Sarah Hörst

He really missed his calling

TBD

I’m not even going to fix the autocorrect that changed experiments into excitements bc I’m not mad at that.

…of the substrate and ended up all over the inside of the chamber. Which we didn’t know. Then we ran the experiment.

When we finished and went to remove the tholin it was actually a mix of gold and tholin. Uh so if anyone needs that for some reason it’s unusable for any of our purposes. (3/3)

…prepare the quartz substrate that the gold was deposited on correctly so the gold wasn’t very well adhered to the substrate. We didn’t know this of course.

Before we run the excitements, we pull a hard vacuum on the chamber to remove contaminants. When we pulled the vacuum the gold came off (2/)

Surprised it took someone this long to ask…

I may have talked about this when it happened. We have been working on tholin dielectric constant measurements (stay tuned) and we needed to deposit tholin on a thin film of gold. The first time we did it the lab that prepared the thin film didn’t (1/)

I wish I could send you some through the internet

I posted today a bit ago froggie!

Do you also think Triton doesn’t taste like bananas?!?!

You know, I’m not mad at that

The full moon above my house with a rainbow around it

In other news Earth also has a moon which is currently doing this:

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.

That’s amazing. I don’t think I have synesthesia but I definitely think certain things have strong associations in my head for unknown reasons.

(I will not be taking questions about the moon flavor situation at this time. I need to process this realization)

Round black container with a gold and red patterned lid. Kinda looks like clouds? Black circle paper that says CHOCOLATE BANANA PUDDING by Betty Petrova Petrova Chocolates Chocolate

Zoom in on the chocolate. It has some low key yellow or gold speckles

Actual Triton from Voyager 2. It’s gray with some albedo variation (the absolute struggle I just had with autocorrect bc it wanted albedo to be Alberto). Processed by my grad school friend Mike Bland.

Tonight’s chocolate is chocolate banana pudding. This is when I realize that I have secretly had flavors mentally associated with moons in the solar system and Triton is absolutely not bananas. It had a lovely texture that seemed plausibly Triton-like however.

DECEMBER 4 | TRITON (NEPTUNE) Tonight, as the year's last full Moon rises - often called the "Cold Moon" or "Moon before Yule" - we turn our gaze to Neptune, where its largest moon, Triton, awaits. Likely born in the Kuiper Belt, Triton was captured by Neptune's gravity and now orbits in reverse, a rare retrograde motion that marks it as a cosmic outlier: Although smaller than Earth's Moon, Triton is larger than Pluto and wrapped in frozen nitrogen. With surface temperatures around -235 °C (-391 °F), it's one of the coldest places in our solar system. Yet, surprisingly, it's geologically active. When the spacecraft Voyager 2 flew by in 1989, it spotted dark geysers shooting up to 5 miles high - likely due to sunlight warming the surface, causing nitrogen gas to erupt from below the crust. Triton's pocked, cantaloupe-like terrain and whisper-thin atmosphere hint at hidden forces within. Beneath its frozen shell may slosh a subsurface sea, placing it among the solar system's intriguing ocean worlds. Triton remains one of the largest mostly unexplored moons, a frozen enigma waiting to be fully mapped and understood. A NOTE FROM LINA Triton, a sea god, shares a name with a small freshwater creature I used to catch as a child. This connection evoked personal memories and inspired my work. Influenced by the sea, scales, and the imagery of a half-man, half-fish figure, I envisioned a circular composition resembling the moon, with a diving tail suggesting something plunging into the ocean.

Anywho apparently we’ve left the Pluto system for…Triiiiitooooooonnnnn. Are we starting out and moving in? Time will tell.

Extremely fuzzy potato looking moon

Extremely fuzzy different potato looking moon

Night 4. If you, like me, thought this would be Kerberos or Styx boy were we both wrong. Unless they appear later I guess we aren’t finishing the Pluto system. Kerberos (left) and Styx (right) have very fuzzy images from New Horizons so maybe that’s why they do not appear to have made the cut?

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Two technicians in clean suits inspect a the completed Roman Space Telescope in a clean room at a NASA assembly facility.

NASA has completed the construction of #NASARoman! Last month, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the observatory in Maryland.

After final testing, Roman will move to the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center for launch preparations in summer 2026: https://go.nasa.gov/48EqnE8 🔭 🧪

This particular top is Nike. It’s not just this top. I feel like all of my cold weather running clothes have some annoying aspect. My warmest leggings don’t have pockets, a lot of my tops don’t come high enough up on my neck etc etc

For example my top outer layer today is oddly short (I do not have a long torso) so I have to make sure I wear something longer under it so my stomach stays warm enough

Do you have a specific brand of gloves? I also have Raynauds

Ok this needs to be more clear - I’m asking for specific brands. I’ve been running in the cold for 30 years. I understand layers and headbands.

Alright where’s runsky at? What are your favorite cold weather running clothes? I swear mine were designed by people who’ve never once run outside in the cold.

I’m so sorry

NEW: The IG report on SignalGate is out. Hegseth sent classified information out on an unclassified Signal chat and put our troops in harms way. Hegseth says he retroactively "declassified" it so it doesn't count. You can read the findings here: media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...

*looks directly at camera*

Anytime I see a big change in pattern I assume something has happened and check in

Dandelion

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"