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Sky: Mac-Desktop steuern mit KI von den Shortcuts-Machern
Apple Intelligence bietet bislang keine Funktionen zur Kontrolle des Mac. Hier setzen die Entwickler von Sky an: Ihre Anwendung nutzt LLMs zur Automatisierung.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Buffalo Daughter:
🎵 Sky High
#BuffaloDaughter
https://buffalodaughter.bandcamp.com/track/sky-high-down-sea-jopolo-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BoRb1EbtW1NbS7hWUl1Do

RTL kauft Sky Deutschland
RTL kauft Sky Deutschland zu einem Preis von 150 Millionen Euro. Mit dem Deal will RTL die Lücke zu Streaming-Diensten wie Netflix und Prime Video schließen.
https://www.heise.d…

The SPHEREx Sky Simulator: Science Data Modeling for the First All-Sky Near-Infrared Spectral Survey
Brendan P. Crill, Yoonsoo P. Bach, Sean A. Bryan, Jean Choppin de Janvry, Ari J. Cukierman, C. Darren Dowell, Spencer W. Everett, Candice Fazar, Tatiana Goldina, Zhaoyu Huai, Howard Hui, Woong-Seob Jeong, Jae Hwan Kang, Phillip M. Korngut, Jae Joon Lee, Daniel C. Masters, Chi H. Nguyen, Jeonghyun Pyo, Teresa Symons, Yujin Yang, Michael Zemcov, Rachel Akeson, Matthew L. N. Ashby, James J…

The SPHEREx Sky Simulator: Science Data Modeling for the First All-Sky Near-Infrared Spectral Survey
We describe the SPHEREx Sky Simulator, a software tool designed to model science data for NASA's SPHEREx mission that will carry out a series of all-sky spectrophotometric surveys at $\sim$6'' spatial resolution in 102 spectral channels spanning 0.75 to 5 $μ$m. The Simulator software implements models for astrophysical emission, instrument characteristics, and survey strategy to generate realistic infrared sky scenes as they will be observed by SPHEREx. The simulated data includes a variety of…

Skies cleared up just in time for solar activity to get even higher (Kp 8)...
... and the sun to come up. I grabbed a single digit number of shots but the eastern sky was already visibly bright naked eye and my long-exposure shots started getting washed out.
Forecast shows activity will be decent all day (good luck Asian/European sky watchers!) and might persist into the dark for me tonight. Fingers crossed.

This sounds great.
Former senior politicians, including Sir Ben Wallace, Jack Straw and Amber Rudd, play a fictional British government pitched against an imagined Kremlin.
The Wargame: New Sky News and Tortoise Media podcast series simulates a Russian attack on UK

AI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to over $500M in revenue last year (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-vibe-codi…

Zelensky blames Putin-Trump call for massive Russian airstrike on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/zelensky-blames-putintrump-call-for.html

Yesterday I finally wrote the blog post for the bike and hike recently.
For me it was pretty tough as it was constant incline of around 1000m over around 12km with just one short exception.
The view here is from the summit down to the "plain" where we left the bikes for the final climb.
The blog: https://w…

Now, as a Trot, I'm obviously not a huge Stalin fan but, still... 🤔
4% of the world population, 22% of all the prisoners in the world.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24586 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…

Ukraine seems to have kicked one of the legs of russia’s nuclear triad pretty hard.
“Ukraine says it has hit more than 40 ‘enemy bombers’ in a drone attack deep inside Russia - which could cost the Russian air force $2bn. Last night, two bridges also collapsed in separate Russian regions - which authorities blamed on ‘explosions’.”

Ukraine war latest: More than 40 Russian bombers 'hit in drone attack'; video shows aftermath of deadly Russian bridge 'explosion'
Ukraine says it has hit more than 40 "enemy bombers" in a drone attack deep inside Russia - which could cost the Russian air force $2bn. Last night, two bridges also collapsed in separate Russian regions - which authorities blamed on "explosions". Follow the latest below.

