# milky way (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 14 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover milky way. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Storm Over the Colorado River](https://ericbrown.com/storm-over-the-colorado-river/) _2026-08-21 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ I was driving through southern Utah when I saw this scene. I didn't have a plan to stop or any idea of what i was going to capture but just saw a sky that kept getting more interesting the farther I went. ## [Fairyland Milky Way Experience in Bryce Canyon](https://mishmoments.com/2026/08/20/fairyland-milky-way-experience-in-bryce-canyon/) _2026-08-20 · Mish · MishMoments_ August and September are great months for Milky Way watching in Bryce Canyon National Park. Behind the Shot This is a blend of about 45 images. 15 images of the land, 15 images of the Milky Way, and 15 images of the Milky Way with an H-alpha filter that captures only a specific band of … Continue reading Fairyland Milky Way Experience in Bryce Canyon → ## [Telescope spies fastest star in Milky Way zipping around black hole](https://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/321965-telescope-spies-fastest-star-in-milky-way-zipping-around-black-hole) _2026-08-20 · Naharnet Newsdesk · Science_ A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The star is zipping around the black hole, reaching speeds of about 15,534 miles per second (25,000 kilometers per second). That's 100,000 times faster than a commercial plane. ## [My Journey through the 2026 Solar Eclipse](https://www.issibern.ch/my-journey-through-the-2026-solar-eclipse/) _2026-08-20 · Fabio Crameri · International Space Science Institute_ Der Beitrag My Journey through the 2026 Solar Eclipse erschien zuerst auf International Space Science Institute . ## [How Many Clicks Are Left](https://thelensletter.substack.com/p/how-to-check-shutter-count) _2026-08-19 · Rahul Goyal · LensLetter - Travel & Photography_ Your shutter count is like mileage, but modern mirrorless cameras have made that number far less straightforward than it used to be. ## [The Subsidy Problem](https://ericbrown.com/the-subsidy-problem/) _2026-08-18 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ A couple of weeks ago I sat down and made sure I could still get my work done if Claude vanished tomorrow. Not because I think it will. I'd been reading about the money underneath all of this, and almost nobody is paying what this stuff actually costs. ## [Asteroid impact shaped the appearance of Mars’ moon Deimos](https://www.issibern.ch/asteroid-impact-shaped-the-appearance-of-mars-moon-deimos/) _2026-08-18 · Fabio Crameri · International Space Science Institute_ Der Beitrag Asteroid impact shaped the appearance of Mars’ moon Deimos erschien zuerst auf International Space Science Institute . ## [The Totem Pole Under the Milky Way](https://ericbrown.com/totem-pole-under-the-milky-way/) _2026-08-14 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ You can’t just drive to this one. The Totem Pole and the spires around it sit deep in the Monument Valley backcountry, on Navajo land you don’t get to wander into on your own. To stand here at night you go in with a Navajo guide who knows the way and has every right to say no. I went on a photographers’ trip led by one, out past the parts of the valley the tour vans reach, to a… ## [Landscape Photographers: Travel Less](https://stephenbayphotography.com/blog/landscape-photographers-travel-less-and-reduce-your-carbon-footprint/) _2026-08-14 · Stephen Bay's Photography Blog_ Landscape photography often involves significant travel. If you’re like me, you live in the middle of a big city and there are very few opportunities to photograph the natural environment without getting into a car or boarding an airplane. I’m luckier than most – I live in San Diego and have the coast within a 20-30 minute drive of my home. But before I moved here, getting to a… ## [Millions crowd Spanish cities to see country's first total solar eclipse in over a century](https://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/321809-millions-crowd-spanish-cities-to-see-country-s-first-total-solar-eclipse-in-over-a-century) _2026-08-13 · Naharnet Newsdesk · Science_ Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain on Wednesday in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness. The crowds brought lawn chairs and umbrellas as they eagerly awaited the celestial spectacle, which began early in the evening. As the sky darkened, gradually at first and… ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/c9DsUvOGPGP8) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Protected: Twelve Weeks of Star Magic](https://stardrenched.com/2026/08/12/twelve-weeks-of-star-magic/) _2026-08-13 · Francesca · The Fairy Queen’s magic spells_ There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. ## [These Lightroom Changes Actually Matter](https://thelensletter.substack.com/p/lightroom-august-2026-update) _2026-08-12 · Rahul Goyal · LensLetter - Travel & Photography_ The headline is Generative Expand, but two much smaller Lightroom changes may matter far more to photographers. ## [The Number on the Slide](https://ericbrown.com/the-number-on-the-slide/) _2026-08-11 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ I spent some time last