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Can't stop staring at these new views of crazy yardang unit!!! (The light colored cliffs that are furthest away)

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This Slack comment sums up the vibe right now: “It’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop. If the thing wearing the shoes was an octopus.” 💀

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yes this is famously how free societies treat their universities

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Astonishing new videos of the Sun show coronal "rain" in (pink-tinted) hydrogen-alpha light. Obtained with advanced adaptive optics research supported by NSF, the National Solar Observatory, and New Jersey Institute of Technology. Details and more videos in the link in the first comment below.

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CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

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🎨🪐☀️Over the years, I painted the whole solar system in watercolor — from the blazing Sun to icy Neptune. A tribute to our cosmic home. ✨Prints: pierre-vuaillet.pixels.com/collections/... ✨Originals: www.pierrevuaillet.art/watercolor/p... #ArtInSpace #Watercolor #SolarSystem #SpaceArt #Space

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For nothing. FOR NOTHING. For fucking nothing! I'm having problems with everything that's happening but the bit that lays large eggs in my brain is that this is all happening for no reason other than rich white people got sad the world isn't 100% about them anymore.

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Whatever you might hear from fascist billionaires, Mars is extremely dry, extremely cold—and extremely inhospitable. For the energy, effort, and expense it takes to make Mars habitable for humans we could ensure that Earth is protected, cherished, and able to care for countless generations to come.

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Goodnight

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Hi ! I’m Pierre ! I’m training to become an astronaut — and painting from space. ✨ You can help me by sharing, commissioning, adopting a piece, getting a print — or just sending kind words! 🎨Originals : www.pierrevuaillet.art 🎨Prints : pierre-vuaillet.pixels.com #ArtInSpace #SpaceArt #astronaut

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here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root & the bud of the bud & the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) & this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) ~EE Cummings

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The question isn't whether America can afford to invest in #science, but whether it can afford not to. US leaders seem to have forgotten innovation is the backbone of American success. If we want to maintain an advantage, we need policies that recognize science isn't an expense - it's our future.

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Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?

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A broader panorama for context. Mars never ceases to amaze! ▶️ zoom app zoomhub.net/K8NB6 #Mars May 25, 2025 - Sol 1515 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 🧪🔭

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No Comet in This One - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jkzB8i

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worst thing about working in aerospace is you never get a break from musk

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The party of freedom and liberty is installing conformity czars to adjudicate compliance to the party’s definition of valid scientific inquiry. Land of the free…

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Lovely Mastcam mosaic captured yesterday by Curiosity. And look at this tiniest little butte up there! ▶️ zoom app zoomhub.net/MV4oG ▶️ science plan science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-45... #Mars May 22, 2025 - Sol 4547 🧪🔭 Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

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Or as @wsj.com puts it, “Open for business.”

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"Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."

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The inspiring @arielwaldman.com explorers.com/ariel-waldman/

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Steady Light - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2nF8kVq

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Check out this incredible video of a tornado filmed from an FPV drone! Definitely check out the full video on YouTube - I literally just stared at my screen for a few minutes in total awe and disbelief.

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An Owl at Night

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MSL 4541 ML-360 © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NeV-T 360-VR - www.360cities.net/image/msl-15... Gigapan - www.gigapan.com/gigapans/237... GIGAmacro - viewer.gigamacro.com/view/f4bl9va... Gigapan Website - www.nev-t-gigamacros.com #Mars #science #NASA

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Hey, let's outlive these ghouls ok? Let's witness their demise together

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From NASA: More postcards from the planets! 📸🪐 Views sent home this month from NASA spacecraft all across the solar system. - Perseverance selfie on Mars - Juno view of Jupiter (processed by @kevinmgill.bsky.social) - Lightning storms captured from aboard the space station by Anne McClain

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Final lines for my next #dinosaur #extinction pin design. #sciArt #DinoArt #enamelpins

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As someone who has relied on SNAP to put food in the fridge, I'm incredibly proud of the work we're doing at @dataforprogress.org to shine a light on how disastrously unpopular cutting nutrition assistance is

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Spiral Jetty - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jFXcNV

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Dragonfly and Titan’s Mysteries: check out this new post by NASA Science science.nasa.gov/solar-system... #Dragonfly 🧪🔭

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🚨This is not just a ban on new students. 6,800 current overseas students now have to leave Harvard. That is 6,800 people panicking today. Many will no doubt be in tears, their lives & education upended because of the spite of one man.

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They want to shut us up They start with threats They’ll use violence if that doesn’t work

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I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars. These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born. 🧪🔭 public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/

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I know this was an unexpectedly long thread but I guess ultimately what I was trying to say was that we put something like $25 Billion into #NASA but get back about $75.6 Billion in economic activity in return. The 2026 "Skinny Budget" aims to disrupt that, with potentially catastrophic results.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“who are Republicans spending time with online and what do those people believe” is a story that the media has completely ignored for years and we might be in a different place if the public was actually aware how many of those people are outright Nazis

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

Crypto isn't currency. It isn't even an asset. It is a financial virus designed to privatize money, let corporations run chit-based company stores, and cut nations & central banks off from their own money supply. Regulated stablecoins are a way for the parasite to get easier control of the host.

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Ariel, moon of Uranus, transiting the disk of of the planet on July 26, 2006. Its shadow can be seen on the Uranian cloud tops. This is a view from the Hubble Space Telescope's t Advanced Camera For Surveys now-defunct High Resolution Channel.

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it seems too obvious to say out loud, but here we are: there is no functioning, stable, humane society without humans

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I stayed up late working with an awesome team to submit this proposal to @esa.int's F-3 mission competition. Folks are often proprietary about their mission ideas, but I love this one and will share it with you: We want to fly through Mercury's super-thin "atmosphere" and bring that sample home!

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Yuuuuuup. Ideas have never been the issue. The key is picking which ones are worth writing about, and which are worth writing will change with the specific author. I wrote a whole fucking novel about the moon turning to cheese. I assure you, ideas are the easy part. Execution is what matters.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

These are crimes. And we need to say so.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

For my NOAA colleagues: H/T @cdelawalla.bsky.social

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Jupiter’s Northern Folded Filamentary Region during Juno’s Perijove 72 earlier this month. There’s a lot going on here so I zoomed into a few highlights. flic.kr/p/2r5VEiy flic.kr/p/2r5VQ8o flic.kr/p/2r5VQ8d flic.kr/p/2r5QmRx

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