Zimbabwean Astronomical Society’s Post

The International Astronomical Union (IAU)'s XXXII General Assembly 2024, which received more than 3,000 abstracts from over 150 countries, marks a historic moment as it is the first time the meeting will be held in Africa and highlights the astronomical community’s eagerness to share their science with the world. https://ow.ly/8EGV50RQMNC A paid virtual option is available for those wishing to present their research & engage with the international astronomical community w/o the hassle & carbon emissions of international travel. Register before 31 May to ensure your virtual participation without paying the late registration rate. #Astronomy #ExploreAstronomy

ARISS Radio Contact Update from our ARISS Mentor!! 1. Our African citizen science community will be communicating with astronauts via phone and Zoom. 2. After reading the attachment, if you prefer the option of establishing a direct radio contact, then let us know so we can relay your option to ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station. However, you'll incur the expenses of building the technology. We advise that you choose the same option as the rest of us. 3. Very soon, we will post frequent updates on this project and will open a new webpage dedicated to this event on our website so you can get more information about it. Africa is excelling in astronomy! 💪🚀

MTSU Feb. 2 Star Party Features 'Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy' - Wgnsradio: MTSU Feb. 2 Star Party Features 'Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy'  Wgnsradio http://dlvr.it/T28WC8 #ai #artificialintelligence

🎆 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

Astronomers Discover Universe's Brightest Object: The brightest known object in the universe, a quasar 500tn times brighter than our sun, was "hiding in plain sight," researchers say. From a report: Australian scientists spotted a quasar powered by the fastest growing black hole ever discovered. Its mass is about 17bn times that of our solar system's sun, and it devours the equivalent of a sun a day. The light from the celestial object travelled for more than 12bn years to reach Earth. Australian National University scientists first spotted it using a 2.3-metre telescope at the universityâ(TM)s NSW Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabran. They then confirmed the find using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope, which has a primary mirror of 8 metres. The findings by the ANU researchers, in collaboration with the ESO, the University of Melbourne, and France's Sorbonne Université have been published in Nature Astronomy. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The February issue of Nature Astronomy is now here! We chose an unusual cover image, one that features SuperBIT, an instrument that was suspended under a balloon the size of a small stadium. SuperBIT travelled through the stratosphere in order to observe the sky without the contaminating effects of the Earth's lower atmosphere. Check out the Mission Control column in the issue for more details. The full table of contents is here: https://lnkd.in/eBQ4bfmf Some highlights: 🔴 The Editorial this month highlights the achievements of two sibling robots that first landed on Mars 20 years ago. 💕 There is a touching World View from Allison Kirkpatrick reminding us that being a scientist doesn't make us impervious to trauma. We are people first, scientists second (or third... or fourth...) 🗣 In Kyiv, Ukraine, astrobiologists recently held a scientific conference... not only to present their work, but to support each other and demonstrate the endurance of science. (see the Meeting Report in the issue) 👨💻 Our Access Code column this month features GADGET, the code that supports many of astronomy's most extensive simulations, such as the Millennium Simulation.

Astronomers Discover Universe's Brightest Object: The brightest known object in the universe, a quasar 500tn times brighter than our sun, was "hiding in plain sight," researchers say. From a report: Australian scientists spotted a quasar powered by the fastest growing black hole ever discovered. Its mass is about 17bn times that of our solar system's sun, and it devours the equivalent of a sun a day. The light from the celestial object travelled for more than 12bn years to reach Earth. Australian National University scientists first spotted it using a 2.3-metre telescope at the universityâ(TM)s NSW Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabran. They then confirmed the find using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope, which has a primary mirror of 8 metres. The findings by the ANU researchers, in collaboration with the ESO, the University of Melbourne, and France's Sorbonne Université have been published in Nature Astronomy. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Astronomers Discover Universe's Brightest Object: The brightest known object in the universe, a quasar 500tn times brighter than our sun, was "hiding in plain sight," researchers say. From a report: Australian scientists spotted a quasar powered by the fastest growing black hole ever discovered. Its mass is about 17bn times that of our solar system's sun, and it devours the equivalent of a sun a day. The light from the celestial object travelled for more than 12bn years to reach Earth. Australian National University scientists first spotted it using a 2.3-metre telescope at the universityâ(TM)s NSW Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabran. They then confirmed the find using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope, which has a primary mirror of 8 metres. The findings by the ANU researchers, in collaboration with the ESO, the University of Melbourne, and France's Sorbonne Université have been published in Nature Astronomy. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Make a great start of the new year by reading this amazing article by Omar O.!