redundant as a result of the economic impacts of COVID-19. The representatives requested a more in-depth explanation of the companys modality and structure to help them to better understand its objectives.

The next consultative session will be held next Tuesday 23 June 2020.

Present for the meeting at State House was the Minister for Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine, Mr Didier Dogley, Minister for Finance, Trade, Investment and Economic Planning, Mr Maurice Loustau-Lalanne, Minister for Employment, Immigration and Civil Status, Mrs Miriam Telemaque, the Attorney General, Mr Frank Ally, the Special Advisor for Employment, Ms Veronique Bresson, the Chairperson of SCCI, Mr Oliver Bastienne, the Secretary-General of SFWU, Mr Antoine, the Executive Secretary of GETUS, Mrs Tina Hoarau, the Chairperson of SHTA, Mrs Sybille Cardon, the Vice-Chairperson of SHTA, Mr Allen Mason, Secretary General SCCI, Mrs Iouana Pillay, the Chief Policy Analyst for Department of Employment, Ms Susan Morel, Director General for Employment Promotion, Mrs Letimie Dookley and representative of the La Digue Business Association, Mr Jose St Ange.

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17 June 2020 | Cabinet Business

President Danny Faure chaired a scheduled meeting of the Cabinet today, Wednesday 17th June at which a number of legal and policy memoranda were considered.

Cabinet approved amendments to the Government Exchange Policy for Houses and Land.

Cabinet approved for the undertaking of emergency coastal restoration and rehabilitation works along the 150 metres shoreline of Amitie, Anse Kerlan, Praslin.

Cabinet approved amendments to the Companies (Amendment of Seventh Schedule) Order, 2020.

Cabinet also approved the Companies (Prescribed Forms) Regulations, 2020.

Cabinet approved for the gazetting of the Authorisation and Publication Bill, 2020.

Cabinet approved the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill, 2020.

Cabinet also approved the Broadcasting and Telecommunications (Records of Customers of Prepaid Mobile Services by Operators of Public Land Mobile Network) Regulations, 2009.

Cabinet approved for the Ministry of Environment Energy and Climate Change and the City of Victoria via the Office of the Mayor, to enter into an agreement with the Syndicat Interdpartemental Pour lAssainissement de lAgglomration Parisienne (SIAAP) and the ECOGLOBAL Foundation Tanzania for the treatment of Victoria waste water.

Cabinet also approved for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in Science and Technology between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the Government of the Republic of Seychelles.

Cabinet was briefed on a number of innovative projects conceptualized by NISTI that will prove beneficial in tackling the effects of COVID-19 on the country.

Cabinet approved the setting up of the National Structure of the African Peer Review (APRM) mechanism for the Republic of Seychelles.

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* Please note that due to government social distancing, rules and regulations may apply to excursions on boats and may be limited to four people per boat. These regulations are subject to change without prior notice. It is also currently prohibited to visit any other islands in the Seychelles based on new government rules due to COVID-19. Please contact the resort for ongoing updates to government policy.

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Empty streets in Cape Town, Africa during the lockdown from COVID-19. The economic damage from the pandemic has been widespread, with tourism, hospitality and aviation grinding to a halt in nearly all of the African countries.

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Africas response to the coronavirus pandemic was quicker and more comprehensive than any other region globally. South Africa was one of the speediest, closing down its borders and putting residents into physical lockdown even before it announced its first death from COVID-19.

The pace at which African leaders acted undoubtedly served populations well. Only 100,000 infections were recorded over the first 100 days, among a population of more than $1.2 billion.

Since May, nations have been lifting restrictions in order to resume economic activity. Case numbers have been accelerating, with more than 100,000 new cases recorded in less than 20 days.

As COVID-19 spreads, the majority of African countries have no option but to prioritize economic needs over the health implications of the virus; the limited fiscal headroom of most African governments doesnt enable them to offer the same sort of safety nets that have been made available in the United States, U.K., Europe and elsewhere.

As with Europe, not all African nations have been equally affected by the virus. Mauritius is worthy of note. As of June 15, with only two active cases, restrictions have been lifted and the nations famous white sandy beaches and blue lagoons are once again open to the public; but the countrys borders remain closed. Mauritius is among five nations where levels of testing are the highest per capita on the continent. The others are South Africa, Djibouti, Seychelles and Cabo Verde. African countries have more than tripled the number of total tests completed from around 785,000 in May to over 2.3 million in June. Maintaining or increasing this momentum may well be crucial for avoiding a second wave.

While there has been a lot of speculation as to whether relatively low infection rates in Africa are the result of demographics, prior experience fighting infectious disease or simply low levels of testing and reporting, what appears to matter most are the actions of governments to encourage their citizens to alter their behavior and to avoid risky situations so as to reduce transmission levels.

The majority of fatalities more than 70% have occurred in only five nations, namely Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan, but the economic damage has been far more widespread, with tourism, hospitality and aviation grinding to a halt in nearly all nations. Other sectors such as mining, fast-moving consumer goods and agribusiness were also hit due to trade disruptions and government restrictions. Car sales have collapsed, hitting automotive sectors in South Africa and Morocco particularly hard. Among notable victims is Kenyas horticulture sector, deprived of export markets to Europe because of international travel restrictions. Small traders, the backbone of many economies, have not been spared, with incomes falling by 80% since the introduction of quarantine measures in many cases. Meanwhile, acute financial market stress, commodity price volatility and currency weakness has dramatically reduced governments revenues.

The most crucial aspect of the continents economic recovery will undoubtedly be fiscal policy support, a field in which some African heads of states are showing deftness and resolve. Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to cut interest rates, followed by Kenya, where the Central Bank has worked with commercial banks to provide relief to individual borrowers as well as corporate borrowers.

