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A Brief History of Community Science, Part 2
The landing page for a new community science platform. Join us at mappers.psi.edu! Back in the spring of 1999, while one part of the internet focused in on still unpatched Y2K bugs, another, often overlapping part of the internet focused in on something much more fun...
A Brief History of Community Science, Part 1
Across the centuries, people of all kinds have contributed to the field we now call science. From early developments in mathematics, to systematic observations of how objects move in the sky, and changes take place in the landscape, we’ve seen people systematically...
Starship: Dreaming of Mars, struggling for LEO
I think it is fair to say that humans have dreamed of going to Mars for as long as we have known that Mars is a planet. We see these dreams in amazing books, like The Martian Chronicles and John Carter of Mars, and even in Percival Lowell’s attempts to map what we now...
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Closer Look: Rubin Observatory
In the early 2000s, the massive scientific return from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey made it clear that there are questions we can only answer by investing in systems that survey the sky and inventory everything visible. From learning about the distribution of galaxies...
In physics, 3 is the hardest number
Galaxy meger NGC 520. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and B. Whitmore (STScI The diversity in galaxy mergers is amazing, and entire careers and catalogs have been dedicated to systems. A favorite pastime for many merger...
The Jet that Pierced a Galaxy
An artist's illustration of the cosmic joist with the actual data embedded. Illustration Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser. Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Balashev and P. Noterdaeme et al. Researchers are learning that the jets associated with black holes can do more...
At cosmic high noon, black holes fired their jets
An artist's illustration of an active galaxy with jets with an inlaid image of an actual galaxy with jets as seen by Chandra. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/J. Maithil et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Most large galaxies...
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The mystery of ASKAP J1832-0911
A graph of Chandra data and a fit to the data superimposed on an image that combines x-ray, IR, and radio data. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/IPAC; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk I...
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