Dr. L

Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵

25.01.2025 13:30 — 👍 1514    🔁 538    💬 22    📌 34

👇🏽this is 2 hrs on #Jupiter compressed… my best video yet!😎🤩

Watch the Great Red Spot rotate in & out from our perspective, Io (right) and Ganymede (left) in their orbit

The best part? In the first frame, Ganymede is in a partial phase as it has just emerged.. that’s Jupiter’s shadow!

#astronomy

04.01.2025 18:25 — 👍 35    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 0

2025 is a centennial year, one that marks the end of the classical world for both the Largest and Smallest structures in the Universe, as had been known until then to Science. A short thread below 👇🏽

02.01.2025 07:20 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

A simple method to efficiently generate structural variation in plants Phenotypic variation is essential for the selection of new traits of interest. Structural variants, consisting of deletions, duplications, inversions, and translocations, have greater potential for ph...

Do you want an EMS-like drug that you can easily use in your lab or your garden shed to generate structural variation in your favorite plant? We show here that the topo2 inhibitor & common chemotherapy drug etoposide works really well to generate structural variation .

21.12.2024 22:23 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

A white dwarf star at the center has expelled outer layers of gas. The dying stars outer layers are unraveling into space to form a trillion mile long tunnel of glowing gases that looks like an eye from Earth. Distance about 650 light years.

I pointed my camera at the sky & collected some photons. They coalesced to give me this evil eye👿 .. what does it mean??

👇🏽The Helix aka “Eye of God” nebula from my deck

#astronomy #astrophotography

15.11.2024 23:06 — 👍 156    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0

Please add me - I use 3D models in cancer biology and neuroscience. Thanks for putting this group together!

12.11.2024 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Image of a head of a horse in dark silhouette against a splash of red ionized gases in the background

“One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day. Have holy curiosity.” - Einstein

IC434, the Horsehead nebula in Orion from my deck 👇🏽

09.11.2024 06:12 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” - Galileo

Saturn in 2024 & over the last four years👇🏽

Bcos of Saturn’s axial tilt of ~ 27deg, the view of the rings has been changing from our perspective; they will appear edge-on by March 2025

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08.11.2024 22:31 — 👍 260    🔁 33    💬 4    📌 0

In a demon-haunted world, Science is the candle in the dark!

IC1805, the Heart nebula in Cassiopeia

#astronomy #astrophotography #cosmology

07.11.2024 15:59 — 👍 61    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 2

Hi y’all! 👋
I’m an astrophotographer & amateur astronomer based in the Bay Area. Here’s a sampling of my pics👇🏽 , all taken from the Bay Area!
#astrophotography #astronomy

07.11.2024 06:40 — 👍 96    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 1