COVID-19 Response Plans in Sub-Saharan Africa

Across Africa, 28 countries have implemented tax relief measures, and 16 have adapted their regulations to encourage mobile money transactions. In Togo, the government introduced Novissi, a temporary digital cash transfer program that sent funds to citizens through mobile money. According to Anit Mukherjee, policy fellow at the Center for Global Development and co-author of the centers recent report on state-powered digital payment schemes, as of mid-April, over 1.1 million Togolese citizens 13% of the population had registered for Novissi with around 450,000 people (65% of which were women) proving eligible beneficiaries and receiving up to 35% of the minimum wage.

In the medium term, African markets must maintain fiscal deficits at sustainable levels while introducing measures to stimulate growth. Tough choices lie ahead for African leaders who must balance the impetus for self-reliance in food and essential supplies, with the need to increase regional and continental trade and integration.

Without greater regional trade, efforts to restore growth on the continent will be anaemic. Set to start on July 1, 2020, but postponed to January 2021, the commencement of trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area will be a welcome stimulus for Africas post-coronavirus recovery.

Globally, we have seen welcome levels of support from traditional lenders such as the IMF, the World Bank, G-20 finance ministers and non-concessional lenders, particularly China providing both medical assistance, financial stimulus and debt relief. The G-20 group of the wealthiest countries in the world, including China, have granted 40 African nations a debt repayment holiday up to the end of 2020, and possibly longer. That debt is estimated at $20 billion in total, still leaving more than $56 billion to pay, according to Beijing-based consultancy Development Reimagined.

Choosing which industries to support and which to abandon in an effort to structurally transform an economy will be a hallmark of leadership in the coming months. Administrations will want to closely review the role of their parastatals and state-owned enterprises. Some SOEs will be called on to assume ownership of ailing private companies, while others will be quietly merged or abandoned.

The coronavirus pandemic has redefined risk and opportunity on the continent. After years of creeping liberalization, the state is now being challenged to step in as employer of last resort, insurer of last resort and possibly even shareholder of last resort, in areas where the market will not assume the risk. Judging what is viable and acceptable, and at what point state intervention crowds out private enterprise, is a debate that will occupy African societies over the next five years and beyond.

The continent that recorded the greatest increase in regulatory reforms since 2013 now looks set to witness an even greater wave of regulation. What emerges will be determined by the quality of dialogue between government and civil society and the administrative capacity of governments.

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Seychelles-based exchanges led the world in cross-border Bitcoin (BTC) transactions in 2019. What Switzerland is to the world of watchmaking, Seychelles is to the world of crypto exchanges.

The small island nation with a total population of less than 100,000, presents a perfect playground for the enterprises that are looking for a place that allows them to optimize their tax liabilities with regulators who operate with a light touch.

The report by Crystal Blockchain examined flows of Bitcoin between exchanges around the world. Seychelles exchanges led in terms of both funds sent and received.

International Flow of Bitcoins. Source. Crystal

It should be noted that the report considers Binance (BNB) to be a Seychelles exchange. In 2019, 12 local exchanges received $15.83 billion worth BTC from foreign exchanges and sent $20.83 billion worth of BTC. The 25 U.S.-based exchanges took the silver with $18 billion total cross-border turnover.

The most active international trade routes are Seychelles EU, Seychelles US, and Seychelles South Korea, each connection producing volumes in excess of $2 billion.

As regulators around the world move to tighten control over digital assets, it will be interesting to watch what effect it will have on the world of crypto exchanges. Whether more trading will migrate to the jurisdictions that offer better investor protections or perhaps, the opposite happening as a form of protest against the governments overreach.

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This report offers past, present as well as future analysis and estimates for the Nootropics market. The market estimates that are provided in the report are calculated through an exhaustive research methodology. The research methodology that is adopted involves multiple channels of research, chiefly primary interviews, secondary research and subject matter expert advice. The market estimates are calculated on the basis of the degree of impact of the current market dynamics along with various economic, social and political factors on the Nootropics market. Both positive as well as negative changes to the market are taken into consideration for the market estimates.

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The competitive landscape and company profile chapters of the market report are dedicated to the major players in the Nootropics market. An evaluation of these market players through their product benchmarking, key developments and financial statements sheds a light into the overall market evaluation. The company profile section also includes a SWOT analysis (top three companies) of these players. In addition, the companies that are provided in this section can be customized according to the clients requirements.

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1.1 Overview of the Market1.2 Scope of Report1.3 Assumptions

2 Executive Summary

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3.1 Data Mining3.2 Validation3.3 Primary Interviews3.4 List of Data Sources

4 Nootropics Market Outlook

4.1 Overview4.2 Market Dynamics4.2.1 Drivers4.2.2 Restraints4.2.3 Opportunities4.3 Porters Five Force Model4.4 Value Chain Analysis

5 Nootropics Market, By Deployment Model

5.1 Overview

6 Nootropics Market, By Solution

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7 Nootropics Market, By Vertical

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8 Nootropics Market, By Geography

8.1 Overview8.2 North America8.2.1 U.S.8.2.2 Canada8.2.3 Mexico8.3 Europe8.3.1 Germany8.3.2 U.K.8.3.3 France8.3.4 Rest of Europe8.4 Asia Pacific8.4.1 China8.4.2 Japan8.4.3 India8.4.4 Rest of Asia Pacific8.5 Rest of the World8.5.1 Latin America8.5.2 Middle East