week looking into AI customer-support agents, the tools that handle tickets so your team doesn’t have to. I wasn’t shopping or trying to buy anything, I just wanted to see what a buyer actually finds when they try to compare these products on their merits. What I found was one product with at least three different accuracy stories, each published, each… ## [Sprinkles in Disguise](https://www.issibern.ch/sprinkles-in-disguise/) _2026-08-10 · Fabio Crameri · International Space Science Institute_ Der Beitrag Sprinkles in Disguise erschien zuerst auf International Space Science Institute . ## [Weekly Intel - 2026-08-09](https://ericbrown.com/weekly-intel-2026-08-09/) _2026-08-09 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ The AI build-out showed up well beyond the models this week: in silicon specialized for inference, in leadership shakeups, in courtrooms, in the memory supply, and in security disclosures. AI Industry Moves AMD acquires Taalas to hardwire AI models into silicon AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup founded in 2023 that etches a model’s weights directly into custom silicon… ## [Road to Infinity, Grand Staircase-Escalante Milky Way and Airglow](https://mishmoments.com/2026/08/07/road-to-infinity-grand-staircase-escalante-milky-way-and-airglow/) _2026-08-07 · Mish · MishMoments_ In May, I captured a full arch Milky Way image at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Understanding Airglow Airglow is a faint, natural emission of light by a planet s upper atmosphere, driven by solar radiation and chemical reactions, making the whole sky glow softly even in the dark. Colors and Chemical Reactions At an altitude Continue reading Road to Infinity, Grand… ## [Green River Overlook, Canyonlands](https://ericbrown.com/green-river-overlook-canyonlands/) _2026-08-07 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ Green River Overlook is one of those spots in Canyonlands I’ve photographed over and over. It sits out on the Island in the Sky, looking down over the Green River and the White Rim, and on paper it should be one of the easiest sunsets in the Southwest to photograph. For me it never has been. ## [New Fairy Witch Ritual](https://stardrenched.com/2026/08/06/new-fairy-witch-ritual/) _2026-08-06 · Francesca · The Fairy Queen’s magic spells_ Whatever reason you are stuck, here’s magic to clear the path and reach your goal. Continue reading → ## [The Five Second Photography Upgrade](https://thelensletter.substack.com/p/the-five-second-photography-upgrade) _2026-08-05 · Rahul Goyal · LensLetter - Travel & Photography_ The problem was never your camera. It was sitting on the front of your lens the whole time. ## [Meet Dr. Nancy Grace Roman](https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/824036896675168256) _2026-08-04 · NASA_ ALT A photo of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman holding a model of the Hubble Space Telescope. You have to be a pretty big deal for NASA to name a space telescope after you, and that is certainly the case for Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — our Roman Space Telescope’s namesake. She’s sometimes called the “mother of Hubble,” but she’s really the mother of all space-based observatories and NASA science in general. As… ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pXaW7xgbRqcX) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [How to Tell What's Real in AI](https://ericbrown.com/how-to-tell-whats-real-in-ai/) _2026-08-04 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ Lately a lot of my time is spent in two rooms that don’t describe AI the same way. In one, I’m building the thing: training models, running evaluations, digging through a production system when the verdicts come back wrong. In the other, I’m across the table from people who have to make the call on AI they can’t build themselves, what to buy, what to trust, what to bet real… ## [A Statistical Mirage in Space Weather](https://www.issibern.ch/a-statistical-mirage-in-space-weather/) _2026-08-04 · Fabio Crameri · International Space Science Institute_ Der Beitrag A Statistical Mirage in Space Weather erschien zuerst auf International Space Science Institute . ## [Barn and Stars, Pagosa Springs, Colorado](https://www.stantonchampion.com/2026/08/03/barn-and-stars-pagosa-springs-colorado/) _2026-08-03 · Stanton · Stanton Champion_ Going through my archives, I ran across this wonderful Milky Way photo that I previously shared on Flickr but not here. I took this in July 2014 on a trip to visit family in Pagosa Springs, Colorado at a spot I’ve returned to several times. On this particular night, I got incredibly lucky with finding \[…\] The post Barn and Stars, Pagosa Springs, Colorado appeared first on Stanton Champion . ## [Weekly Intel - 2026-08-02](https://ericbrown.com/weekly-intel-2026-08-02/) _2026-08-02 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ The theme this week is the gap between frontier capability and frontier reliability. Models keep advancing on benchmarks and price-performance, yet one handed a real business for a day lost money and made no revenue, while a $500 fine-tune of a small open model beat the frontier at a real task. ## [10小时攻关，半小时Dev Time：在指甲盖大小的单片机上跑神经网络识别车库门](https://yage.ai/esp32-garage-door-ai.html) _2026-08-02 · grapeot · Computing Life_ 为了解决车库门忘关的问题，我用拇指大小的ESP32-CAM单片机与AI协作做了一个端侧神经网络传感器。