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New website provides updates of space radiation hazards on hourly basis Astrophysicists from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC) have come out with the first online system for predicting and forecasting the radiation environment in near-Earth, lunar, and Martian spac...
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TA-DA
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Title: TA-DA: a Tool for Astrophysical Data Analysis Authors: Nicola Da Rio, Massimo Robberto We present TA-DA, a new software aimed at greatly simplify and improve the analysis of stellar photometric data in comparison with theoretical models, and allow the derivation of stellar parameters fr...
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Mitsuba
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Free program makes computer graphics more realistic Computer-generated images can be a little more realistic -- and a lot cheaper to make -- with a rendering program created by a Cornell graduate student. Wenzel Jakob has just released a major new version of Mitsuba, a free, open-source rendering...
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Deconvolution
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Title: Efficient deconvolution methods for astronomical imaging: algorithms and IDL-GPU codes Authors: M. Prato, R. Cavicchioli, L. Zanni, P. Boccacci, M. Bertero The Richardson-Lucy method is the most popular deconvolution method in astronomy because it preserves the number of counts and t...
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SUPERBOX-10
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Title: Simulating Sinking Satellites with SUPERBOX-10 Authors: Reinhold Bien, Tobias Brandt, Andreas Just SUPERBOX-10 is the successor of SUPERBOX, a particle-mesh code where additional grids and sub-grids are applied to regions of high particle density. Previous limitations have been sol...
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Zaxxon
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30 Years On, Arcade Classic Zaxxon Continues 30 years ago Segas isometric space shooter Zaxxon took arcades by storm, confusing early gamers with its at-the-time freaky isometric perspective. Players were tasked with destroying the evil robot Zaxxon deep within its asteroid base. How did we get...
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Free Software Foundation
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organisation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software, with the organization's preference fo...
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Fonts
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OpenDyslexic font gains ground with help of Instapaper A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining favour. OpenDyslexic's characters have been given "heavy-weighted bottoms" to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds...
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Miner Wars 2081
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Miner Wars 2081 - Closed Beta Released After three years of furious development, we are almost at the finishing line. Miner Wars 2081 has left ALPHA phase and is now officially in BETA. This is an exciting time. We've currently packed in 31 missions, which is about 10-15 hours of straight game play, bu...
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Virtual Sky
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Virtual Sky 0.3.8 I wanted to share a quick update on Virtual Sky. I created it as part of my work at LCOGT where it was, initially, an experiment in using some of the latest web techniques (HTML5 canvas). However it became clear that, as well as being useful for parts of the LCOGT website, it could allow o...
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'Earth Now' App
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NASA's New 'Earth Now' App: Your World, Unplugged A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands. "Earth Now" immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's fleet of Earth science satelli...
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Launcher aerodynamic simulations
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Virtual rocket launches will probe atmospheric effects A rocket launch is the only human activity that immediately affects all layers of the atmosphere, discharging hundreds of tonnes of fuel. As part of ESA's new Clean Space initiative, advanced computer modelling will quantify the environme...
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Flexible Image Transport System
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FITS or Flexible Image Transport System is a digital file format used to store, transmit, and manipulate scientific and other images. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy. Read more FITSview The FITSview family consi...
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SA/Hubble Top 100 Images v2.0 app
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ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images v2.0 app now available An updated version of the popular ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images app is now available to download from iTunes. The new version takes full advantage of the third generation iPads retina display and quad core graphics. Read more
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C2A Planetarium software
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C2A (Computer Aided Astronomy) is a Planetarium software that allows you to build detailed views of stellar fields. An important objective of this software is to take into account the main catalogues available to professional and amateur astronomers in order to prepare observations on small...
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