Wrapping up Starshot's success at Phase I with a detailed look at the advances made in materials, laser array physics and communications, much of it available in journals from the Starshot scientists, and more papers from other sources coming. www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/03/10/s...
The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.
Astronomers watched as the star WOH G64 transformed from a red supergiant into a rare, shortlived yellow supergiant star...in just 12 years.
It's a dramatic, rapid instability in a star that is rapidly headed toward a cataclysmic supernova explosion. 🧪🔭
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Post your favorite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.
Nice!
Some Extremophiles Could Survive an Asteroid Impact on Mars, and the Dangerous Journey to Earth www.universetoday.com/articles/som...
I was able to do my renewal online. I took a photo of me against a tan wall and then stripped out the background to make it all white.
Bring it! 🖖
One Deck to Rule Them All
If you properly shuffle a standard deck of 52 playing cards then the chances are that the arrangement of cards you are now holding has never existed before in the history of the human race and likely wont again.
Here's what to blame for the comet idea hanging around for so long: theoatmeal.com/comics/tyran...
It does freak me out. Twice a year.
Just keep driving.
Yes, please.
You are wise.
This is a real time view of what my clock is doing right now. It is automatically springing forward like crazy & seven hours early.
Wow!!
Down with DST!
This week’s image is of our neighbor Jupiter! Gemini North’s NIRI with adaptive optics captured this IR view of Jupiter, highlighting features like the Great Red Spot in bluer tones than in optical wavelengths. Check out the 🧵 for more papers on hot Jupiters!
#Astronomy
President Lula of Brazil: “My message to the US, Israel and Iran is simple: the world is tired of your conflicts. Diplomacy is not a sign of weakness; it is the highest expression of human intelligence. Those who die are not the ones signing the attack orders; those who die are the innocents.”
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🙏 Yes, please.
The FCC has opened public comments for a couple of different proposed satellite systems, both of which have a high likelihood of significantly degrading our ability to experience the night sky. More details from @aas.org here: 🧪
Yes, I have them as well and I love the Mars topographical globe.
Awesome.
Expected, but Zowie! 😱
This is the total eclipse of the Moon of March 3, 2026, in a sequence over 30 minutes, through the mid-partial phase to totality.
It shows the progression from left to right of the Moon entering the dark inner umbral shadow of the Earth and turning more and more red. Details in Alt Text.
Yes, driving in LA is the worst.
Truth.
Ugh. Helium 3. It will be a boondoggle, or should I say Moondoggle.
Yeah, that’s the California curse.
