Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken a picture of a spiral galaxy called NGC 1385.
NGC 1385 is located approximately 68 million light-years away in the constellation of Fornax.
NGC 1385's home, the Fornax constellation, is not named after an animal or an ancient deity, as are many of the other constellations. Fornax is simply the Latin word for a furnace.
The constellation was named Fornax by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, a French astronomer who was born in 1713.
OPPO Sets up Camera Innovation Lab at its R&D Centre in Hyderabad
Smartphone brand OPPO announced that it has set up a camera innovation lab at its R&D centre in Hyderabad.
The lab is designed to develop localised features, camera solutions using AI and focus on developing imaging software for a better user experience.
The camera lab will focus on building new solutions to resolve issues such as night videography, different surrounding light and light temperatures, and more.
The lab will also work towards developing solutions for video, still photography, and research on Full Dimension Fusion (FDF) Portrait Video System technology.
Aug 16, 2021
India's First Drone Forensic Lab Comes up in Kerala
India's first Drone Forensic Lab and Research Center has come up in Kerala. The Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan was inaugurating the State police department's 'Drone Forensic Laboratory' at the Kerala State Police CyberDome. Cyberdome is a technological research and development centre of the Kerala Police Department.
The centre will help in keeping a watch over unauthorized drones and also for the production of drones for the use of the police force. This lab-cum-research centre will look into both utility and threat aspects of a drone.
The police have forayed strongly into the relatively new field of drone forensics. It had recently analysed a drone brought down by the Border Security Force (BSF) near the international border in Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir and helped the local enforcement zero in on its illegal operator.
Aug 14, 2021
NASA Research Facility in Ohio Named for Native Son Neil Armstrong
A NASA research facility in Ohio has been renamed after astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was born in the state and returned shortly after he became the first man to walk on the moon.
Ohio's U.S. senators led the efforts to change the name of the NASA Plum Brook Station in Sandusky to the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility.
Aug 13, 2021
ISRO's Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter Discovers Water Molecules on Moon's Surface
India's ambitious Chandrayaan-2 moon mission may have made a hard landing on the lunar surface in 2019, but the orbiter accompanying it has been providing useful information to scientists back on Earth. And earlier this week, a research paper revealed that the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter confirmed the presence of water molecules (H2o) and hydroxyl (OH) on the surface of the moon.
The discovery was made by the orbiter's imaging infrared spectrometer (IIRS).
Plagioclase-rich rocks have been found to have higher OH or possibly H2O molecules when compared to the mare regions, which were found to have more dominance of OH at higher surface temperature.
Aug 12, 2021
ISRO Fails to Put GISAT-1 EOS-03 Satellite into Orbit
The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) mission to launch Geo Imaging Satellite (Gisat-1) earth observation satellite, EOS-03 into orbit was declared 'unsuccessful'.
ISRO declared that the 'mission failed' as they were not receiving details from cryogenic engine. The launch was scheduled for 12-8-2021 and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-F10 (GSLV-F10) rocket was being launched to place the EOS in a geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO).
This was the space agency's third attempt at launching the satellite into space. It was first scheduled for March 5, 2020. ISRO wanted to launch it again earlier this year (2021), but it did not take place due to a voltage issue.
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