Tootfinder

This is the original middle finger of the right hand of #GalileoGalilei as it can be seen in the #MuseoGalileo, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in #Florence:

The deployment of a geomagnetic variometer station as auxiliary instrumentation for the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Foteini Vervelidou, Alex Delacroix, Laura Domine, Ezra Kelderman, Sarah Little, Abraham Loeb, Eric Masson, Wes A. Watters, Abigail White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11355

The deployment of a geomagnetic variometer station as auxiliary instrumentation for the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Witness reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) occasionally associate UAP sightings with local electromagnetic interferences, such as spinning magnetic compasses onboard aircraft or sudden malfunctions of mechanical vehicles. These reports have motivated the incorporation of a magnetometer into the instrumentation suite of the Galileo Project (GP), a Harvard-led scientific collaboration whose aim is to collect and analyze multi-sensor data that collectively could help elucidate the natu…

It's so weird that the Brexit UK government in buying OneWeb, after blocking UK companies from Galileo, has ended up in a tech partnership with France that became more valuable as counties started looking at non-US communications services.
https://www.…

UK Gov Boosts Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO Broadband Satellites by £140m
The UK Government has agreed to commit a further £140m (€163.3) of public investment to help Eutelsat grow and expand its constellation of OneWeb ultrafast b

Evidence for optical pulsations from a redback millisecond pulsar
A. Papitto, F. Ambrosino, M. Burgay, R. La Placa, C. J. Clark, C. Ballocco, G. Illiano, C. Malacaria, A. Miraval Zanon, A. Possenti, L. Stella, A. Ghedina, M Cecconi, F. Leone, M. Gonzalez, H. Perez Ventura, M. Hernandez Diaz, J. San Juan, H. Stoev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508…

Evidence for optical pulsations from a redback millisecond pulsar
Recent detections of optical pulsations from both a transitional and an accreting millisecond pulsar have revealed unexpectedly bright signals, suggesting that the presence of an accretion disk enhances the efficiency of optical emission, possibly via synchrotron radiation from accelerated particles. In this work, we present optical observations of the redback millisecond pulsar PSR J2339-0533, obtained with the SiFAP2 photometer mounted on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. Data accumulated dur…

Galileo Project Observatory Class System Architecture
Phillip Bridgham, Alex Delacroix, Laura Domine, Andriy Fedorenko, Ezra Kelderman, Sarah Little, Abraham Loeb, Robert Lundstrom, Eric Masson, Andrew Mead, Michael W Prior, Matthew Szenher, Foteini Vervelidou, Wesley Andres Watters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00125

Galileo Project Observatory Class System Architecture
Scientific investigation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is limited by poor data quality and a lack of transparency. Existing data are often fragmented, uncalibrated, and missing critical metadata. To address these limitations, the authors present the Observatory Class Integrated Computing Platform (OCICP), a system designed for the systematic and scientific study of UAPs. OCICP employs multiple sensors to collect and analyze data on aerial phenomena. The OCICP system consists of two …

First detection of acoustic-like flux in the middle solar corona
V. Andretta (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy), L. Abbo (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Turin, Italy), G. Jerse (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Trieste, Italy), R. Lionello (Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, USA), G. Naletto (Universit\`a di Padova - Dip. Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei", Padua, Italy, CNR - Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Padua…

First detection of acoustic-like flux in the middle solar corona
Waves are thought to play a significant role in the heating of the solar atmosphere and the acceleration of the wind. Among the many types of waves observed in the Sun, the so-called p-modes with a 3 mHz frequency peak dominate the lower atmosphere. In the presence of magnetic fields, these waves can be converted into magnetohydrodynamic modes, which then leak into the corona through magnetic conduits. High-resolution off-limb observations have indeed revealed signatures of ubiquitous and globa…