Tag: ATLAS

Fragmentation of comet ATLAS observed on the first crowd-sourced pictures from citizen astronomers

A group of citizen astronomers scattered all over the world has just demonstrated how a network of digital Unistellar eVscopes can work together to deliver the first-of-its-kind crowd-generated images of Comet ATLAS while its disintegrating. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-04-fragmentation-comet-atlas-crowd-sourced-pictures.html…

The shattered heart of comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS

Gianluca Masi in Rome wrote: “Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS, the one we were hoping to see putting on a great show, has shattered both its and our hearts. Its nucleus disintegrated and Saturday night I could see 3, possibly 4, main fragments.” Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/the-shattered-heart-of-comet-c-2019-y4-atlas…

Y Combinator Company ‘Flexport’ Is Shipping PPE To Frontline Responders

The Y Combinator company Flexport is a San Francisco-based freight-forwarding and customs brokerage company. (Its investors include Google Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.) But on March 23rd Flexport announced they were now re-focusing all their resources to get critical supplies to frontline responders combating COVID-19. They’ve joined a team that announced on Friday announced “we’re shipping full cargo planes filled…

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover gets its wheels and air brakes

Final assembly and testing of NASA’s Perseverance rover continues at Kennedy Space Center in Florida as the July launch window approaches. In some of the last steps required prior to stacking the spacecraft components in the configuration they’ll be in atop the Atlas V rocket, the rover’s wheels and parachute have been installed. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-04-nasa-perseverance-mars-rover-wheels.html…

New X-Ray Technique Images Soft-Tissue Tumors Clearer Than MRI

Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new method of adapting X-ray to image soft tissue, “so that its higher resolution can reveal tumors or other problems earlier than other techniques,” reports New Atlas. From the report: Elastography is a field of medical imaging that focuses on the stiffness or softness of tissues. Shear waves are sent through the body, and…

US Space Force Successfully Launches First Mission

schwit1 shares a report from UPI: The first official mission for the new U.S. Space Force lifted off from Florida at 4:18 p.m. EDT on Thursday into a virtually cloudless sky with a military communications satellite aboard. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket emblazoned with the Space Force chevron logo carried the satellite toward orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force…

Comet ATLAS may put on quite a show

A comet called Atlas is currently heading toward the sun, and it just might put on a really good show in a couple of months. Discovered last December by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert system in Hawaii (thus the name ATLAS for the comet), the comet has been growing much brighter than experts had predicted. If it manages to hold its…

How to see bright Comet ATLAS

Recently discovered comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) isn’t bright enough to see with the unaided eye … yet. But it’s getting brighter. Will it provide a good show or fizzle out? Click here to learn more. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-bright-comet-c-2019-y4-atlas…