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www.seti.org/youcef-sella... What if the key to discovering ancient life isn’t in the vast Martian deserts – what if it’s hidden inside crystals? That question drives Youcef Sellam's research at the University of Bern. 🧪 🔭

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In this week's #SETILive, @allplanets.bsky.social chatted with Dan Mills about how his team's alternative to the "hard steps" evolutionary model increases the likelihood of intelligent life evolving in our galaxy, depending on the abundance of Earth-like planets. 🧪 Full interview: buff.ly/7DbZrp7

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The Sickle: Pillars of Creation in the Galactic Center by JWST Full size image & more info: flic.kr/p/2qZRbgr 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.Roger/AndreaLuck CC BY MIRI Filters: F770w, F1130w, F1500w Proposal ID: 3958 PI: Angela Cotera @setiinstitute.bsky.social

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Hey, Massachusetts Space Week attendees! Our last SETI Institute event is tomorrow, and it's a good one... Dr. Simon Steel will attend a Saturday matinee of Lilo & Stitch (2002) and give a talk before. Come join him at 10:00 am at the Cambridge Public Library. #maspaceweek #massspaceweek 🧪

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#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking down at the floor of Gale Crater from Mount Sharp on Feb. 7, 2025, the mission's 4,447th Martian day, or sol. Curiosity continued its ascent through a mountainous region known as the sulfate-bearing unit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS 🧪

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Tonight, during Massachusetts Space Week, CEO Bill Diamond participates in an expert panel on "The Search for Life in the Universe" alongside Richard Binzel and @saraseager.bsky.social from MIT and Gabriella Radelescu from the Smithsonian. Starting at 6:30 pm in the MIT Welcome Center. 🧪 👩‍🔬

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#PPOD: Raikoke Volcano 🌋 on the Kuril Islands rarely erupts, most recently in 1924 and 1778. The dormant period ended around 4:00 a.m. local time on June 22, 2019, when a vast plume of ash and volcanic gases shot up from its 700-meter-wide crater. Credit: NASA 🧪

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Reminder for Massachusetts Space Week attendees: CEO Bill Diamond is hosting a special screening of "Contact" (1997) at 6:00 p.m. at the Cambridge Public Library. There will also be an expert panel. See you there! #massspaceweek #maspaceweek

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The Drake Awards celebrate humanity’s boldest space scientists and their transformative contributions to our understanding of life in the cosmos. Join us on May 20, 2025, in Mountain View, CA, or stream online, as we honor the pioneers shaping the future. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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PRESS RELEASE: www.seti.org/press-releas... The SETI Institute and the Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO) will collaborate on astronomy research, space science education, and public outreach. This initiative, established through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)... 🧪 🔭

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Next #SETILive: Is Intelligent Life Easy? TODAY, Thursday, Apr 24, 11:00 AM PDT Join @allplanets.bsky.social in an in-depth discussion with Dr. Dan Mills about why intelligent life may be common and how this could affect our search for life beyond Earth. 🧪 WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/hEQJfyW...

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Doppelgängers³ London-based artist, educator and agitator Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian enlists two doppelgangers to help her on this analog space mission to design a new future that is feminist, queer, and free of all the unwanted -isms. www.sxswlondon.com/film-and-tv/...

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PRESS RELEASE: www.seti.org/press-releas... The SETI Institute will recognize Dr. Joseph Twicken, Senior Data Scientist at the SETI Institute, with its 2025 Carl Sagan Center (CSC) Director’s Award. 🧪 🔭

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#PPOD: An image from NASA's Lucy mission flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson reveals an elongated contact binary shape, characterized by a narrow neck between the two lobes. This is one of the most detailed images returned by the spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab 🧪 🔭

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Reminder that we are participating in Massachusetts Space Week this week! Tomorrow, we have a meet-the-scientist talk with Dr. Simon Steel on astrobiology and what it is. Then later in the day, Dr. Steel will be hosting a table at the career fair. Stop by!

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Is there really life on planet K2-18b? We can’t rule it out, but some key questions must be answered | Nathalie Cabrol 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 A new study of a sphere orbiting a red dwarf star 124 light years from Earth is raising hopes. Here’s why the evidence is inconclusive: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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PRESS RELEASE The SETI Institute announced it will expand its pilot program funded through a grant from the Amateur Radio and Digital Communication (ARDC) Foundation, now called ARISE Lab (arise.seti.org). 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 🧑‍🎓 📡

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#PPOD: This newly reprocessed image, released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, it’s just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula, also called Messier 16. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll 🧪 🔭

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In episode 10 of The Climate Chronicles, @dagomardegroot.bsky.social unpacks concepts such as radiocarbon dating and climate vulnerability to explore the ingenious and diverse ways in which our ancestors coped with the Pleistocene’s final climate changes. 🧪 🔈 Listen here: buff.ly/C9KFja8

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In or near Rohnert Park, CA, this afternoon? Come listen to Dr Mary Barsony from the SETI Institute give a talk entitled "Two Eyes are Better than One: JWST and ALMA Look at Star Formation" at Sonoma State University, Darwin Hall, Room 103, today, 21 April, at 4 pm Pacific. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 buff.ly/WFPyXhE

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Our battle against the rise of the machines has a deep history. During the Industrial Revolution, the original Luddites resisted automation. What can they teach us about keeping humans in the loop in the age of AI? It’s “Tech In Check” on @BiPiSci.bsky.social 🧪 🔈 Listen here: buff.ly/2Y7wbtG

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#PPOD: A dynamic storm at the southern edge of Jupiter’s northern polar region dominates this Jovian cloudscape, courtesy of NASA’s Juno spacecraft. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran

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Documentation of my representing the @setiinstitute.bsky.social at the @minicon-mnstf.bsky.social science fiction convention.

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Massachusetts Space Week starts on Sunday! CEO Bill Diamond and Dr. Simon Steel will be joining the activities. Check their full schedule of events for more information: spaceconsortium.org/space-week-s... 🧪 🔭

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GRCon25 Call for Participation is open! Please submit your abstracts for presentations, papers, workshops - all the information available at gnuradio.org/grcon25

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A new study by Madhusudhan et al., published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, reports a possible detection of gases—dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS)—in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b. Illustration credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) 🧪

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Looking for some science this weekend? Check out our events in Flagstaff, Arizona, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Palo Alto, California! See our events page for more info: www.seti.org/talks 🧪 🔭

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www.seti.org/how-ancient-... A new hypothesis from SETI Institute scientist Dr. Janice Bishop and Dr. Melissa Lane from Fibernetics could explain how early Mars may have had water on its surface, similar to Earth, even though today its atmosphere is too thin to support liquid water. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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#PPOD: Portrait of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in natural color. This image was taken with the OSIRIS NAC camera on ESA's Rosetta mission on 5 August 2014 from a range of 123 kilometers. Credit: ESA / MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA / Daniel Macháček 🧪 🔭

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Next #SETILive: Unistellar + Citizen Science Q&A (Part 6) TODAY, Apr 17, 11:00 AM PDT Join @allplanets.bsky.social and Dr. Lauren Sgro for a conversation on #citizenscience with the @unistellar.bsky.social network in partnership with the SETI Institute. WATCH LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvgN...

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