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Kousheek Chakraborty · MITResized without cropping and converted to WebP for the project card.
Kousheek Chakraborty's complete MIT-licensed analyser guide, original spectrometer photograph, and sample plots for exploring light with Python and OpenCV.
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Richard Bowman and OpenFlexure contributors · CERN-OHL-1.2Resized without cropping and converted to WebP for the project card.
Richard Bowman and contributors' full microscope build instructions: printing, flexure actuators, two optical configurations, illumination, wiring, and motorization.
Cropped measured momentum distributions from Figure 3a
V. Eggers et al. · CC BY 4.0Cropped to the two upper-left measured distributions in Figure 3a, retaining times, legend and axes; resized and encoded as WebP. Not a real-space photograph.
A Nature experiment maps light-driven electronic dynamics across graphene's momentum space. Sub-10-femtosecond frames and attosecond timing precision are different claims.
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Bob Dougherty · MITResized without cropping and converted to WebP for the project card.
Bob Dougherty's complete guide to a networked Hamamatsu C12880MA spectrometer, with sensor connections, calibration requirements, API endpoints, and the original daylight measurements.
A-81 near South Georgia on October 20, 2026
NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison; MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview · NASA factual editorial useResized and encoded as WebP; no semantic alteration.
NASA's new view follows A-81 to the edge of South Georgia's underwater shelf. The iceberg is slowing after a journey that began at Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf.
2026 ED138 orbital model
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor; image processing M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab); orbit data IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb), funded by NASA PDCO and Tamkin Foundation; star map NASA/Goddard SVS; Gaia DR2 ESA/Gaia/DPAC · CC BY 4.0Cropped orbital model to focus on the labeled candidate and orbit; resized and encoded as WebP. Model shows its May 8, 2026 position, not a resolved photograph.
Repeated Rubin images and a decade of recovered observations revealed 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto. Its estimated size is impressive, but dwarf-planet status remains unconfirmed.
Spacesuit materials on the SHERLOC calibration target
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Dust down to roughly 100-300 nanometres clings to Perseverance's calibration materials. The new measurements could help engineers design cleaner suits and habitats.
J1328-1450 proposed system artist impression
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Four spectral peaks reveal two gas rings around white dwarf J1328-1450. Surviving bodies could help maintain the structure, but those bodies have not been directly seen.
Atmospheric drag has ended Swift's observations. The fast-turning observatory leaves more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts and an archive astronomers can keep exploring.
Eight-exposure composite of comet C/2026 S1 (Euclid)
ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, M. Pontinen et al. 2026 · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOResized and encoded as WebP; no semantic alteration.
ESA's newly released Euclid images reveal how moving-object software, repeat observations and follow-up turned a faint streak into comet C/2026 S1.
MMX launch aboard H3 at Tanegashima
JAXA · JAXA immediate news useStill frame extracted from JAXA's launch sequence distributed by ESA; resized and encoded as WebP. Not a recreated launch or an image of a different rocket.
MMX has launched on an H3 rocket from Japan. Arrival at Mars, Phobos sampling and the planned 2031 Earth return remain separate milestones still ahead.
JPL predicts a roughly 564,000-mile miss distance for 2026 TS. The upcoming encounter is about 2.36 average lunar distances, not an impact warning.
NGC 1827's dusty, edge-on disc looks like one scene. A bright star projected near its center is actually much closer to us.
Juice Earth flyby view in a landscape frame
ESA/Juice/JMC · CC BY-SA 3.0 igoDark lower part of the square source frame cropped for a landscape thumbnail. Planet and foreground spacecraft remain in the original positions and colours. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO derivative.
ESA's new JANUS mosaic follows a strip across Africa. The September flyby also tested Juice's camera, power system and optical navigation.
WD J1330+6435 computed-colour panel in an editorial headline layout
Mark A. Hollands, Boris T. Gansicke, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Detlev Koester · CC BY 4.0Computed-disc panel mechanically extracted from the authors' figure, resized, placed on black and given an editorial title. No recolouring, generated stellar texture or invented measurement. CC BY 4.0 derivative; original full figure appears in the article.
WD J1330+6435 breaks the usual stellar color rules. Its dense, sodium-rich atmosphere produces a green appearance in a model of human vision.
NASA's October 15 MMX update details a neutron-and-gamma-ray instrument, a gas-powered sampler and plans to curate part of the returned material.