Today’s highlight- see swimming at Chapmans Pool. Water is still quite cold despite the sunshine!
#panorama #Dorset

Doch eine Switch 2 kaufen? No Man’s Sky schaut verdammt gut aus https://youtube.com/watch?v=cgYYQwHuh-Y&si=BaEnvqvmZVGu5ED8

Sunset

Shot on #postmarketOS <3
Let's be honest: They are kinda shitty, but I dig the mood.
Thanks to everyone who made the OnePlus 6 camera driver happen.
#Linux #MobileLinux

A Hot Jupiter with a Retrograde Orbit around a Sun-like Star and a Toy Model of Hot Jupiters in Wide Binary Star Systems
Steven Giacalone, Andrew W. Howard, Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Fei Dai, Luke B. Handley, Howard Isaacson, Samuel Halverson, Max Brodheim, Matt Brown, Theron W. Carmichael, William Deich, Benjamin J. Fulton, Steven R. Gibson, Grant M. Hill, Bradford Holden, Aaron Householder, Russ R. Laher, Kyle Lanclos, Joel Payne, Erik A. Petigura, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Martin M. Si…

A Hot Jupiter with a Retrograde Orbit around a Sun-like Star and a Toy Model of Hot Jupiters in Wide Binary Star Systems
We report an observation of a transit of the hot Jupiter (HJ) KELT-23A b with the Keck Planet Finder spectrograph and a measurement of the sky-projected obliquity ($λ$) of its Sun-like ($T_{\rm eff} \approx 5900$ K) host star. We measured a projected stellar obliquity of $λ\approx 180^\circ$, indicating that the orbit of the HJ is retrograde relative to the direction of the stellar spin. Due to the slow sky-projected rotational velocity of the host star ($v \sin{i_\star} \approx 0.5$ km s$^{-…

Roots act as anchor
So branches can pull upwards
Tying earth to sky.
#dailyhaikuprompt - roots
#haiku
#poem

We visited my parents yesterday and I decided to bring along my PS5/VR2 to see if my Dad would be interested in checking it out.
He was, so I hooked it up to their (20 year old and about to quit) TV and got it set up and tested for a minute with No Man's Sky to make sure everything was working as intended.
Dropped the hat on his head and set him up a custom save, all settings tuned to "easy mode", no combat or damage, all slots unlocked etc so he would be able to j…

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Chu Wing So, Chun Shing Jason Pun, Shengjie Liu, Sze Leung Cheung, Ho Keung Kenneith Hui, Kelly Blumenthal, Constance Elaine Walker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02019

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Light pollution, a typically underrecognized environmental issue, has gained attention in recent years. While controlling light pollution requires sustained efforts, Earth Hour offers a unique natural experimental setting to assess temporary lights-out measures. Using photometric and spectroscopic sensors, we observed up to 50% night sky darkening during Earth Hour from 2011 to 2024 in Hong Kong, primarily as a result of a small but critical number of lights-out instances in central business di…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Dick Dale:
🎵 (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
#DickDale
https://dickdale.bandcamp.com/track/riders-in-the-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FoqVwZoG6weTcRnAdGCEf

if you're structuring your donation transaction to avoid the $10k mandatory reporting threshold,
well. 31 USC 5324 is no joke.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/post/3lqdr4okhwk2f

Zelensky, Trump hold phone call after Putin's pledge to continue war in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/zelensky-trump-hold-phone-call.html

'Fahrrad' #FotoVorschlag "Bicycle"
Ahh that motto immediately reminded me of our bike&hike to the Schachen above #GarmischPartenkirchen in 2021.
We were pretty done when we reached our destination but it was a great ride. It would be so cool if I…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Oasis:
🎵 Up In The Sky
#Oasis
https://wingsofanangel.bandcamp.com/album/im-holding-up-the-sky-in-the-vast-desert-where-ive-met-a-buddhist-reincarnation-of-a-tulku-wearing-the-transient-form-of-a-goat-shes-like-a-miraculous-stranger-who-becomes-a-tree-in-the-oasis-or
https://open.spotify.com/track/10fOKTNaGzajbX5SdS00Ut

Now settled into low-Earth orbit, #SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive on a weekly basis, allowing anyone to use the data to probe the secrets of the cosmos: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/spherex-universe-map/

