Watching the aurora dance…

A coronal mass ejection recorded on Friday could reach Earth and cause geomagnetic storms on Sunday night.

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"You also have no guaranteed access to an aisle from an aisle seat. The inflight meal might be rocks -- we don't promise it's edible. Also just because it says 'plane' do not expect a plane, a tractor might show up, or just a guy who is going to carry you to your destination on piggyback."

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Keep posting sky pictures, I like being reminded that we're all piles of carbon screaming through space on a rock and we're all just hanging on and hoping for the best.

I might have taken a few aurora photos.

Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-12T03:52:14Z ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 8, 9- Threshold Reached: 2025 Nov 12 0345 UTC Synoptic Period: 0300-0600 UTC Active Warning: Yes NOAA Scale: G4 - Severe Additional Details Here.

Potentially the reddest aurora I have ever seen happening now on the way to Delta Junction, Alaska. 6:14 pm AKST Nov 11.

I find this remarkable: The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century. 🧪🔭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Photonics Hot List Friday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9FT... @spie.org @jmurphoton.bsky.social #nanophotonics

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Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-05T23:00:05Z ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 6 Threshold Reached: 2025 Nov 05 2252 UTC Synoptic Period: 2100-2400 UTC Active Warning: Yes NOAA Scale: G2 - Moderate Additional Details Here.

Today we kicked off the week with our first event of #QuantumWeek2025, 'The First 100 Years', at the historic @rigb.org. Our speakers explored quantum's history, its impact, how its shaped society, and its strangeness. We’ll be back tomorrow with 'Our Quantum Future'. 👉 www.iop.org/events/quant...

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 Prism Awards!🥂 24 products across eight categories have been named for their outstanding innovation in photonics. Winners will be announced on 21 January at #PhotonicsWest. 💡 Read the press release: spie.org/news/innovat... #PhotonicsPrism #SPIE

Thrilled to share the latest #FollowingthePhotons podcast, featuring my really fun, interesting, insightful talk with Dr. Tara Fortier, a physicist and project leader at NIST! LISTEN NOW--> ✨ 🕰️ bit.ly/47wsDwo @laserfocusworld.bsky.social

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This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...

Right in time for #Halloween 🎃 Our VST has spotted a spooky bat flying over Paranal. But fear not, it's located 10,000 light-years away. This "cosmic bat" is in fact a large cloud of gas. Let's fly through it in this video...if you dare! 🦇 Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2518/ 🔭 🧪

Happy Halloween! 🎃 www.laserfocusworld.com/quantum/medi... #quantum #entanglement #photonics #optics

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#PhotonicsHotList Friday! This week: New 3D display could bring glasses-free truly immersive experiences ... business news roundup ... and a breakthrough in optical thermodynamics 👻 Check it out--> bit.ly/47xzxSh @laserfocusworld.bsky.social

Happy Halloween! pacificoptica.com/cousa/

Congrats to the 2025 #SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest winners! 🥇 Cao Thi Ngoc Diễm – "The Fisherman's Heart at Dawn" 🥈 Jun Ding – "Jade Beads out of Clear Water" 🥉 Chico Lima – "Shadows" 🔬 Best in Science: Dan Curticapean and Pascale Müller – "Compound Eye of the Fruit Fly"

Pardon me for shamelessly advertising our recent work on nonlinear interferometry (by Yigong Luan supervised by Marco Finazzi, @vynisle.bsky.social, and myself at #PoliMi) also now featured on the homepage of 💡 Light: Science and Application. Article free to read at: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Michael Dobinson at Simon Fraser University shares his cool quantum work with us... www.laserfocusworld.com/quantum/arti... #quantum #optics #lasers #emitters #silicon #scisky

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

www.laserfocusworld.com/test-measure... by Emma Caldwell and Prince Bawuah of Menlo Systems GmbH #specrtroscopy #terahertz

Albert H. Nagler, a pioneer of telescope optics, passed away at the office of his company Tele Vue Optics on Monday, October 27th. He was 90 years old. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne... . . #astronomy #TeleVue

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We are thrilled to announce that Alex Gaeta has been elected as the 2026 Optica Vice President! Alex's experience covers nearly four decades of research in quantum, nonlinear photonics and volunteer service to Optica and the greater optics community. Read more: https://bit.ly/49mrfz6

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Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-10-27T19:04:01Z Additional Details Here.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Introducing #AskTheExpert, @lumentum.bsky.social#AskTheExperts video series on timely industry questions. In Episode 1, Christian Urricariet explains how #photonics enables a new approach to #DataCenters for scaling #AI infrastructure. 🔗 See more videos on our website: https://bit.ly/47pOHbZ

This is one of my favorite pieces of 2025.:) www.laserfocusworld.com/quantum/arti... #quantum #photonics #optics #magnetic

The future of solar power is bright, finds @tinymaddie.bsky.social *Solar panels are cheap, and getting cheaper *Batteries are good, and getting better *Economic case for solar will overwhelm political apathy In short, we're going to run the world on sunshine www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

Happy Photonics Hot List Friday! w @jmurphoton.bsky.social and thanks everyone who presented or joined us for PhotonicsNXT! www.laserfocusworld.com/home/video/5... #photonics

Researchers led by JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye have shown how to make atomic clocks even more precise by leveraging entanglement. This allows the atoms to “tick” more in sync, reducing the randomness that usually limits how precisely we can measure time. jila.colorado.edu/news-events/...

Join us for one more day of LFW's PhotonicsNXT (24th). If you missed it, you can always binge watch this weekend.;) www.photonicsnxt.com/photonicsnxt...

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Don't miss LFW's FREE PhotonicsNXT event this Thursday and Friday. We've got fabulous talks lined up for you. Register today and we'll see you soon! www.photonicsnxt.com/photonicsnxt...

recent years have seen a race to the bottom over who can push the most Content, for the cheapest cost, maximized for algorithms and bulk. and it's decimated an entire generation of writers.

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Cool shot from @jmurphoton.bsky.social on a tour of Monroe Community College's Optics Lab yesterday.

Don't miss LFW's FREE PhotonicsNXT event this Thursday and Friday. We've got fabulous talks lined up for you. Register today and we'll see you soon! www.photonicsnxt.com/photonicsnxt...