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AI-Astrobiology Menu Bar Home About Resources Introduction to AI ML & AI Guide Algorithm Central Training Sets Project Repository Literature Review Seminars Join the Community AI/ML News Update on NASA Foundation Model Progress: To the Moon and Beyond September 2026 – NASA’s foundation model (FM) work began taking shape inContinue Reading

‘great-debate’-glossary

APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss Glossary Cepheid: A type of variable star used to determine distance. Shapley used a relation between the period of variation of this type of star and its absolute magnitude to calibrate distances to globular clusters during the `GreatContinue Reading

jill-tarter

Director: Center for SETI ResearchSETI Institute, 1984 – 2012Emeritus Chair for SETI Research How will humanity first discover ET Life? Best guess: TechnosignaturesWhile the astronomical community is planning for large telescopes, or robotic explorers that could uncover biosignatures within our solar system or in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets, theyContinue Reading

ai’s-meet-cute-with-climate-denial

Just in time for Climate Week NYC, Traitor 47 calls concerns over global warming and artificial intelligence a “hoax.” By Dan Gearino Earlier this week, President Traitor 47 responded to rising public concerns about artificial intelligence with a post on Truth Social.Continue Reading

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APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss Visual Distortions Near a Neutron Star and Black Hole Robert J. NemiroffNASA / Goddard Space Flight CenterCode 668.1Greenbelt, MD 20771 Published in The American Journal of Physics, 61, 619 (1993) Abstract The visual distortion effects visible to anContinue Reading

great-debates-in-astronomy

APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss Great Debates The Scale of the Universe (1920); Curtis, Shapley Although the `Great Debate’ is important to different people for different reasons, it is a clear example of humanity once again striving to find its place within theContinue Reading

great-debates-of-astronomy:-the-scale-of-the-universe

APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The Scale of the Universe What the Great Debate was, how it was resolved, and why it was important. A subjective abstract in three short paragraphs. Published version of the ‘Great Debate.’ This is a reprint of theContinue Reading

frequently-asked-questions-(faqs)-on-black-holes

APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss to Internet newsgroup: sci.physicsAnswers posted by Matt McIrvin of Harvard University, last updated 02-FEB-1995. Text in this file is NOT copyrighted by RJN. 1. What is a black hole, really? In 1916, when general relativity was new, KarlContinue Reading