And Public Enemy’s new album “Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025” is great, too.
https://publicenemy.bandcamp.com/album/black-sky-over-the-projects-apartment-2025

Aurora activity could continue on Monday night, with displays possible in UK, North America and Australia | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/aurora-june-2025

Yesterday near Rossgundscharte, Allgäu High Alps
(Longest, most stunning & varied tour in a while, traversing Warmatsgundtal into Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley — 21km, incl. 1450 hm grueling descent over loose gravel...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

hey, a new jonathan richman album, featuring jerry harrison on a bunch of tunes (ie. half of the modern lovers). https://jonathanrichman.bandcamp.com/album/only-frozen-sky-anyway

Fluid Aerial Networks: UAV Rotation for Inter-Cell Interference Mitigation
Enzhi Zhou, Yue Xiao, Ziyue Liu, Sotiris A. Tegos, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis, George K. Karagiannidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01289

Fluid Aerial Networks: UAV Rotation for Inter-Cell Interference Mitigation
With the rapid development of aerial infrastructure, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that function as aerial base stations (ABSs) extend terrestrial network services into the sky, enabling on-demand connectivity and enhancing emergency communication capabilities in cellular networks by leveraging the flexibility and mobility of UAVs. In such a UAV-assisted network, this paper investigates position-based beamforming between ABSs and ground users (GUs). To mitigate inter-cell interference, we pro…

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CMB low multipole alignments across WMAP and \emph{Planck} data releases
The first observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from NASA's \emph{Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe} (WMAP) led to finding `alignment' anomalies not expected from fluctuations in the isotropic cosmological model. We study the data of all 8 full-sky public releases since then to test for anomalous alignments and shapes of the first 60 multipoles, i.e., over the range $2\leq l \leq 61$. We use rotationally invariant and covariant statistics to test isotropy of all subsequent WM…

Ok, so in endless sky I wanna track if I'm making a profit or just making a mess 😆
Credits then: 189k
now: 114k
Credit score then: 411
now:
Mortgage then: 447k
now: 300k
I like the new trading system in Endless Sky
and "piracy" against pirates.(which makes them mad)
#gaming

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Paul Kalkbrenner:
🎵 Sky And Sand
#NowPlaying #PaulKalkbrenner
https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/paul-kalkbrenner-sky-and-sand-funkastik-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZSqMer9RLSglvi18bWXYV

He only knew his iron spine held up the sky -- he didn't realize his brain
had fallen to the ground.
-- The Book of Serenity

Millimeter-wave observations of Euclid Deep Field South using the South Pole Telescope: A data release of temperature maps and catalogs
M. Archipley, A. Hryciuk, L. E. Bleem, K. Kornoelje, M. Klein, A. J. Anderson, B. Ansarinejad, M. Aravena, L. Balkenhol, P. S. Barry, K. Benabed, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, F. Bianchini, S. Bocquet, F. R. Bouchet, E. Camphuis, M. G. Campitiello, J. E. Carlstrom, J. Cathey, C. L. Chang, S. C. Chapman, P. Chaubal, P. M. Chichura, A. Chokshi, T. -L. Chou…

Millimeter-wave observations of Euclid Deep Field South using the South Pole Telescope: A data release of temperature maps and catalogs
Context. The South Pole Telescope third-generation camera (SPT-3G) has observed over 10,000 square degrees of sky at 95, 150, and 220 GHz (3.3, 2.0, 1.4 mm, respectively) overlapping the ongoing 14,000 square-degree Euclid Wide Survey. The Euclid collaboration recently released Euclid Deep Field observations in the first quick data release (Q1). Aims. With the goal of releasing complementary millimeter-wave data and encouraging legacy science, we performed dedicated observations of a 57-square-…

Updating #infrastructure straight from the #hammock. #yoloOps

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Cao, Aharonian, Bai, Bao, Bastieri, Bi, Bi, Bian, Bukevich, Cai, Cao, Cao, Chang, Chang, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Cheng, Chu, Cui, Cui, Cui, Cui, Dai, Dai, Dai, , Diao, Dong, Duan, Fan, Fan, Fang, Fang, Fang, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Gabici, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Ge, Ge, Geng, Giacinti, Gong, Gou, Gu, Guo, Guo, Guo, Guo…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…

