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Years from now when we have much better equipment and everything we find DOES look like the solar system, this plot will be shown off like that confirmation bias airplane damage plot
Bon appetit!
Net-Approval For Taking Greenland By Force:
🔴 All: -72%
🔴 Democrats: -94%
🔴 Independents: -80%
🔴 Republicans: -40%
🔴 Black: -86%
🔴 White: -70%
🔴 Hispanic: -66%
🔴 Women: -78%
🔴 Men: -66%
YouGov / Jan 16, 2026
Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
👀 Our eyes on the Sun’s inner corona, that’s Proba-3! In a 5-hour window, the formation-flying mission captured not 1… not 2… but 3 solar prominence eruptions – structures made of relatively cold plasma extending outwards from the Sun ☀️👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
I used to - makey years ago - find that show an amusing, mindless distraction which I would watch, and mock, with friends. I can no longer do that after finding all too many people who take it totally seriously
A composite image of the Sun (with sunspots) - top half taken near perihelion, the bottom half near aphelion showing the difference in apparent size (about 3% difference between them)
Two images, one taken near perihelion, and again near aphelion showing the difference in apparent size (about 3% difference between them). A fixed optical system (Seestar 50) means the image scale is constant.
In episode 11, Emily & Alexa chat with
planetary scientist and space industry strategist, Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social, about Mars, science communication, and finding your path in the space industry. Available wherever you get your podcasts!
www.artastra.space/episodes/mar...
I should have been more obvious with my <sarcasm> XML tags
I'm looking forward to my new [!] Pebble Time 2 with a one month [!] battery lifetime
Let's have a vote! Run by the IAU!
This is the way
I bought two and doubled my chances
Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
Neither?
Contact they screwed up the ending from the book, and Interstellar was just boooooring
Great animation of a Stanford Torus!
For day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar, I present this animation I did about three years ago, showing a flight through a type of space colony called a Stanford Torus.
#SciArt created in #Blender
You can catch yours truly waxing poetic about 3I/ATLAS (and bemoaning 1I/`Oumuamua getting discovered too early for me to have done my Ph.D. on it) alongside John Tonry talking about its discovery in this episode of NPR's Short Wave: www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
World Con 2026, Academic Track, Call for Papers is now Live.
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A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The latest installment in our series on book rebinding, where the Library's advanced book conservation interns are taking you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection! Scroll back in our feed to see Act I, and check back next week for Act III.
#preach
Wow
Delighted to be featured on APOD!
We are hiring a new Assistant Professor in Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin!! ☘
Job ad here: aas.org/jobregister/...
Deadline: Jan 02 2026
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A perfect moment of Zen for a Friday