9 Nootropics Market Competitive Landscape

9.1 Overview9.2 Company Market Ranking9.3 Key Development Strategies

10 Company Profiles

10.1.1 Overview10.1.2 Financial Performance10.1.3 Product Outlook10.1.4 Key Developments

11 Appendix

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Key players in global Face and Voice Biometrics market include:,3M Cogent (USA),NEC Corporation of America (USA),AcSys Biometrics Corp. (Canada),AGNITiO S.L. (Spain),Cognitec Systems GmbH (Germany),Nuance Communications, Inc. (USA),Eurotech S.P.A (Italy),Ivrnet Inc. (Canada),Kimaldi Electronics, S.L. (Spain),National Security Resources (USA),Neurotechnology (Lithuania),PSP Security Co. Ltd (Hong Kong),SAFRAN Group (France),Sensible Vision (USA),Sensory, Inc. (USA),Suprema, Inc. (Korea),VoiceTrust eServices, Inc. (Canada),VoiceVault, Inc. (USA

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Nora Ayanian, Associate Professor, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair, Computer Science, University of Southern California; Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Center for Intelligent Environments, University of Southern California; David Berry, CEO, Integral Health; General Partner, Flagship Pioneering; Ed Boyden, Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, MIT; Yet-Ming Chiang, Kyocera Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT; James Collins, Termeer Professor, MIT; John Dabiri, Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech; Gozde Durmus, Assistant Professor, Stanford University; Oren Etzioni, CEO, Allen Institute for AI, Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington; David Fattal, Founder and CEO, Leia Inc.; Chelsea Finn, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; Javier Garcia Martinez, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Alicante, Spain; President-elect, IUPAC; Julia Greer, Mettler Professor of Materials, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering, Caltech; Zhen Gu, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Ilan Gur, Founder and CEO, Activate; Ayanna Howard, Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Professor and Chair, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech; Hao Li, CEO, Pinscreen, Associate Professor, University of Southern California; Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies; Nicole Paulk, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Carmichael Roberts, Founder, Material Impact; John Rogers, Simpson/Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University; Rachel Sheinbein, Venture Partner, Lemnos; Cyrus Wadia, Head of Sustainable Product, Amazon; Jennifer West, Fitzpatrick Family Professor of Engineering, Duke University; Jackie Ying, A*STAR Senior Fellow, NanoBio Lab; Ben Zhao, Neubauer Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation Breakthrough Suggests Route To Therapies for Arthritis, Heart Failure – Technology Networks

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A new paper provides timely evidence to explain the therapeutic benefits of vagal nerve stimulation(VNS), a nervous system-modifying treatment that proponents say could offer relief to patients with lupus, arthritis and even heart failure.

Its a prospect that sounds too good to be true. One 20-minute outpatient surgery could lead to relief from epilepsy, depression, arthritis, heart failure and lupus. Thats the ultimate promise of VNSn, a technique that has accrued interest from enthusiastic startups and major biopharma firms alike.

Importantly, it has also accrued some convincing evidence to back up at least some of its claims VNS has been approved by the FDA as a therapy for treatment-resistant depression and epilepsy. As of 2015, 100,000 people worldwide had received a VNS implant.

But large gaps remain in our understanding of how VNS works. One of those gaps has now been plugged with the publication of a paper investigating how a technique called anodal block works to allow targeted stimulation during VNS. The research team behind the paper, led by Dr Stavros Zanos, have published their work in Scientific Reports.

VNS involves implanting electrodes on the vagal nerve near the carotid artery in the neck. The vagal nerve is in charge of routing signals between the brain and the peripheral organs. As Zanos, an assistant professor in the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, explains, this means it is a uniquely attractive target for neurotechnology. This is primarily the nerve that the brain uses to convey information to the organs and change the way they function. And also, it's the main nerve through which information about the function of the organs is conveyed back into the brain. Because it's such an important nerve for ongoing physiology, it's a very attractive target for neuromodulation, says Zanos.

During VNS implantation, a pair of electrodes is attached to the vagus nerve. Depending on the electrode polarity, signals to or from the brain are stimulated or blocked when the VNS device is activated.

But the nervous system is a little more complicated than a two-lane highway. Nerve fibers sending signals in different directions exist within these larger bundles. Getting the level of stimulation right to ensure therapeutic benefit is of central importance, but is currently done quite crudely, Zanos tells me: The way VNS is done clinically is by increasing intensity. The healthcare provider changes some parameters, most notably the intensity, until the patient starts getting some side effects. Typically, those side effects have to do with contraction of the laryngeal muscles, so it causes coughing, and voice hoarseness.

This is far from optimal, and Zanos says that fine-tuning the approach is a priority. If we wanted to deliver an individualized therapy, we would have to know exactly how we're affecting the physiology of a specific individual, he says.

Anodal block is a central tenet of the current surgical procedure. The precise placement of the VNS electrodes can limit nerve conduction in the fibers under the positively charged anode back in the simplified highway example, this is the equivalent of setting up a tollbooth for traffic going in one direction the flow is slowed, if not stopped. But evidence that anodal block works this way in practice was sorely lacking from the wider literature. Would it be possible to find a biomarker, Zanos wondered, that could show that anodal block works as intended?Zanos and his team investigated this possibility by carrying out experiments with rats. Firstly, they needed to see what would happen when electrical impulses up and down the vagus highway were stopped entirely. The rodents had VNS devices implanted, and then had their vagus nerve cut either above or below the implant completely ending any vagus electrical stimulation towards the brain or the peripheral organs, respectively.

Zanos team noticed a consistent marker. Rats with intact vagus nerves showed a heavy reduction in their breathing and heart rates. When the same rats had their vagus nerve severed near the brain, the rats breathing rates returned to normal whilst the heart rate remained low. Severing the nerve nearer to the body had the opposite effect.

This told Zanos team that:

With these easy-to-measure markers identified, the next step was to work out whether breathing and heart rate were consistently affected by anodal block.The theories behind anodal block suggested that if the anode polarity was towards the brain, then the VNS devices effects on breathing rate would be reduced. Anode polarity facing the body would impair the effects on heart rate.

Whilst the same drastic changes seen in the first experiment were not present the rats in this group had intact vagus nerves, so signals still traveled both ways Zanos noted that their results supported the theories around anode block in a large number of the rats studied.

