Taking in the masterwork. What a privilege to see Earth like this.
From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition.
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@quantabooks.org just released their first book, on the story of Lean by @kevinhartnett.bsky.social. It's a great story, about a pretty significant part of what's happening in math right now.
www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr...
NASA announced the 4 #astronauts for the #Artemis3 mission: Andre Douglas, making his 1st space flight; Frank Rubio, who spent 371 consecutive days in space; Luca Parmitano, an Italian and ESA astronaut; and Randy Bresnik, on his 3rd space flight. #astronomy 🧑🚀🚀
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📸 NASA/ B. Stafford.
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What’s it like to be a telescope working the night shift? This time-lapse movie documents several hours of observations during the propagation of the laser beam of the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System at Gemini South in Chile. #astronomy
📹: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Paredes
Some shots from the International Space Station on May 31st and June 1st.
Athens, Greece
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Saline Lake in Namibia
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Brandberg Mountain, Namibia
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Messum Crater, Namibia
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#PPOD: The Flame Nebula image features Chandra’s X-rays (purple) embedded within a dusty-grey landscape seen in infrared by JWST. Several dozen young stars illuminate the gas cloud, appearing as white cores surrounded by thick, neon purple-pink X-ray halos. 🧪 🔭
Nostalgia Content
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NEWS: Gravitational lensing by a galaxy cluster + #NASAWebb = deepest spectrum of a little red dot. Multiple lines (literally) of evidence suggest this dot is a supermassive black hole enveloped by a dense gas cocoon, also known as a black hole star: https://news.stsci.edu/4fpl2Wc
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Suppose you wanted to reinvent the idea of Shannon Entropy for yourself. This puzzle is a good place to start (Full video on YouTube).
