Is the potus intending "any placement of nuclear weapons in space" by the US? Blurry statement in www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... - pushing the doomsday clock closer to midnight. Background: www.fpri.org/article/2025... www.icanw.org/what_are_spa...

Europa Clipper has imaged interstellar comet 3I/Atlas with its ultraviolet spectrometer! This is only the 3rd interstellar object discovered so far: an icy wanderer from a distant planetary system, and now we’ll learn more about what it’s made of!! 🔭 www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...

Morgen: Das Trump-Lincoln Memorial.

Älteste #Münzen nördlich der Alpen meist aus der Zeit um 300 v.Chr.: Söldner der " #Kelten" in griechischen Diensten lernten das Münzsystem des östlichen Mittelmeerraums kennen und kopierten dann auf eigene Art. Nun neu einige dieser "Regenbogenschüsselchen"bei Basel entdeckt!

Guten Morgen Stuttgart

I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy. www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...

Wanna see an amazing uninterrupted multi-day timelapse of the plasma tail of comet Lemmon blowing the solar wind? It's happening in the PUNCH video embedded in the press release science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/... - and see also www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kk0... for a version with constellation lines.

I might be biased, but today the South Polar Cap of Mars looks a lot like Scotland to me 😂 Full size image & info: flic.kr/p/2oqrPg1 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck ESA Mars Express HRSC 2015-04-09

SkyMapper takes a different approach: a decentralized, always-on sky map powered by community hardware and AI, built to assess collision risk with verifiable, real-time data. Learn why this matters for the $500B satellite economy and the future of SSA ⬇️ skymapper.io/blog/new-hor...

🧵 A return to the lunar surface by 2028? No. Unless Blue Moon is accelerated (I don't hold out much hope for Starship; the profile is too complex), that won't happen. A lunar base by 2030? That's notional. 1/ www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"On X..." there's the problem, right there... petapixel.com/2025/12/16/a...

„Sie stellten Frauen in einem Spiel aus Ego und Dominanz nach. Weibliche Körper waren dabei die Währung.“ Großer Epstein-Report heute in NYT (freier Link). Vielleicht war das der Grund, weshalb Trump gestern noch schnell eine bizarre TV-Ansprache halten musste. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Tomorrow: everyone's favorite interstellar comet 3IATLAS passes closest to the Earth at 6:02 Universal Time at 1.8 Astronomical Units (AU), 269 million km or 167 million miles distant. Efrain Morales nabbed the comet this past weekend on the 13th: www.flickr.com/photos/54342...

„Die Welt“ verbreitet erneut eine bizarre Verschwörungserzählung: das ausdrückliche politische Ziel von PIK-Direktor Johan Rockström und mir sei „die Überwindung des Wirtschaftswachstums“. Sorry, leider falsch. Mehr zu Axel Bojanowski im Thread bei X: x.com/rahmstorf/st...

Oi Billetle, send so guat www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pr... ICE-Sprinter Berlin Stuttgart - StN-Video www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.video...

🌌 Comment se sont formées les étoiles, les galaxies ou les trous noirs ? Toutes les images de cette série ont été réalisées en filmant des fluides, des matières, des textures… Une invitation à s'imag(in)er l'univers autrement ⬇️ youtu.be/EOzZgdkJtGI?...

Video: Lunar impact flash detected on the moon by Armagh Observatory and Planetarium phys.org/news/2025-12...

13 years of detailed US CO2 emissions data released phys.org/news/2025-12...

New CRC ATLAS researches technologies for space missions at very low altitudes nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/11/24/n... Collaborative Research Center 1667 ATLAS www.sfb1667.uni-stuttgart.de - University of Stuttgart

The USA’s Genesis Mission: moonshot or madness? The USA just announced the "Genesis Mission," an AI/quantum computing platform for all 17 national laboratories. Will it accelerate scientific discovery, or end it completely? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astronomy #physics #genesis

🔭 Until now, observing the inner regions of the Sun’s enigmatic atmosphere – the corona – was close to impossible. 🛰️🛰️☀️ The satellite duo making up @esa.int’s Proba-3 mission fills this observation gap by creating artificial solar eclipses in orbit 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

#CASSINI HUYGENS #SATURN MISSION Target Name: #Saturn #Rings Start Time: 2010-05-30 Observed Distance to Ring Intercept (km): 1869511.149 instrument: Cassini #ISS Camera: Narrow Angle 7x Ir1 Grn Uv3 opus.pds-rings.seti.org/holdings/pre... NASA/JPL/j. Roger

2/2 This is what this radical faction really fears: people who talk about transparency, accountability, civil rights, and the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

#Stuttgart21 ist auf Kante genäht "... das größte Problem von Stuttgart 21 ist nicht, dass das Bahnprojekt immer teurer und aufwendiger wird. Sondern dass der neue Hauptbahnhof für die Verkehrswende möglicherweise zu klein ist." #S21 www.staatsanzeiger.de/nachrichten/...