本文记录了如何通过打通全自动串口研发闭环、解决数据极度不对称与QAT量化衰减，在10小时内跑通嵌入式AI的完整过程。 ## [10 Hours of AI Collaboration, 30 Mins of Dev Time: Running a Neural Network on a Thumb-Sized Microcontroller for Garage Door Recognition](https://yage.ai/esp32-garage-door-ai-en.html) _2026-08-02 · grapeot · Computing Life_ To solve the problem of accidentally leaving my garage door open overnight, I collaborated with AI to build an edge neural network sensor on a thumb-sized ESP32-CAM. This article details how we completed the end-to-end telemetry loop, tackled extreme data imbalance and QAT quantization loss, and got edge AI running on a microcontroller in just 10 hours. ## [Milky Way Planner](https://ericbrown.com/projects/milky-way-planner/) _2026-08-01 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ Milky Way Planner is a planning tool I built for astrophotographers who want to know exactly when and where to shoot the Milky Way, without spending an evening clicking through a calendar one date at a time. ## [Get a Sneak Peek of Roman’s Bonus Surveys!](https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/823671048143814656) _2026-07-31 · NASA_ We’re excited to announce that we’ve selected five new surveys for the soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! These observations will unveil myriad worlds, provide dazzling looks at globular clusters and two nearby galaxies, and examine the early universe in unprecedented detail. Here’s a preview of each new survey. ALT This ground-based image of the Andromeda Galaxy highlights the… ## [The Tripod I've Been Avoiding For 15 Years](https://thelensletter.substack.com/p/the-tripod-ive-been-avoiding-for) _2026-07-29 · Rahul Goyal · LensLetter - Travel & Photography_ Fifteen years of avoiding proper tripods, a few cold nights that changed my mind, and one decision I should have made sooner. ## [Weekly Intel - 2026-07-26](https://ericbrown.com/weekly-intel-2026-07-26/) _2026-07-26 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ This week: ads coming to ChatGPT, a $1.5B settlement over pirated training data, a security incident where an OpenAI model broke into Hugging Face, and a fight over who regulates open-weight models. ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hsCPAegU8uyK) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [Astronomers Just Made First Ever Discovery of an Atmosphere Around a Super-Earth in Another Star’s Habitable Zone](https://thespacenewsletter.substack.com/p/astronomers-just-made-first-ever) _2026-07-25 · Curiosity · Curiosity - Latest in Space_ Astronomers have detected helium escaping from LHS 1140 b, providing the first clear evidence of an atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone. ## [Stellar Nesting Grounds](https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/823041780502200320) _2026-07-24 · NASA_ ALT This image captures the Tarantula Nebula in all of its cosmic glory. Astronomers study nebulae like this one to learn about how elements form and disperse throughout the galaxy, seeding space with planetary building blocks. Clouds of dust and gas called nebulae speckle our galaxy. Some are ferocious cosmic factories that churn out baby stars by the hundreds of thousands, while others are grave… ## [Alien Eggs at Bisti Badlands](https://ericbrown.com/alien-eggs-bisti-badlands/) _2026-07-24 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ The alien eggs at Bisti Badlands sit at the end of a hike, a mile and a half or so out into the middle of nowhere. There’s no trail…you park in an empty lot in the high desert south of Farmington, New Mexico, and you start walking across dry, open, hilly ground that looks the same in every direction. The land is public, BLM, but it sits in the middle of Navajo country. ## [The Hidden Presence: False Negatives in Astrobiology](https://www.issibern.ch/the-hidden-presence-false-negatives-in-astrobiology/) _2026-07-23 · Fabio Crameri · International Space Science Institute_ Der Beitrag The Hidden Presence: False Negatives in Astrobiology erschien zuerst auf International Space Science Institute . ## [Capturing a Milky Way Panorama at Zion, A Photographer’s Guide](https://mishmoments.com/2026/07/23/capturing-a-milky-way-panorama-at-zion-a-photographers-guide/) _2026-07-23 · Mish · MishMoments_ In May, I captured a full arch Milky Way image at the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Part. Here is the result. The above image is a combination of three full sets of 220 degree panoramas, stitched and blended together then cropped to 180 degrees or so. Each pano set is 24 images. The Continue reading Capturing a Milky Way Panorama at Zion, A Photographer s Guide ## [Newly selected International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences 2026](https://www.issibern.ch/newly-selected-international-teams-in-space-and-earth-sciences-2026/) _2026-07-22 · andrea.fischer · International Space Science Institute_ Der Beitrag Newly selected International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences 2026 erschien zuerst auf International Space Science Institute . ## [Better Photos Start Before You Travel](https://thelensletter.substack.com/p/better-photos-start-before-you-travel) _2026-07-21 · Rahul Goyal · LensLetter - Travel & Photography_ A practical AI workflow for checking light, weather, access, shot ideas and backup plans before