Chandra's new Treble Clef release connects a strange radio structure to an old black-hole outburst and a later collision between galaxy clusters.
Asteroid 2026 TL6 passed about 156,000 miles from Earth. Here is what the distance means, what the size estimate means, and what it does not imply.
Cygnus XL left the space station with twelve KREPE-3 capsules. Its planned October 12 reentry will turn a cargo disposal trip into a materials test.
DOE's four selected testbeds target reusable skills, failure testing, connected experiments, and autonomy inside major scientific facilities.
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NASA/Dennis Henry · NASA media use guidelinesSource photograph cropped for a 16:9 layout, editorial headline added; image itself not regenerated. NASA 2024 prototype photograph; context for the new engineering test unit.
NASA's next LISA telescope test unit uses a low-expansion glass-ceramic design for laser measurements between distant spacecraft.
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NASA · NASA media use guidelinesSource photograph cropped for a 16:9 layout, editorial headline added; image itself not regenerated. NASA artist concept. Target mission, not completed flight.
A new NASA-DOE agreement supports space nuclear development, while SR-1 Freedom targets a Mars trajectory and a three-helicopter payload.
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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Themiya Nanayakkara (USYD); image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) · STScI/NASA informational-use policySource photograph cropped for a 16:9 layout, editorial headline added; image itself not regenerated. Crosshair locates the source; the image does not show the radio flash.
The host of FRB 20240304B is a small, star-forming galaxy at redshift 2.148. Its age helps test what could have made the burst.
An operational thorium-229 clock closes the feedback loop around a nuclear transition. It is a new reference, not a claim to beat every atomic clock.
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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) · STScI/NASA informational-use policySource photograph cropped for a 16:9 layout, editorial headline added; image itself not regenerated. Actual Webb data mapped into visible colors.
NGC 7129 is a spectacular new Webb image, but the color contrast tells a physical story about young stars, hydrogen, and outflows.
LeoLabs detected another debris-generating event near Meteor 2-7 on October 5. A satellite's useful life can end long before its orbital consequences.
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Yuksel Temiz · Apache-2.0Resized without cropping and converted to WebP for the project card.
Yuksel Temiz's modular Raspberry Pi and Arduino microscope, with the complete original guide, assembly animations, circuit instructions, LEGO parts list, and downloadable build manuals.
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Bojan Jurca · MITResized without cropping and converted to WebP for the project card.
Bojan Jurca's complete setup guide for displaying ESP32 GPIO samples in a web browser, including the original interface screenshot, library requirements, FTP commands, and ADC limitations.
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Sander Baas, Vittorio Saggiomo · MITResized without cropping and converted to WebP for the project card.
Sander Baas and Vittorio Saggiomo's open laboratory build: original project chapters, apparatus images, assembly and operating PDFs, and the characterization document.
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Jakub Jaszczur · MITResized without cropping and converted to WebP for the project card.
Jakub Jaszczur's complete MQTT receiver guide, with the original finished-build and enclosure photographs, sensor list, display diagram, configuration examples, and PCB schematic.
An October 1 research update uses Global Meteor Network fireballs to estimate surviving rocks. The hard part is turning bright streaks into a reliable rate.
A joint Hubble-Webb survey found 27 faint worlds beyond Neptune. Their colors and scarcity offer a fresh test of how planets get their building blocks.
Cluster's final spacecraft reentered on September 1. An aircraft full of instruments watched its last seconds to improve the science of satellite disposal.
Hubble has tracked a growing ten-sided wave around Saturn's south pole. The surprise is not just its shape, but watching a planetary pattern emerge.
Compare household light sources with a fixed slit and diffraction grating, without pretending an uncalibrated box is a laboratory instrument.
NASA's Roman telescope launched on August 30. Its wide-field camera turns Hubble-like detail into a survey machine, with commissioning still ahead.
Inside a 60-foot vacuum sphere, NASA is measuring how landing-engine plumes throw lunar soil. The six-second tests target a serious landing hazard.
NASA has fueled the Roman Space Telescope and mounted it to SpaceX launch hardware ahead of a no-earlier-than August 30 Falcon Heavy flight.
Researchers found that pregnant naked mole-rat queens release one odorless chemical that suppresses fertility and conflict throughout the colony.
Astronomers detected erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar, in a Galactic Center molecular cloud - the first true sugar identified in interstellar space.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the LSST, using its 3,200-megapixel camera to photograph the southern sky every few nights for a decade.
