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Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Thompson, a national-security analyst at the Project On Government Oversight, has spent 45+ years writing about the U.S. military.
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The Asteroid That May Be Three Worlds

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By Mark Thompson
| Knowridge Science Report
Asteroid (44) Nysa imaged with the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large Binocular Telescope. The tiny moon S/2026 (44) 1, arrowed, was pulled from the asteroid's glare using techniques borrowed from exoplanet hunting. Credit : SHARK-VIS/LBT Observatory. What shape is an asteroid? For (44) Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew.
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A thermal camera trick could let LIGO see twice as far

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By Mark Thompson, Lisa Lock, Andrew Zinin Verified
| Phys.org Verified
An aerial view of LIGO's Hanford, Washington observatory, showing the L-shaped facility with its two 4 kilometer arms. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab There's a nice kind of irony buried in this story: One of the most sensitive instruments ever built, capable of measuring distortions smaller than the width of a proton, has been quietly held back by something as mundane as heat. And the fix, it turns out, is not some exotic new sensor but a thermal camera you could genuinely buy off the shelf.
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Scientists heard the fireball no camera could see

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By Mark Thompson
| Knowridge Science Report
A full view of the smoke trail left behind by the Chelyabinsk fireball. Credit: Alex Alishevskikh. What do you do when a fireball lights up the sky and every camera meant to capture it comes up empty? Last spring, a bright meteor streaked across Alaska in broad daylight, and the usual tools scientists rely on, satellites and all sky cameras, failed to give a clear picture of what had happened.
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