Tom Bryan

Rubin opens its eye. And what it sees is the Universe. Mind-blowing first images from the huge telescope.

I give you a momentary reprieve from the madness:

The Vera Rubin Observatory has taken its first images of the sky, and they are *extraordinary*. Mind blowing detail, jaw dropping beauty.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-open...

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This is a good point, and I need to think about the fallout from these two pissy babies tantruming at each other. It's funny, certainly, but the ramifications could be very serious for a lot of reasons.

Those faces are getting eaten by leopards pretty voraciously right now.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

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Comic. [rocket launching with a smaller rocket following] [caption] Aerospace Tip: Although the technique reduces atmospheric drag for many types of vehicles, you should *never* try to improve rocket launch efficiency through drafting.

Drafting

xkcd.com/3093/

You probably won't believe how desperate Starliner's flight to the space station got last summer ...

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

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Never-'stuck' Starliner astronauts land with Crew-9 duo on SpaceX Dragon The first astronauts to fly on two different commercial spacecraft during a single mission, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, have returned to Earth, splashing down with ISS crewmates Nick Hague and Al...

After falsely being described as being "stuck" in space, Boeing's Starliner crewmates Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth, splashing down with Crew-9 members Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov on SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Freedom."

The Only Thing Abandoned is the Truth Preserving NASA’s Legacy Amidst a Vortex of Misinformation

The only thing abandoned is the truth. I spent years at NASA, where facts ruled—you can’t fake physics or negotiate with gravity. So why are some so willing to deny truth? When history gets rewritten and facts twisted to serve power, we all lose. open.substack.com/pub/amikokel...

SpaceX Crew-10 folds traits, hopes into origami crane zero-g indicator What do you get when you fold together the ambitions and contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the United States, Japan and Russia? A zero-gravity indicator in the form of a croche...

The SpaceX Crew-10 zero-g indicator was chosen to represent the four astronauts' common traits and symbolize their shared hope for continued cooperation.

Tom Hanks at 'Moonwalkers' film premiere predicts getting busy on moon Tom Hanks knows there are two things that are going to happen in the future. One, the day will come when astronauts land on the moon and are greeted by other humans, signaling the moon has become a ho...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, Artemis II crewmates Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Tom Hanks took to the stage at Space Center Houston to discuss the past and future exploration of the moon.

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Blue Ghost on the moon! Firefly safely lands, delivers NASA science Like a lightning bug blinking as it made its way down into a marsh, the Blue Ghost fired its thrusters as it descended into the

As of 2:34 a.m. CST (0834 GMT) on Sunday (March 2), the moon is home to a new spacecraft. Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its first Blue Ghost, becoming just the second company in history to safely reach the lunar surface.

Austerity measures threaten to stall absolutely amazing, cost-saving hurricane forecast progress Hurricane forecasting has never been better. We say that a lot, but the statistics bear that out, and last hurricane season was literally the best one yet. National Hurricane Center track forecast …

Hurricane forecasting has never been better. The NHC just had their most successful year of forecasting. But we sit at a perilous moment, and it's important to understand the ramifications of what may be coming from the Trump Administration. Here, we offer an economic argument to proceed cautiously.

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.

Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

A groundhog is in a bar talking to a snake. They both look concerned. The groundhog is saying, "Forget my shadow. I saw the news. I predict six more weeks of heavy drinking."

It'll be more than six weeks

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January 24, 2025 “NUTS!”

January 24, 2025