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Gran experiencia esta semana haber participado de la inauguración del Telescopio Submilimétrico Fred Young (FYST) en el Observatorio CCAT en el Cerro Chajnantor a 5600 metros de altura!

Esta columna de Matamala va al meollo del proyecto que 23 senadores de derecha de la coalición de Kast, votaron a favor y esperan avanzar para que sea ley: Liberar a 12 mil de los más peligrosos criminales, es solo un "daño colateral" para liberar a los psicopatas ya privilegiados de Punta Peuco:

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

La semana pasada y sin ninguna cobertura de medios de comunicación, se desarrolló el Campeonato #Nacional de #Ajedrez de Menores 2026 en Santiago, en el que participaron más de 500 deportistas entre 6 y 18 años. Un gran evento que merece mayor difusión!

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I have read this 20 times, have checked that the author is reputable anither 20, and still cannot believe this would be real

Robots have mirror neurons too

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The semester. is. over.

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Oh-oh not again

There's no falling below going from "Trump has nothing to do with this pedophile" to "He was not the *bad* kind of pedophile, you know?" and expecting people to go "oh, ok" [Narrator in a few months: Yes, there was...]

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

Excelente experiencia la exhibivión de Van Gogh en el Mall Marina en Viña, hasta los niños se entretuvieron con la historia inmersiva y el recorrido de realidad virtual ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on NOT understanding it.   Well, the Republican Party depends on fossil fuel money.

Melt Pizzas comprando comentarios positivos

Por enésima vez, astrónomo de Harvard: No hay evidencia de tecnologías extraterrestres y 3I/ATLAS no es tecnología avanzada. Estos sinsentidos generan un daño enorme: falsas expectativas y menor credibilidad. Avi Loeb solo daña al público y la comunidad astronómica www.instagram.com/reel/DMdr1A5...

Journey with us to the star that exploded twice! 🚀 The remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 are all that is left of this star. Our VLT found out that it suffered a pair of explosive blasts, shedding new light on some of the most important explosions in the Universe. www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭 🧪

Las primeras imágenes tomadas con la cámara más grande del mundo, LSSTCam, por el Observatorio Vera C. Rubin @vrubinobs.bsky.social, ya están disponibles y son una maravilla! planetariochile.cl/el-observato...

Otro ejemplo más de "no necesita robar porque tiene plata". En otras noticias, el agua moja.

Mi columna en Emol sobre el cumpleaños 60 del Fondo Cósmico de Microondas y el rol central que ha tenido y seguirá teniendo Chile en la exploración del origen y la evolución del Universo #astronomia comentarista.emol.com/2578227/3332...

Hoy se cumplen 60 años de la publicación del descubrimiento del Fondo Cósmico de Microondas por Arno Penzias y Robert Wilson! 🥳 Compartimos la columna de nuestro investigador @csifon.bsky.social resumiendo la importancia de este descubrimiento

Mi columna en Emol sobre el cumpleaños 60 del Fondo Cósmico de Microondas y el rol central que ha tenido y seguirá teniendo Chile en la exploración del origen y la evolución del Universo #astronomia comentarista.emol.com/2578227/3332...

BAM! #GoPacers!

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Our our @science.esa.int Research Fellow Louise Breuval wrote a fantastic astro/history paper performing a re-analysis of Henrietta Leavitt's work on the Cepheid period-luminosity relation, with the exact same stars but modern data & methods. arxiv.org/abs/2502.17438 🔭

Cuánto tiempo que no veía un partido tan bueno, vamos #LosCruzados! Me trajo recuerdos de un cierto 5-0 a Everton el 2010...

¡En menos de 1 hora y 20 minutos la sonda Lucy tendrá su máximo acercamiento al asteroide 52246 Donaldjohanson! Pueden seguirlo, incluidas imágenes en tiempo real, en whereislucy.space (click en "to encounter mode")

'Confirmed' is such a funny word

17 years after the project started, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope team is publishing its final major data release, and it’s a big one. Read more: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/18/a... #science #astronomy

The @act-pol.bsky.social DR6 dataset is now included in the Aladin Sky Atlas, how cool is that! #astrosci

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Regarding the cuts to the science budget in the US, I wanted to highlight Chilean universities that offer graduate studies in astronomy. Because Chile will host 60% of the world’s ground-based telescopes by the end of the decade, they are leading many important research projects. Starting a 🧵:

I am trying hard not to give in to echo chambers over here, which given the US state of affairs is *really hard*. For now I'll just say I hope you manage to cope well and all this chaos will end soon.

Mañana empieza el semestre. Deséenme suerte 😄

Like the rapid unscheduled disassembly of our democracy.

OH COME ON

Ya van más de 5 horas del corte de energía eléctrica desde Arica a Chiloé y pareciera que no volverá hasta mañana. Son 2700 km de una noche única para la observación astronómica desde la casa.

Over 5 hours now with no power from Arica to Chiloé, not likely to return until tomorrow. That's 2,700 km of great sky for backyard #astronomy tonight 👁

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El Observatorio Simons está ubicado en el mismo lugar que estaba ACT antes: Cerro Toco, en pleno desierto de Atacama en el norte de Chile, 50 km al este de San Pedro de Atacama, a 5200 msnm. ¿Por qué específicamente ahí? 👀 1/4