The observations from the European Space Agency’s Gaia probe cover almost two billion stars — about 1 percent of the total number in the galaxy — and are allowing astronomers to reconstruct our home galaxy’s structure and find out how it has evolved over billions of years.
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Jun
13
2022
Gaia Probe Reveals Stellar DNA and Unexpected ‘Starquakes’, The Guardian
Jun
09
2022
NASA Joins the Hunt for UFOs, The Washington Post
NASA’s effort will be led by Simons Foundation President David Spergel and Daniel Evans of NASA’s science mission directorate, and would examine observations of events that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena.
Quantum Physics Exponentially Improves Some Types of Machine Learning, Science News
On certain types of machine learning tasks, quantum computers have an exponential advantage over standard computation, researchers report in Science. And the team showed that the advantage holds up in real-world tests.
May
24
2022
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