Zelensky and Trump discuss air defense and joint drone production amid tensions with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/zelensky-and-trump-discuss-air.html

„Sind Medienchampion“ - Millionen-Deal: RTL kauft Sky Deutschland #News #Nachrichten…

I just checked the files from our vacation recently. One day we just did a short cycling loop in the neighbourhood.
Actually - nothing really exciting for us. But after a while I thought about all you, international friends here. And I assumed that most of you have probably no clue about my direct neighbourhood and the villages around.
So enjoy a short video:

'Sky's the limit' for Joe Milton as Cowboys backup QB flashes skills during Cowboys OTA practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/skys-th

https://news.sky.com/story/russian-linked-hackers-posing-as-journalists-targeted-ministry-of-defence-government-says-13376229
Russia-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted staff at Britain's …

Russian-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted Ministry of Defence, government says

Natura Urbana VII 🏡
城市自然 VII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

We were in Mt Forest, #Ontario for a performance last night when #tornado warning alarms went off on all the phones. Tremendous amount of lightning, but haven't seen any official reports of damage yet. This is what the sky looked like at 9 pm 😬.

Good Morning ESWC 2025! If you want to join me for a morning run during the conference week, don’t hesitate to address me when you see me around 🏃
#eswc2025 #academiclife #semweb

Multiple telescopes produce new view of Andromeda #space

You've never seen the Andromeda Galaxy like this before. Multiple telescopes produce new view of our spiral neighbour | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Image of the Andromeda Galaxy in multiple wavelengths, produced by multiple space telescopes and ground-based observatories.

Ich werde No Mans Sky nicht ein viertes Mal kaufen…
Ich werde No Mans Sky nicht ein viertes Mal kaufen…
Ich werde No Mans Sky nicht ein viertes Mal kaufen…
Ich werde No Mans Sky nicht ein viertes Mal kaufen…
Ich werde No Mans Sky nicht ein viertes Mal kaufen…
https://www.nomanssky.com/2…

No Man's Sky: Beacon - No Man's Sky
Hello, Our latest update is called No Man’s Sky BEACON , releasing today on June 4th, and it’s a big one! Not only that but we are releasing a Nintendo Switch 2 version ready for launch of the new console tomorrow on June 5th. BEACON UPDATE ...

Kits Farmers' Market
#Vancouver

#SilentSunday Newdigate, Surrey, England. Former clay pit for a brickworks, now a local nature reserve.

❄️ Did it rain or snow on ancient Mars? New study suggests it did
#mars

Did it rain or snow on ancient Mars? New study suggests it did
Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to feed hundreds of lakes.

Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

More sites like this: https://infosec.exchange/@gabe_sky/114558396307371647
I have:
https://countdown.codevoid.net

Finally…
https://news.sky.com/story/mahmoud-khalil-us-student-detained-by-immigration-officials-over-pro-palestinian-protests-released-13386603

Mahmoud Khalil: US student detained by immigration officials over pro-Palestinian protests released

Yosemite Falls framed by California black oak, Quercus kelloggii
#naturalist #photography #YosemiteNationalPark

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08118 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Tilsotua: Reproducing Slitmask Sky Positions for use with the LRIS Multislit Archive
We present tilsotua, a code that calculates sky positions of the slits from Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrograph (LRIS) slitmasks used in multislit observations. Raw data for the Keck/LRIS spectrograph does not include information about the sky positions of the slitmask targets, making it difficult to use beyond the scope of the original programs. tilsotua translates slit coordinates from the mask design files in the mask milling machine frame to sky coordinates. tilsotua also shifts the origina…

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 and the double rainbow 🌈 🌈 just now
#cats #CatsOfMastodon

Physics beyond the Standard Model with the DSA-2000
Kim V. Berghaus, Yufeng Du, Vincent S. H. Lee, Anirudh Prabhu, Robert Reischke, Liam Connor, Kathryn M. Zurek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23892

