NASA launches $4.3bn Roman Telescope to uncover universe's hidden secrets Share NASA launches $4.3bn Roman Telescope to uncover universe's hidden secrets on social media NASA's newest flagship astronomical observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has been launched on a quest to solve some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology, including hunting for planets around other stars, exploring dark energy and scanning the cosmos. SpaceX, the aerospace company run by Elon Musk, launched the $4.3bn space telescope on a triple-the-fire-power Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida just after dawn on Sunday. It will take more than three months to get there. Its mission is planned for five years although the United States space agency said the telescope may have enough fuel for five additional years, given that the telescope is designed to be refuelled. If a robotic tanker becomes available in the coming decade, that could extend the Roman Telescope's life.

How NASA's new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope compares with Hubble and Webb This trio of high-tech observatories will continue to unlock the secrets of the cosmos. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The NASA observatory is designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics. Roman's barrel-like shape will help block out unwanted light from the eun, Earth, and moon, and the spacecraft's distant location will help keep the instruments cool. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week.

Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Say More Mashable Selects Mashable Voices Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag All Series NASA's Roman telescope is built to find what Hubble and Webb miss Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the clouds . Through 17 years of reporting, she's covered a variety of topics, including health, business, and government, with a penchant for public records requests. She previously worked for in Norfolk, Virginia, and in Annapolis, Maryland. Her work has earned numerous state awards, including the Virginia Press Association's top honor, Best in Show, and national recognition for narrative storytelling. For each year she has covered space, Sauers has won National Headliner Awards, including first place for her Sex in Space series.

The trio is shining 500 light-years away from Earth. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars in the process of becoming their best selves in the constellation Scorpius. Posted to the agency's site on January 16 as part of its Hubble Stellar Construction Zones series, the three T Tauri stars--seen at the bottom right, upper center, and left along with many other stellar objects in the background--are forming inside the hazy Lupus 3 cloud about 500 light-years from Earth. While the image appears somewhat serene, the interior forces at play are anything but tranquil.

The cosmic oddball that's 67 million light-years away has a puzzling shape. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. What does it look like in your mind? Chances are, it's a swirling circle of galactic energy . A galaxy is often described as one of a few broadly defined shapes--elliptical, spiral, or lenticular--as described by the Hubble sequence .

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to critical failure modes, including \textit{intrinsic faithfulness hallucinations} (also known as confabulations), where a response deviates semantically from the provided context. Frameworks designed to detect this, such as Semantic Divergence Metrics (SDM), rely on identifying latent topics shared between prompts and responses, typically by applying geometric clustering to their sentence embeddings. This creates a disconnect, as the topics are optimized for spatial proximity, not for the downstream information-theoretic analysis. In this paper, we bridge this gap by developing a principled topic identification method grounded in the Deterministic Information Bottleneck (DIB) for geometric clustering. Our key contribution is to transform the DIB method into a practical algorithm for high-dimensional data by substituting its intractable KL divergence term with a computationally efficient upper bound. The resulting method, which we dub UDIB, can be interpreted as an entropy-regularized and robustified version of K-means that inherently favors a parsimonious number of informative clusters. By applying UDIB to the joint clustering of LLM prompt and response embeddings, we generate a shared topic representation that is not merely spatially coherent but is fundamentally structured to be maximally informative about the prompt-response relationship. This provides a superior foundation for the SDM framework and offers a novel, more sensitive tool for detecting confabulations.

Notes for ChatGPT by Zoho: Say hello to Zoho Notebook extension for ChatGPT! Without switching tabs, you can use this amazing tool to save all of your ChatGPT conversations as notes in the Notebook app. To use it, all you need to do is just ask all of your questions in ChatGPT and save the entire conversation or each individual chat as a note in Notebook. YouTube Summarizer with ChatGPT: This free Chrome extension lets you quickly access the summary of the YouTube videos you are currently watching with OpenAI's ChatGPT AI technology. All you can do with this tool is get transcripts in many languages, summarize the video with ChatGPT, scroll into the currently playing timestamp, and copy-n-paste all the transcripts.

In recent announcement by NASA, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) science team released five spectacular images in its first science package. Astronomers, researchers and scientists smarter and more educated than me have spent a lot of time providing their thoughts on what we can see in each of these images. But let's take a moment to look at what NASA released and understand why NASA chose this set of images for the first science release. Image 1 – The spikes seen above are not artistic, but rather an artifact of the actual telescope. One of the unique characteristics that will grace nearly every image taken from the JWST will be the iconic "diffraction spikes" that appear around stars in an image.

An unprecedented number of first-time investigators have secured viewing time on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in the years since the agency overhauled the application process to reduce systemic biases. In 2018, NASA changed the way it evaluates requests for observing time on Hubble by introducing a'double-blind' system, in which neither the applicants nor the reviewers assessing their proposals know each other's identities. All the agency's other telescopes followed suit the next year. The move was intended to cut discrimination on the basis of gender and other factors, including bias against scientists who are at small research institutions, or who haven't received NASA grants before. Data from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, which manages Hubble, show that since the change was introduced, more first-time principal investigators have been securing viewing time on Hubble. How do mathematicians come up with new theories?

NASA has announced that it will attempt a'risky' manoeuvre to fix its 31-year-old Hubble space telescope later today. Hubble accidentally went offline due to a mysterious glitch on June 13 that took down one of its main computers. But NASA says it's located the source of the problem – a faulty power regulator in the computer's Power Control Unit (PCU). It will attempt a switch to a backup PCU staring Thursday (July 15), which, if successful, will bring Hubble back to normal science operations in'several days'. Hubble, a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), has been observing the universe for over three decades.