A Recipe for Unbiased Background Modeling in Deep Wide-field Astronomical Images by Qing Liu, Roberto Abraham, Peter G. Martin, William P. Bowman, Pieter van Dokkum, Steven R. Janssens, Seery Chen, Michael A. Keim, Deborah Lokhorst, Imad Pasha, Zili Shen, Jielai Zhang

“…In this paper, we present three ideas that can be combined to produce wide-field astronomical data that preserve accurate representations of the background sky: (1) Use of all-sky infrared/submillimeter data to remove the large-scale time-varying components while leaving the scattered light from Galactic cirrus intact, with the assumptions of (a) the underlying background has little power on small scales, and (b) the Galactic cirrus in the field is optically thin on large scales; (2) Censoring of frames contaminated by anomalously prominent wings in the wide-angle point-spread function; and (3) Incorporation of spatial covariance in image stacking that controls the local background consistency. …”
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A Broad Line-width, Compact, Millimeter-bright Molecular Emission Line Source near the Galactic Center by Adam Ginsburg, John Bally, Ashley T. Barnes, Cara Battersby, Nazar Budaiev, Natalie O. Butterfield, Paola Caselli, Laura Colzi, Katarzyna M. Dutkowska, Pablo García, Savannah Gramze, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Yue Hu, Desmond Jeff, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, Jens Kauffmann, Ralf S. Klessen, Emily M. Levesque, Steven N. Longmore, Xing Lu, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Mark R. Morris, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Tomoharu Oka, Jaime E. Pineda, Thushara G. S. Pillai, Víctor M. Rivilla, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Howard A. Smith, Yoshiaki Sofue, Mattia C. Sormani, Grant R. Tremblay, Gijs Vermariën, Alexey Vikhlinin, Serena Viti, Dan Walker, Q. Daniel Wang, Fengwei Xu, Qizhou Zhang

“…The emission is weakly spatially resolved, coming from an area on the sky ≲1″ in diameter (≲10 ^4 au at the distance of the Galactic center, GC). …”
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Written in the Stars by Seager, Sara

“…Stars—millions of them it seemed—filled the entire sky. I had never imagined that there was such a vast expanse beyond Earth.…”
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Informatics and Generative Aesthetics by Quran Karriem

“…This paper does so through concepts from mid-twentieth century philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon’s <i>On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects</i> alongside critical readings of a pair of software artifacts—namely the predictive policing platform Geolitica (formerly PredPol) and the procedurally-generated videogame <i>No Man’s Sky</i>. The analysis is supplemented by the author’s experience as an experimental electronic musician, media artist and software product developer.…”
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Sunlight Intensity Based Global Positioning System for Near-Surface Underwater Sensors by Borja Fernández, Frode E. Sandnes, Javier V. Gómez

“…By identifying the trajectory of the sun across the skies one can accurately determine sunrise and sunset times, and thus extract the longitude and latitude of the sensor. …”
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Transit Probabilities for Stars with Stellar Inclination Constraints by Beatty, Thomas G., Seager, Sara

“…This makes transit surveys for planets with large semimajor axes orbiting bright stars impractical, since one would need to continuously observe hundreds of stars that are spread out over the entire sky. One way to make such a survey tractable is to constrain the inclination of the stellar rotation axes in advance, and thereby enhance the transit probabilities. …”
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Evaluasi Integrasi Kualitas dalam Model Quality Earned Value Management (QEVM) pada Industri Konstruksi by Yahya, Ramy, Purwanggono, Bambang, Bakhtiar, Arfan

“…Hasil dari penelitian ini pada evaluasi model QEVM yang pertama diperoleh bobot kualitas mengikuti standar CONQUAS pada termin 30% proyek Sky One Tower dengan kinerja kualitas memenuhi, termin 50% proyek apartemen Rajaelang juga dengan kinerja kualitas memenuhi dan namun pada termin 70% proyek apartemen Rajaelang dengan kinerja kualitas belum memenuhi atau under specification.…”
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Planck intermediate results. VI: The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters by Collaboration, P, Ade, P, Aghanim, N, Arnaud, M, Ashdown, M, Atrio-Barandela, F, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Balbi, A, Banday, A, Barreiro, R, Bartlett, J, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoît, A, Bernard, J, Bersanelli, M, Bhatia, R, Böhringer, H, Bonaldi, A, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, F, Bourdin, H, Burigana, C

“…The survey of galaxy clusters performed by Planck through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect has already discovered many interesting objects, thanks to the whole coverage of the sky. One of the SZ candidates detected in the early months of the mission near to the signal to noise threshold, PLCKG214.6+37.0, was later revealed by XMM-Newton to be a triple system of galaxy clusters. …”

The museum of digital things: extended reality and museum practices by Zhennuo Song, Leighton Evans

“…This aligns with Heidegger’s “the thing” and “fourfold” concepts—the integration of mortals (i.e., museum visitors), earth (i.e., the activities participated in by the visitors), sky (i.e., the potentialities and ideas stimulated by the artefacts) and divinities (i.e., the visitors’ emotions while interacting with the exhibits). …”
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The twisted jets of Circinus X-1 by Coriat, M, Fender, RP, Tasse, C, Smirnov, O, Tzioumis, AK, Broderick, JW

“…If precession is the right interpretation and our modelling is correct, the best-fitting parameters describe an accreting source with mildly relativistic ejecta (v = 0.5c), inclined close to the plane of the sky (i = 86 &#x25E6; ) and precessing over a 5-yr period.…”

