On March 28, 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar, near the Sagaing Fault, in one of the most powerful seismic events the region has experienced in over a century. The earthquake’s epicenter was near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, and it became the second-deadliest earthquake in the country’s modern history. Real-time footage reveals rapid fault slip In the midst …
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Sometimes serendipity happens in science. Whether it’s an apple falling from a tree or a melting chocolate bar, some of the world’s greatest discoveries come from happy accidents, even if their stories may be apocryphal. According to a new paper on arXiv, there’s a new story to add to the archives of serendipitous scientific discoveries – Rubin happened to make …
Read More »The IT company CEO captured in a widely circulated video showing him embracing an employee at a Coldplay concert has resigned. Andy Byron resigned from his job as CEO of Cincinnati-based Astronomer Inc., according to a statement posted on LinkedIn by the company Saturday. “Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our …
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Local News Andy Byron resigned from his job as CEO of Astronomer Inc., according to a statement posted on LinkedIn by the company Saturday. Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the band’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour at D. Y. Patil Sports Stadium in Navi Mumbai, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File) AP By ALEX VEIGA, Associated …
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The IT company CEO captured in a widely circulated video showing him embracing an employee at a Coldplay concert has resigned. Andy Byron resigned from his job as CEO of Cincinnati-based Astronomer Inc., according to a statement posted on LinkedIn by the company Saturday. “Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to …
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Cyril Dupuy, the founder of smart telescope maker Vaonis, has set a new record by capturing Europe’s highest-altitude image of the sun with one of the company’s telescopes during an expedition to scale Mont Blanc earlier this year. VESPERA SMART TELESCOPE (Image credit: Amazon) Wanting to see sunspots or far away galaxies? The Vaonis Vespera is a smart telescope for …
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If you want to capture the majesty of the Sun, you should probably ask an artist, but if you want to capture its raw power, that’s a job for a robot. While generations of artists have painted or photographed sunsets and poets have written sonnets to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) just sent back the closest solar snapshots …
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