This remains one of my all time favorite Onion articles. theonion.com/nasa-announc...

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Does anyone know of real scientists commandeering aircraft? In 2001, Heywood Floyd snags two spaceliners to get to Clavius Base (no Zoom for him), and in The Andromeda Strain, Wildfire director Jeremy Stone snags an airliner to get to the lab. Other examples? Did either get peanuts and a drink?

A horrifically senseless death. I knew Carl as a colleague on the HST/WFPC1 and then Nuker teams. We were co-authors on some 30 papers. With his laconic wit, and calm presence he was a pleasure to work with. Words fail me...

And a nice New Horizons image of Pluto, just because:

A song I came across a few years ago in a post by @astrokatie.com - Perfect music for New Horizons as it drifts ever farther into interstellar space to whatever fate awaits it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8U...

Roses are red, But that's not quite true, They absorb every wavelength of the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, *Except* for that hue.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Nearly 50 years ago, Martin Schwarzschild as a retirement project took up the problem of how to construct realistic dynamical models of elliptical galaxies. "Schwarzschild's Method" is now THE tool for stellar dynamical detection of SMBH in galaxy centers. Note the citation history.

can we please not repeatedly shoot ourselves in the foot www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

You know, J. S. Bach didn't write anything in English. I really wonder why we teach his music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLC...

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

There is no bottom to how low they will go: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

And that's that for the Kennedy Center.

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Well, now that we know that Renee Good's parents were Trump supporters, gosh that makes her death unfortunate then.

I am really, really looking forward to this!

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

@lickobservatory.bsky.social update: the dome is now sealed! Thanks to the summit staff, contractors, and main-campus staff for an amazing amount of work over the past four months. Now we can catch our breath and plan how to checkout/repair the telescope and the dome.

When I was doing my PhD, I would often walk over to this vista on the UC Santa Cruz campus to clear my head. The space and scale gave me place to breath, and better yet to imagine.

As New Horizons heads out of the Solar System into interstellar space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8U...

This is beyond sick.

Here's a US senator fully endorsing bringing criminal charges against Jerome Powell for the express purpose of getting him to resign from the Fed. The charges would go away once he resigns.

Do his initials begin with J & D?

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Please stop randomly swishing around a laser pointer while giving your talk. #AAS247

Standing out in the street taking my earlier full Moon image, a neighbor, Steve Kite, drove by, stopped and showed me the image that he had just taken with *his* phone. Tucson has incredible Moon rises. As I demonstrated to @bsryden.bsky.social , sometimes it even rises twice in the same night!

Moonrise in Tucson tonight:

The old 36" Lick refractor. At the opposite end of the building is the 1m reflector that I used to get the observations for my PhD thesis.

Sandra and Annika spending Christmas afternoon doing a little image reconstruction on Pluto:

57 years ago today, Apollo 8 crew member Bill Anders took his iconic photo of the Earth rising over the Moon. It is still a fantastic image. Here's a little video of how it was done: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbF...

Just thought I would show off my copy of "Norton's Star Atlas," which I bought from the "Edmund's Scientific" store in the early 70s. Many astronomers from my generation that played with telescopes growing have a copy that's about in the same shapre.

Finished (almost) my model of the Saturn V after a few decades of on and off work. Don't know where I'm going to put it...

Nice picture to go with the article, but there is no NSF building any more. NSF was tossed out it so it could be given over to HHS (who neglected maintenance it their previous building for decades).

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

My wife asked if the Trump admin is going to say that they killed calibri in serif defense...

Font wars - I've been dreading this since childhood. I have a huge stockpile of extra 'd's that I don't need that I'm willing to swap for other characters if the Trump goes full bore at banning sans serif fonts: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

I watched my Dad suffer through shingles, so I made sure to get the shots.

A great and legendary science reporter for the NYT has passed away. Can't begin to count how many of his articles I read. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...

Another action-packed adventure as fellow New Horizons team member Rick Binzel pays a visit to the New Horizons Tucson image processing facility.

These anti-vaxxers will kill babies. It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.

I wish astros would stop using the term "unsharp-masking" when they most-likely mean high-pass filtering. USM is an ancient darkroom trick, which is non-linear and makes positive definite images. A true digital USM would be useful in some cases, but would require several steps.

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE