Hacker News with Generative AI: Space

Parcae Ocean Surveillance Satellites (thespacereview.com)
On April 30, 1976, an Atlas F rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying a new type of satellite into space.
What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? (nasa.gov)
Hubble explores the universe 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means it has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday.
Does all intelligent life face a Great Filter? (arstechnica.com)
“Where is everybody!?”
Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn (theguardian.com)
Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, giving it an insurmountable lead in the running tally of moons in the solar system.
China is testing experimental 'dogfighting' satellites in space, US general says (businessinsider.com)
China is testing experimental satellites capable of performing complex coordinated space maneuvers, a US Space Force general said this week.
Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend (apnews.com)
Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction.
Five Chinese satellites practiced 'dogfighting' in space, Space Force says (breakingdefense.com)
US “near peer” adversaries are “practicing dogfighting” in space to simulate orbital combat in yet another step up their wide-ranging effort to develop capabilities to deny, disrupt, degrade and/or destroy US space capabilities, the Space Force’s second in command warned today.
EmptyEpsilon open source spaceship bridge simulator (daid.github.io)
EmptyEpsilon is a spaceship bridge simulator game. It's fully open source, so it can be modified in any way people wish.
Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known galaxy (eso.org)
Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0.
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space (theregister.com)
China has practiced co-ordinated satellite maneuvers in space that resemble aerial combat, according to a US Space Force General.
Samsung "space zoom" moon photos are faked by AI (2023) (reddit.com)
Many of us have witnessed the breathtaking moon photos taken with the latest zoom lenses, starting with the S20 Ultra. Nevertheless, I've always had doubts about their authenticity, as they appear almost too perfect. While these images are not necessarily outright fabrications, neither are they entirely genuine. Let me explain.
Violent supernovae triggered at least two Earth extinctions (phys.org)
At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests.
Show HN: Global Ground Station Database – 650 Satellite Ground Stations Mapped (find-gs.com)
China Made a Spy Camera That Can See Faces from Space (petapixel.com)
Chinese scientists have built a surveillance camera with unprecedented resolving capabilities.
UK Greenlights Amazon Kuiper, Starlink Faces New Rival (ieee.org)
Last month, Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s telecom regulator, granted Amazon’s Kuiper Systems a license to provide low-Earth orbit-based (LEO) broadband Internet in the country.
SpaceX Urges FCC to Block Globalstar's Cellular Satellite Plans (msn.com)
SpaceX is lobbying the FCC to block iPhone satellite provider Globalstar from launching a new constellation of 48 low-Earth orbiting satellites.
Eutelsat offers itself as a replacement for Starlink in Ukraine (heise.de)
Eutelsat aims to deploy 40,000 terminals to replace Starlink in Ukraine soon. Talks with suppliers and the EU Commission are ongoing.
In contrast to Earth, Mars's middle atmosphere appears driven by gravity waves (phys.org)
A new study by researchers including those at the University of Tokyo revealed that atmospheric gravity waves play a crucial role in driving latitudinal air currents on Mars, particularly at high altitudes.
SpaceX teams up with Thiel's Palantir, Anduril on American Golden Dome (msn.com)
Silicon Valley-linked defense companies are seizing on their newfound influence in the Trump administration to address the Pentagon’s shifting focus, pitching their services in fields ranging from autonomous drones to a newly named “Golden Dome” missile-defense shield.
Kissing moons may explain why Earth's moon is so large (cbc.ca)
Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size.
Analyzing Soft Errors in Linux on Cots SoCs Under Proton Irradiation (arxiv.org)
The increasing use of Linux on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) system-on-chip (SoC) in spaceborne computing inherits COTS susceptibility to radiation-induced failures like soft errors.
Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine (theregister.com)
Talks are underway between European leaders and Eutelsat about a possible replacement for Starlink in Ukraine.
James Webb Space Telescope's 'little red dots' come into focus (npr.org)
Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots."
The solar system is teeming with 1M 'alien invaders' from Alpha Centauri (space.com)
Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed (marksblogg.com)
Satellogic is a satellite designer, manufacturer and constellation operator. They were founded in 2010 and have offices in Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and the US.
Astronomers discover 'Quipu', the single largest structure in the known universe (livescience.com)
Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy (euclid-ec.org)
Gravitational lenses are rare in the sky – galaxies bending the light-paths of light from other galaxies behind them to form distorted or even multiple images. Even rarer is a perfect alignment of the two galaxies with us, the obervers, with the light being bent into a so-called Einstein Ring. And the rarest case was now observed by Euclid: this happening in an extremely nearby NGC galaxy.
China's declassified spy satellite's 22,370-mile reach alarms US (interestingengineering.com)
Chinese scientists have officially disclosed the sophisticated technology behind Ludi Tance 4-01, the world’s first geosynchronous orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite.
Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf (phys.org)
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored the atmosphere of a nearby brown dwarf binary designated WISE J045853.90+643451.9. As a result, they detected hydrogen cyanide and acetylene in the atmosphere of this binary, marking the first time these two species have been identified in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf.
Ringworlds and Dyson spheres can be stable (arxiv.org)
In his 1856 Adams Prize essay, James Clark Maxwell demonstrated that Saturn's rings cannot be comprised of a uniform rigid body.