One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren’t talking about “little green men” here, however — more “little (and not so little) gray rocks,” asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our own, lying around 4.3 … Read more
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —Thursday’s qualifying races created a buzz in the NASCAR Cup garage by what one organization did to shave time on pit road, which could impact Sunday’s Daytona 500. The Joe Gibbs Racing pit crews of Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs debuted a unique way to alert their drivers when to leave on … Read more
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost “planetary embryos” from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system’s formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation. Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, (246) … Read more
Hardware and software The following list summarizes the key hard- and software components used for acquiring the results. Laser: neoLASE neoMOS, 50 kHz–20 MHz, M2 = 1.15, 10 ps Laser power infrared: P = 41.3 W@1MHz, P = 28.1W@100kHz, green: P = 17W@1MHz, P = 11W@100kHz Receive telescope 1: Contraves, Cassegrain, d = 0.5 m, for monostatic setup Receive telescope 2: ASA, Ritchey-Chretien, d = 0.8 m, for bistatic setup Transmit telescope: Contraves, d1 = 0.07 m, monostatic … Read more
Fair or not, the predominant narrative surrounding the 2024-25 NBA season has been that it has been kind of boring. Or, perhaps more broadly, that the NBA has been trending downward for some time, and now that the holy trinity of superstars that had been holding the league aloft (LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin … Read more