Pressemitteilung des Aktionsbündnisses gegen #Stuttgart21: Bahnchefin Palla enttäuscht bei Sonder-Lenkungskreis zur S21-Krise - „Zu kurz gesprungen“ #S21 Die Pressemitteilung als Text und pdf-Datei hier: www.parkschuetzer.de/statements/2...

The smoky signature of climate change seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/12... - Harvard

Rare footage of lunar impact flash captured in Armagh www.bbc.com/news/article... - BBC

Stuttgart 21 Sonderlenkungskreis: Anfang Juli sehen wir weiter www.kontextwochenzeitung.de/politik/768/... - Kontextwochenzeitung 768 Die Bedröppelten

The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4748 drive towards a boxworks ridge. flic.kr/p/2rMacY5

RIP Professor Loureiro - known for his research on how plasma works, particularly the physics underpinning astronomical phenomena. He was studying how to harness fusion power to combat climate change. He leaves behind a wife and three children.

When I visit a place famous in the Ancient World I try to visualize what it was like when the place made a name for itself. In Alexandria I visited the site of the Pharos, the great lighthouse. The Qaitbay fort was built over the stump of the fallen tower, here it is in the context of what was.

On FB, Yukon Geological Survey posted some spectacular photos of landslides & snow avalanches triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Dec 6 in the St Elias Mountains. Here are some of my favs. @geocron.bsky.social @theronfinley.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @ksvenenvig.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

More than half of the “city killer” asteroids that might threaten Earth remain undiscovered. With an infrared eye, NASA’s NEO Surveyor aims to find them. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44snoxl

2.8 days to disaster: Why we are running out of time in low earth orbit phys.org/news/2025-12... - phys arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643

Brightest-ever lensed supernova reveals astronomy’s coming revolution Astronomers found our first gravitationally lensed superluminous supernova. With the Vera C. Rubin Observatory now operational, hundreds, maybe thousands more should be coming. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #supernova

A clean peak on the evening of 13 Dec. in the Geminids: meteoroids flux / volume / time vs. time from global video data, in globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/plots/f... from globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/ - the peak came at the expected time and matches radio echo data, www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~hro/Flash/2...

Das Paris-Abkommen & das damit einhergehende Klimaziel war ein großer diplomatischer Durchbruch. Es war schon damals klar, dass freiwillige Verpflichtungen nicht ausreichen würden, um die Temperatur-& Emissionskurve nach unten zu biegen, so PIK-Direktor Edenhofer 👇 www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...

Heutige Protestaktion gegen #Stuttgart21 am Flughafen Stuttgart anlässlich der Krisensitzung des #S21-Lenkungskreises (es kann sein, dass dazu nachher was in der Tagesschau kommt...): youtu.be/7qNG88lSJzQ?...

Kurz: Wer Trump kritisiert, hat den Tod verdient.

Nifty. Jean-François Gout caught this +8th magnitude flash of a Geminid hitting this nighttime side of the Moon this past weekend:

The White House's new National Security Strategy justifies isolationism, lacks attentions on nuclear risk, mentions climate change once, and addresses disruptive technologies mostly in terms of competition. Alexandra Bell @atomicbell.bsky.social provides analysis: buff.ly/57fhXJj

Geminide 15.12.25 04:54 MEZ von Stuttgart exp 5 sec f=14mm f/3.5 ISO 3200

combined into an anaglyph for red/green goggles

Meet the Eclipse Chasers Traveling Thousands of Miles for the Astronomical Event time.com/6963961/sola... - TIME

'The Emerald Sea' 4,427 images from 3 sequences by Don Pettit are remastered & retimed to create this stunning 10m54s 4k UHD video with music by Chris Zabriskie. Experience on a large screen if you can, its worth it. Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran youtu.be/bEWAHP31UGc

Steve Witkoff - Putins Mann in Berlin taz.de/Steve-Witkof... - taz

Hauptbahnhof #Stuttgart, um 2040 (Früher #S21 genannt), by Oliver Stenzel

South polar cap marsicane ™️ @andrealuck.bsky.social #Mars #Express Orbiter Visual Monitoring Camera #VMC - The Mars #Webcam SET= MEX MARS VMC CALIBRATED DATA EXT9 V1.0 2024-08-25 PROD: ELENI RAVANIS AND JORGE HERNANDEZ-BERNAL psa.esa.int/psa/#/pages/... ESA - European Space Agency, / j. Roger

Photographer Captures Gigantic Red Ring of Light and Ultra-Rare Lightning petapixel.com/2025/12/11/p... - PetaPixel

All night meteors flared like white sparks in the sky, looming above the light pollution illuminated high clouds and occasionally having their light diffused through them. Every few minutes one could be seen, and a few times 2 and even three would appear near each other a few seconds apart.