Planetarium show attendees select their seats before a show. The Royden G. Derrick Planetarium on BYU's campus provides weekly shows to students and the public, according to the website. (Ty Mullen) ...

On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform we talk about the use of petascale supercomputers for training deep learning algorithms. More specifically, how this happening in Astronomy ...

A machine learning method called “deep learning,” which has been widely used in face recognition and other image- and speech-recognition applications, has shown promise in helping astronomers analyze ...

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MuFu Astronomy, an organization dedicated to popularizing astronomy, has recently announced a recruitment notice for WeChat mini program developers. This initiative aims to expand the team and ...

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I recently embarrassed myself by admitting that I know nothing about astronomy and can’t fathom my kids’ passion for it, even when we are standing under the night sky with a super-telescope. I’ve ...

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Meghan Bartels is a science journalist based in New York City who covers the science happening on the surface of Earth. She can be reached via email. It's a lot harder to reach for the stars—and ...