Physics beyond the Standard Model with the DSA-2000
The upcoming Deep Synoptic Array 2000 (DSA-2000) will map the radio sky at $0.7-2$ GHz ($2.9 - 8.3 \, μ$eV) with unprecedented sensitivity. This will enable searches for dark matter and other physics beyond the Standard Model, of which we study four cases: axions, dark photons, dark matter subhalos and neutrino masses. We forecast DSA-2000's potential to detect axions through two mechanisms in neutron star magnetospheres: photon conversion of axion dark matter and radio emission from axion clo…

Determination of Light Curve Parameters of Poorly Studied Eclipsing Variables Using Data from Tess and Other Sky Surveys
Vladyslava I. Marsakova, Ivan L. Andronov, Victoriia O. Borshchenko, Illia. A. Garbazhii-Romanchenko, Anastasiia D. Lashkova, Sofia A. Kreminska, Pavol A. Dubovsky, Vladyslav V. Dubovskyi, Karol Petrik
https://

Determination of Light Curve Parameters of Poorly Studied Eclipsing Variables Using Data from Tess and Other Sky Surveys
A group of poorly studied eclipsing variables (the classification of which is marked as uncertain and/or the period of brightness changes is uncertain) has been studied with the using of the photometric observations of the TESS mission and NSVS, ASAS-SN sky surveys. We also obtained some observations covering the brightness minima of our variables by our group using the telescopes at Astronomical Observatory on Kolonica Saddle (Slovakia) and Observatory and Planetarium in Hlohovec (Slovakia) du…

I for one am intrigued by the out of the box blue sky thinking of those who suggest moving Europe's IP registry to the United Arab Emirates or Qatar for their international openness and cosmopolitan approach to sanctions.
If I wasn't already subscribed to their newsletter, I'd subscribe again,

A gallery on my website from today's book signing. I love the blue sky above the white clouds. It gives me hope. No one could feel alone under it.
Пролетен панаир на книгата 2025, ден 1, галерия:
https://petertoushkov.eu/bulletin/proleten…

Пролетен панаир на книгата 2025, ден 1, галерия - Петър Тушков
Събота, 31 май 2025 г. Среща с автограф от 12 до 13 ч. заедно с писателя фантаст Божан Божков, щанда на издателство „Ерго“, шатра 55, парка пред НДК.

Putin says 'Ukraine is ours' and threatens nuclear strike - showing how he feels about Trump | World News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/putin-says-ukraine-is-ours-and-threatens-nuclear-strike-showing-how-he-feels-about-trump-13386502

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
Arvind F. Gupta, Evan Fitzmaurice, Suvrath Mahadevan, Paul Robertson, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright, Sarah E. Logsdon, Daniel M. Krolikowski, Leonardo A. Paredes, Chad F. Bender, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Andrea S. Lin, Cullen H. Blake, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Eric B. Ford, Samuel P. Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Michael W. McElwain, Joe P. Ninan, Jayadev Rajagopal, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Gu{\dh}mundur Stef\'ans…

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
The NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) has been delivering a rich set of precise radial velocity (RV) measurements for 41 bright, nearby main sequence stars. Here, we describe the status of the survey after three years on sky and we present the full set of RV measurements and accompanying stellar activity indicators. We discuss intermediate survey diagnostics, including calibration of the known RV zero point offset introduced following the Contreras fire in 2022 and the identification of an undiagno…

Regime change in Iran is 'unacceptable', says the Kremlin (Ivor Bennett/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/russia-would-react-negatively-if-irans-leader-is-killed-says-the-kremlin-13385983
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p3#a250620p3

Ukraine’s new interceptor UAVs are starting to knock Russia’s long-range Shahed drones out of the sky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraines-new-interceptor-uavs-are.html

The $M_{\rm BH}-M_\star$ Relation of the hyperluminous Dust-obscured Quasars up to $z \sim 4$
Yibin Luo, Lulu Fan, Weibin Sun, Haoran Yu, Yunkun Han, Guangwen Chen, Mengqiu Huang, Yihang Zhang, Zheyu Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01218

