Mark Zastrow
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Science journalist and KAD. Currently Editor at Astronomy magazine.
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Sometimes you stumble over to a packed breakout session at your big annual academic conference and learn that some billionaires have decided to build not one, but FOUR, complementary new telescope facilities, and build them fast
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are funding a 3-meter space telescope with a coronagraph, and three ground-based observatories: the Deep Synoptic Array, the Argus Array, and LFAST. Funds have been committed and officials say they hope to be operational by 2029. #aas247 www.astronomy.com/science/eric...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt to fund space telescope, three ground-based observatories
The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.
www.astronomy.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Sometimes you stumble over to a packed breakout session at your big annual academic conference and learn that some billionaires have decided to build not one, but FOUR, complementary new telescope facilities, and build them fast
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are funding a 3-meter space telescope with a coronagraph, and three ground-based observatories: the Deep Synoptic Array, the Argus Array, and LFAST. Funds have been committed and officials say they hope to be operational by 2029. #aas247 www.astronomy.com/science/eric...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt to fund space telescope, three ground-based observatories
The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.
www.astronomy.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are funding a 3-meter space telescope with a coronagraph, and three ground-based observatories: the Deep Synoptic Array, the Argus Array, and LFAST. Funds have been committed and officials say they hope to be operational by 2029. #aas247 www.astronomy.com/science/eric...
Are there any studies yet on what happens to infrared astronomy when we have thousands of solar-powered data centers in space flying across the sky dumping their waste heat as IR radiation? www.geekwire.com/2025/jeff-be...
Jeff Bezos says orbital data centers will be the ‘next step’ for space ventures that make Earth better
What's the next killer app for the final frontier? According to Jeff Bezos, it's a future fleet of orbital data centers.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Are there any studies yet on what happens to infrared astronomy when we have thousands of solar-powered data centers in space flying across the sky dumping their waste heat as IR radiation? www.geekwire.com/2025/jeff-be...
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The paper I reference in here about how studying Earth helped me understand Mars's dust storms is my Nature Astronomy paper about how Mars (and Titan) have a Baroclinic Annular Mode.
September 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The paper I reference in here about how studying Earth helped me understand Mars's dust storms is my Nature Astronomy paper about how Mars (and Titan) have a Baroclinic Annular Mode.
“An agency that seeks to lead the world in planetary science but ignores Earth would be missing out on studying the most unique planet yet known in the universe — our own.” www.astronomy.com/science/eart...
Earth science's future at NASA hangs in the balance
The future of NASA Earth Science is in question. With a proposed shift to exploration, scientists argue that abandoning Earth cripples NASA.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“An agency that seeks to lead the world in planetary science but ignores Earth would be missing out on studying the most unique planet yet known in the universe — our own.” www.astronomy.com/science/eart...
So the K2-18 b paper is finally on ApJ Let, with a publication date of April 17. But the press release was on EurekAlert yesterday, dated April 16, as the first news stories posted… iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
New Constraints on DMS and DMDS in the Atmosphere of K2-18 b from JWST MIRI - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tab
New Constraints on DMS and DMDS in the Atmosphere of K2-18 b from JWST MIRI, Madhusudhan, Nikku, Constantinou, Savvas, Holmberg, Måns, Sarkar, Subhajit, Piette, Anjali A. A., Moses, Julianne I.
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April 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
So the K2-18 b paper is finally on ApJ Let, with a publication date of April 17. But the press release was on EurekAlert yesterday, dated April 16, as the first news stories posted… iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...