Hacker News with Generative AI: Space

Are the Colors in Astronomical Images 'Real'? (scientificamerican.com)
In colorful photographs of galaxies, stars, planets, and more, what you see isn’t necessarily what you get
Astronomy, Image Processing, Science, Space
19 points by bryanrasmussen 12 days ago | 30 comments
Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two stars (newscientist.com)
After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion
Space, Astronomy, Binary Stars, Planets
6 points by speckx 15 days ago | 0 comments
Space Force tech mission threatened by staff and funding black hole (theregister.com)
Budget slashing has 'outsized impact' on us, says commander who fears branch not ready for orbital war
Space Force, Military, Budget, Technology, Space
4 points by rntn 15 days ago | 0 comments
China launches first of 2,800 satellites for AI space computing constellation (spacenews.com)
HELSINKI — China launched 12 satellites early Wednesday for an on-orbit computing project led by startup ADA Space and Zhejiang Lab.
Space, Artificial Intelligence, China, Satellite Technology
4 points by sxp 19 days ago | 1 comments
Largest database of nanosatellites, over 4400 nanosats and CubeSats (nanosats.eu)
World's largest database of nanosatellites, over 4400 nanosats and CubeSats
Space, Databases, Satellites, Nanosatellites
12 points by ohjeez 20 days ago | 1 comments
Live, 24/7 4K ultra high-def video of Earth from space (space.com)
Space, Earth Observation, Video, Technology
14 points by vednig 24 days ago | 3 comments
Project West Ford (wikipedia.org)
Project West Ford (also known as Westford Needles and Project Needles) was a test carried out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory on behalf of the United States military in 1961 and 1963 to create an artificial ionosphere above the Earth.
Science, Military, Space, History
5 points by nabla9 24 days ago | 0 comments
Starcloud (ycombinator.com)
Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity, to be able to train large models like GPT6.
Space, Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence
146 points by wiley1454 24 days ago | 305 comments
NASA turns the screams of a dying star into music (space.com)
Space, Astronomy, Music, Science
4 points by dylan604 25 days ago | 1 comments
One Alien's Trash Is Another Alien's Treasure (thebsdetector.substack.com)
Fair warning: lots of technical content in this post. I have provided an abundance of hyperlinks that might provide some useful background.
Aliens, Technology, Space
13 points by surprisetalk 25 days ago | 0 comments
Satellite will have to be turned off when it floats over the US (thecooldown.com)
Determined to measure how much carbon Earth's forests capture, the European Space Agency and Airbus have developed the Biomass satellite.
Space, Environment, Climate Change, Satellites
19 points by howard941 26 days ago | 15 comments
Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit (theguardian.com)
A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half century after its failed launch to Venus.
Space, History, Soviet Union, Space Exploration, Earth
12 points by tzmlab 27 days ago | 0 comments
Cosmos 482 Descent Craft tracker (tacc.utexas.edu)
AstriaGraph is a public-private partnership in which the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses by third parties.
Space, Tracking, Public-Private Partnerships
35 points by Kaibeezy 28 days ago | 7 comments
From the Debris of Halley's Comet (nautil.us)
Fragments of the storied Halley’s Comet are zinging into Earth’s atmosphere this week in the annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which will peak in the early dark of Tuesday morning.
Astronomy, Space, Meteor Showers, Halley's Comet
4 points by Bender 28 days ago | 0 comments
Cosmos-482 descent craft re-entry prediction (blogs.esa.int)
On 10 May, an uncontrolled reentry will take place of the so-called Cosmos-482 descent craft, a Soviet Venera landing capsule that launched 53 years ago.
Space, Re-entry, Satellites
26 points by _kb 28 days ago | 5 comments
Kosmos 482 Descent Craft reentry forecasts (blogspot.com)
In the second week of May 2025, an unusual object will reenter. It concerns the Kosmos 482 Descent Craft (1972-023E, cat. nr. 6073).