Importantly, these results werent consistent across all the rats studied. Three rats actually showed reversed effects. This paradox, says Zanos, is likely to be explained by the stimulation of the nearby aortic depressor nerve by the VNS. This unintended stimulation hasnt proved an issue in human VNS studies, so is likely to be a quirk only seen in certain rodents.

Even if the inconsistent data has an explanation, the study still highlights that the mechanisms behind VNS would be much easier to understand if those individual types of nerve fiber could be better identified. Zanos says this will be the target of an upcoming paper that should advance understanding in the area further. In the upcoming paper, says Stavros, We look at even finer relationships between some of these biomarkers; heart rate, breathing rate, but also additional biomarkers with the activation of specific fiber types.

Zanos suggests his teams data supports the idea that anodal block can make VNS more directional and targeted. But there is obviously more research to be done to support our understanding of why VNS works. This, says Zanos, could lead to the technique meeting its potential sooner than we might think. He highlights two US-based companies, LivaNova and Set Point Medical, who are investigating VNS for heart failure and rheumatoid arthritis respectively. My guess is that in the next two or three years at least one of these [companies], based on what I what I see in preliminary reports, will be successful, and VNS will be part of the therapeutic options for physicians for these two diseases.

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Read Only Memories: Neurodiver Gets PS4, Xbox One, And PC Release Window – Noisy Pixel

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Midboss revealed their new mystery adventureRead Only Memories: Neurodiver, now coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Q1 2021 alongside the already announced PC and Mac versions.

Read Only Memories: Neurodiverhas players return to the cyberpunk world of2064: Read Only Memories. The game will feature a cast of recognizable characters including Jess Meas, Tomcat, and Lexi Rivers. However, this title introduces new characters, locations, and gameplay mechanics for players to discover.

A new ability inRead Only Memories: Neurodiverwill give players the ability to dive into and change other characters memories. The game will also feature updated art and a variety of new unsolved cases to crack and multiple endings.

Read Only Memories: Neurodiverhas players assume the role of ES88, a telepath employed by a powerful organization called MINERVA, which specializes in neurotechnology and extrasensory projection phenomena. After a procedure, giving ES88 the ability to dive into others memories, she had to give up her own memories in exchange. A rogue Esper is on the loose and wreaking havoc through the streets. Players will need to do what they can to track down this rogue and access her memories.

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Are you doingan REU thissummer? Were you working onanastro research project during this past school year? If you, too, have been working on a project that you want to share,we want to hear from you!Think youre up to the challenge of describing your research carefully and clearly to a broad audience, in only one paragraph? Then send us a summary of it!

You can share what youre doing by clickinghereand using the form provided to submit a brief (fewer than 200 words) write-up of your work. The target audience is one familiar with astrophysics but not necessarily your specific subfield, so write clearly and try to avoid jargon. Feel free to also include either a visual regarding your research or else a photo of yourself.

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Ellie White is a second-year undergraduate studying Physics at Marshall University, and plans to pursue a career in radio astronomy. She conducted this research as part of an Independent Study course at MU in collaboration with experts at the Green Bank Observatory.

The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is an engineering marvel. Weighing in at 17 million pounds with a 100-meter by 110-meter dish, it is the largest fully-steerable telescope on the planet. One of the challenges for large, ground-based telescopes like the GBT is achieving pointing accuracy that is good enough for observing at the high end of the telescopes 0.1 116 GHz range. As the frequency at which the telescope is observing increases, the beam size (or pixel size) gets smaller, meaning the pointing accuracy must be very high within just a few arcseconds for the GBT. The pointing performance of the GBT is degraded by factors such as the telescopes flexure due to gravity; when the telescope tilts to different elevations, it sags due to the Earths gravitational pull, which causes the pointing direction to change slightly. Similarly, thermal expansion and contraction can cause deflections to the telescopes line of sight, as can tilt and bumpiness in the azimuth track (the circular track that the telescope rotates on with its 16 wheels), as well as small misalignments and offset errors within the structure itself. The GBTs pointing model corrects for these effects by including terms for structural misalignments, as well as terms incorporating metrology data from the GBTs structural temperature sensors, and from logs of measurements of the tracks surface.

In our project, we found that when the pointing model is applied with no calibrations, the blind nighttime pointing error RMS (root mean squared, which is a statistical measure obtained by taking the square root of the average squared value of your data points) was a mere 9 arcseconds, which is about 5 thousandths the diameter of the full moon). When calibrations are applied, the RMS pointing error is a fraction of this observers will see pointing accuracy on the order of 2-3 arcseconds, though further analysis is needed to determine a more exact value. Despite the GBTs asymmetrical design, which makes it more challenging to correct for pointing errors, our results show that the telescope achieves excellent blind pointing performance.

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#BlackInAstro: Black Representation in Astro/Physics and the Impact of Discrimination – Astrobites

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This post is part of our series #BlackInAstro. For our cornerstone post, see here. In this installment, we look at the experience of Black folks in STEM in the United States. While we chose to focus on the U.S. here, it is important to note that many other countries have a similarly stark landscape (for example, see this thread on the underrepresentation of Black physicists in the U.K.).

Black students and researchers are drastically underrepresented in physics and astronomy. In this post, we break down some of the statistics about the representation of Black students in academia, and summarize some of the existing research on the experiences of Black students and researchers in STEM.

We think it is particularly important to be familiar with research on the experience of marginalised groups in STEM. Just like with astronomy papers, understanding social science research papers can be difficult at first, but we at Astrobites are here to help get you started.

