Day: May 29, 2025

Canon RF 35mm f/1.4L VCM lens review

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Key specs Type: Prime lens Focal length: 35mm Maximum aperture: f/1.4 Lens mount: Canon RF Weight: 19.58 oz / 555 g Dimensions: 3.01×3.90 in / 76.5×99.3 mm Filter thread: 67mm Release date: June 2024 Popular prime lenses for astrophotography often come in at 24mm or wider to allow for capturing a much wider view of the sky with little ground interest, which makes sense. But when you’re incorporating ground elements to act as significant foreground interest, slightly longer focal lengths can be advantageous. This is where 35mm lenses come into…

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Scientists capture never-before-seen plasma streams and bizarre ‘raindrops’ in sharpest-ever view of sun’s outer atmosphere (video)

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The sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — has long intrigued scientists due to its extreme temperatures, violent eruptions and towering prominences — vast filaments of plasma extending out from the solar surface. Visible only during a total solar eclipse and blurred by Earth’s turbulent atmosphere, the corona has remained frustratingly elusive. Until now. Thanks to a breakthrough adaptive optics system called Cona, installed at the 1.6-meter Goode Solar Telescope (GST), operated by NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California, scientists now have…

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Could time travel tourism be the next space tourism? (op-ed)

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Can we journey through time? From H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine to The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger and “Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon, time travel has captured our imagination for centuries. The concept is ever-present in all forms of sci-fi entertainment, from time-travel movies like Back to the Future and Looper, to time-looping games like The Outer Wilds, and of course, sci-fi novels. It speaks to our deepest regrets and desires — the chance to reconnect with someone now gone, to undo mistakes, or to relive our most precious…

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