Space, Satellites, Reentry
8 points by Luc 28 days ago | 0 comments
Radiation Tolerant Software Framework for Space Applications (github.com/r0nlt)
A C++ framework for implementing machine learning models that can operate reliably in radiation environments, such as space. This framework implements industry-standard radiation tolerance techniques validated against NASA and ESA reference models.
Space, Software, Machine Learning, C++
6 points by r0nlt 29 days ago | 4 comments
18-Year-Old U.S. Teen Develops AI to Reveal 1.5M New Space Objects (techoreon.com)
What began as a childhood fascination with stars has turned into one of the most striking discoveries in recent astronomy.
Artificial Intelligence, Space, Astronomy, Teenagers
22 points by Guptos 30 days ago | 6 comments
Exceptionally rare radio sources detected in the distant universe (mashable.com)
Astronomers have spotted a pair of exotic features believed to be the aftermath of a colossal cosmic smackdown — not between two galaxies, but two groups of galaxies.
Astronomy, Space, Galaxies, Cosmic Events
19 points by slater 30 days ago | 1 comments
Elon Musk's Starbase in Texas will officially become a city (bbc.com)
The area where Elon Musk's SpaceX company operates on the southern tip of Texas is to officially become a city called Starbase.
Elon Musk, SpaceX, Texas, Cities, Space
5 points by ksec 33 days ago | 0 comments
SpaceX launch site is approved as the new city of Starbase (apnews.com)
A missile from Yemen halts flights in Israel hours before top officials vote on plans for Gaza war
Space, Politics, Israel, Yemen
7 points by geox 34 days ago | 0 comments
Falling satellites put the atmosphere at risk (bloomberg.com)
Daily life increasingly depends on systems of satellites orbiting Earth. As fleets proliferate, ever greater numbers of expired units will hurtle back toward the surface.
Space, Environmental Risk, Technology, Satellites
14 points by namanyayg 34 days ago | 0 comments
US Buzzes China's Military Satellites in Unfolding Space Rivalry (newsweek.com)
An American military satellite was reportedly "buzzing" its Chinese counterparts as China rapidly advances in a new space race to challenge U.S. leadership in this domain.
Space, Military, China, United States
4 points by andrewfromx 35 days ago | 0 comments
Weapons of war are launching from Cape Canaveral since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
The US military launched a long-range hypersonic missile Friday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a test flight that, if successful, could pave the way for the weapon's operational deployment later this year.
Military, Weapons, Space, Hypersonic Missiles
13 points by Bender 42 days ago | 1 comments
Magnetic Collapse: A Spur to Evolution? (centauri-dreams.org)
The sublime, almost fearful nature of deep time sometimes awes me even more than the kind of distances we routinely discuss in these pages.
Evolution, Science, Space, Time
9 points by JPLeRouzic 42 days ago | 0 comments
Webb brings dying star's energetic display into full focus (phys.org)
Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Space, Astronomy, Stars
7 points by wglb 44 days ago | 1 comments
Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole (phys.org)
A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern Observatory, has confirmed the existence of a lone black hole.
Astronomy, Black Holes, Space
241 points by wglb 46 days ago | 172 comments
A satellite ended up as a ghostly apparition on Google Earth (arstechnica.com)
Zoom in over rural North Texas for a spacey surprise.
Space, Google Earth, Satellite Imagery
8 points by PaulHoule 47 days ago | 1 comments
An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution (thisiscolossal.com)
In January 2021, Joshua Rozells ventured out into the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia, intending to photograph a star trail. But after shooting for more than three hours and reviewing his images, he realized that the light patterns he captured weren’t what he had hoped for.
Photography, Satellite Pollution, Space, Australia
194 points by surprisetalk 49 days ago | 128 comments
SpaceX pitches subscription model for Trump's Golden Dome (teslarati.com)
SpaceX pitched a subscription model for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome for America.
SpaceX, Donald Trump, Politics, Business, Space
11 points by 5555624 50 days ago | 5 comments