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nedman.bsky.social
B.S. Physics, M.S. Chemistry , Astro πŸͺ Buff, Maker, Husband, Freemason, Dad, Nerd, Dog Dad, Am. Photographer, Stalker of Butterflies, πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆAlly, πŸ˜ƒ Coastal NC
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A feather floating on Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover captured this view of iridescent dry-ice clouds in the cold Martian air over Gale Crater. πŸ§ͺπŸ”­ www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Continuing to stress craft my way through 2025. Taking a break from tentacles today to try out a whale shark idea...here's where I am right now! 🧢

My personal preference is Dumb-ass Donald. 🀑

Ever wonder how something like the Pillars of Creation forms? This animation shows how young, hot stars carve out roughly spherical cavities in the surrounding gas. The densist pockets of gas and dust shield the material behind them, leaving behind pillars. πŸ”­πŸ§ͺ webbtelescope.org/contents/med...

'Castle ruins in the wild' - this aerial embroidery took me over 50 hours! All those tiny French knots... building up the wild ground around the ruins :) I know they aren't everyone's favourite but I could do those knots forever! Available here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #landscape

Today is #NationalCabbageDay, which is always a good opportunity to remind everyone that red cabbage can be used to make a colourful pH indicator solution! www.compoundchem.com/2017/05/18/r... #ChemSky πŸ§ͺ

Country music star Sheryl Crow sold her Tesla and will donate her funds to NPR β€œThere comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.” πŸ“ thehill.com/blogs/in-the... #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests

My local makerspace has upgraded from a pair of K40 CO2 lasers to a very nice 60W Omtech machine. 😍 #MakerSpace #Lasercutting

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." β€”Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. πŸ§ͺ πŸ”­ 🌍 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Hardwood xkcd.com/3051

Valentines Day lab meeting in the UT Insect Collection was unconventional.

Amen. 😁 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2AtR7Vv/

Spring is on the way 🌸

Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

Tonight when I left my local maker space I looked up and snap this picture. The moon and Jupiter in a close pairing with sparse clouds giving cool nebulae like effect. #astronomy #astrophotograpy

happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.

Phobos over Mars Full size: flic.kr/p/2qJrbGD Credit: Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY Raw images: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin @esa.int ESA Mars Express HRSC Orbit 3868 2007-01-10 Filter S13 H3868_0000_S13.IMG Colourised image using data processed from: psa.esa.int My album about Phobos: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL

Nice close conjunction of a thin crescent moon, a bright Venus and non naked eye Neptune. #astrophotograpy

A reminder that humans are capable of great acts of wonder when we work together & embrace knowledge. An international team of astronomers has discovered swarms of cold comets circling 74 nearby stars -- and got clear pictures of these "exocomet belts." πŸ§ͺπŸ”­ www.iac.es/en/outreach/...

Reminder - the 5 Calls App provides scripts, telephone numbers, and connects you to your politicians really easily. Make calls/comments and tell them you disapprove of what's happening. Political offices track key words/themes in these calls. Overwhelm them. Make it known you don't agree.

Unit Circle xkcd.com/3041

The doggo Ellie hanging with her chicken. 😁 #dogs #DogsOfBluesky

Edwin Hubble submitted his paper "A relation between distance and radial velocity among extra-galactic nebulae" #OTD in 1929. It showed that "extra-galactic nebulae" were moving away from us with a velocity that increased linearly with distance. πŸ§ͺ πŸ”­ βš›οΈ Image: Carnegie Observatories

Interesting. Yep, I had always heard the cannon ball explanation. Got to clap for @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social dropping the Beastie Boys in a thread. πŸ‘πŸ˜

What a beauty! This is comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passing through the field of view of the LASCO C3 coronagraph. It wasn't for certain whether it would survive it's closest approach to the sun on January 13th, but it did and delivered us a spectacular show! #comet #C2024G3 πŸ”­

Perfect. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ³πŸ‘Œ

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Saturn and Venus are in a close conjunction tonight. πŸͺπŸ”­ #astronomy #astrophotograpy

This lucky guy takes his near miss with a meteorite as a moment for "wonder and awe" Nice. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sheep and goats both belong to taxonomic Family 'Bovidae', with sheep in genus 'Ovis' and goats in genus 'Capra'. The two are often raised together on farms. And very, very rarely, they can interbreed to produce hybrids called GEEP, as in Butterfly (shown), born 2014. (πŸ“·: Priscilla Motola)

If you like Physics clips and tips please consider following me on youtube πŸ™‚ #ITeachPhysics 🎒 www.youtube.com/@hookean1

Short animation of C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) in the Blue filter on our ESA/NASA SOHO/LASCO C3 camera. β˜€οΈπŸ”­ Seeing lots of beautiful striations in the tail! 😍