How dark is dark? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle but a serious question astronomers have been probing for years. Their big opportunity came with the New Horizons spacecraft that is now far beyond the planets at more than 5.4 billion miles from Earth. It's far enough to be free of light-contamination from the glow of background dust in our solar system. This means the spacecraft was able to measure the darkness of the seemingly pitch-black deep space.
Astronomers found a residual glow coming from myriad background galaxies filling the universe. The good news is that there is no other source of the background light to befuddle astronomers. New Horizons accomplished a full inventory of visible light. Launched in January 2006, New Horizons flew by the dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015, before passing by a Kuiper Belt object, Arrokoth, in January 2019.
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In July, some of the world's leading astronomers and planetary scientists who specialize in the search for technological intelligence elsewhere in the cosmos gathered to discuss their work at @UniofOxford's physics department.
They were attending this year's annual @brkthroughprize Discuss conference — a meeting of the minds to unravel how artificial intelligence, astrobiology and space missions may one day come to redefine our understanding of life and humanity's relationship to the cosmos.
"This was the first time we had the Breakthrough Discuss conference outside the U.S. It speaks to how technosignature science is becoming more universally accepted across universities. It's now a part of mainstream astrophysics," @VishalGaj, search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) investigator and project scientist for Breakthrough Listen's international collaboration, told @spacedotcom.
The conference is associated with other "Breakthrough" initiatives, including the Breakthrough Listen Project, which is a 100 million dollar program that will use some of the world's most advanced telescopes to search about one million nearby star systems for signs of technologically advanced civilizations. Another initiative, Breakthrough Watch, is aiming to characterize a number of Earth-size rocky planets within 20 light-years of Earth to accomplish the same goal of finding life beyond our world. The Discuss conference provides a platform for researchers working in different fields of astrobiology to compare and discuss their work, and to speculate on what the future of this exciting field might hold.
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Here are the top 3 #CryptoTrends from this week:
🚀 @Grayscale is launching an $XRP trust, eyeing a potential spot ETF in the US
📜 @1inch released a white paper on cross-chain interoperability challenges
📊 @StanChart predicts #Bitcoin could hit a record high by year-end
More than 200 companies, including Twitter, Salesforce and Procter & Gamble, have signed a climate pledge that aims to reduce their carbon emissions over the next two decades. https://t.co/0bd0RDf6gG