Remote Sensing

NASA Hubble Finds First Free-Floating Black Hole

Forbes: For the first time ever, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble telescope has reported the observation of a free-floating black hole wholly independent of a stellar mass companion. Heretofore, black holes have only been identified as supermassive objects at the centers…

James Webb Space Telescope Gets Ready To Study The Geology Of Strange New Worlds

Forbes: According to a news release by NASA, with its mirror segments beautifully aligned and its scientific instruments undergoing last checks, the James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks…

Bam deploys robot dog for surveying work

New Civil Engineer: A robotic dog fitted with in-built laser scanners has been put to work by Bam Nuttall on a remote construction site in Shetland. Bam Nuttall successfully trialled the integrated Trimble X7 laser scanner with Boston Dynamics’ Spot® robot in…

Black Hole Image Reveals the Beast Inside the Milky Way’s Heart

Quanta Magazine: Today, more than three years after the release of the first-ever image of a black hole, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) shared an image of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star) — the supermassive specimen sitting at the center…