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Caltech Team Sets Record with 6,100-Qubit Array The neutral-atom platform shows promise for scaling up quantum computers.

Caltech physicists have created the largest qubit array ever assembled: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of qubits.

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NASA’s Deep Space Communications Demo Exceeds Project Expectations The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars.

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth at distances comparable to Mars.

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Photograph of ESA Director of Science, Carole Mundell, and OHB System AG CEO, Chiara Pedersoli shaking hands at the signature event.

LISA moves forward! 〰️

Today, at the #ParisAirShow, ESA and OHB System AG have sealed their agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.

The triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.

Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

NASA’s SPHEREx Takes First Images, Preps to Study Millions of Galaxies - NASA Processed with rainbow hues to represent a range of infrared wavelengths, the new pictures indicate the astrophysics space observatory is working as expected.

SPHEREx first light images!
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Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL We're coming for you, near-Earth objects.

NEO Surveyor, the follow-on asteroid hunter built on the successes of NEOWISE, is on the front page of the print LA Times today:

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A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Way’s disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line.

For over a decade, Gaia has mapped our galaxy with stunning precision, rewriting the story of our Milky Way.

Let's look back at the mission's most groundbreaking discoveries coming from three trillion observations. Watch the video 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

What I Learned About Earth After a Year on "Mars" — Caltech Magazine By Elise Cutts (BS ’19) Ross Brockwell (MS ’01) had plenty of time to mull over what he wanted for his first meal back on Earth. On June 25, 2023, the Caltech alum and three crewmates sealed the d...

On June 25, 2023, Caltech alum Ross Brockwell (MS ‘01) and three crewmates sealed the door of their 3D-printed habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The door would stay shut for 378 days. What did he learn? Come read about it!

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NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning The agency’s PUNCH mission caught a ride to Earth orbit with SPHEREx, which will map the entire sky to learn more about what happened in the first second after the big bang.

The agency’s PUNCH mission caught a ride to Earth orbit with SPHEREx, which will map the entire sky to learn more about what happened in the first second after the big bang.

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SPHEREx and PUNCH Launch (Official NASA Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

NASA’s SPHEREx and Punch live coverage has begun! Catch the livestream here:

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Join our livestream for the release of images from #Hera’s flyby of Mars, Thursday, 13 March, starting at 10:50 GMT/11:50 CET!

NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory - NASA Science NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational

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Supermassive Black Hole Likely Lurking in Milky Way's Nearest Neighbor <p data-block-key="q2pjl"><i>Astronomers traced the paths of "hypervelocity" stars to uncover the hidden monster.</i></p>

Astronomers have found what appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest satellite galaxy to our own.

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2,700 Pages Later, a Space Mission Is Born Jamie Bock discusses SPHEREx, a new mission recently selected by NASA

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Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT - Nature A&nbsp;very high-energy muon observed by the KM3NeT experiment in the Mediterranean Sea is evidence for the interaction of an exceptionally high-energy neutrino of cosmic origin. &nbsp;

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Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)

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