There is a severe lack of representation of Black students in STEM fields and careers in the United States. This disproportionate distribution begins before the university level. A 2015 nationwide school survey by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) found that 27% of Black students took high school physics, compared to 29% of Hispanic, 43% of white and 57% of Asian students. This discrepancy in physics enrollment is tied in part to socioeconomic status, which is often racialized due to historical patterns of oppression. As a result, 44% of Black students attend schools considered worse off (as judged by their teachers), while 22% attend well off schools. This is in stark contrast with those numbers for white students, with 23% attending worse off schools and 40% attending better off schools. Schools considered worse off saw an 11% lower rate of enrollment in physics programs compared to better off schools.

The issue of underrepresentation is further worsened at the university level. A 2015 study found that 7% of students enrolled in public college were Black, despite making up 15% of the college-age population (64% of students were white, despite making up 54% of the college-aged population). In the nations top universities, the proportion of Black students varies wildly: for example, in 2020, Brown Universitys student body consisted of 6.3% Black students, compared to Harvards 13.7%.

While those statistics encompass all subjects studied at University, things look worse in physics. A major study by the AIP found that in 2017, only 3% of undergraduate Physics degrees were awarded to Black students. This is a significantly lower fraction than even most other STEM fields. While this represents an increase in total degrees awarded compared to historical data, the fraction of Black students graduating with Physics degrees has actually dropped, down from 4.5% in 1995. The number of Bachelors degrees in Physics awarded to Black students increased by only 4% between 2005 and 2015, compared to a 57% increase for all students. Astronomy looks a bit better: it saw a 67% increase in degrees awarded to Black students, compared to 25% for all students, although it is important to note that only 2% of astronomy degrees that year were awarded to Black students.

As one might expect, underrepresentation continues to get worse as we climb the academic hierarchy. In 2012, only 2% of Physics PhDs awarded to US citizens were to Black students, while 88.2% went to white students. It is a similar story at the faculty level: in 2012, Black scientists represented 2.1% of all Physics faculty in the US, compared to 6.6% across all disciplines (white scientists represented 79.2% of Physics faculty, 74.9% across all disciplines). This gets worse again where race intersects with gender. At time of writing, only 22 Black women have been awarded a PhD in astronomy in the United States. In total, 144 Black women currently hold PhDs in physics or physics-adjacent fields (such as physical chemistry).

These statistics make clear that Black students are disproportionately underrepresented in physics and astronomy at all levels of the academic process. The AIPs TEAM-UP Task Force finds in their report that this underrepresentation is independent of potential or aptitude: Black students have the same drive, motivation, intellect, and capability to obtain physics and astronomy degrees as students of other races and ethnicities. The report attributes this in part to the lack of a supportive environment in Physics and Astronomy departments across the country, and provides detailed information of five factors responsible for the success or failure of Black students in the field.

Why are there so few Black students in STEM? One common response is that this is a pipeline problem, in which disparities in academic preparation start in grade school and become increasingly insurmountable by the time students get to university. However, research suggests that retaining Black students in STEM is a pressing issue even at the undergraduate level. For instance, Riegle-Crumb et al. demonstrate that Black students who begin a STEM major in undergrad are more likely to switch out of their field than their white peers, a difference that is unique to STEM fields (and one that is not fully explained by differences in academic preparation).

One of the leading reasons for this failure of retention is the discrimination Black students face in STEM departments. According to a Pew study from 2018, an overwhelming 72% of Black STEM professionals believe discrimination is a major reason they are underrepresented in STEM. However, this effect is severely underestimated by their white colleagues: just 27% of white STEM professionals believe that discrimination is a major issue for Black professionals. Figure 1 shows a breakdown of these statistics in more detail.

The study further shows the extent of this discrimination: 62% of Black STEM professionals report that they have experienced discrimination at work due to their race. This is even higher than the rate of 50% in non-STEM sectors. More specifically, while most white STEM professionals (about 75%) believe Black STEM professionals are treated fairly in hiring and advancement, not even half of Black STEM professionals (only about 40%) believe that they are treated fairly in these regards.

How might faculty discriminate against Black students? In 2019, Eaton et al. conducted a study in which they ask faculty in physics to rate hypothetical candidates applying for a postdoc out of graduate school. They asked the faculty members to evaluate CVs that were identicalexcept for changing the name of the applicant to a common white, Black, Asian, or Latinx name. They gave the candidates an average number of publications, along with a few arguable strengths (e.g. a university prize with a years worth of funding) and a few arguable weaknesses (e.g. no external funding). They chose to focus on an average applicant because past work has shown that reviewers are more likely to discriminate against average candidates than the absolute best applicants.

In their study, Eaton et al. found that Black (and Latinx) applicants were rated over 1 point lower on a 9-point scale than white or Asian applicants in both competence and hireability. Since the authors designed the study to include both major strengths and major weaknesses on the CVs, they argue that with white or Asian applicants, reviewers were more likely to reward applicants for their arguable strengths (and ignore their arguable weaknesses). On the other hand, with Black (or Latinx) applicants, reviewers were more prone to use their arguable weaknesses as an excuse to rate them lower (while ignoring their arguable strengths).

In general, both faculty and students contribute to a discriminatory learning environment through racial microaggressions, a term devised by Professor Chester Pierce in 1970 specifically to refer to statements made against Black folks. Microaggressions are everyday statements that imply an attack on a persons (1) competence, (2) identity, (3) right to have opinions or concerns, and/or (4) their sense of belonging. These attacks are often much more obvious to the victim than they are to the perpetrator. It is also common for the perpetrator to become defensive when accused of making a microaggression. Solrzano et al. specifically demonstrated that the cumulative effects [of microaggressions on Black college students] can be quite devastating.

Sue et al. revitalized academic interest on microaggressions with a broad seminal review of the subject in 2007. They note that almost all interracial encounters are prone to microaggressions and list a variety of racially motivated microaggressions in their paper. Some of these examples are shown in Figure 2 (modified by us to better reflect analogous situations in academia).

