Month: November 2017
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Researchers Propose Low-Mass Supernova Triggered Formation of Solar System
So what caused the formation of the Solar System? One possibility is the shock from a low mass Supernova explosion. Researchers Propose Low-Mass Supernova Triggered Formation of Solar System A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that…
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The Hooker 100-Inch Telescope turns 100
The wonderful Hooker 100″ telescope on Mt Wilson has turned 100! Access Denied PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Astronomers are celebrating the centennial of the 100-inch (2,540-millimeter) Hooker Telescope at Southern California‘s Mount Wilson Observatory . The reflector telescope’s first observations occurred in 1917 on the night of Nov. 1 and into the morning of Nov.…
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New Photo Enhancing Software Easily Transforms Low-Resolution Images into High-Resolution
This is fun website to try – adds resolution to pics! New Photo Enhancing Software Easily Transforms Low-Resolution Images into High-Resolution Let’s Enhance is a new online photo enhancing software that allows you to turn images from lousy low-resolution to crisp high-resolution. Source: mymodernmet.com/photo-enhancing-software-lets-enhance/
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Image processing in Python — scikit-image
Very handy toolkit for image processing in Python: scikit-image: Image processing in Python — scikit-image Source: scikit-image.org/