Author: Earl White
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Low cost telescope digital setting circles
This I have to try! Only needs a includes an AS5600 magnetic rotation Hall effect sensor, an ESP32 -less than $100 worth of parts, along with compatibility SkySafari and other apps. Find an article here at Hack a Day More details at Thingverse.
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Smart Telescopes in 2024
This is a blog article I wrote for my work, The Binocular and Telescope shop or BINTEL to our friends. There’s lots of new tech and products coming out and it’s a great time to get into astronomy or rediscover your love for the night sky. Full article can be found here It’s been an…
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Water found deep under the surface of Mars
Mars is known to have had lots of surface water in the past. No doubt some of it evaporated into space, but the rest? Only one way to go – down. Now scientists using data from older data from the InSight lander have found evidence for cracks in the Martian surface filled with water. The…
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Planet 9 – is there something BIG in the outer Solar System?
Note: A post from my work blog – original here. There’s something strange going on with the planets on the outer edge of the Solar System…. For centuries, astronomers have been using slight oddities in the motion of known planets to uncover other planets. Probably the most famous of these was the discovery of the…
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Astronomers closing on a complete picture for how planets form
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form? And do planets form around all stars. When we look at the planets in our Solar System, including our own planet Earth, we find that they formed nearly at the same time…
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RIP Peter Higgs
Famed physicist who lent his name to the Higgs boson has passed away. One of the major triumphs in particle physics of recent years was the search for the Higgs Boson – the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. A…
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Fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth half a billion years earlier than we thought
A new study published in Nature Geoscience provides the first evidence of fresh water and dry land on Earth by 4 billion years ago – pushing back the conditions for life to have existed on our planet hundreds of millions of years. More here.