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Astronomical twilight on Mars, including the moon Deimos. Taken by the Engineering Cameras aboard the Perseverance Rover.

No AI, this is a real photo taken by Percy’s engineering cameras of astronomical twilight on #Mars! You can see Deimos in the sky too.

I worked pretty hard to plan, execute, and analyze this image, and it came out beautifully! A bit noisy, but it was very dark out after all.

#astro #planetary

With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months and will be presenting at the conference.
This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵

Even your favorite YouTube creators are feeling the effects of federal cuts Emily Graslie, creator of The Brain Scoop, shares about the uncertain future of her science communication work.

Even your favorite YouTube creators are feeling the effects of federal cuts.

Emily Graslie, creator of The Brain Scoop, shares about the uncertain future of her science communication work.

grist.org/looking-forw...

#Jobs #FederalJobs #Science #Climate #Communications #YouTube

Updated Space-Track reentry prediction for Kosmos-482-SA: between 0345 and 0745 UTC May 10.

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

You fuckers are sleeping on Jupiter’s moons. I don’t want to ever hear one more person whine about Pluto if they can’t tell me a single fact about the in-every-way-superior Ganymede.

Take back your attention.

photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

False colour JWST NIRCam image of a nearby star forming region in front of a deep back ground of colorful galaxies. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING.

I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.

NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

i am not dopamine scrolling. i am not doom scrolling. i am simply continuing my search for the single sentence that will explain everything. its out there. lets find it

Here's a view looking over the limb of Enceladus with Saturn in the background, made from images captured with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on December 19, 2015 from a distance of about 25,000 km (15,534 miles)

The drone shit is proving that we're in for (at least) four years of nonstop War of the Worlds panics. People you once believed smart and entrust with your children will corner you with podcast medicine. Refuting it? Pointless. You will realize your doctor is an alchemist 25 minutes before surgery.

Dust Storms at Nord Rupes 🔭

Full size video: flic.kr/p/2qyG5Ca

Credits:
Processing: Andrea Luck & Simeon Schmauß CC BY
Raw Data: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
#planetaryscience

At the point in my life where I'm emailing researchers to see if they have grad student positions open in their lab and I've read their books and seen their TEDTalks 🥴 nbd 🥴

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

fondly recalling how after Jan 6 Congress went home for a long weekend, didn't start impeachment proceedings for a week, which then took another month

True story

Two layered rocks with significant portions removed by wind erosion. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Rocks near the Mars Curiosity Rover this weekend on Sol 4379. Over eons of wind erosion and other processes, the softer layers were removed, leaving this.

Testing, testing is this thing on? It's HOT in Tooopeeka!

Color photograph of the surface of a comet, which mostly appears black and white with some bluish areas near the middle. Text: 10/03/2015 18:42:26 - 85.7 km, Comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko, NIR, Orange and Blue Filter from OSIRIS NAC Camera. Credits ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team - Processing by Giuseppe Conzo

#PPOD: This picture may look like a lonely mountain, but this landscape is out of our world—it's one of the closest color images ever taken of the surface of a comet. On March 10, 2015, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft used the OSIRIS camera to take this close-up... 🧪 🔭

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Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

12-3/8 inch optical telescope in an observatory

I love when kids come into the observatory all excited to tell me about the last time they came here. They tell me everything they remember me teaching them 🥲

I used to love watching rocket launches. But I'm watching the Starship test live, and realizing that yeah, Elon has really poisoned this for me.

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

The theory that Trump is nominating people who will be intensely loyal to him because they have been cast aside by everyone else feels devastatingly likely.

I just want a whole playlist of music with the same vibe as "The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen.

🧪☀️ with the joint announcement between NASA and NOAA that we've reached the solar maximum for solar cycle 25, they released this amazing video comparison of the sun at solar minimum vs solar maximum! #spaceweather

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14683

A whimsical nighttime illustration of a tranquil river scene. A glowing, smiling star floats serenely on the water, casting a soft golden light around it. A figure in a small boat stands nearby, gazing in awe at the star. The surrounding landscape features lush trees, rocky cliffs, and a distant observatory perched on a hill, its dome lit faintly under the starlit sky. Above, a constellation shines brightly, forming a celestial pattern that mirrors the enchanting atmosphere below. The constellation is noticeably missing one star. In the background, ships sail calmly, their lights twinkling against the deep blue of the water and sky.

Far from home