leaving home. ## [Judgment Doesn't Scale](https://ericbrown.com/judgment-doesnt-scale/) _2026-07-21 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ Everyone’s telling the same story about AI and consulting right now. The big firms are thinning their lower ranks, the pyramid is shrinking, and the twenty-three-year-old with a spreadsheet and a framework is first out the door. If you run a company and you’ve wondered whether it’s still worth paying a firm to help with your AI push, some version of that story is rattling around… ## [Weekly Intel - 2026-07-19](https://ericbrown.com/weekly-intel-2026-07-19/) _2026-07-19 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ The theme this week is who controls the frontier: open models pushing against closed labs, companies fighting over the people who build them, and questions about whether AI hype is crowding out clear thinking about everything else. ## [Mount Everest Contains Marine Rocks, Proving That the Highest Point on Earth Was Once at the Bottom of the Ocean](https://thespacenewsletter.substack.com/p/mount-everest-contains-marine-rocks) _2026-07-18 · Curiosity · Curiosity - Latest in Space_ The single most-photographed patch of rock on Earth is not a mountain in the way most people picture one. ## [Foto Friday: Rock With Wings](https://ericbrown.com/foto-friday-shiprock/) _2026-07-17 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ I shot this at dawn, standing at a gate outside Shiprock, New Mexico. The Navajo call it Tsé Bitʼaʼí, which means “rock with wings,” and once you watch it come up out of the flat desert like that, the name makes complete sense. It’s the neck of an old volcano, close to 1,600 feet of rock standing alone on a plain that runs flat in every direction. ## [Sugar Has Been Found in Space for the First Time, Opening the Possibility of Life Elsewhere](https://thespacenewsletter.substack.com/p/sugar-has-been-found-in-space-for) _2026-07-16 · Curiosity · Curiosity - Latest in Space_ Sugars are fussy, fragile things. ## [Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding](https://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/321287-faint-new-planet-is-revealed-around-a-young-star-after-a-decade-in-hiding) _2026-07-16 · Naharnet Newsdesk · Science_ Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek. In an unusual twist, two groups working independently detected the cold gas giant a few days apart late last year using different telescopes. It's the dimmest planet ever directly imaged from Earth, scientists reported Wednesday. ## [Hubble Just Made a Major Discovery In The Case of 10,000 'Missing' Black Holes](https://thespacenewsletter.substack.com/p/hubble-just-made-a-major-discovery) _2026-07-14 · Curiosity · Curiosity - Latest in Space_ Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, has been hiding an embarrassing accounting problem for decades. ## [The Trust Tax](https://ericbrown.com/the-trust-tax/) _2026-07-14 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ Last week I asked an AI assistant which lightweight tripod to buy for hiking, and the answer came back in under a minute with a clean comparison table and four cited sources. Then I opened the process logs for the assistant to see what the system actually did while it worked, and there wasn’t a single web lookup in there. Four citations, and not one of them had been ‘found’ on… ## [Cactus Bloom Closeups: The Beauty of Our Spring Garden](https://mishmoments.com/2026/07/13/cactus-bloom-closeups-the-beauty-of-our-back-garden/) _2026-07-14 · Mish · MishMoments_ This is what our back garden looks like in the Spring, March through May. This was a great year for cactus and other blooms. The cactus with huge white blooms is an Argentinian Saguaro. The blooms only last a day opening in the afternoon and last through the next morning, fading rapidly starting about noon. Continue reading Cactus Bloom Closeups: The Beauty of Our Spring Garden ## [Weekly Intel - 2026-07-12](https://ericbrown.com/weekly-intel-2026-07-12/) _2026-07-12 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ The theme this week is control: who owns the technology, who gets to fix it, who gets to build on it. Apple’s trade-secrets suit against OpenAI, the right-to-repair win against John Deere, and the push to make more chips on U.S. soil all come back to who holds the keys. ## [The Rainbow](https://ericbrown.com/the-rainbow/) _2026-07-10 · Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. — Technology Decisions & AI Strategy_ This one is from 2019, one of my first trips to the Grand Canyon. I was there a few days ahead of a workshop, which meant I had time to run around and explore with no agenda beyond seeing what the canyon wanted to do. ## [Astronomers Discover A Super-Earth Completely Covered in Water, With NO Land in Sight, Just Waves from Pole to Pole. This is TOI-1452 b](https://thespacenewsletter.substack.com/p/astronomers-discover-a-super-earth) _2026-07-07 · Curiosity · Curiosity - Latest in Space_ Earth is called the blue planet, but the name flatters us. ## [Why People Nearly Quit Landscape Photography](https://thelensletter.substack.com/p/why-people-nearly-quit-landscape) _2026-07-07 · Rahul Goyal · LensLetter - Travel & Photography_ Why copying other photographers, chasing likes, and waiting for perfect light are quietly ruining your landscape photography.