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Reymond Aguinaldo

@mondinspace.bsky.social

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Space, science and wonder. Personal account. Views and opinions my own. Socials: @mondinspace

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Reymond Aguinaldo @mondinspace.bsky.social · Jul 13

The #PaleBlueDot captures the fragility and beauty of our planet. Taken from billions of miles away, it shows #Earth as a tiny speck of light, suspended in the vast expanse of space. It is a humbling reminder of our place in the universe, and a call to cherish and protect our home.

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Mario Livio @mariolivio.bsky.social · 1h

A close-up ESO view of the interacting galaxies NGC 5090 (right) and NGC 5091 (left).

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Reymond Aguinaldo @mondinspace.bsky.social · 1h

What??? 🥰 These are so cool! Kid me would've been ecstatic to have a little tub of dinos! Not a paleontologist, but good luck identifying the rest!

Abbabadook 🎃 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 1h

Triceratops! (or as the toddler calls it, "tri-head-top")

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Reymond Aguinaldo @mondinspace.bsky.social · 2h

That tray is a Kantian imperative for bad grades: act only according to a maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that your education be powered by flaky disappointment and a puddle of regret.

The P value of passing is currently ≤ 0.05.

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 2h

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Mario Livio @mariolivio.bsky.social · 2h

On THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, at 6:30PM ET, I will be giving a virtual (via Zoom) talk at the Smithsonian Associates
on: "The World According to the James Webb Space Telescope": smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...

The World According to the James Webb Space Telescope

Launched in 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is a large, space-based observatory optimized for infrared light and designed to complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Tel...

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James Webb 🔴 Gallery @webb-telescope.bsky.social · 4h

ESA/Webb (@esa.int) images (Feb 28, 2025)

Explore NGC 2283, a barred spiral galaxy, revealing vibrant star formation and the remnants of supernova SN 2023AXU captured by #JamesWebb.

esawebb.org/images/potm2502a/

A close-up view of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2283, filled with colorful clouds of gas and dust, showcasing bright star clusters and a few prominent stars in the foreground. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 4h

No humans were harmed in the making of this story.

www.iflscience.com/could-a-carn...

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 3h

Can You Solve These Ten Medieval Mathematical Riddles? www.medievalists.net/2025/10/can-...

Can You Solve These Ten Medieval Mathematical Riddles? - Medievalists.net

Explore ten medieval math riddles written by Alcuin of York, the great scholar of Charlemagne’s court. These clever puzzles from the early Middle Ages reveal how medieval students learned logic, numbe...

www.medievalists.net

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Reymond Aguinaldo @mondinspace.bsky.social · 2h

Your argument commits the fallacy of the necessary condition. The butter, while desired, is not sufficient. Lobster provides the umami-rich protein matrix and textural contrast that elevates the lipid delivery from mere consumption to a hedonic experience.

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 3h

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 3h

SETI Paper Responds To Claims Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Might Be An Alien Spacecraft

www.iflscience.com/seti-paper-r...

SETI Paper Responds To Claims Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Might Be An Alien Spacecraft

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb currently says there is a 30-40 percent chance the object is not natural in origin.

www.iflscience.com

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 3h

One Planet, Two Rovers

1. Perseverance Supercam RMI - Sol 1650
2. Curiosity Chemcam RMI - Sol 4693

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP; NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL 🧪 #Mars #PlanetSci

A Martian rock with a smooth and shiny texture captured by the Perseverance rover with its the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager. October 11, 2025.

A Martian rock with a bright texture and other darker rocks, captured by the Curiosity rover with its the ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager. October 8, 2025.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 2h

Hubble image of Arp 202, also known as NGC 2719 and NGC 2719A.

This edge-on disk galaxy and smaller irregularly shaped galaxy had a recent interaction which likely severely perturbed both galaxies.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton, Meli thev, Wikimedia Commons
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A greyscale image of two galaxies. At the center of the frame is a disk galaxy seen edge-on. It is brightest at the center, but many bright star clusters dot the galaxy above and below the plane of the disk. Above and to the right is a second smaller galaxy that is roughly circular. On the outside of the circle is an irregular ring of star clusters. A line of stars and gas is just barely visible trailing from the point the two galaxies meet to the upper left corner of the frame. The image has a noticeable amount of detector noise which has not been removed.