The $M_{\rm BH}-M_\star$ Relation of the hyperluminous Dust-obscured Quasars up to $z \sim 4$
Hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs) are a rare population of hyperluminous dust-obscured quasars discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) all-sky survey. The heavy circumnuclear dust obscuration allows only a small amount of scattered light from the obscured quasar to escape, enabling the decomposition of the stellar component from the total flux. The presence of scattered light enables the redshift of the source and the properties of the black hole to be obtained from SDS…

Fußball-Abo: Wow Live-Sport von Sky wird teurer
Sky erhöht den Preis für seinen Streaming-Dienst Wow: Das Live-Sport-Abonnement kostet monatlich bald 9 Euro mehr.
https://www.heise.…

Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Last night at the end of the valley, marking & celebrating several occasions/milestones in one of our fave places...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

fftvis: A Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform Based Interferometric Visibility Simulator
Tyler A. Cox, Steven G. Murray, Aaron R. Parsons, Joshua S. Dillon, Kartik Mandar, Zachary E. Martinot, Robert Pascua, Piyanat Kittiwisit, James E. Aguirre
#toXiv_bot_toot

Securing the Sky: Integrated Satellite-UAV Physical Layer Security for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Jiahui Li, Geng Sun, Xiaoyu Sun, Fang Mei, Jingjing Wang, Xiangwang Hou, Daxin Tian, Victor C. M. Leung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23493

Securing the Sky: Integrated Satellite-UAV Physical Layer Security for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have garnered significant attention in the forthcoming 6G networks. In LAWNs, satellites with wide coverage and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with flexible mobility can complement each other to form integrated satellite-UAV networks, providing ubiquitous and high-speed connectivity for low-altitude operations. However, the higher line-of-sight probability in low-altitude airspace increases transmission security concerns. In this work, we present a collab…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01452 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Bayesian Deep-stacking for High-energy Neutrino Searches
Following the discovery of the brightest high-energy neutrino sources in the sky, the further detection of fainter sources is more challenging. A natural solution is to combine fainter source candidates, and instead of individual detections, aim to identify and learn about the properties of a larger population. Due to the discreteness of high-energy neutrinos, they can be detected from distant very faint sources as well, making a statistical search benefit from the combination of a large number…

Lions' Dan Campbell says 'sky's the limit' for Jameson Williams in 2025; how WR can make offense more dynamic

https://www.cbsspor…

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs
Joseph Murtagh, Megan E. Schwamb, Stephanie R. Merritt, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Jacob A. Kurlander, Samuel Cornwall, Mario Juri\'c, Grigori Fedorets, Matthew J. Holman, Siegfried Eggl, David Nesvorn\'y, Kathryn Volk, R. Lynne Jones, Peter Yoachim, Joachim Moeyens, Jeremy Kubica, Drew Oldag, Maxine West, Colin Orion Chandler

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start by the end of 2025 and operate for ten years, offering billions of observations of the southern night sky. One of its main science goals is to create an inventory of the Solar System, allowing for a more detailed understanding of small body populations including the Centaurs, which will benefit from the survey's high cadence and depth. In this paper, we establish the first discovery limits for Centaurs throughout th…

A little afterwork walk after a short rain shower.
It has cooled off!
#gaißach #badtoelz
#walking

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Sky Ferreira:
🎵 Lost In My Bedroom
#SkyFerreira
https://diyscarves2.bandcamp.com/track/lost-in-my-bedroom-sky-ferreira
https://open.spotify.com/track/5wiBvOZezmmN6IOZT7dVbt

Beginning later this year, the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create the ultimate movie of the night sky,
repeatedly scanning the sky for a decade to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition, time-lapse record of our Universe across space and over time.
The resulting dataset, called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will be the largest ever amassed for optical astronomy.
This enormous, all-purpose dataset will bring the night sky to life,
enabli…

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Metallicities of old open clusters: a new Galactic map
Old open clusters can constrain the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc through their metallicity gradients and age-metallicity relation but they suffer from low statistics. This work aims to determine precise and homogeneous metallicities for a number of old ($\geq$ 500 Myr) clusters from all-sky catalogues of stellar parameters leveraging Gaia spectrophotometry. Our purpose was to revisit the metallicity distribution of the oldest open clusters as a function of their Galactic position and…

