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ESA Member States commit to largest contributions at Ministerial The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 bn, have been approved at its Council meeting at Ministerial level in Bremen, ...

Today marks a milestone for European space exploration. The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 billion, were just approved at our Ministerial Council meeting in Bremen, Germany. #CM25

More details 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...

Six-Way Tur-Kay

CDC website edited to say autism is caused by storks that are molting

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher on the progress of the Ministerial Council meeting compared to three years ago.

Table 1 from the linked paper, spacecraft constraints. Encounter can't be far from 1AU.

First paragraph of section 2.3, Dynamical Constraints. LPC = long period comet, DNC = dynamically new comet, ISO = interstellar object. Highlighted line is about the unlikelihood that the spacecraft will encounter an ISO.

Snodgrass et al: "Considerations on the process of target selection for the
@cometinterceptor.bsky.social
mission"
arxiv.org/abs/2511.20521

#PlanetSci #PlanetaryScience #CometInterceptorMission

Boot-shaped observatory on a rocky peak. The full moon glows brightly to the right, under the dense, sweeping band of the Milky Way rising toward the upper left.

🌕✨ Moonrise, meet the Milky Way 🌌

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory enjoys pristine views of our galaxy and the entire southern sky thanks to its high, dry, and dark site 🌌

In just months, Rubin will begin its decade-long survey, capturing the cosmos in unprecedented detail 🔭

Cybertruck stuck nearly vertically on a utility pole's support wire

nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck

A lot of people don't know this, but in Cincinnati they stuff the Thanksgiving turkey with chili

I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”

defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs

Man Hoping People Notice How Many Folding Chairs He’s Carrying At Once

Man Hoping People Notice How Many Folding Chairs He’s Carrying At Once https://theonion.com/man-hoping-people-notice-how-many-folding-chairs-he-s-c-1819576444/

Uranus’s Small Moons Are Dark, Red, and Water-Poor - Eos …Except for Mab, which is even weirder than expected.

New observations of Uranus’s small inner moons to be presented at #AGU25 reveal that they’re darker, redder, and more water-poor than their larger counterparts. And they’re not always where they should be. 🧪🔭🪐 eos.org/articles/ura...

ESA Lays Out Ambitious Vision Ahead of New Budget Decision Image Credit: ESA The 2025 meeting of the ESA Council at the Ministerial Level (CM25) will begin on November 26th at 13:30 CET. What will follow is a two day meeting of the space ministers of vario…

Today for @spacescout.bsky.social, a preview of what is to come at @esa.int's CM25 budget meeting this week! www.spacescout.info/2025/11/esa-...

been catching up on the kirby news and by god are HAL/sakurai the only ones who know what fanservice is and how threat them right 😭

More pics from my hubby on the road while he took a walk around Indy this morning. 😊🧡

YouTube video by Demily Pyro The Siblings' Favorite Circle - Demon Bite

Edited clip: the siblings' favorite circle
youtu.be/Vbr-kBiKoGQ

Blue Origin teammembers standing in front of the first Blue Moon Mk1 Lunar Lander.

As if on cue...

Blue Origin's first Blue Moon lunar lander is nearing completion and will be moving to JSC in the coming days for its thermal vacuum testing!

Launch is expected in Q1 of next year.

A horseshoe crab playing a Nintendo 3ds XL

me in my enclosure

With the DC-10/MD-11 grounding I had joked about this was how TriStar could still win, but I may have been hit with the dodgeball of prophecy.

the first trans member of congress got nearly the entire house democratic caucus to sign onto a letter saying

misgendering trans people is not only wrong but violates the rules of that chamber of congress

you don’t see that happen in most countries tbh

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Two Jovian moons Io and Europa eclipses the sun darkening Jupiter's sky. Volcanic plumes and sulfur halo can be seen around Io and water ice jets are erupting from Europa's crust. Also Jupiter's rings, solar corona and zodiacal light also glows in this darkened sky #SciArt #spaceart #Jupiter

who

i just saw the typo fml

The ONLY country on this earth where we are both free to deep fry an entire ass bird carcass with minimal PPE and brave enough to do so on the regular, God Bless America

“The land of the free and the home of the brave” is actually about deep trying turkeys but not everyone is ready for that conversation

GLITCH PRODUCTIONS paid me to rebrand Bloodborne Kart A SECOND TIME into the mini game GLITCH KARTS!!!

im serious. its real. i made multiple cutscenes with their characters and everything. lol.

play the game here: glitchkarts.com/474c49544348...
check out the whole video here: youtu.be/pZsMHnTDytg

still thinking about that Amazon VP admitting unprompted and of his own volition that they didn't do even the most minimal market research on what Steam actually is before trying to compete with it

The aft end of a rocket booster with 3 alligator kill markers on it

#NG2