ASMR ~ Whispering about Telescopes and Astronomy (Reading, Page Turning)
The second half of my whispered ramble/chat about telescopes and astronomy, including reading from star charts and page turning! The first part is here: https://youtu.be/_dr2YhhaBMk.
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Eclipse safety tips from Astronomy Now
Astronomy Now #39;s Greg Smye-Rumsby offers tips on how to safely view the partial solar eclipse of 20 March 2015.
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Story highlights Eclipses are a visible highlight of astronomy, one of the oldest of sciences, writes Robert Massey But astronomy is also a science that pushes technology to the limits, he says Massey: Astronomy reminds us that we are really a very small part of an enormous cosmos
Eclipses are a very visible highlight of astronomy, one of the oldest of sciences that has fueled the imagination of humanity since we became capable of complex thought, with monuments as old as Stonehenge in England marking the movement of the Sun and Moon across the sky, and early civilizations creating myths around the patterns of stars that make up the constellations.
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That sense of wonder continues unabated in the modern era, though we sometimes seem more disconnected than our ancestors from the world (and universe) around us.
Children and adults alike visit observatories and planetaria, download images originating from spacecraft in orbit around planets, asteroids and comets, and grab the chance to look through a telescope without hesitation.
An early interest in astronomy inspired many of today's leading scientists and engineers, including Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society and a Nobel Prize winner in medicine, who found his inspiration through a telescope at the age of eight.
This is a science that pushes technology to the limits, eking out the faintest of signals and using complex techniques to put together models for worlds, stars and clusters of galaxies that we are unlikely ever to visit.
And these demands set the toughest of challenges. To take one example, the Hubble Space Telescope (named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble) will reach its 25th anniversary next month. Putting a telescope in space had been proposed as far back as the 1940s, a good decade before the Soviet Union's Sputnik transmitted its first pings from orbit.
Hubble construction began in the late 1970s, ready to be carried into orbit by NASA's space shuttle. Delayed by the Challenger disaster, the telescope finally entered service in 1990, when scientists discovered that its mirror was the wrong shape -- a flaw repaired by another shuttle crew who installed a correcting system three years later.
Since those early setbacks, the Hubble telescope has transformed astronomy. From its vantage point above the blurring effect of the Earth's atmosphere, it helped scientists discover that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, powered by a still mysterious "dark energy," sent back images of forming solar systems and planets around other stars, and showed that almost every galaxy has a giant black hole at its center.
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07:01 20 March 2015
by James Scott
Solar Eclipse. Credit: Letchworth and District Astronomical Society.
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An astronomy group is pulling out all the stops for members of the public to wonder at a solar eclipse which is taking place this morning.
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A partial eclipse which happens when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth and partially blocks the former, casting a shadow over the latter is due between 8.25am and 10.40am.
The Letchworth and District Astronomical Society will have four gazebos set up in Leys Avenue housing a screen with a live feed from NASA showing the eclipse and display boards with information.
Outside there will be eight telescopes with solar filters so that people can look directly into the sun safely, as well as 100 pairs of safety goggles.
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University of Waterloo Professor Brian McNamara along with two Canadian astronomers will be part of the science working group directing ASTRO-H, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA's) newest flagship x-ray astronomy observatory.
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced yesterday that it has delivered its hardware contribution to the mission scheduled to launch in early 2016.
ASTRO-H marks the first time Canada is part of an x-ray astronomy mission. The science working group will design the observatory's science plan while also receiving privileged access to the proprietary data during the first year of operations. McNamara will specifically study the effects of black holes on emergent galaxies.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for Canada and Canadian astronomers," said McNamara a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, who also holds a University Research Chair in Astrophysics.
The telescope is designed to explore mysterious phenomena in unprecedented detail, such as black holes and their role in forming galaxies like our own Milky Way. It includes one of the most sensitive spectrometers aboard any orbiting x-ray observatory to date.
X-ray telescopes offer an advantage over visible and radio-wave telescopes in that they can detect high-energy phenomena such as the radiation emitted by super hot gases travelling in the vicinity of a black hole. The black hole's intense gravity causes these gases to reach velocities nearly the speed of light. When that happens, the gases emit radiation in the x-ray range.
"X-ray telescopes are the perfect black hole detectors," said McNamara.
McNamara will be looking specifically at the speeds these gases are travelling to understand the energy generated by some of the most massive black holes in existence, including the one at the centre of our galaxy.
The vast majority of mass that accelerates towards a black hole is expelled back into space. The power needed to do this is enormous and may govern how galaxies form. According to McNamara, this x-ray telescope will allow us to observe this energy emission directly.
"Black holes are the most efficient power generators in the Universe," said McNamara. "In fact, we think they [black holes] exist in the centres of all massive galaxies."
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Three Google researchers have published a paper on a new artificial intelligence system called FaceNet, that they claim is one of the most-accurate ways of identifying human faces.
The Google researchers, Florian Schroff, Dmitry Kalenichenko and James Philbin, say that their system achieved a new record accuracy of 99.63 per cent on the widely used Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset. On YouTube Faces DB it achieved 95.12 per cent. "Our system cuts the error rate in comparison to the best published result by 30 per cent on both datasets," the paper claims.
Facial recognition is a high-interest area for both companies and governments alike. In 2014, researchers from Facebook had published a paper claiming more than 97 per cent accuracy in recognising faces. Another group of Chinese researchers claimed better than 99 per cent accuracy, according to a report on Fortune.
Google researchers have published a paper on a new artificial intelligence system called FaceNet, that they claim is one of the most-accurate ways of identifying human faces. (Facial recognition, via Shutterstock)
These systems incorporate an artificial intelligence technique called deep learning and also includes recognising voices and understanding the content of written text.
Aside from Google and Facebook, companies including Microsoft, Baidu, and Yahoo are also investing heavily in deep learning research, says the Fortune report. The US Department of Defence's research agency DARPA, is also looking at ways in which deep learning techniques could be able to help it make sense of the massive streams of communications crossing intelligence networks.
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