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Citizen Science im Bus: Amateure entdecken explodierenden Stern fast in Echtzeit
Im Rahmen des Projekts Kilonova Science kann jeder und jede zwischendurch mal eben nach explodierenden Sternen suchen. Nun gibt es eine erste große Entdeckung.

Explosion reportedly kills former Russian proxy mayor in occupied Luhansk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/explosion-reportedly-kills-former-russian.html

Sources: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

New VLT image shows supernova remnant 0509-67.5, the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double detonation-- the first photographic evidence that stars can die with two blasts https://phys.org/news/2025-07-detonation-image-star-de…

Double detonation: New image shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), they have found patterns that confirm its star suffered a pair of explosive blasts.

Erster sichtbarer Beweis für doppelte Explosion eines Weißen Zwergsterns
Laut einer vergleichsweise neuen Theorie können Weiße Zwerge unter Umständen zweimal nacheinander explodieren. Nun gibt es erstmals einen bildlichen Nachweis.

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey - Confirmation of a Long-period Giant #Planet Discovered with a Single TESS Transit: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add88b -> UNM astronomers confirm new gas giant exoplanet with help from citizen scientists worldwide: https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-astronomers-confirm-new-gas-giant-exoplanet-with-help-from-citizen-scientists-worldwide -> NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft and citizen scientists discover a cool new alien world: https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/nasa-exoplanet-hunting-spacecraft-and-citizen-scientists-discover-a-cool-new-alien-world

Learning to Explore: An In-Context Learning Approach for Pure Exploration
Alessio Russo, Ryan Welch, Aldo Pacchiano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01876 https:…

Learning to Explore: An In-Context Learning Approach for Pure Exploration
In this work, we study the active sequential hypothesis testing problem, also known as pure exploration, where the goal is to actively control a data collection process to efficiently identify the correct hypothesis underlying a decision problem. While relevant across multiple domains, devising adaptive exploration strategies remains challenging, particularly due to difficulties in encoding appropriate inductive biases. Existing Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based methods often underperform when …

'A powerful secondary explosion' — Ukrainian drones destroy Russian ammunition depot in Donetsk Oblast, SBU says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/a-powerful-secondary-explosion-ukrainian.html

The Detection-vs-Retrieval Challenge - #Titan as an Exoplanet: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12144 -> Titan is the Perfect Benchmark for Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/titan-is-the-perfect-benchmark-for-studying-exoplanet-atmospheres

Erdähnliche Exoplaneten um die kleinsten Roten Zwergsterne besonders häufig
Sogenannte M-Zwerge sind in der Milchstraße die häufigsten Sterne. Ein Forschungsteam hat ermittelt, um welche davon erdähnliche Exoplaneten am häufigsten sind.