Ian J. O'Neill

Interstellar object candidate #A11pl3Z from Deep Random Survey, Chile (obs code X09). No obvious tail, will have to do a stack to see if there's anything...

Date is 2025 Jul 2 00:52:39 UTC.

Trump pulls Isaacman nomination for space. Source: “NASA is f***ed” “NASA’s budget request is just a going-out-of-business mode” without Isaacman.

Well, shit.

"NASA's budget request is just a going-out-of-business mode"

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

The exoplanet archive is an incredible scientific AND educational resource.

Tell me you don't know how LIGO works without telling me you don't know how LIGO works.

And omg THE VLA and CDL?!?!

I worked at the CDL for 6 years as a grad student. And you all know how I feel about the VLA...

Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request Proposal would end nearly all new major science missions

This budget request would cripple NASA's space science efforts. Active and planned science missions scrapped. $ billions of wasted taxpayer money.

This is sick.

www.science.org/content/arti...

An erupting volcano.

Such an amazing view right now. www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?

This movie shows the bubbling surface of a distant star, as captured with unprecedented clarity by the ALMA observatory.

R Doradus is a huge star. Each of these bubbles is 50-75 times the diameter of our entire Sun! 🧪🔭

www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-rel...

Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.

National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it.

https://trib.al/Qpb9WJE

The Coyotes of San Francisco

The Coyotes of San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

"This isn’t just dubious legislation. It’s antidemocratic decadence. These are the governing priorities of a ruling class that faces no democratic accountability."

Trump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy Nothing sums up the descent into authoritarian corruption of the once-republican USA like the events of May 22, 2025.

Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy newrepublic.com/post/195695/... via @newrepublic.com

Cheers from LA, fella 🍸

JPL to Transition to Fully Onsite Work In an email to employees, the director’s office announced that a transition to fully onsite work will occur this year.

Not entirely surprising, though sudden and... sad. Thinking, especially, about my remote telework colleagues today, who will need to make some very hard decisions 😔 www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-to-...

The very same! Amazing guy. LOVE working with him

NASA’s Magellan Mission Reveals Possible Tectonic Activity on Venus Using archival data from the mission, launched in 1989, researchers have uncovered new evidence that tectonic activity may be deforming the planet’s surface.

Not one but TWO science features today 🙌 In this one, NASA's Magellan is a mission that just keeps on giving. By combining topography and gravity data from the spacecraft, VERITAS scientists have detected tectonic processes shaping the planet's coronae. More: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-m...

NASA Studies Reveal Hidden Secrets About Interiors of Moon, Vesta Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface.

I got to work on a neat feature about the Moon. It posted today. The cover art was too good not to share. Basically, using high-resolution gravity data, scientists at JPL could measure the very tiny flexing of the Moon as it orbits Earth. More: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-st...

NASA Streams Historic Video from Deep Space NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.

Here's all you need to know about the video, technology demonstration, and the star of the show, Taters: www.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-streams...

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

NASA JPL's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech demo flying with NASA's Psyche mission streamed the now famous (and historic) UHD video of Taters the cat over 19 million miles to Earth in late 2023. Today, the orange tabby up for a Webby. Vote! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Twins Study - NASA NASA's year-long Twins Study compared identical twins – Scott and Mark Kelly – while Scott was in space and Mark was on Earth.

Hey mate, I was able to find these, if of any use: www.nasa.gov/humans-in-sp...
www.nasa.gov/humans-in-sp...

The NASA search isn't so great, so I usually use Google to find old articles. We had a big web redesign about a year ago, so some URLs may still be broken.

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start

Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

"The Lunar Trailblazer team has been working around the clock to re-establish communications with the spacecraft ... if anyone can bring Lunar Trailblazer back, it is them." - Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ

The latest on Lunar Trailblazer: The ops team at @caltechipac.bsky.social continue to work on reestablishing communications with the small satellite, with ongoing support from NASA's Deep Space Network and ground based observatories: blogs.nasa.gov/trailblazer/...

No further updates today, the ops team is continuing their work as described in that blog 🙌

NASA’s Europa Clipper Uses Mars to Go the Distance - NASA The orbiter bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa will investigate whether the moon is habitable, but it first will get the help of Mars’ gravitational force to get

On March 1, the Europa Clipper spacecraft will soar past Mars, using that planet’s gravity to shape its trajectory, sending it first back by Earth, then on toward its 2030 rendezvous with Jupiter. Onward and upward! #Europa #EuropaClipper
www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

Now the ops team, including NASA JPL, @caltech.edu, @caltechipac.bsky.social and Lockheed Martin Space, are working around the clock to reestablish comms: blogs.nasa.gov/trailblazer/...

It has been quite the week. After the Intuitive Machines IM-2 launch on Wednesday, mission operators at @caltechipac.bsky.social received telemetry from NASA's Lunar Trailblazer that things weren't right with its power system. They then had communications issues with the spacecraft.

I mean, the little dude has a point. How did that little puffball get up there? Why can't he be up there? It's all very confusing 😅

How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit.

Led by Caltech and managed by JPL, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer is launching (no earlier than) Wed., Feb. 26, as a rideshare on the Intuitive Machines mission to the Moon, IM-2. Apart from the awesome science Trailblazer will do, its journey is quite interesting, too: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nas...

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“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