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Interests: astronomy, terrestrial and exo-geology, sci-fi, engineering, transportation, rpdr. NYC-based and biased. Oh and cats, too. Politics are dead, but entertaining.
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Mars, Cloudy Olympus Mons by Tianwen-1 🧪🔭 Full res image & more info: flic.kr/p/2puZpdL Image Processing: Andrea Luck Raw Image: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I reprocessed the core of NGC2264, the Cone (Christmas tree) nebula which I shot last month. 🔭 #astrophotography

submitted 38 minutes ago • 1 comment

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

submitted 8 hours ago • 70 comments

Time for, well, not a distraction so much as a palate cleanser: a truly phenomenal shot from Hubble of a galaxy that is rippling like a pond that had a rock tossed in it… because that's what happened! Kinda. And YES you want to grab the hi-res version. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/incredible... 🧪🔭

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

These four images represent ALL the colour images we have of the surface of Venus. Four. Taken 43 years ago. From top: Venera 13, front camera; Venera 13, rear camera; Venera 14, front camera; Venera 14, rear camera Credit: Russian Academy of Sciences/Ted Stryk (tedstryk.bsky.social)

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Trump and the GOP are in a full-out war against science. I have a lot to say about that. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-attack... 🧪 🔭

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 12 days ago • 339 comments

#moodboard

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

Our dark Universe detective 🕵️ Euclid has discovered a stunning Einstein ring! 💍 It surrounds galaxy NGC 6505, which is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a distant galaxy behind it. Why is this rare phenomenon so useful for scientists? 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪 #cosmology

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs. Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway. Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

The entire planet needs to galvanize against the Musk/Trump coup in the U.S. for one crucial reason: these madmen now have access to the planet’s largest store of nuclear weapons.

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

Cracks in Greenland Ice Sheet growing more rapidly www.dur.ac.uk/news-events/... Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins - by Thomas Chudley et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

Jupiter’s North Pole and circumpolar cyclones as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during Perijove 69, Jan. 28, 2024. Juno was 11,408 kilometers above the clouds at the time this was taken. flic.kr/p/2qKbs22

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Eruption of Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka. Image taken by Sentinel-2 on April 12, 2023.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Degassing of Nishinoshima volcano in Japan. False color image taken by Sentinel-2 on March 26, 2024.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Very cool new paper from Han et al. looking at hypervelocity stars. We thought they all came from binaries disrupted by the black hole in the Milky Way, but Gaia suggested some come from the LMC instead. Han suggests this comes from a small(er) black hole in the LMC! arxiv.org/abs/2502.00102

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

As a science advocate, something I hear a lot is that people think government would be better if there were more scientists and physicians elected to Congress. Senator Bill Cassidy's cowardice in voting for RFK Jr, show us that expertise is useless if you have no morals.

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

Ancient Oceanic Plate Rips Apart Beneath Iraq and Iran #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #tectonics #geology #earthscience

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt and areas north as seen by Juno during Perijove 69, January 28th. flic.kr/p/2qJPSQQ

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Southern Ring - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2oqdGEW

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Please share the names and faces of Elon Musk’s little rats widely.

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Jupiter - PJ37-34 - Detail - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mCRMNa

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Nice high contrast colors on the ground and sky on Mars today Jan 31, sol 1404. In HDR even better when viewed with Chrome, Opera on Macbooks or with the areoHDR app: areo.info/mars20/ecams...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Varnishing Spectrum of Stardust this weekend! Always gives me a bit of anxiety to varnish, but now that this painting is an award winner I’m extra nervous 😆

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments