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NASA seeks help from public to study exoplanets

As a part of NASA’s Universe of Learning, a program called Exoplanet Watch was launched in 2018. The program aims to let anyone learn about planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system and get involved in observing them. Until now, only a limited number of people could help look through the data collected by telescopes. However, the program is now available for everyone as NASA seeks help from the public to study exoplanets . The public can check out the website of the program. According to Rob Zellem, the creator of Exoplanet Watch, “with Exoplanet Watch, you can learn how to observe exoplanets and do data analysis using software that actual NASA scientists use.” The program has two main areas, one for those with a telescope and one for those without access. Without the telescope, people can request access to data collected by robotic telescopes and assist with data analysis. NASA is seeking help from the public as more data can be analyzed, along with...

2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work

Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023 WASHINGTON -- Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023. The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of a whipsmart detective — which has even ensnared Enola Holmes — will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring Jan. 1 include Conan Doyle's last Sherlock Holmes work. Alongside the short-story collection “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes," books such as Virginia Woolf's “To The Lighthouse,” Ernest Hemingway's “Men Without Women,” William Faulkner's "Mosquitoes" and Agatha Christie's “The Big Four” — an Hercule Poirot mystery — will become public domain as the calendar turns to 2023. Once a work enters the public domain it can legally be shared, performed, reused, repurposed or sampled without permission or cost. The works from 1927 were originally suppos...