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Can the neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 have a coronal origin?
The blazar TXS 0506+056 has been the first astrophysical source associated with high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, and it has emerged as the second-most-prominent hotspot in the neutrino sky over ten years of observations. Although neutrino production in blazars has traditionally been attributed to processes in the powerful relativistic jet, the observation of a significant neutrino flux from NGC 1068 -- presumably coming from the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) corona -- suggests that neutrino…

Structure and dynamics of erupting solar prominences using the Rolling Hough Transform: Toward a feature-oriented classification
Harry Birch, St\'ephane R\'egnier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24515

Structure and dynamics of erupting solar prominences using the Rolling Hough Transform: Toward a feature-oriented classification
The classification of solar prominences has proven to be challenging due to their diverse morphologies and dynamical behaviour. Complexity is heightened when considering eruptive prominences, where the dynamics demand methods capable of capturing detailed structural information. While there exists a range of line-of-sight (LOS) and plane-of-sky (POS) techniques which have advanced our understanding of prominence motions, they are subject to limitations, emphasising the need for effective method…

I finally finished the blogpost including some new photos and a short video (!!) from my hike last Saturday.
To me it was a really really gorgeous day!
Read the story here: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/getting-up-early-for-the-mountains/
(a…

Interstellar Polarization Survey. V. Galactic magnetic field tomography in the spiral arms using optical and near-infrared starlight polarization
Y. Angarita (Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Space, Earth & Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 93 Gothenburg, Sweden), M. J. F. Versteeg (Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), M. Haverkorn (Department of Astrophysics…

Interstellar Polarization Survey. V. Galactic magnetic field tomography in the spiral arms using optical and near-infrared starlight polarization
Interstellar linear polarization occurs when starlight passes through elongated dust grains aligned by interstellar magnetic fields. The observed polarization can come from different dust structures along the line of sight (LOS). By combining polarization measurements with stellar distances, we can study the plane-of-sky Galactic magnetic field (GMF) between the observer and the star and separate the contributions of clouds with different GMF properties. We used optical and near-infrared (NIR) …

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
🎵 Death Comes From the Sky
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https://unknown-mortal-orchestra.bandcamp.com/track/death-comes-from-the-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/7xkyqFdogcqpGKkn3baJ6d

SN 2024bfu, SN 2025qe, and the early light curves of type Iax supernovae
M. R. Magee, T. L. Killestein, M. Pursiainen, B. Godson, D. Jarvis, C. Jim\'enez-Palau, J. D. Lyman, D. Steeghs, B. Warwick, J. P. Anderson, T. Butterley, T. -W. Chen, V. S. Dhillon, L. Galbany, S. Gonz\'alez-Gait\'an, M. Gromadzki, C. Inserra, L. Kelsey, A. Kumar, G. Leloudas, S. Mattila, T. E. M\"uller-Bravo, K. Noysena, G. Ramsay, S. Srivastav, R. Starling, R. W. Wilson, D. R. Young, K. Ackley,…

SN 2024bfu, SN 2025qe, and the early light curves of type Iax supernovae
Type Iax supernovae (SNe Iax) are perhaps the most numerous class of peculiar thermonuclear supernova and yet their sample size, particularly those observed shortly after explosion, remains relatively small. In this paper we present photometric and spectroscopic observations of two SNe Iax discovered shortly after explosion, SN 2024bfu and SN 2025qe. Both SNe were observed by multiple all-sky surveys, enabling tight constraints on the moment of first light and the shape of the early light curve…

Real-time Light Curve Classification Framework for the Wide Field Survey Telescope Using Modified Semi-supervised Variational Auto-Encoder
Yongling Tang, Lulu Fan, Zhen Wan, Yating Liu, Yan Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01216

Real-time Light Curve Classification Framework for the Wide Field Survey Telescope Using Modified Semi-supervised Variational Auto-Encoder
Modern time-domain astronomy will benefit from the vast data collected by survey telescopes. The 2.5 m Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), with its powerful capabilities, is promising to make significant contributions in the era of large sky surveys. To harness the full potential of the enormous amount of unlabeled light curve data that the WFST will collect, we have developed a semisupervised light curve classification framework. This framework showcases several unique features. First, it is o…