We note that these studies are just two examples of how bias and discrimination affect Black students in STEM and the representation of Black researchers in these fields. Other research finds that discrimination extends into nearly every arena of academia and science, from elementary school to graduate admissions.

The underrepresentation of Black students in STEM. The lack of retention of Black students in STEM majors. The further underrepresentation of Black STEM researchers at the PhD and faculty levels. The discrepancy between how white and Black STEM professionals view discrimination. The bias against researchers names. The prevalence of microaggressions. These are all facets of how the anti-Blackness that pervades our society manifests in our academic spaces.

It is clear that STEM workplaces are not doing enough to prevent discrimination and address biasand this is strongly felt by Black students and researchers. Fighting discrimination in our departments is crucial to retaining Black students in STEM, and to ensuring that our scientific spaces support Black astronomers and physicists.

We would like to acknowledge that we are summarizing research outside of our field. While we are trained astronomers and physicists, and practiced writers of paper summaries, we are not experts in social science research. We have done our best to capture the findings of this literature accurately and respectfully, but do defer to the original papers and to the authors of the studies.

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Einstein’s core idea about gravity just passed an extreme, whirling test in deep space – Space.com

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Once again, physicists have confirmed one of Albert Einstein's core ideas about gravity this time with the help of a neutron star flashing across space.

The new work makes an old idea even more certain: that heavy and light objects fall at the same rate. Einstein wasn't the first person to realize this; there are contested accounts of Galileo Galilei demonstrating the principle by dropping weights off the Tower of Pisa in the 16th century. And suggestions of the idea appear in the work of the 12th-century philosopher Abu'l-Barakt al-Baghdd. This concept eventually made its way into Isaac Newton's model of physics, and then Einstein's theory of general relativity as the gravitational "strong equivalence principle" (SEP). This new experiment demonstrates the truth of the SEP, using a falling neutron star, with more precision than ever.

The SEP has appeared to be true for a long time. You might have seen this video of Apollo astronauts dropping a feather and a hammer in the vacuum of the moon, showing that they fall at the same rate in lunar gravity.

But small tests in the relatively weak gravitational fields of Earth, the moon or the sun don't really put the SEP through its paces, according to Sharon Morsink, an astrophysicist at the University of Alberta in Canada, who wasn't involved in the new study.

"At some level, the majority of physicists believe that Einstein's theory of gravity, called general relativity, is correct. However, that belief is mainly based on observations of phenomena taking place in regions of space with weak gravity, while Einstein's theory of gravity is meant to explain phenomena taking place near really strong gravitational fields," Morsink told Live Science. "Neutron stars and black holes are the objects that have the strongest known gravitational fields, so any test of gravity that involves these objects really test the heart of Einstein's gravity theory."

Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of dead stars. Super dense, but not dense enough to form black holes, they can pack masses greater than that of our sun into whirling spheres just a few miles wide.

The researchers focused on a type of neutron star called a pulsar, which from Earth's perspective seems to flash as it spins. That flashing is a result of a bright spot on the star's surface whirling in and out of view, 366 times per second. This spinning is regular enough to keep time by.

Related: 8 ways you can see Einstein's theory of relativity in real life

This pulsar, known as J0337+1715, is special even among pulsars: It's locked in a tight binary orbit with a white dwarf star. The two stars orbit each other as they circle a third star, also a white dwarf, just like Earth and the moon do as they circle the sun.

(Researchers have already shown that the SEP is true for orbits like this in our solar system: Earth and the moon are affected to exactly the same degree by the sun's gravity, measurements suggest.)

The precise timekeeping of J0337+1715, combined with its relationship to those two gravity fields created by the two white dwarf stars, offers astronomers a unique opportunity to test the principle.

The pulsar is much heavier than the other two stars in the system. But the pulsar still falls toward each of them a little bit as they fall toward the pulsar's larger mass. (The same thing happens with you and Earth. When you jump, you fall back toward the planet very quickly. But the planet falls toward you as well very slowly, due to your own low gravity, but at the exact same rate as a feather or a hammer would if you ignore air resistance.) And because J0337+1715 is such a precise timekeeper, astronomers on Earth can track how the gravitational fields of the two stars affect the pulsar's period.

To do so, the astronomers carefully timed the arrival of light from J0337+1715 using large radio telescopes, in particular the Nanay Radio Observatory in France. As the star moved around each of its neighbors one in a quick little orbit and one in a longer, slower orbit the pulsar got closer and farther from Earth. As the neutron star moved farther away from Earth, the light from its pulses had to travel longer distances to reach the telescope. So, to a tiny degree, the gaps between the pulses seemed to get longer.

As the pulsar swung back toward Earth, the gaps between the pulses got shorter. That allowed physicists to build a robust model of the neutron star's movement through space, explaining precisely how it interacted with the gravity fields of its neighbors. Their work built on a technique used in an earlier paper, published in the journal Nature in 2018, to study the same system.

The new paper, published online June 10 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, showed that the objects in this system behaved as Einstein's theory predicts or at least didn't differ from Einstein's predictions by more than 1.8 parts per million. That's the absolute limit of the precision of their telescope data analysis. They reported 95% confidence in their findings.

Morsink, who uses X-ray data to study the mass, widths, and surface patterns of neutron stars, said that this confirmation isn't surprising, but it is important for her research.

"In that work, we have to assume that Einstein's theory of gravity is correct, since the data analysis is already very complex," Morsink told Live Science in an in an email. "So tests of Einstein's gravity using neutron stars really make me feel better about our assumption that Einstein's theory describes the gravity of a neutron star correctly!"

Without understanding the SEP, Einstein would never have been able to develop his ideas of relativity. In an insight he described as "the most fortunate thought in my life," he recognized that objects in free fall don't feel the gravitational fields tugging on them.

(This is why astronauts in orbit around the Earth float. In constant free fall, they don't experience the gravitational field that holds them in orbit. Without windows, they wouldn't know Earth was there at all.)

