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gamma Cas is a naked-eye star 550 light years away, and you've seen it as the middle star in the group of five that makes the "W" shape in Cassiopeia.🔭🧪 It spins *so fast* that it's rugby ball shaped, and coming apart. New observations show that it would look like this: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15027

My cartoon for the @theguardian.com books Summer Reading special.

бог це полтавський палій - йому просто нравиться як все горить

З іншого боку, поки не було звісток, щоб АІ гвалтувати дітей, тож вони безпечніші за католицьку церкву

It’s the longest day of the year - and here is sunrise over a field of purple phacelia at Beckbury, near Shifnal. I set my alarm for 3.30 so that I could get to the location with time to spare, and the only sign of life as I drove through the lanes was the occasional rabbit darting... 1/2

That line between #nature and #culture we liked to draw? - Turns out it's messy as chickenscratch. 🦜 Birds sing. 🐋 Whales teach. 🐒 Chimps pass down tools. We didn’t invent culture, we just gave it a name: aeon.co/essays/did-a... by Cameron Allan McKean via @aeon.co

High resolution video of the X1.9 flare from 2025-06-19 23:50z (SDO AIA 211/913/171 RGB composite) - Watch the plasma arc twisting. When the legs touch, the #solarflare is triggered by magnetic reconnection. A lot of energy is released in a short time.

ВЛК як інститут слід визнати повністю непридатним, а Міністерство — частково. Або навпаки

In true sci-fi style, scientists have found insects preserved in amber with fungi growing out of their bodies. 🍄 This 99-million-year-old discovery is among the oldest evidence of fungi infecting insects. Read more about this remarkable discovery. 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...