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Blog
Number of Gravitational Lenses Doubles
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys have doubled the number of known
gravitational lenses.
DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a brand-new instrument installed at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO). It’s ready to come online, and it follows on the heels of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.
Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst Turns Out to be Magnetar Flare
Powerful burst of X-rays and gamma rays in April 2020 turned out to be from a magnetar in a galaxy 11.4 million light-years away.
Türksat-5A Launched Onboard SpaceX Falcon 9
The first launch of 2021 took place on January 8th when Türksat-5A launched onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Arianespace Launches Sun-Synchronous CSO-2 Satellite
The last launch of 2020 was an Arianespace Soyuz-2 for the CSO-2 mission on December 29th. CSO-2 is an Earth observation satellite intended for military and security applications from a Sun-synchronous orbit.
China Launches Yaogan-33R
On December 27th, at 15:44 UTC, China launched the Yaogan-33R mission atop a Long March 4C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China.
NANOGrav Project Uses Pulsars to Potentially Detect Gravitational Waves
Members of the NANO Grav collaboration are looking for the ripples that pass through space-time when gravitational waves run through the universe.
ALMA Captures Distant Colliding Galaxy on Verge of ‘Dying’
In new work, researchers used ALMA to watch a galaxy ID2299 eject a massive amount of its cold gas content. Combined with rapid star formation, ID2299 will run out of gas in a few tens of million years.
Pulsar Acceleration Used to Calculate Milky Way’s Dark Matter Density
By looking carefully at the timing of pulsars around the Milky Way, researchers can tease out the tiny motions due to the tiny weird acceleration associated with the expansion of our universe and determine the dark matter density.