Most of Einstein's key insights about the universe begin with the universality of free fall. So, in this way, the cornerstone of general relativity has been made that much stronger.

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Artists view of the pulsar and its closest white-dwarf companion with their orbits and the second companion in the background. The system is not to scale. Credit: Guillaume Voisin CC BY-SA 4.0

An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einsteins theory of general relativity, the universality of free fall.

The new research shows that the theory holds for strongly self-gravitating objects such as neutron stars. Using a radio telescope, scientists can very accurately observe the signal produced by pulsars, a type of neutron star and test the validity of Einsteins theory of gravity for these extreme objects. In particular, the team analyzed the signals from a pulsar named PSR J0337+1715 recorded by the large radio telescope of Nanay, located in the heart of Sologne (France).

The universality of free fall principle states that two bodies dropped in a gravitational field undergo the very same acceleration independently of their composition. This was first demonstrated by Galileo who famously would have dropped objects of different masses from the top of Pisas tower to verify that they both reach the ground simultaneously.

This principle is also at the heart of Einsteins theory of general relativity. However, some hints such as the inconsistency between quantum mechanics and general relativity, or the conundrum of the domination of dark matter and dark energy in the composition of the Universe, have led many physicists to believe that general relativity might not be, after all, the ultimate theory of gravity.

The observations of Pulsar J0337+1715, which is a neutron star with a stellar core 1.44 times the mass of the Sun that has collapsed into a sphere of only 25km in diameter, shows that it orbits two white-dwarf stars which have a much weaker gravity field. The findings, published on June 10, 2020, in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, demonstrate the universality of free fall principle to be correct.

Dr Guillaume Voisin from The University of Manchester who led the research said: The pulsar emits a beam of radio waves which sweeps across space. At each turn this creates a flash of radio light which is recorded with high accuracy by Nanays radio telescope. As the pulsar moves on its orbit, the light arrival time at Earth is shifted. It is the accurate measurement and mathematical modeling, down to a nanosecond accuracy, of these times of arrival that allows scientists to infer with exquisite precision the motion of the star.

Above all, it is the unique configuration of that system, akin to the Earth-Moon-Sun system with the presence of a second companion (playing the role of the Sun) towards which the two other stars fall (orbit) that has allowed to perform a stellar version of Galileos famous experiment from Pisas tower. Two bodies of different compositions fall with the same acceleration in the gravitational field of a third one.

The pulsar emits a beam of radio waves which sweeps across space. At each turn this creates a flash of radio light which is recorded with high accuracy by Nanays radio telescope. As the pulsar moves on its orbit, the light arrival time at Earth is shifted. It is the accurate measurement and mathematical modelling, down to a nanosecond accuracy, of these times of arrival that allows scientists to infer with exquisite precision the motion of the star. Dr Guillaume Voisin

The measurements were recorded by a collaborative team from The University of Manchester, Paris Observatory PSL, the French CNRS and LPC2E (Orlans, France), and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. The pulsar orbits two white-dwarf stars, one of which orbits the pulsar in only 1.6 days at a distance about 10 times closer to the pulsar than the planet Mercury is from the Sun. This binary system, a bit like Earth and Moon in the solar system, orbits with a third star, a white dwarf of 40% the mass of Sun, located slightly further than the distance separating the Earth-Moon system from the Sun.

In the solar system, the Lunar-laser ranging experiment has allowed to verify that both Moon and Earth are identically affected by the gravity field of the Sun, as predicted by the universality of free-fall (orbital motion is a form a free-fall). However, it is known that some deviations to universality might occur only for strongly self-gravitating objects, such as neutron stars, that is objects the mass of which is significantly made of their own gravitational energy thanks to the famous Einsteins relation E=mc2. The new pulsar experiment carried out by the team fills the gap left by solar system tests where no object is strongly self-gravitating, not even the Sun.

The team has demonstrated that the extreme gravity field of the pulsar cannot differ by more than 1.8 part per million (with a confidence level of 95%) from the prediction of general relativity. This result is the most accurate confirmation that the universality of free fall is valid even in presence of an object which mass is largely due to its own gravity field, thus supporting further Einsteins theory of general relativity.

Reference: An improved test of the strong equivalence principle with the pulsar in a triple star system by G. Voisin, I. Cognard, P. C. C. Freire, N. Wex, L. Guillemot, G. Desvignes, M. Kramer and G. Theureau, 10 June 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics.DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038104

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Observation of Excess Events in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment – Weizmann Institute of Science

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Scientists from the international XENON collaboration announced today that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment, show a surprising excess of events. The scientists do not claim to have found dark matter; rather, they have observed an unexpected number of events, the source of which is not yet fully understood. The signature of the excess is similar to what might result from a tiny residual amount of a hydrogen isotope, tritium, but it could also be a sign of something more exciting, for example, the existence of a new particle called a solar axion, or of previously unknown properties of neutrinos.

Dr. Ran Budnik of the Weizmann Institute of Sciences Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department is a member of the team operating the XENON1T deep underground in the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The XENON collaboration comprises 163 scientists from 28 institutions across 11 countries. That experiment, which ran from 2016 to 2018, was primarily designed to detect dark matter, thought to make up 85% of the matter in the universe. So far, XENON1T has set thebest limit on the interaction probability over a wide range of theoretical masses for one possible type dark matter. XENON1T was also sensitive to different types of new particles and interactions. Last year, using the same detector, these scientists reported in Nature their observation of the rarest nuclear decay ever directly measured.

The XENON1T detector was lled with 3.2 tons of ultra-pure liqueed xenon, 2.0 t of which served as a target for particle interactions. A handful of particles that crossed this target hit a xenon atom and generated tiny signals of light and free electrons from the atom. Most of these interactions resulted from particles that are known to exist, so the scientists in first carefully estimated the number of background events projected to occur over the two-year period. When data of XENON1T were compared to known backgrounds, an excess of 53 events over the expected 232 events was observed.

