Gopi Thotakura becomes first Indian space tourist: What is space travel — and how much can a journey cost? 🔗
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Gopi Thotakura becomes first Indian space tourist: What is space travel — and how much can a journey cost?
Thotakura flew aboard a spacecraft of Blue Origin, one of the few private space companies offering a joy ride to people wanting to venture into space. The whole journey, from take off to landing lasted only about ten minutes.
James Webb Space Telescope spots earliest-known galaxy: What a new study says 🔗
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James Webb Space Telescope spots earliest-known galaxy: What a new study says
This galaxy, called JADES-GS-z14-0, measures about 1,700-light years across. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, which is 9.5 trillion km.
What is Claude 3.5 Sonnet and how is it better than GPT-4o, Gemini-1.5 Pro? 🔗
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What is Claude 3.5 Sonnet and how is it better than GPT-4o, Gemini-1.5 Pro?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a large language model (LLM), and is part of the family of LLMs which is being developed by Anthropic.
Why has an international astronomical group joined calls for creating time standard for the Moon? 🔗
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Why has an international astronomical group joined calls for creating time standard for the Moon?
The specifics for creating a time standard for the Moon are not clear yet. An OSTP official, however, told Reuters that like on the Earth, atomic clocks can be deployed on the lunar surface to set a time standard
3I/Atlas: How do scientists determine if an object is interstellar? 🔗
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3I/Atlas: How do scientists determine if an object is interstellar?
3I/Atlas was first spotted on July 1 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas) survey telescope in RÃo Hurtado, Chile. At the time it was about 670 million km from the Sun