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We are running two astronomy nights this year with Midlands Astronomy Club in Lough Boora as these nights are so popular. On this second night, we have the chance to look up at the night's sky with amazing telescopes and will a special guest. We will be joined by Dr John Elliot of the SETI Post Detection Hub which is based at St Andrew's University. SETI is the international project which is searching for extra-terristerial life and the post detection hub which is planning for what we will do if we discover we are not alone in the cosmos ?! Interest has risen considerably recently, due to the detection of thousands of planets around distant stars in our own galaxy and, closer to home, through the exploration of nearby worlds such as Mars and Venus, looking for signs of life, present or past. The potential discovery of microbial life will likely raise different types of concern that would follow the discovery of intelligent life – we are as yet entirely unprepared as a species for the latter. The time is thus right for consideration of humanity’s response – and responsibility – following the detection of both life and intelligence in the Cosmos. Come along for some amazing star-gazing in Lough Boora and hear a little about what we might do if ET calls us :) #scienceweek #staycurious #believeinscience #astronomy https://lnkd.in/dgUBVP5s

🎆 Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, a Docent and Research Council of Finland Fellow at the Turun yliopisto - University of Turku and his colleagues in Finland and Japan are studying the death events of stars, known as supernovae. The collaboration itself has already existed for the past several years, where they've conducted research on various time-domain astronomy and supernova-related topics, combining observational data analysis and theoretical calculations. ❄ Dr. Kuncarayakti's project uses LUMI to simulate the supernova explosion and interaction, which requires significant computational power. This is the 4th blog in series that represents collaboration projects between Finland-Japan and Finland-Colorado that use LUMI supercomputer to address global challenges and top-level research topics in different fields. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gZ6a_2_n Kyoto University | The University of Tokyo | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan #supernova #astronomy #HPC #LUMIsupercomputer

While distance measurements in astronomy often have uncertainties, star cluster NGC 3532 (aka Wishing Well Cluster) serves as a candidate for an object roughly 1000 light-years distant from Earth. ...and that makes daily science fact number 1,000!!!! #science #sciencefacts #starcluster #wishingwellcluster #lightyear #lightyears #thousand

What a fascinating way of “hearing” the data, signals, and patterns to explore and appreciate! 🎶 “More recently, doctors embraced sound to indicate specific medical readings; the beep-beep of an electrocardiogram is perhaps the most iconic (unless you count Monty Python’s medical device that goes bing!).” #bigdata #sonography #sonographer #sonographers #sound #sounds #soundeffects #soundengineering #soundtherapy

What a highly skilled educator can do: explain complex stuff in no time without falling mentally apart.

Such a complex concept explained in graspable short time…

Have to repost this, of course.

When thinking about communication systems, one of the first components that comes to mind is an amplifier. But what exactly does an amplifier do? Simply put, an amplifier strengthens a weak communication signal, though this often comes at the cost of factors such as dynamic range, return loss, stability, or noise figure. Amplifiers play a crucial role in various fields, including earth science radiometry, transceivers, and radio astronomy. Visit our blog to learn more about the Design and Operation of Low Noise Amplifiers: https://t.ly/_Xags

This is my first article. This article accepted by New Astronomy journal. If you want to see all the article you can go to this link: https://lnkd.in/dRSMaTe3

When thinking about communication systems, one of the first components that comes to mind is an amplifier. But what exactly does an amplifier do? Simply put, an amplifier strengthens a weak communication signal, though this often comes at the cost of factors such as dynamic range, return loss, stability, or noise figure. Amplifiers play a crucial role in various fields, including earth science radiometry, transceivers, and radio astronomy. Visit our blog to learn more about the Design and Operation of Low Noise Amplifiers: https://t.ly/_Xags