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geometric pattern in browns and blues: a dry part of Australia seen from above
USGS/Unsplash Satellite image of Gosses Bluff, Australia

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Satellite Imaging, Not Tourism, Is the Modern Space Race

by : Ray Jayawardhana , Wall Street Journal

While Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Elon Musk send people into orbit, real-time mapping of the Earth has much broader applications, writes Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of astronomy, in Wall Street Journal commentary. “One may be tempted to dismiss the surge of private space activity as much ado about billionaires’ bragging rights,…

Pencil on a blank notebook page

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Father's Day: I'm a writer because of my dad, but he is still my most challenging subject

by : Ray Jayawardhana , USA Today

This article in USA Today is the first attempt by Ray Jayawardhana, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of astronomy, to write about his father—his inspiration and most difficult subject. “My father was always writing, as far back as I can remember,” Jayawardhana writes in the piece. “Whenever he found more than a moment for himself, he was buried in a book or…

Earth as a pale blue dot seen from space

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30 years after 'pale blue dot' photo of Earth, the coronavirus reminds us of our fragility

by : Ray Jayawardhana , USA Today

In this great big universe we call home, we are dependent on each other to get through this crisis, writes Ray Jayawardhana, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of astronomy, in an op-ed article in USA Today. "On Valentine’s Day of 1990, following fly-bys of Jupiter and Saturn and on its way out of the solar system, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one last…