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🌟 We are excited to announce a distinguished figures in science and technology! 🌟 Today, we proudly spotlight Hugh Frank Newall, an eminent astronomer whose pioneering work expanded our understanding of the cosmos. 🌌👏 Huge applause to our talented AIML student, Aditya Verma, for creating today's exceptional poster that beautifully encapsulates Newall's remarkable contributions. 🎨✨ Hugh Frank Newall: The Visionary Astronomer 🌌 Achievements in Astronomy: Hugh Frank Newall is renowned for his significant contributions to the field of astronomy. His work with large telescopes and his innovative spectroscopic studies have greatly enhanced our understanding of stellar and solar phenomena. 🔭 From Observations to Discoveries: Newall's dedication to astronomical observation led to advancements in our knowledge of the sun's spectrum and the behavior of stars. His research was instrumental in developing new techniques for studying celestial objects. 📝 Legacy and Honors: Newall's impactful work in astronomy earned him a lasting legacy among the scientific community. His contributions to the design and use of large telescopes have paved the way for modern astronomical research and discoveries. 🌟 Inspiration for Future Generations: Newall's passion for exploring the universe and his innovative approach to observing the stars continue to inspire astronomers and scientists. His legacy lives on in the ever-expanding field of astronomy, encouraging new generations to reach for the stars. Join us as we continue to honor the innovators who are shaping our future. 🚀🌍 #IEEE #AryabhattaClub #Science #Innovation #Astronomy #HughFrankNewall #PioneersInScience #StellarResearch #Spectroscopy #CelestialExploration #ScientificDiscovery #SpaceScience #LegacyOfExcellence #Inspiration #FutureScientists #TechLeaders #STEM #Astrophysics

Tokyo University of Science (#TUS) has recently released the digital archive of the special exhibition “Hisashi Terao, the first director of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory.” Held at the Museum of Science, TUS, the exhibition commemorated the 100th death anniversary of Professor Hisashi Terao. The digital archive introduces the works and history of Prof. Terao, who laid the foundations of modern astronomy. Appointed in 1883, he was the first president of the Tokyo College of Science (forerunner of TUS) and the first director of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. This exhibition traced his journey both as a student and a teacher of mathematics and astronomy, featuring examples from astronomy he was taught as a student as well as handwritten notes from his astronomy lectures and other lectures at the Tokyo College of Science. Also on display was the portrait of Prof. Terao, which was painted by Viscount Seiki Kuroda and included in a memorial issue of The Astronomical Herald, which was published following Prof. Terao’s passing. Visit the digital archive: https://ow.ly/Lc2b50QvK0G Learn more about the Museum of Science at TUS: https://ow.ly/VmYq50QvK0H #TUS #DigitalArchive #HisashiTerao #Exhibition #TokyoAstronomicalObservaotry #TokyoCollegeofScience #Astronomy #MuseumOfScience

📃Scientific paper: Highlights from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory Abstract: As IceCube surpasses a decade of operation in the full detector configuration, results that drive forward the fields of neutrino astronomy, cosmic ray physics, multi-messenger astronomy, particle physics, and beyond continue to emerge at an accelerated pace. IceCube data is dominated by background events, and thus teasing out the signal is the common challenge to most analyses. Statistical accumulation of data, along with better understanding of the background fluxes, the detector, and continued development of our analysis tools have produced many profound results that were presented at ICRC2023. Highlights covered here include the first neutrino observation of the Galactic Plane, the first observation of a steady emission neutrino point source NGC1068, new characterizations of the cosmic ray flux and its secondary particles, and a possible new era in measuring the energy spectrum of the diffuse astrophysical flux. IceCube is poised to make more discoveries and drive fields forward in the near future with many novel analyses coming online. ;Comment: Presented at the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023). See arXiv:2307.13047 for all IceCube contributions Continued on ES/IODE ➡️ https://etcse.fr/vOm4 ------- If you find this interesting, feel free to follow, comment and share. We need your help to enhance our visibility, so that our platform continues to serve you.

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

How sounds can turn us on to the wonders of the universe At the January 2023 American Astronomical Society meeting, Sarah Kane, a legally blind researcher, highlighted her groundbreaking work on the "Hunt for Galactic Fossils" using sonification technology, which translates data into sound. This innovation is part of a broader trend to make science more accessible to the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community, allowing researchers to interpret complex data audibly. Despite significant advances, including the development of Astronify for audio data representation, astronomy and other scientific fields still face challenges in adopting sonification widely. Nonetheless, efforts are expanding to incorporate sonification into education and various scientific domains, showing promise for enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in research and daily life. https://lnkd.in/eqJQ2bMC

"ADVANCES IN STUDYING IMPACT PHENOMENA AND DAYLIGHT BOLIDE EVENTS: Techniques and Approaches" is a new Special Volume of Advances in Astronomy, a Hindawi open access journal. Let me invite you to contribute with an original manuscript on these exciting research topics. Find out all the details and the Guest Editors here: https://lnkd.in/denHRuB6

Astronomers Detect Sudden Awakening of Black Hole For First Time: Astronomers are observing the sudden awakening of a giant black hole in the constellation of Virgo. "Decades of observations found nothing remarkable about the distant galaxy in the constellation of Virgo, but that changed at the end of 2019 when astronomers noticed a dramatic surge in its luminosity that persists to this day," reports The Guardian. "Researchers now believe they are witnessing changes that have never been seen before, with the black hole at the galaxy's core putting on an extreme cosmic light show as vast amounts of material fall into it." From the report: The galaxy, which goes by the snappy codename SDSS1335+0728 and lies 300m light years away, was flagged to astronomers in December 2019 when an observatory in California called the Zwicky Transient Facility recorded a sudden rise in its brightness. The alert prompted a flurry of new observations and checks of archived measurements from ground- and space-based telescopes to understand more about the galaxy and its past behavior. The scientists discovered the galaxy had recently doubled in brightness in mid-infrared wavelengths, become four times brighter in the ultraviolet, and at least 10 times brighter in the X-ray range. What triggered the sudden brightening is unclear, but writing in Astronomy and Astrophysics, the researchers say the most likely explanation is the creation of an "active galactic nucleus" where a vast black hole at the centre of a galaxy starts actively consuming the material around it. Active galactic nuclei emit a broad spectrum of light as gas around the black hole heats up and glows, and surrounding dust particles absorb some wavelengths and re-radiate others. But it is not the only possibility. The team has not ruled out an exotic form of "tidal disruption event," a highly restrained phrase to describe a star that is ripped apart after straying too close to a black hole. Tidal disruption events tend to be brief affairs, brightening a galaxy for no more than a few hundred days, but more measurements are needed to rule out the process. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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

Radio astronomers unveil new calibration technique for clearer low-frequency universe imaging, Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2024 A breakthrough calibration method developed by researchers from Leiden University now enables the creation of sharp radio images of the universe at previously unattainable low frequencies. This innovative approach effectively overcomes the disruptive effects of Earth's ionosphere, allowing for unprecedented clarity in radio astronomy. The method was applied using the LOFAR