Kevin posting this is like sending out the bat signal to me. Oh, there's an imaging challenge? Something to figure out? Fine, I'm interested... I guess Mars is cool. From the Psyche mission. solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-i...

Made a view of FU Orionis with Spitzer and WISE data. No particular reason other than an interest in FU Orionis after reading the name in the Star Formation Newsletter. As always, more to read at the Flickr page: flic.kr/p/2sdQhtR

part of me wonders what these allsky infrared mosaics would look like if no background correction were attempted and we just left the zodiacal light there, but the rest of me is still just annoyed at the zodiacal light

anyone else feel like their consent is violated when viewing "ai" generated art that very, very few actual artists would willingly create? they couldn't get people to make it, so they stole it and forced a machine to. it goes beyond mere copyright... it makes me so mad

@xenolith.bsky.social @phaneritic.bsky.social @geotripper.bsky.social you guys this ballot sucks. what we gonna do?

ugh, I can't figure out how to find WISE mosaics. This IRSA thing is confusing me... I swear that's what I used before 😩

I just wanted to draw Frog but I messed up his pants, which really need to come halfway up his belly. I almost gave up after realizing I couldn’t fix it. I want to try again but my hands hurt.

A small preview of an image I worked on is at the top of the Star Formation Newsletter. :) starformationnews.org/newsletters/...

after reviewing many of the Artemis images I am very sure the moon really is haunted

I was checking around the new yard plants with UV light, as perfectly sane, normal people do, when I passed by the geode and was like oh, I should check. And... it glows orange?!

how many billionaires are on the california state governor ballot again?

Came down with a sudden upper respiratory infection tonight; sat down with the kid to watch Sealook when this showed up... The iconic NGC 605 from Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer. Looked it up on Youtube and this thing has 15 million views. Loud electronic music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdp2...

alright, who's going to work on challenge mode and find out exactly which land mass / continent Hubble is over? inquiring minds need to know. and need timestamps

my kid’s drawing of the sun and the earth shaking hands.

this wasp is measured in microns. it's within an order of magnitude of a lot of wavelengths in infrared astronomy. can you measure your wavelengths in fractions of wasp? there are a lot of these teeny tiny wasps out there but this might be the cutest

it’s a beautiful day for a fascist to fall

fun watch this morning

oh, yeah, I spent a lot of time on this a while back! and then x-rays got cancelled.

i saw a rocket launch way up here from Modesto while i was on the way home from the grocery store today. actually never seen one before

Ok, I'll say it, Reid Wiseman's new photo of the night side of Earth with stars and zodiacal light and auroras and everything is the best photo ever taken of any planet

saw a temporary dot matrix road sign today that was supposed to say "STOP AHEAD" but instead said "STOP HEAD" and yeah

learning cursive keeps coming up, and I once again find myself boggling over the fact that it is any kind of issue. I can't even remember learning it. Not like I forgot, but like it was just so easy. Could that be right? Is it some kind of neurodivergent thing or is my memory likely wrong?

my latest achievement is successfully seasoning a stainless steel pan and making paella in it. the paella caramelized and then... peeled right off. I am sure if I flipped the pan it would have plopped right out like a weird rice upside-down cake.

oh my gosh I know/knew the guy who did the original illustration that the one in this paper was inspired by. I've seen it in all sorts of science circles. Haven't heard from him in ages... but every time I see it I remember him. www.emanu.se/equality-hur...

it’s time to visit the rock show in turlock again…

do people in sports, or, like, dance, or comedy ever get asked why they don’t do anything useful? why is it always astronomy that’s useless

.00092 😅 whatever that means. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I saw something on my ceiling that looked like a piece of dust bunny, but it was wiggling? I have retrieved some kind of cocoon and a small worm with a dark head emerges when left alone. It has already hung itself back up near the top of the container. I suppose it'll pupate. Seems out of place, tho

why do people leave the big poles attached to trees which clearly do not need them. i mean i know why, but why. trees do not need to eat plastic

i did it again. poured myself a bowl of cereal to eat before heading out to the grocery store . . . because we're out of milk

trying to convince my neighbor that racism is a big thing and happens a lot and I may has well been trying to tell her the sky was polka dot green... gave her "basically the whole government" as example of who's racist when she asked, and it was like the answer didn't even count 🤷‍♀️

New paper day! In an effort led by PhD student Madison Markham, we determined the first accurate and precise distances to two famous AGN host galaxies: NGC 1068 and NGC 4303. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we identified Cepheid pulsating stars and measured their pulsation periods and mags 🔭🧪(1/2)

Turns out the TN Holler is yet another one of those "wow that felt good to watch/read, much validation of my viewpoints!" accounts that also turns out to be a dishonest, exploitative cesspit. I suggest blocking it.

important update: saw a cedar waxwing

Welp, Red Rectangle day is here. It finally came. I am both happy and also disappointed. I love to see that the nebula does indeed extend far beyond what HST (upper right) ever saw, but I'm sad that the view is so partial.

forbidden rectangle 😩

just thinkin about that jelly donut they found on mars like 12 years ago

in my annual "chat" with an Adobe rep seeing once again if I can alter my plan to something that make sense and the guy is offering 419.88 and I'm just staring at the .88 incredulously, like wait 419 adds up to 14. is Adobe 14/88'ing me?

when I die, if there's a hell, and I go to it, it's going to be removing shipping tape from a cardboard box that someone has practically mummified, and then inside the box it's going to be that same box over and over... i just sit there, dutifully unwrapping and composting that goddamn cardboard

I'm sorting through a bunch of old jewelry from my mom, mostly preparing to scrap it since it's heavily worn, damaged, and does not hold sentimental value to me. These pieces I thought maybe could be returned to a Navajo artist to be repurposed. I don't know anyone. I'd mail them for free.

bless our beautiful bodies 💋 Happy Black History Month! #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky #BlackArt

while i respect and abide by the law requiring me to make space in my bed right next to me for my cat, even if she makes me hyperthermic and stiff by morning, i fully reject the notion that i must allow her tail to slap me in the face. begone, pest!

damn a college student family member confided in me tonight that she went to a protest and i'm just super fucking proud of her

This video was recently published by @esa.int, but it was extremely dark, so it was hard to see details. Thanks to the ESA media team who provided me with a higher quality version, I was able to recover lots of shadow details and correct the hotpixel noise. Original: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

big dumb space dirt explosion

tell me how it works

anyone wanna join my WoW guild? ...anyone even play WoW?

hello, i'd like to trade one "ever-encroaching fascist, racist dickshits" back for "complaining about dumbass alien comet guy" i have a lot of remorse about this one

I just did a super job smoothing out the backgrounds of JWST's crazy ass mosaic barf and now I will attempt to magically remove the very unfortunate diffraction spikes. I am very skeptical that this will work.

sound up for lil snores