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

Zelensky signs ratification of Special Tribunal on Russian aggression: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/zelensky-signs-ratification-of-special.html

Science Prospects for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory: SWGO
SWGO Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01786 https://

Science Prospects for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory: SWGO
Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is now well established as a key observational approach to address critical topics at the frontiers of astroparticle physics and high-energy astrophysics. Whilst the field of TeV astronomy was once dominated by arrays of atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, ground-level particle detection has now been demonstrated to be an equally viable and strongly complementary approach. Ground-level particle detection provides continuous monitoring of the overhead sky, critical…

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

Ground calibration plan for the Athena/X-IFU microcalorimeter spectrometer
Alexe\"i Molin, Fran\c{c}ois Pajot, Marc Audard, Marco Barbera, Sophie Beaumont, Edoardo Cucchetti, Matteo D'Andrea, Christophe Daniel, Roland den Hartog, Megan E. Eckart, Philippe Ferrando, Luciano Gottardi, Maurice Leutenegger, Simone Lotti, Lorenzo Natalucci, Philippe Peille, Jelle de Plaa, Etienne Pointecouteau, Scott Porter, Kosuke Sato, Joern Wilms, Vincent Albouys, Didier Barret, Massimo Cappi, J…

Ground calibration plan for the Athena/X-IFU microcalorimeter spectrometer
The X-ray Integral Field Unit is the X-ray imaging spectrometer on-board one of ESA's next large missions, Athena. Athena is set to investigate the theme of the Hot and Energetic Universe, with a launch planned in the late-2030s. Based on a high sensitivity Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector array operated at very low temperature (50 mK), X-IFU will provide spatially resolved high resolution spectroscopy of the X-ray sky in the 0.2-12 keV energy band, with an energy resolution goal of 4 eV u…

Zelensky, German FM discuss supplying IRIS-T air defenses, joint weapons production, strengthening Russia sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/zelensky-german-fm-discuss-supplying.html

The Growing Impact of Unintended Starlink Broadband Emission on Radio Astronomy in the SKA-Low Frequency Range
Dylan Grigg, Steven Tingay, Marcin Sokolowski
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'Dinge die mit "S" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag (Things starting with S).
#Schnee / #Snow
I took this

High-Contrast Coronagraphy
Matthew A. Kenworthy, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert
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We just went for a walk in Bad Tölz. Nothing special, just going for a walk along the river #isar.
Enjoy your Sunday!
#silentsunday #badtoelz

The near infrared airglow continuum conundrum. Constraints for ground-based faint object spectroscopy
J. K. M. Viuho (Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 155A, DK-2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark, Nordic Optical Telescope, Rambla Jose Ana Fernandez Perez 7, ES-38711 Brena Baja, Spain, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark), J. P. U. Fynbo (Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 155A, DK-2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark), M. I. Andersen (Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 155A, DK-2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark)
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GReX: An Instrument Overview and New Upper Limits on the Galactic FRB Population
We present the instrument design and initial results for the Galactic Radio Explorer (GReX), an all-sky monitor for exceptionally bright transients in the radio sky. This instrument builds on the success of STARE2 to search for fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the Milky Way and its satellites. This instrument has deployments across the globe, with wide sky coverage and searching down to $32\,μ\text{s}$ time resolution, enabling the discovery of new super giant pulses. Presented here are the detai…

While I'm copying yesterday's photos to my computer, I'll just share some more photos from my recent blog post.
I tried to put the bushes at the lake as framing elements into the #photos. I think it worked out quite okay. -- And while we were on this walk I imagined all the time where and how this could look at sunset or with fog.
Maybe I should go there a again a couple o…

hey friends! One more photo from my recent hike into the #mountains .
My way went from this point to the right over the summit (not seen on the photo), down to the ridge (right into the photo), along the ridge, and down into the middle of the photo.
An amazing day and an impressive trail!