Stunning celestial events that lit up the skies in 2025. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Join us on a trip to the dwarf star PDS 70, located 400 light-years away and with at least two planets orbiting it. The final shot shows an ALMA image of the PDS 70 system, where a moon-forming disc is visible around planet PDS 70c. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2111/ 🔭

3. Love seeing the dust lanes in the Milky Way galaxy, spanning horizon to horizon at my house.

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I'm not great about tooting my own horn. But as an independent journalist whose work is reliant on contributions from my readers, it's part of the job. So here's a post and thread on my work over the last year and beyond -- and why you, reader, should subscribe. (Plus, shameless dog photos!)

Take a glimpse into APEX, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert 📡👀 Once a joint project of the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), the Onsala Space Observatory and ESO, APEX now becomes a project solely of the MPIfR. www.eso.org/public/video... 🔭

It’s the most powerful online sexual harassment tool ever invented and it’s driving people insane with parasocial relationships but the most prominent critics lie about water use.

It is frightening how many people consult LLMs as though they were the Bible. Not every tool a hammer, nor every problem an undriven nail.

Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...

This is why I believe we should have some form of strategic wargaming/model UN as part of our civic education: to get people accustomed to thinking about wielding power. Not just because they might, but because they do.

If you want to know why I'm anti-carcerial, this is a large part of it. 50% of people dying in LA jails haven't been convicted of anything. Being accused of stealing Skittles should not be a death sentence

On December 27, 1983, the third Bor-4 (Kosmos-1517) was launched. The spacecraft splashed down for the first time in the Black Sea. I think this is a photo of it.

M 6.6 earthquake 31 km ESE of Yilan, Taiwan earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

keep it up, losers. real americans don't think like this. they didn't poll it, but i'm certain that "has a strong opinion about when to go for it on 4th down" would come in at around 3 times as important as "Having many generations of American ancestors."

Heroically blowing up sand in Nigeria on Christianity's big holiday is capital 'S' Stupid.

Eastern North America is watching December becoming more mild than in decades past. I'm currently in Colorado visiting relatives. It is unseasonably warm here. Short sleeves & shorts weather. Plants & wild critters that have been extant in these places for millenia now face migration for survival.

Birthday grandmother asks her 5-year old grandson how old he thinks she is. Kid - "is it 2 digits or 3?"

Proper insults are a martial art of eloquence.

This could launch a whole new storytelling world if it catches on.

Space Force after a gap of some days has identified the dead Starlink 35956 again, showing its decaying orbit

Once again, in honor of Christmas: the ornament on my mother-in-law’s tree that I thought for years was surfing baby Jesus.

Breathtaking beauty in music. May all the people of Earth know peace & comfort this holiday season.

The soundtrack of my childhood Christmas season.

This is emblematic of the pathological nature of the Republican party. The worst of us are emboldened to be jerks.

May all your best wishes come true.

Me reading your Christmas Day posts.

This is a far more utility-minded 4-door pickup than very few modern equivalents.

The very best toy of the late 1970s for a kid who loved space exploration & building things -

huh. by the way - those window-mounted heat pumps I've been going on about? They're $399 now on BrandsMart and I'm a huge...fan. also condenser. and inverter. Only real knock is that the tilting fan-direction-vent thing can rattle a little but you can fix that. www.brandsmartusa.com/ge/269840/11...

Wishing all of our friends a very happy holiday season full of peace, love & happiness! Gracias Ignacio Gomez for this wonderful piece of art. #WeFeedYou Deseándole a todos nuestros amigos unas felices fiestas llenas de amor, paz y felicidad! Gracias Ignacio Gómez por está increíble pieza de arte.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.” 📷 NASA/ESA/Hubble

For those who were politically aware in the 1980s & 1990s this was a particularly dramatic event. At the time, this felt like the USA had "won" the Cold War after decades of conflict. The new Russian Federation could at long last be our friends, or so we thought. Let there be peace on Earth.

And thus, what should have been a seismic shift in how we view our world and ourselves. Some of us received the message...others...*sigh* #Apollo8

the universe wishes you a merry christmas! see? it even set up its own christmas tree 🎄

Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives. They work tirelessly to deliver the food we eat, this holiday season especially! Thank farm workers and celebrate them this holiday season.

The detail of Earth 🌍 captured in Bill Anders’ first color photo taken from lunar orbit on #christmaseve in 1968 #OTD really is amazing. This is a crop of AS08-14-2383, in its original orientation, from a scanned 70mm @nasa film original 16-bit TIFF file by a project team at Arizona State University

This day 57 years ago. Earthrise. A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface. That's us. That's home.

Remember, JunoCam was simply a public relations device. It was NOT placed in an area of the spacecraft that was very well shielded from radiation exposure, meant to last only perhaps eight close passes. Yet it's lasted all this time. Incredible!

Happy Holidays and gratitude to everyone working today and tomorrow to keep critical services going, to the nurses, line workers, electricians, plumbers, and everyone else who helps keep things running while the rest of the world relaxes.

Saturn's tiny icy moon Mimas hangs in space against a backdrop of the giant planet itself. The rings cross the bottom of the view, and cast their shadows onto the planet beyond. NASA Photojournal PIA06142, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 7 November 2004 some 3.7 million km from Saturn.

Humans overestimate human rationality, so this follows.

California Geotour is an index of field trip information for people interested in visiting California's world-famous geologic features. This site contains geologic information, photographs, maps & directions for interesting geologic locations across the state. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/californ...

In the span of four days, we’ve built a coalition of over 80 lawmakers — including several Republicans — to stop the dismantling of NCAR. I’m grateful to them for their efforts as we work to secure language protecting NCAR in the upcoming CJS appropriations bill. We will not back down! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

An atmospheric river is currently slamming California with flooding rains and heavy snow. Heavy precipitation will continue throughout the week.

Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911. After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡 Image: NRAO

Excuse the link to this channel, please, but this is pretty great so I have to share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Nl...

We have a last-minute gift idea for the space lover in your life! 🎁 Print and frame this poster featuring an image of Pismis 24—a sparkling scene of star birth—captured by #NASAWebb. The holiday clock is ticking—download the poster now: https://bit.ly/4jfYYNM 🔭

Phobos hovering over the giant volcanoes of Mars! Fabulous view from ESA's Mars Express orbiters. Phobos is the 25 km (15 mile) wide flying grey rock at center. The volcanoes are (l-r) Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Ascraeus Mons. Processing by Andrea Luck. 🧪🔭 www.flickr.com/photos/19227...