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The Traveler | Galaxy Pixels @ekvitki.bsky.social · 4h

#pixelart #space #purple

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 1d

This is not static noise 📺

It's a gel forming in space. The white & black speckles are anything but random. Understanding its behaviour in orbit has great potential for longer-lasting medicines, paint and cleaning products on Earth.

More on @esa.int's Colloidal Solids: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Week in wildlife: a bumpy snailfish, a slow loris and a whistle pig

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Bothwell @mattbothwell.com · 1d

I'm delighted that my first children's book, Astrophysics for Supervillains, is featured in BookTrust’s Great Books Guide 2025, chosen as one of their top recommended children’s books of the year 😀🔭

www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

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James Webb 🔴 Gallery @webb-telescope.bsky.social · 2d

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Apr 3, 2024)

M82, a starburst galaxy 12 million light-years away, shows its vibrant center in detail with #JamesWebb's #NIRCam.

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An image of the starburst galaxy M82 taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam, showing its center with detailed star formation. Credit: NASA; ESA; CSA; STScI; Alberto Bolatto (UMD)

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 2d

Venus - Akatsuki - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/DUVb6V

Venus as seen by Japan's Akatsuki space probe on April 25, 2016. At the time this photo was taken, Akatsuki was located approximately 50,000 km above the Venusian cloud tops.

This image was assembled using near-UV and near-IR photos to create a pseudo-true color view. My procedure for creating this image exaggerates the coloration and detail visible in the clouds, which show very little detail in the visible portion of the spectrum.

Image Credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Justin Cowart

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 2d

To properly reach the Jupiter system in July 2031, #ESAJuice relies on ephemerides - predicted positions of celestial objects at specific times.

Mid October, you have a chance to help improve those ephemerides.

@obs-paris-psl.bsky.social has details lte.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/Une-occultat...

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IOP Publishing @ioppublishing.bsky.social · 4d

#OnThisDate Niels Bohr was born! This Danish theoretical physicist received the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his foundational contributions to understanding #quantumtheory. Celebrate by exploring one of his lesser-known papers, which had a massive impact on #quantummechanics: https://ow.ly/xCbW50X5S5z

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Nature @nature.com · 4d

John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics

go.nature.com/4gVswyS

Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics

In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

go.nature.com

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Nature @nature.com · 4d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 4d

The 2025 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work on superconducting quantum chips, which has helped inform the creation of today's quantum computers www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

Nobel prize for physics goes to trio behind quantum computing chips

The 2025 Nobel prize in physics has gone to three researchers, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, whose work has lead to the development of today's quantum computers.

www.newscientist.com

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 4d

The 2025 Nobel prize in physics has gone to three researchers, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, whose work has led to the development of today's quantum computers.

Nobel prize for physics goes to trio behind quantum computing chips

www.newscientist.com

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 4d

Quantum mechanics of a macroscopic variable, published by today’s laureates in @science.org in 1988. In addition to the science, it’s remarkably lucid writing

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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ARE MACROSCOPIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM GOVERNED BY quantum mechanics? Our everyday experience tells us that a classical description appears to be entirely adequate. The trajectory of the center of mass of a billiard ball is predicted wonderfully well by classical mechanics. Even the Brownian motion
of a tiny speck of dust in a drop of water is a purely classical phenomenon. Until recently, quantum mechanics manifested itself at the macroscopic level only through such collective phenomena as
superconductivity, flux quantization, or the Josephson effect. However, these "macroscopic" effects actually arise from the coherent superposition of a large number of microscopic variables each
governed by quantum mechanics. Thus, for example, the current through a Josephson tunnel junction and the phase difference across it are normally treated as classical variables.

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 4d

www.science.org/content/arti...

Physics Nobel awarded for macro demonstration of quantum effects

John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis honored for work on quantum mechanical tunnelling

www.science.org

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