Paul Dobson

The image shows a vast star field with a faint yellow-orange star, Betelgeuse, at its center. Two white segments radiate from it, converging toward a black box at the upper left. In the box, Betelgeuse appears as a bright orange, almost circular disk, next to its companion, a smaller, less well-defined, dark blue star located slightly to the lower left of Betelgeuse. The companion, detected with the 'Alopeke instrument on the Gemini North telescope, is a hot, young star. This discovery explains Betelgeuse's brightness variability every six years.

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For centuries, Betelgeuse, the iconic red supergiant in Orion, has fascinated astronomers with its changing brightness.

Why does its light vary over a ~6-year cycle?

Thanks to the Gemini North telescope, we now have an answer: Betelgeuse has a companion star!

🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #galactic

Every so often, we get to go into the ship hall with our conservation team and get pictures from an unusual angle...

This was a good vintage

Oh God no, not again! Have these people ever heard of chemistry or physics or do they just have a supply of magic wands? The only way this could possibly work is if the quicklime were produced in a furnace using larhe scale CCS. Which isn't a real thing.

Gaining popularity again! Fascinating devices

"Leaving standard orbit"
USS Jacoby model by me
Rendered in Blender using Cycles
Compositing in After Effects with Red Giant Suite
#scifi #startrek #blender #aftereffects #3dmodeling

I'm sure he'll call it a "special military operation" to avoid such pesky problems

I like how they've raised the helm up on blocks. Presumably so Frakes didn't have to bend so low for that shot...

Latest sunset not for a few more days yet though! Sunrise has been getting later since earlier in the week however

That's right, the two LIGO sites (Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington) are not independent instruments, but essential components of a single interferometer designed to detect gravitational waves. If one of the two sites were deactivated,
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One day, the internet will be a place where AIs talk to other AIs, sharing random made up images and making up crazy conspiracy theories, whilst humans just... Well who knows what...?

So much money is being hurled at all "AI" that there is no consideration of actual problem solving, just pure desperation to make it seem like the most useful development in human history and aren't you a luddite for criticising it... 🤮

You can uninstall this version of notepad and the original simple notepad.exe will automatically take over again

Still making slow progress on the Klingon Bird of Prey. Onto the wing detailing now!

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#StarTrek #TNG #DS9 #SearchForSpock #Klingon #B'rel

Where do you find all this stuff? 😍

Digital art depicting a flying-wing aircraft painted azure blue, gliding high above a city full of skyscrapers built in shallow water. The plane has a trilobite insignia on the wings, and text reads "Sovereign Compact of Ebbtide" in English and the Ebbtide language.

The latest entry in the #Aerodex is the Vistalux 202 "Thunderhead," a light bomber design inspired by the Northrop flying wings and an obscure experimental plane called the "Horton Wingless." www.artstation.com/artwork/RKQZWW #skyfi #digitalart #blender #b3d

Which will be paid for by fully privatising the NHS and bringing in some form of health insurance....

Just listened to your superb interview on the ancient warfare podcast about this. Will definitely be giving this a read 👍👍

Street in Ancient Rome from the 3rd edition of 'La Roma de Constantino' published by @despertaferroed.bsky.social. #RomanSiteSaturday

Street in Ancient Rome from the 3rd edition of 'La Roma de Constantino' published by @despertaferroed.bsky.social. #RomanSiteSaturday

Absolutely fantastic recreations of Cassini's Saturn pictures, with scattered sunlight revealing the faint G and E rings.
#space #art by Thomas Thomsen.
www.artstation.com/artwork/OGmqE6

The 6 was so much more graceful, with a better sense of scale. The 4 did sometimes look good, but that was down to the shot and the skill of those lighting it

Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony - basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity.

Please repost! Spread the love!

Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi

Does come at the expense of speed, but I never expected this to be a quick build

Thanks!

Finally time for a small #KlingonBirdofPrey update. The big details at the inboard rear end of the wings are now done. Lots of assymmetric detailing needed in there, as usual.

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#StarTrek #TNG #DS9 #SearchForSpock #Klingon #B'rel

Sure 👍

You're going to need more whisky.... 🥃

They didn't have enough of the 5.25" mounts to meet demand so some of the Didos only received 2 mounts forward, with something else in the third position

I do love the lengths scientists will go to in order to make their catchy acronym work 🤣😎👌

I've been very quiet on here lately! A few distractions. Hopefully will be more active again soon!