Nicole Mortillaro

George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth

We see these objects, such as nebulae, as static, but they're not. In fact, the fastest parts of this remnant are travelling at roughly 22.2 million km/h (13.8 million mph) or 2 per cent the speed of light. Read more: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/k...

Guys! Guys! This is SO cool. This is a time lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant over 25 years!

This image is truly stunning. I highly recommend clicking on the "embiggen" link provided.

Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way

Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ...

... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.

Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

One small step for periods in space, one giant leap for research in long-term space missions | CBC News It may still be an uncomfortable subject for some, but periods are a real thing that people need to manage. But what do astronauts do in space? Well, they have some options, but now they may have one ...

Menstruation in space is a real thing, and we have to look at other options for astronauts as we look to embark on long-term space missions.

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Here's the simulation of what it COULD look like for some space-based telescopes.

Launching hundreds of thousands of satellites will threaten space research, scientists warn | CBC News We've all come to appreciate the beautiful images space telescopes provide us of galaxies, nebulas and more, but they also provide astronomers with important scientific information about our universe....

The roughly 15,000 satellites in space are already a nuisance to astronomy research. It could get a LOT worse.

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It reminds me of a chestburster pre-burst.

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That's C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) that's fragmented. So many comets whizzing around!

"In 1921, when the steamship Rotterdam arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, with Einstein on board, it was met by some 5,000 cheering New Yorkers. Reporters in small boats pulled alongside the ship even before it had docked." God, how I wish the public still had that kind of passion for science.

"In 1921, when the steamship Rotterdam arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, with Einstein on board, it was met by some 5,000 cheering New Yorkers. Reporters in small boats pulled alongside the ship even before it had docked." God, how I wish the public still had that kind of passion for science.

Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean Researchers previously took first confirmed footage of a juvenile colossal squid in scarcely explored habitat

Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean

A Super-Earth Candidate Less Than 20 Light-Years Away Astronomers have discovered a ready-to-image super-Earth candidate, named GJ 251c, less than 20 light-years away.

Astronomers have discovered a ready-to-image super-Earth candidate less than 20 light-years away.
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#astronomy #exoplanet #superearth

I've been looking forward to this film because, yeah, the threat of nuclear war terrifies me and that fear never left me after I watched The Day After as a child.

I vividly remember sitting at the kitchen table reading about the first exoplanet discovery in 1992. Will never forget it. And look at us now!

Article, please.

A galaxy seen face-on, with a slightly elliptical disk that appears to have a hole in the center like a doughnut. In the hole, the core is a brightly glowing point that shines light out beyond the edge of the disk. Around the hole is an inner ring of dust, and at the galaxy’s edge is a thicker outer ring of dust, with a swirling web of dust strands in between. Blue stars and red nebulae are visible behind the dust.

THIS NEW HUBBLE IMAGE LOOKS LIKE A GALACTIC PORTAL!!! 🌌

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."
-Carl Sagan

This fact always amazes me. How new our understanding really is, yet how far we've come to study these galaxies in such remarkable detail.

Colliding black holes 'ringing' across space and time prove Hawking, Einstein theories right | CBC News Two black holes collided 1.3 billion light years from Earth, creating a 'ringing,' which in turn allowed astrophysicists to test some theories. And it turns out, they were all correct.

I kinda dig gravitational waves.

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T. Ocellus is an agent of chaos.

NASA's Perseverance finds its first possible hint of ancient Mars life The NASA Mars rover examined a rock containing organic compounds and “leopard spots” that, on Earth, are associated with microbial life.

There's a NASA presser happening now in which acting admin Duffy said "This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars." That doesn't mean it is a sign of life. We covered this cool rock in 2024, paper in Nature is out today: 🧪🔭
www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa...

Woot! Got my advances! New title but same great content. Use it to plan for your 2026 night sky planning! @fireflybooks.bsky.social

And that’s what I saw last night! Was absolutely amazing! @billlongo.com

So sorry. Just saw this now. 10:35 pm

There were a couple of launches today, but I'd need to know what direction you saw itmand what direction it's moving. I see other posts about it here too; it was seen from South Dakota.

Jonathan thinks it’s the Ariana launch, which makes sense.