Astronomy

In case the forthcoming expedition of the Galileo Project to the Pacific Ocean discovers that the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1, was a technological relic from an extraterrestrial civilization, the future of humanity will be different from its past. …

If we are in space, at a point exactly above the Earth’s north pole, we can see that the Earth rotates about its axis counterclockwise. Similarly, if we look at the rotation of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, or Neptune from a point above their north poles, we will also see…

The N-body method is a way of simulating the dynamical evolution of a system of particles under the influence of forces. …

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” - Albert Einstein As per our knowledge & experience, nothing ever really ends. When any living being dies, the body decays and the material in them returns to the earth, allowing for the creation…

In a world increasingly reliant on digital technology, an invisible phenomenon from the cosmos is making its presence felt in unexpected ways. …

Have you ever heard of the term photonic propulsion? It’s a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion which uses light as spacecraft propellant allowing the spacecraft to travel through space 🌌 at relativistic velocities, nearing the speed of light, in order to reach your destination at a much quicker time. By…

But the light of a bygone star is still light. © Konstantin Kinchev Generally this question is asked quite often, but for some reason in the last couple of months it was not there. And now I’m being asked again: Hello! I read that most of the stars we see…

Code in full is available on my GitHub: https://github.com/macster9/GalaxyClassifier Abstract Using classical Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to classify the galaxies of the Galaxy Zoo dataset is by no means a novel idea and has been investigated repeatedly and with higher frequency with the rise of Machine Learning literacy and spread across…

This is a question I get asked quite often and I finally decided to write an article because I see that there are several common misconceptions on this topic. Misconception 1. No one has ever done this. Actually, they have. Although this information is readily available, it is little known. In the late 1960s, Soviet Almaz series space…