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by Robert J. Nemiroff and Jerry T. Bonnell This lesson plan is meant to be used for undergraduates studying astronomy to supplement to an existing introductory astronomy course. As such, it may guide the instructor in preparing her/his own lecture or be distributed and read by the class. Students readingContinue Reading

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Paul Seibert Postdoctoral Researcher Affiliation: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center Division: Earth Science Division (SG) Email: paul.o.seibert@nasa.gov Personal Biography Paul Seibert is a postdoctoral researcher with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames working on wildland fire fuel type characterization and load quantification using satellite remoteContinue Reading

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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

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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

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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

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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