It's officially official: Toronto will, for some amount of time, be a city with train lines numbered 1, 2, 4, and 6. www.ttc.ca/news/2025/No...

What will happen first: The opening of the Eglinton Crosstown or the CSA announcing the name of their lunar rover?

Station maps might be getting updated, but everyone knows that the allegedly imminent openings of Lines 5 and 6 won't be official until the TTC adds them to their slow zones map.

Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it. But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.

Today's edition: My Google account, somehow? Not sure how that one evaded my attention for this long.

In today's edition of "Places I put my name that I forgot to change": The Clouds Bot profile description.

Now freed from purgatory following the end of the shutdown: I got to write about Curiosity celebrating seven Mars years of exploring Gale Crater, highlighting the occasionally overlooked accomplishments of our environmental science team. science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi...

This Zenith Movie was taken on Sol 3998 (2023-11-05) at approximately 17:20 LTST and a solar longitude of 143.68°.

Kīlauea's really doing its best to beat its own height and volume records this episode.

This Zenith Movie was taken on Sol 1235 (2016-01-26) at approximately 6:58 LTST and a solar longitude of 100.54°.

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That didn't take nearly as long as I expected it to.

The true hallmark of a successful transition will be when the emails from Extremely Serious And Real Journals filling my spam folder start to use the new name.

I love not understanding what's going on because what the hell does this mean.

I love seeing people outside the train getting excited watching the train go by because me too.

Not the most visually spectacular image, but I found myself with a clear sky just far enough out of town for Night Mode to catch C/2025 A6 (Lemmon).

Zipping along Lake Ontario

I appear to have upset Elsevier somewhat by attempting to unsubscribe from their marketing emails.

Submitted a new paper for review today 🤞

Looks like Tims was prepared.

Finally caught one of Toronto's two daily incoming A380s on arrival (and also a solar halo).

Mars - Gale Crater - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2oEVPKT

In my "appending 'fyi I'm out as a trans woman now so please use this new name in all future communications thx' to every email I send" era.

Love trying to submit change of name/gender identity forms and then remembering that I'm at an institution that's run in such a way that it is about half a second away from completely imploding at all times. 🙄

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍 Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪

This Zenith Movie was taken on Sol 2405 (2019-05-13) at approximately 17:54 LTST and a solar longitude of 24.54°.

They took my girl the JPL Photojournal out behind the shed and killed her.

Area woman takes worst photo of Saturn, is asked to leave field of astronomy immediately.

Can you tell that it's International Observe the Moon Night?

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet. The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

"I will focus on the projects that are in my dissertation. I will not wander off into any more side projects," she says, preparing a presentation about yet another new side project.

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year. It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭 Full res: flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

A shocking percentage of my time in grad school has been spent rotating, adding, or otherwise mathematically tormenting various vectors.

Absolutely wild crashout by nasawatch over being asked for any kind of evidence in support of his claim that up to 4000 JPL employees might be fired by mid-October.

Eventually I will learn that attempting to understand camera geometry never ends well.

Cloudy martian afternoon over the Perseverance Rover on Sol 1635 (yestersol). flic.kr/p/2rvFx3Q

#Kīlauea as observed by Sentinel-2 December 22, 2024 ==> September 23, 2025

The thing I've discovered about changing your name is that you will constantly be getting it wrong in all conceivable contexts.

#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity Sol 4664 2025-09-19: Right Navigation Camera mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

NASA cancelled VIPER last year. Now it's got another lease on life—flying to the Moon with Blue Origin in 2027. This is a *massive* win for lunar science.

The full version of this mosaic (in "white-balanced" colours) is now available on the JPL Photojournal: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2... (You'll definitely want to click the link to fully appreciate the incredible detail!) Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

I've always believed that I could really get into radio astronomy if I tried.

A few selected images of Mars processed from a new batch of data from the EXI camera aboard the Hope probe. The dates and times of the images and some details are in the ALT text.

Some recreational rock hunting during lunch at #EPSCDPS2025.

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

Looks like the clouds parted at #EPSCDPS2025 just in time for the #LunarEclipse!

If you're going to hold a conference at a high latitude, you shouldn't schedule it near the equinoxes. When I'm going to high latitudes, I want to get the high latitudes Sun experience! #EPSCDPS2025

Dust wisps behind a Martian ridge #NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity Sol 4651: Right Navigation Camera (2025-09-06 00:38:04 UTC) mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger