Douglas Long

The Japanese word ‘gomi’ just keeps popping up in my mind these days. The Web, scientific journals, economic data, entertainment, the legal system- it’s all becoming ごみ

Magnified view of hexagonal shapes showing various space images illustrating JWST's science themes

We are pleased to announce the release of the #JWST Cycle 5 Call for Proposals for General Observer and Survey time and funding for Archival Research programs. Read more: ow.ly/IjWC50WyF62

Get ready…

A composite image, featuring a top row of three images: The Hubble Space Telescope, with the text "UV Astronomy!" written underneath, the James Webb Space Telescope with "Segmented Mirror!" and the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope with "Active Coronagraph!", and then underneath that row, an image of the Habitable Worlds Observatory, with the text "With your powers combined, I am...The Habitable Worlds Observatory!"

Sometimes I get inspired during technical lectures at conferences

NYC might be the only place in the country right now where people seem to truly have hope for a better possible future. I hope it spreads.

Serious about STOPPING it, right? Right?
Oh…

A bright, white star sits right of center. Concentric white rings surround the white star, but are mainly only visible from the 10 o'clock and 5 o'clock positions. The rings appear at mid inclination rather than face on. There are pale clouds around the star, some of which look like skinny comets (they are not comets) with trailing tails, brightest parts toward the star. There are many other stars in the image, but they are dim compared to the very bright subject of the image. Rays known as diffraction spikes surround the star in geometric precision. They are distracting artifacts, but it easy enough to look past them. There are some muddy brown at the top and left of the image and a dark blue to the bottom left. The colors do not necessarily have much bearing on the image as the rings are the important part.

WR 48A from JWST. You know you need some weird in your day.

From GO 4093: Fingerprinting the history of episodic dust creation in Wolf-Rayet binaries, Principal Investigator Noel Richardson

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A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S: Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier. Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready." Five stars. Will absolutely return.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣

Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

Congrats!

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Is the third Grace nickname “Waldo”, because I can’t find her…

Illo of a celestial person reaching up to grab a star. Based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Drawn by gdbeeart in autumn 2021, photoshop.

Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s

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YouTube video by NASA Goddard NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Will Search for Life

Are we alone? To find out, NASA is building the Habitable Worlds Observatory. This powerful space telescope uses proven technologies from Hubble, #NASAWebb, and #NASARoman to look for signatures of planets that can support life—and maybe life itself: go.nasa.gov/44KCbT7 🔭 🧪

Marc Andreessen is a Traitor It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

"Of all these legions of people doing the work to deliver computers capable of browsing the web, only Marc Andreessen and a handful of others (such as Bill Gates) became megarich, while the rest had largely ordinary salaries." www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

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

Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented… The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

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couch! couch! couch!

CURVE - Fait Accompli (music video 1992) "Curve" = Toni Halliday & Dean Garcia (ex Bryan Ferry band '87/'88). From their '92 album "Doppelgaenger".

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White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act “We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…

I wish I was surprised. 🔭

Here’s a little bit of awesome brought into the world during such dark times.

I was trying to come up with an analogy and the best I could think of was "imagine if you were sick and the government denied access to modern medicine and forced you to rely on outdated 19th century stuff" and, oh

I’m pleasantly surprised to see Loeb not arguing they’re evidence of advanced alien technology.

Maybe one of the best things I’ve read all year.

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart.

It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

Post a picture of when your pet was little