Detection of Upper and Lower Planetary-Boundary Layer Curves and Estimation of Their Heights from Ceilometer Observations under All-Weather Conditions: Case of Athens, Greece by Harry D. Kambezidis, Basil E. Psiloglou, Ariadne Gavriil, Kalliopi Petrinoli

“…The intra-annual variation of the upper PBL height shows a peak in August in all-weather conditions and in September under clear-sky ones. Season-wise, the upper PBL height varies showing an autumn peak for all-weather cases, while the lower PBL height shows a winter maximum due to persistent surface-temperature inversions in this season.…”
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Estimation of all-weather land surface temperature through correcting cloud-shadowing bias simulated by hourly cloud information by Peilin Song, Xiaojie Li, Zonghan Ma, Shengli Wu

“…For such fusion techniques under cloudy weather, PMW observations are especially useful in correcting the cloud-shadowing bias of the real cloudy LST against a theoretically clear-sky one in the daytime. However, PMW observations have very limited transit times in a day, and cannot be fused with asynchronous TIR data as LST can vary significantly during the daytime. …”
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A Spatially Self-Adaptive Multiparametric Anomaly Identification Scheme Based on Global Strong Earthquakes by Zhonghu Jiao, Yumeng Hao, Xinjian Shan

“…Our research emphasizes the critical importance of a multiparametric system in earthquake forecasting, where each geophysical parameter can be assigned a distinct weight, and the findings specifically identify OLR, including all-sky and clear-sky ones, as the most influential parameter on a global scale, highlighting the potential significance of OLR anomalies for seismic forecasting. …”
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Intercomparison of stratospheric nitrogen dioxide columns retrieved from ground-based DOAS and FTIR and satellite DOAS instruments over the subtropical Izana station by C. Robles-Gonzalez, M. Navarro-Comas, O. Puentedura, M. Schneider, F. Hase, O. Garcia, T. Blumenstock, M. Gil-Ojeda

“…The paper highlights the importance of considering an “effective solar zenith angle” instead of the actual one when comparing direct-sun instruments with zenith sky ones for a proper photochemical correction. Results show that NO₂ vertical column densities mean relative difference between FTIR and DOAS instruments is 2.8 ± 10.7 % for a.m. data. …”
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Guide spirituel ou voleur de miel ? La figure de l’apiculteur dans la pensée occidentale by François Tavoillot, Pierre Henri-Tavoillot

“…The bee being at the heart of the great existential questions, the beekeeper could be perceived not only as a producer of honey or wax, but as a passer, as one who, initiated by his foragers, could transmit to other humans an understanding of the mysteries of the world, such as the transition from chaos to the harmony of the cosmos, from nature to culture, the link between humans and the divine, between the earth and the sky. One of the first myths dedicated to bees depicts this dual function of the beekeeper, productive and symbolic; it is the story of Aristaeus and the disappearance of the bees as told by Virgil in the IVth Georgic. …”
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Colouring écriture féminine in Peter Manson's translations of Mallarmé by Rebecca Varley-Winter

“…I begin by reading reds and purples in Hérodiade as allusions to blood, then the golds of coloured glass in ‘Les Fênetres’ and ‘Don du Poème’ as a way of making conflicts between bodily abjection and transcendence visible (the pane of glass becoming a coloured body between the lyric ‘I’ and the sky). I finally consider Mallarmé’s use of the word ‘Azur’ as a metaphor for virginity (azure being associated, through lapis lazuli, with the blue of the Virgin Mary). …”
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Neural Network-Based Estimation of Near-Surface Air Temperature in All-Weather Conditions Using FY-4A AGRI Data over China by Hai-Lei Liu, Min-Zheng Duan, Xiao-Qing Zhou, Sheng-Lan Zhang, Xiao-Bo Deng, Mao-Lin Zhang

“…For clear skies, AGRI LST was utilized to estimate the <i>T_a</i> (<i>T_a,clear</i>), whereas cloud top temperature and cloud top height were employed to estimate the <i>T_a</i> for cloudy skies (<i>T_a,cloudy</i>). The estimated <i>T_a</i> was validated using the 2020 data from 1211 stations in China, and the RMSE values of the <i>T_a,clear</i> and <i>T_a,cloudy</i> were 1.80 °C and 1.72 °C, while the correlation coefficients were 0.99 and 0.986, respectively. …”
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Size-resolved dust direct radiative effect efficiency derived from satellite observations by Q. Song, Q. Song, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, H. Yu, J. F. Kok, C. Di Biagio, S. Albani, J. Zheng, J. Zheng, J. Ding

“…In this study, we derive a global clear-sky <i>size-resolved</i> DREE dataset in both shortwave (SW) and longwave (LW) at top of the atmosphere (TOA) and surface based on satellite observations (i.e., satellite-retrieved dust extinction spatial and vertical distributions). …”
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Les roues du ciel de Sucevița. Brève investigation multidisciplinaire sur un élément plastique décoratif de la fresque intérieure de l’église « La Résurrection de Jésus Christ » du... by Emilian Adrian Gavrilean

“…In the study Suceviţa’s wheels of the sky I have undertaken a multidisciplinary investigation of some ornamental elements like the stars painted on the inside wall painting of “Învierea Domnului” Church of Suceviţa Monastery and which are quite common elements at first sight in the sacred art of the Romanian Middle Ages. …”
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