Rachel Klima

RIP. More of my childhood heroes dying this year.

YouTube video by Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon (Official Music Video)

youtu.be/LplPi2CxNHI?... RIP, legend

NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%.
#NASADidThat

Space technology: Lithuania's promising space start-ups Lithuania has a promising space tech sector, but it wants more government support.

Space technology: Lithuania's promising space start-ups - BBC News share.google/bxPmLVTfEOVr...

A lone raspberry sitting on a wooden table.

Most things are pretty shite right now, but I found my first raspberry in my garden box today. That makes me happy.

Inside Mercury: What experimental geophysics is revealing about our strangest planet Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a sun-scorched, metal-rich world with a puzzling magnetic field and lavas unlike any...

I love seeing dear Mercury in the news!

This quote is delicious. I could sip on it all day.

"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."
—Flannery O'Connor

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Next to Trump and Musk, Shatner and I look like adoring newlyweds.

internationalmoonday.org International Moon Day is less than two months away! Do you have plans? Join in a global celebration of our beautiful sister in the sky!

YES

It's not a phase: How to celebrate World Goth Day in Europe Wake the dead! World Goth Day celebrations are once again underway across the continent. Here's how you can take part.

www.euronews.com/culture/2025... How am I just learning that this exists?

NASA still trying to revive silent Lunar Trailblazer moon orbiter The efforts will continue through mid-June, when lighting conditions will make it tough for Lunar Trailblazer to charge its batteries.

Still waiting by our baby monitors... www.space.com/space-explor...

A black cat lying on a couch with his head on his paws

A black cat with a small white patch on his chest laying on a couch

Hang in there, sweet baby. Maybe there is too much evil and hate in the world right now for a soul this beautiful.

RIP to the spacecraft who blew my mind, first with the most crazy ambitious, capable payload I'd ever seen, then with the fantastic new mysteries it's data presented. I can't wait to see what Bepi solves!

A black cat looks at the camera, while a black and tan Shiba Inu dog leans against him, looking out of a bay window.

Sweet Kai is having a rough time right now. I'm hoping we don't have to say goodbye. This year can fuck right off.

a group of cartoon characters are gathered around a dead man Alt: A crab man and squid man cartoon characters are in the center of a group of fish people. The crab man says 'welcome to the apocalypse, Mr. Squidward. I hope you like leather.'

For a couple of decades, I assumed that crystal chemistry, spectroscopy, and remote sensing would be my transferrable skills if I had to do a career change, but now I'm thinking that making a fire with a bow drill and brain-tanning leather might be more helpful?

House SS&T will hold a hrg on the CLPS initiative, April 1, 10:00 am ET. GREAT witness lineup: NASA (Nicky Fox), JHUAPL (Brett Denevi), Astrobotic (John Thornton), Intuitive Machines (Steve Altemus), Firefly (Jason Kim). [Too bad it's same time as SSB Space Science Wk plenary.]

📸: A monochrome image featuring the logo of the Dragonfly Mission above a photo of Saturn with its moon Titan in the foreground. The overall scene is dark with a soft haze on the curve of the planets. (Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

On this day in 1655, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, was discovered. 🪐

In 2028, NASA’s #DragonflyMission - led by Johns Hopkins APL with nationwide partner organizations - will launch to explore Titan’s environment and search for signs of life. Learn more: dragonfly.jhuapl.edu

a man in a white turtleneck says thank kier it 's friday while dancing Alt: a man in a white turtleneck says thank kier it 's friday while dancing

Tramell Tillman is absolutely brilliant.

Photo of a man at a table apparently checking his phone. In the background four or five people are having a brawl, grabbing each other, maybe punching. The text over the man at the table says "everyone else on Earth" while the text over the brawlers says "geologists arguing over whether chert is interesting."

IYKYK

An absolutely entrancing view of sunset on the Moon.

This is what Firefly's Blue Ghost lander saw as the Sun set on Sunday.

The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.

At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).

And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.

Image of the Earth and Sun during a lunar eclipse, taken by the Blue Ghost lander from the lunar surface. Most of the image is black, and the Earth blocks all but a beautiful ring of the Sun's light.

www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u... '...you can't take the sky from me' Thank you, Firefly and Blue Ghost for this image.

a close up of a man 's face with a serious look on his face . Alt: A picture of Data from Star Trek The Next Generation trying to smile, awkwardly.

Pet peeve. Data are plural unless you're referring to this Data.

Were delightful. Sigh for my grammar...

YouTube video by LadyGagaVEVO Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Saturday Night Live/2025)

youtu.be/NLviy39Q1A8?... Lady Gaga and Bowen Yang have been the highlight of my last couple of days. This song and its performance was delightful, and skits on the show were fantastically absurd.