Things showing up while organizing assorted Dropboix directories: from a UK visit in 2008, hiking up to the Whte Horse (you know, in White Horse Vale). I get asked for directions a lot, but these all lined up even when I did not have a lab coat or clipboard.
So cool. Some features are moving outward at good fractions of c, some are not (standing shocks??)
Ah. That kind of week. We just got the answer to "will the garbage and recycling pickup crews try a second time if their route was blocked by a SWAT team serving a warrant four doors down?" (Thanks, city employees!)
To blockly go...
Just when anonymous comments on FB have me thinking social media are on life support, quality content like this is a ray of hope.
Reasons to continue Hubble operations in the era of JWST, Rubin, Roman... one of the white papers from the community. arxiv.org/abs/2410.011...
💫 The June 2026 edition of The Evening Sky Map (PDF) is now available for download at skymaps.com/tesm/. The PDF features easy-to-use sky maps for the northern & southern hemispheres and equatorial regions. Please share and enjoy exploring the Universe! 🔭
#stargazing #space #starmap
Help scientists find clumps of star-forming regions in galaxies with the @galaxyzoo.org project Clump Scout II on @zooniverse.bsky.social!
1/3 🔭 🧪 #CitizenScience
Would you like to rummage data from the Euclid space telescope, and uncover cosmic nurseries where stars like our Sun are born? We're delighted to announce our new @ec-euclid.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.social citizen science project, Galaxy Zoo Clump Scout 2 🧪🔭 www.zooniverse.org/projects/hug...
Today, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope leaves NASA Goddard for the Port of Baltimore to begin its journey to the Kennedy Space Center.
This August, Roman will launch into space, broadening our understanding of our solar system & universe.
Excited to see it on the move!
We present compelling arguments -- focusing on galaxy science -- for preserving the main imagers and operational modes of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for as long as is technically feasible, to as...