ESA – Innovative X-ray lobster-eye mission set to launch 2024
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The next generation of X-ray probe will launch in January 2024. This mission will help us discover more x-ray sources and much more.
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Euclid telescope
The European Space Agency reveals the first stunning Euclid telescope images, showing the universe as you've never seen it before:
Read more here
The difference between the Euclid mission and the JWST
The full-colour photos offer the clearest glimpse yet of the cosmos, as the telescope continues its mission to unlock the mysteries of the furthest reaches of space known as the "dark universe".
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Astro Pi 2023
Astro Pi 2023 Challenge coming soon.
What is Astro Pi?
The European Astro Pi Challenge offers young people the amazing opportunity to conduct scientific investigations in space by writing computer programs that run on Raspberry Pi computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
2023 challenge opens mid September.
Please see website for details.
Note: As I run the STEM group, and we are a bring you own projects event, then I am happy for this to be a safe place to meet up and work on projects. However:-
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Euclid space telescope sends back first images
The Euclid space telescope has now sent back it's first images. As reported in New Scientist on 31 July 2023. You can read the full article here
So all good stuff, The telescope can exmine both visible and infrared light.
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JUICE Jupiter mission launch attempt 2
Due to the weather, yesterdays JUICE launch was scrubbed, they will attempt another launch today.
The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Friday April 14th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.
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Watch JUICE Jupiter mission launch today
The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Thursday April 13th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.
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JUICE Jupiter mission launch on April 13?
The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Thursday April 13th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.
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From Venice to the edge of the Universe
Interesting video from the European space agency. This was posted to Mastodon so I am sharing here.
A video produced for the Hubble traveling exhibition Our Place in Space in 2017, zooms from Venice out through the Solar System, the Milky Way, the Local Group and into the cosmic web
4 minute video
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Astronify testing
Back in 2020 I attended a Space Telescope Science Institute lecture on Astronify and wrote a review on this.
I an going to attempt to test the software out, so the first task is to install python-pip
May as well install this for both python and python3
apt install python-pip python-pip-whl python3-pip python3-pipdeptree
pip install astronify
Collecting astronify
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement astronify (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for astronify
Astronify is on pypy so it makes sense to perhaps do a apt search on this:-
I found the following package
pypi2deb
apt install pypi2deb has quite a few extra requirements so may take a while
man page for pip also points to
pip search
so tried to do a search for astronify but the package seems to crash,
pip search astronify
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 143, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/search.py", line 48, in run
pypi_hits = self.search(query, options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/search.py", line 65, in search
hits = pypi.search({'name': query, 'summary': query}, 'or')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1602, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_internal/download.py", line 791, in request
return self.parse_response(response.raw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1493, in parse_response
return u.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 800, in close
raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
Fault: <Fault -32500: "RuntimeError: PyPI's XMLRPC API has been temporarily disabled due to unmanageable load and will be deprecated in the near future. See https://status.python.org/ for more information.">
So at first glance this may not seem useful, the error is more useful to anyone who understands it. Next step would be to ask on some forums for help.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Astronify,#Astronony,#STSCI,#Data,#Sonification,#ESA,#Hubble,#Research
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Astronify follow up
Back in 2020 I attended a Space Telescope Science Institute lecture on Astronify and wrote a review on this.
I found this as a result of another post on Mastodon earlier today from Khurram Wadee. This is the sonification of the Pillars of creation, within the Eagle Nebula. This nicely illustrates how the research of the Astronify team works.
There is also a video about this nebula here which is interesting.
I have included some related links below, including a link to the Qoto Mastodon instance, and the related Discourse forum where you can discuss a range of STEM topics.
Lots of research going on, which is really exciting. If you want to learn more, the Open University offer courses within the Space Sciences.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Astronify,#Astronony,#STSCI,#Data,#Sonification,#TheOpenUniversity,#ESA,#Hubble,#Research
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