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The First Picture of a Black Hole

Scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first ever picture of a black hole this week! Using a data from an array of telescopes around the globe, the team combined the massive amounts of data to create the image of M87. Dr. Katie Bouman created the machine learning interferometry algorithm used to combine the data and produce the image of the event horizon.

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Opportunity Rover

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The New York Times have published a nice data visualisation of the 14 year journey taken by NASA's opportunity rover over 28 miles of the surface of Mars.

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Real Time Speed of Light

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Dr. James O'Donoghue uses NASA Imagery to create an animation of the speed of light between Earth and Mars, in real time. By comparison, check out his animation of the speed light between Earth and The Moon also.

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Moon 360 Photo

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China's Chang’e-4 space probe has sent the first 360 photo of the moon's surface back from the far side of our nearest neighbour. The image has been converted into a panorama which can be seen here.

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Oumuamua

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The first object in history to pass through the solar system and to be identified as originating outside the solar system was discovered in October 2017 by Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk in Hawaii. The object was named Oumuamua, which in Hawaiian means first distant messenger.

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Chinese Spacecraft Lands on Farside of The Moon

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The Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 has been reported to have successfully landed on the farside of The Moon. Chinese state broadbaster CCTV have published an image of the moon's dark side sent back from the lander. Heere's what Buzz Aldrin has to say about it:

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2018's Best Space Photos

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New Atlas has a nice collection of the best photos from space in 2018.

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Measuring Network Effects

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Andreessen Horowitz have published a handy post listing the different types of metrics that can be used to measure network effects in software and marketplace businesses. The list progresses from the basic organic vs paid users metric up to metrics like market depth and unit economics.

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Virgin Galactic Space Ship Two

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This week, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo successfully reached space during a test flight that reached a maximum altitude of 82.7km above the earth. The video posted by Richard Branson on Twitter shows a view of earth from the cockpit.

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The Sound of Wind on Mars

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Two vibration sensors on NASA's InSight Mars Lander captured a recording of vibrations caused by wind on the red planet, blowing 10 to 15 mph. This video has raised the sound of the wind by 2 octaves to make it more audible.

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