I'm gonna try posting to this blog each week. Back in Twitter's day I shared a lot of shuttle and space tidbits I thought were neat, and then used Twitter as a look-up reference. Now this blog will serve that role - I figure I might as well share it! 🚀 dennisjust.substack.com/p/oms-kit

From the makers of the Apollo in Real Time websites comes a new experience with 500 times more data. ISS in Real Time offers the chance to explore more than 9,000 days of photos, video and audio transmitted during the 25 years of continuous human residency on the International Space Station.

Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam. Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rByidu 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj Proposal ID: 8975 Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M

Explaining Disco Elysium to my normie fiance... not an easy task 🍾🕺🏚

I usually don't have live plants in my office, since I work from home and other campuses all the time so I don't spend too much time there, but I grabbed this little fella on an impulse and I'm glad I did 🌱

A Long March 2D stage falling to Earth in Guinan county, Qinghai, following the launch of Shiyan-31 from Jiuquan on Oct. 13. Video: m.weibo.cn/detail/52219...

If this was space debris, that is absolutely wild and terrifying 😳 arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

As a Kid Dynamite fan in the 90s - let’s go Mariners!

@gregdoucette.bsky.social Sorry if this is duplicate but your tracking of puppicide was always useful via Fsck em all

Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!

No shutdown here, we're still uploading ! www.wikiarchives.space

There we GO! 🏈 Let’s go State

Saw the University of Arizona is on the list. Hope they stand up for what's right 🌵 apnews.com/article/trum...

I dunno if I’ve ever been this close to lightning before. Downtown Tucson is getting hammered right now, and my windows are shaking w each bolt 😨

Is it me or do we not even bother with adding “-gate” to this admin’s corruption and scandals? Between the relentless cadence and the deference the media shows. It’s shameful.

"Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?" "Yes, it can." Lol this is awesome. LIGO's detection probability varies with weekends vs weekdays, day vs night, and daylight savings time vs standard time. Some fun figures in here ☀️ arxiv.org/abs/2509.11849

Robert Redford did so many great movies, but one I think of right away was 2013’s All is Lost. It is *fantastic*, and has almost zero dialogue. Just relied on Redford’s wonderful acting. RIP 🛥️

Let’s go State! 🏈

When they were planning on flying shuttle from Vandenberg AFB in the 80s, a number of steps were needed to take the shuttle from the North Base (where it lands) to the South Base (where it launches). Hinged collapsible street signs, security booths on wheels, and new roads to avoid sharp turns ⛰️

What a graphic from Maxwell Zhu and Casey Dreier. I believe in collaborative exploration of space, and it's a shame to watch us disengage from it because our administration is so corrupt and stupid.

He’s just too cool 🐱

I will never not read people writing LFG on social media as looking for group 🎮

Touchdown! Let’s go State 🏈

Heads up #Tucson - there's a scheduled Falcon 9 launch from Vandy at 7:05pm, which is right after sunset. That gives it the potential to be a spectacular view if you look to the western sky. The sky will still be pretty bright, but who knows 🚀 rocketlaunch.org/mission-falc...

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

Move over water worlds - it's time for soot planets 🪐 arxiv.org/abs/2508.16781

Today I learned Pepsi made this incredible can in the '80s 🚀

Posting this just as my own reminder that if I ever want to give Berger the benefit of the doubt, I shouldn't.

I love the look of a fresh COPV 🤩 #Smallsat2025

Candidate giant planet right next door! Astronomers used JWST for three epochs b/t last summer and this spring to view alpha Centauri A (i.e. Rigel Kent), and only detected the object (S1) once. Might've orbited out of view afterwards 🔭 Very cool stuff, hope it holds up! 🪐 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03814

While Loeb's comments about Juno are characteristically bad, here's a group of some excellent planetary scientists talking about Mars spacecraft that could flyby 3I/ATLAS 🛰️ arxiv.org/abs/2507.15755

Fun bit of shuttle trivia nerdery - Columbia is known as the only orbiter with black chines (the narrow, forward part of the wings). However, if you include non-flying orbiters, Pathfinder also had black chines 🚀 📸 - collectspace

Very much enjoyed taking this image of NGC 6992, the Veil Nebula. It's part of the larger Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, so you're only seeing one arc of the shell that was ejected when the star exploded ~10,000-20,000 yrs ago 🦢

Varda's three reentry capsules on display - pretty cool way to show off your space hardware 🚀

Just so you can remember I said it before: waynehale.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/w....

NEW: Trump admin seeks to defund US network of labs that monitor CO2 levels in the atmosphere, including Mauna Loa, home to the famous "Keeling Curve." The moves would also affect weather forecasting centers. www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...

This is wild. I was randomly checking out the view from the Exterior Top Right Wing Weather Cover Access, and saw this ladder. That keeps going. And going. And going. The ladder also shows some cool features about the Payload Changeout Room (PCR) and Rotating Service Structure (RSS). (1/3)

Friends from back East recently asked what dust storms look like out here, and I just personally haven't ever seen a wall of sand like a haboob. It's more like this - clouds that are tan that come and turn the city orange and dusty ☁️

YES!!! The nasatech website still exists! It had the most incredible 360 panorama images of Pad 39A. Below are links to the main page+39A page. For details you can't get anywhere else, this is the place to go. www.oconnorspacetech.com/ntKSCVirtual... www.oconnorspacetech.com/ntSubPad39A_...

Mark your calendars! Rubin Observatory's first look will be June 23, 11am EDT / 3pm UTC 🔭 ls.st/rubin-first-...

Another one bites the dust 🎮

Anyone over in Maine that wants to do something fun this weekend, check out The Misfits for some great comedy (and beer and food) 🦞 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-misfit...

My little girl's doing well recuperating from her surgery (spayed and microchipped). She did not like the cone, but seems surprisingly ok with her recuperative onesie 🐈‍⬛

Pics from our recent trip to Greece 🇬🇷🐱

Delivering pizzas back then wasn’t easy - our place had a massive map in the back near the kitchen and I had to memorize how to get to the customer and just hope I didn’t forget a step en route 🍕

Apart from the nice RCC TPS glow, nice to see the Space Shuttle RCS active down as low as 60 to 50 thousand feet Seen in this IR landing footage of STS-61

I still think this is probably one of my favorite pictures of the Shuttle Program, of STS-46 (Atlantis) coming in to land as Discovery is getting pulled out of the OPF to make space for Atlantis. And its just the fact of the person walking by for how *normal* it all seems here.

Oh cool, Rocket Lab is gonna launch a space telescope managed by my alma mater (Steward Obs). Go cats! 🐱 news.arizona.edu/news/nasa-se...

Makes my blood boil www.space.com/space-explor...