Weekly Resources - Aug 29

Above - NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is encapsulated within the payload fairing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center

Sunday August 30 Launch coverage of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope.

Watch live coverage of the Roman space telescope! NASA’s next-generation observatory is designed to explore some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, including dark energy.

The Journey of Light and the Universe: From Quanta to Quasars, A Quest to Understand the Nature of Reality

By Masroor H. Bukhari. A historic background of Human thought in natural philosophy and light, to an intro to light for beginners, followed by a crash course in physical cosmology and astrophysics. The start of universe, primordial epochs, Cosmic inflation, the Decoupling, the First Lights, star formation, kinds of stars and galaxies, compact objects (mainly Neutron Stars, Pulsars, Blazars, Black Holes and Supermassive Black Holes) and SMBH systems, such as Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei, and the large-scale structure of the universe (Superstructures, Filaments, Voids and Walls, etc.), and finally to an introduction to the eerie world of quantum physics, its main tenets (superposition, entanglement, nonlocality, etc.). Careful commentary and his insights. A brief introduction to Quantum Computing is also given. "However, my book is my own ideas, not inspired or written like any book, I work on my own and in my own ways, that's who I am." - Masroor H. Bukhari

Deep underground, SuperCDMS begins hunting light dark matter with 24 cryogenic crystals

Deep underground and chilled to near absolute zero, the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) SNOLAB, one of the world's most sensitive dark matter searches,

has begun collecting its first scientific data.