One explanation for the excess could be a previously unconsidered source of background events caused by the presence of tiny amounts of tritium (a hydrogen atom with one proton and two neutrons) in the XENON1T detector. Only a few tritium atoms for every 1025 xenon atoms would be needed to explain the excess. Currently, there are no independent measurements that can conrm or disprove the presence of tritium.

Their detection would mark the rst observation of a new class of new particle

But another explanation could be the existence of a new particle. The excess observed has an energy spectrum similar to that expected from axions produced in the Sun. Axions are hypothetical particles that have been proposed to preserve a time-reversal symmetry of the nuclear force, and the Sun may be a strong source of them. While solar axions are not dark matter candidates, their detection would mark the rst observation of a new class of new particle; this would have a large impact on our understanding of fundamental physics, as well as of astrophysical phenomena. And axions produced in the early universe could, according to one theory, also be the source of dark matter.

Alternatively, the excess could be due to neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter. The magnetic moment (a property of all particles) of neutrinos could be larger than the value assigned them in the Standard Model of elementary particles. This would be a strong hint that some new physics might be needed to explain the discrepancy.

Of the three explanations considered by the XENON collaboration, the observed excess is most consistent with a solar axion signal, though the other two cannot be ruled out, at this stage.

XENON1T is now upgrading to its next phase XENONnT with an active xenon mass three times larger and a background that is expected to be lower than that of XENON1T. With better data from XENONnT, the XENON collaboration is condent it will soon nd out whether this excess is a mere statistical uke, a background contaminant, or something far more exciting: a new particle or interaction that goes beyond known physics.

Dr. Ran Budnik's research is supported by theWeizmann Institute "la Caixa" Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships. Dr. Budnik is the incumbent of theAryeh and Ido Dissentshik Career Development Chair.

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Quasar jets are thousands of light-years long – Cosmos

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The very-high-energy gamma ray emission from quasars are not concentrated in the region close to their central black holes but in fact extend over several thousand light-years along jets of plasma, new research reveals.

Writing in the journal Nature, a team of more than 200 astrophysicists from 13 countries describes its observations using the HESS observatory in Namibia which, it says, shake up current scenarios for the behaviour of these jets.

The work was carried out as part of the international High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) collaboration, and led by the CNRS and CEA in France, the Max Planck Society and other German research institutions and universities.

They studied the highly luminous Centaurus A the closest radio galaxy to Earth at unparalleled resolution for more than 200 hours, enabling them to identify the region emitting the very high-energy radiation while studying the trajectory of the plasma jets.

In recent years, scientists have observed the Universe using gamma rays, which form part of the cosmic rays that constantly bombard the Earth. They originate from regions where particles are accelerated to huge energies.

Gamma rays are emitted by a wide range of cosmic objects, including quasars, which are active galaxies with a highly energetic nucleus. The intensity of the radiation emitted can vary over very short timescales of up to one minute.

It has therefore been assumed that the source of this radiation is very small and located in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole.

However, the researchers say they have shown that the gamma ray source extends over several thousand light-years. This in turn indicates that particle acceleration does not take place solely in the vicinity of the black hole, but along the entire length of the plasma jets.

Based on these results, the authors suggest the particles are reaccelerated by stochastic processes along the jet, and that many radio galaxies with extended jets accelerate electrons to extreme energies and might emit gamma-rays. This might explain the origins of a substantial fraction of the diffuse extragalactic gamma background radiation.

Here we report observations of Centaurus A at teraelectronvolt energies that resolve its large-scale jet, the authors write in their paper.

We interpret the data as evidence for the acceleration of ultrarelativistic electrons in the jet and favour the synchrotron explanation for the X-rays.

Given that this jet is not exceptional in terms of power, length or speed, it is possible that ultrarelativistic electrons are commonplace in the large-scale jets of radio-loud active galaxies.

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The Antares Star is larger than the Sun, reveals a new map of the atmosphere – Republic World – Republic World

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A new study conducted by a team of international scientists has found that the Antares star is much larger than its earlier prediction. As per reports, the star can even fit Saturns orbit inside it. A team of astronomers has designed a detailed map of the atmosphere which depicts the red supergiant star Antares. According to research, the size of the star shall depend on the wavelength of light it is observed with. The new study of the Antares star was published in the Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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Previous research of the Antares star predicted that the Antares star was about 700 times larger than the sun. However, the research also concluded that proportion to the sun was subject to change when mapped in a different spectrum. Further, as per studies, the Antares star is regarded as the largest star in the universe, in terms of volume. The Antares star is also the 15th brightest star in the night sky and the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius.

The Antares star is a Red Supergiant star. These stars are quite large and remain cool until the end of their lifetime. As per studies, these stars may soon run out of fuel and even collapse. By utilizing their stellar winds, these stars are capable of launching heavy elements into space. Such phenomenaalso worktowards providing a building block of life in the universe.

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In order to the study Antares atmosphere, the team of astronomers utilized the readings of Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimeter (ALMA)/ submillimeter Array. While the ALMA map helped to observe shorter wavelengths close to the surface of Antares, the VLA map helped to observe longer wavelengths, farther from the stars atmosphere. These readings helped to design the most detailed map of Stars, besides the Sun. The recent study also revealed that the Antares chromosphere was much cooler as compared to the chromosphere of the sun. The study also helped to find the origination point of the winds.

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Chris Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory gave a statement to a media portal whereby he mentioned that the National Radio Astronomy Observatory regarded the night sky as points of light. He felt that the map of the Supergiant Antares star was a true testament to technological advances in interferometry. He also said that the observations would help man to be closer to the universe.

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