Analyzing avalanches on asteroid Vesta offers new method for understanding regolith processes

A study conducted at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris uses images from NASA's Dawn mission and a Bayesian inversion ...
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NASA Dawn data uncovers hidden freshness signals inside asteroid avalanches on Vesta

Asteroid Vesta’s battered surface is far from static, it quietly preserves the memory of past collapses, impacts, and ...
Nature

Photometric and Spectroscopic Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the luminous centres of galaxies powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes. Photometric studies, spanning ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths, measure ...
Phys.org

Unique metal-poor luminous blue variable inspected by astronomers

Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star known as DDO68-V1. Results of the observational campaign, published Jan. 28 on ...
Nature

Photometric Stereo Techniques for Surface Reconstruction

Photometric stereo is an imaging methodology that reconstructs the three-dimensional shape of an object by analysing variations in intensity across multiple images acquired from a fixed viewpoint ...