The New Republic is doing it right. Journalists take note

Happy birthday GW170104, here's a new gravitational-wave candidate S250104v If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 33000 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38... Rating ⛅️🎱🍰 [🧪🔭⚛️]

My grand finale tonight. An image I've dreamed of capturing ever since being a young boy in the 1960s. The iconic Horsehead Nebula. It's taken 4 months since buying the SeestarS50 for the time, location and seeing conditions to be right. Very happy with this. 😊🎉🔭

Today, while I was leaving 079's containment unit, he didn't insult me. I'm really surprised. Maybe this is a positive evolution in his behaviour?

Happy new year. I hope I get a day off for this.

Still, the Majestic Messier42, a trip to Orion's Sword the past nights ✨ 📸🔭📷🧪 #astrophotography #photography #nightsky #orion #nature

FINALLY they caught up with him! 😠

*See a clip referring to a school of fish as a 'herd'* *Notice other peculiarities* *Slowly realise the clip – indeed the whole page – is rage bait* *Throw phone across the room*

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Great Blue Heron with a snack. #birds #GreatBlueHeron #Herons #ArdeaHerodias

Good night blue sky.

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GOODS-N-FULLDEPTH survey. It is at redshift 0.41 (lookback time 4.51 billion years) with coordinates (189.32008, 62.16882). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Here's a shot from last night of Messier 42, the Great Nebula in Orion. It is a vast cloud of gas around 1,300 light years away that is in the process of forming stars. 🔭

Bluejay I just want to be understood.

NGC 3034 Starburst Galaxy Photo credit NASA, ESA, Hubble, Daniel Nobre Constellation Ursa Major Distance 12 million light years Diameter 37,000 light years Discovered 1774 Elert Bode The Red indicates hydrogen and infrared light, Blue Green and Yellow represent visible wavelengths

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idk what is happening in this paper, but I like it 🙂⚛️🧪 arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19709

I took a few more frames for my Pleiades mosaic a few nights ago, and this is the current state of that project. In this version, I have a bit more context around the Pleiades, in addition to the stars and their dust nebula themselves. 1/ 🧪🔭

Conspiracy theory logic.

Here are some nice mushrooms

An ocean of stars. 🔭 🧪

A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. A comathematician is a machine for turning cotheorems into ffee. #mathsky

A fun #mathsky fact: the separating hyperplane theorem (even in finite dimension) is a topological result—even though Farkas, minimax, and LP duality are purely algebraic results. Formal version below.

#mathsky #limerick

"Constraints and impossibilities are your fuel for progress." -Grant Sanderson Wow! 1. Best "beginners' beginning" definition of a topological space I have encountered. 2. It makes the case for the mathematical necessity of topology. youtu.be/IQqtsm-bBRU?... #ITeachMath #MathSky

This is well-known but so beautiful -- Furstenberg's early take on the primes and arithmetic progressions. #MathSky, enjoy!

@cyberlandfilljar.bsky.social I have to say, why is your banner Erik from the MaZM Visual Novel adaptation of POTO? I didn't know you were into those sort of games.

Who said math can't be a little bit random?🔀 Explore this graph: www.desmos.com/calculator/v... #mathsky #iteachmath

Math is like that #MathSky

This is Omega 12, from David Mitchell¹'s "Paper Crystals". The module is simple to fold, but the assembly had me tearing my hair out². I might remake it from larger paper as I think it will look better. ¹Not /that/ David Mitchell ²If I had any left, that is. #origami #UKMathsChat #mathsky

I was showing people at the Great Basin NP Astronomy Festival the crescent moon on 9/7. We watched the view on my laptop screen when we were surprised by some trees moving into view! The Moon had started to set behind us while my telescope was tracking the Moon. Video is 6x speed. #astrophotography

🧪What do you all think of this? Scientists at Northwestern University have been able to achieve long-distance transfer of quantum information over existing, in use, fiber optic networks. Does this usher in a potential new era of data communications? #CompSky #Quantum

NGC 3432, an edge-on spiral galaxy around 40 million light-years away in the constellation Leo Minor. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko, R. Jansen.

Starbust Galaxy

MyCn18 (aka The Hourglass Nebula) is a planetary nebula around 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Musca. Image Credit: Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA/ESA

I keep forgetting I have an account on here.

I love an AI that hates me. I'm not kidding, I will actually fall in love with them.

I have a headache and I still have to go to work.

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