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Hubble Space Telescope's images turned into 3D scenes are stunningly beautiful.
From BBC Horizon's "Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed".
From BBC Horizon's "Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed".
October 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hubble Space Telescope's images turned into 3D scenes are stunningly beautiful.
From BBC Horizon's "Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed".
From BBC Horizon's "Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed".
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Nobel Physics Prize awarded for quantum advances with real-world impact on.ft.com/4qd9uZc
Nobel Physics Prize awarded for quantum advances with real-world impact
Three US-based scientists honoured for research that lays groundwork for new generation of powerful computers
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October 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Nobel Physics Prize awarded for quantum advances with real-world impact on.ft.com/4qd9uZc
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The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842, by Ippolito Caffi (1842)
September 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842, by Ippolito Caffi (1842)
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Very exciting results from observations made with JWST!
Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
www.bbc.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Very exciting results from observations made with JWST!
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Cool rock found by the Perseverance rover on Mars!
Origins Uncertain: ‘Skull Hill’ Rock - NASA Science
Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. Student at Purdue University
science.nasa.gov
April 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Cool rock found by the Perseverance rover on Mars!
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Wow ! Curiosity rover has found compelling evidence of an ancient carbon cycle on Mars—similar to Earth’s, but incomplete. This may change how we think about Mars’ climate history. #Mars #PlanetaryScience
April 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Wow ! Curiosity rover has found compelling evidence of an ancient carbon cycle on Mars—similar to Earth’s, but incomplete. This may change how we think about Mars’ climate history. #Mars #PlanetaryScience
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Technological capabilities, national priorities, and budget constraints have aligned to make low-cost Mars exploration a major focus of the coming years.
Ingenuity showed a way to be bold without breaking the bank.
Please read my new OpEd in Space News for more!
spacenews.com/where-no-rov...
Ingenuity showed a way to be bold without breaking the bank.
Please read my new OpEd in Space News for more!
spacenews.com/where-no-rov...
Where no rover has gone before: how Mars helicopters enable a new era of exploration
One of NASA’s greatest successes of the 21st century thus far came in a very unexpected form: a four-pound helicopter called Ingenuity. Ingenuity created a new Wright Brothers moment when it flew t…
spacenews.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Technological capabilities, national priorities, and budget constraints have aligned to make low-cost Mars exploration a major focus of the coming years.
Ingenuity showed a way to be bold without breaking the bank.
Please read my new OpEd in Space News for more!
spacenews.com/where-no-rov...
Ingenuity showed a way to be bold without breaking the bank.
Please read my new OpEd in Space News for more!
spacenews.com/where-no-rov...
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Today it's another new podcast episode on Descartes! How he fashioned a “method” to repel even the strongest and most radical forms of doubt, with the cogito argument as its foundation.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-sk...
#philsky #cogito #descartes
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-sk...
#philsky #cogito #descartes
April 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today it's another new podcast episode on Descartes! How he fashioned a “method” to repel even the strongest and most radical forms of doubt, with the cogito argument as its foundation.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-sk...
#philsky #cogito #descartes
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-sk...
#philsky #cogito #descartes
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning view of Arp 107, two colliding galaxies forming a cosmic "smile." Webb’s detailed imaging reveals star-forming regions, a supermassive black hole, and the complex dance of galactic merger.
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
April 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning view of Arp 107, two colliding galaxies forming a cosmic "smile." Webb’s detailed imaging reveals star-forming regions, a supermassive black hole, and the complex dance of galactic merger.
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
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Bloodstone Hill - sol 2799 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jjmWEh
April 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Bloodstone Hill - sol 2799 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jjmWEh
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Hon, Rappaport et al. on “A Disintegrating Rocky Planet with Prominent Comet-like Tails Around a Bright Star” with an orbital period of 1.27 days, this is a fascinating fourth example of this type of object. The eclipses vary from one orbit to another. 🔭🪐 #astrodon
January 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Hon, Rappaport et al. on “A Disintegrating Rocky Planet with Prominent Comet-like Tails Around a Bright Star” with an orbital period of 1.27 days, this is a fascinating fourth example of this type of object. The eclipses vary from one orbit to another. 🔭🪐 #astrodon
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This is fun!
Some folks saw some infrared signatures that were proposed to be Dyson Spheres - giant alien, energy-harvesting megastructures around distant stars.
Well, pre-print using VLBI says it's just extragalactic contamination from a background AGN.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05152
#NeverAliens
Some folks saw some infrared signatures that were proposed to be Dyson Spheres - giant alien, energy-harvesting megastructures around distant stars.
Well, pre-print using VLBI says it's just extragalactic contamination from a background AGN.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05152
#NeverAliens
January 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This is fun!
Some folks saw some infrared signatures that were proposed to be Dyson Spheres - giant alien, energy-harvesting megastructures around distant stars.
Well, pre-print using VLBI says it's just extragalactic contamination from a background AGN.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05152
#NeverAliens
Some folks saw some infrared signatures that were proposed to be Dyson Spheres - giant alien, energy-harvesting megastructures around distant stars.
Well, pre-print using VLBI says it's just extragalactic contamination from a background AGN.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05152
#NeverAliens
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😮 WOW! Check out these images from the ESA/JAXA #BepiColombo spacecraft's sixth and final Mercury flyby before entering orbit around the planet in late 2026!
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
January 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
😮 WOW! Check out these images from the ESA/JAXA #BepiColombo spacecraft's sixth and final Mercury flyby before entering orbit around the planet in late 2026!
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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This video from Sid Vision is a proud submission to the SkyPixel 10th Anniversary Contest and has won the Monthly People's Choice Award, which includes a brand-new Osmo Pocket 3 Creator Combo.
Submit your work here 👉 brnw.ch/21wPhTQ
Submit your work here 👉 brnw.ch/21wPhTQ
December 27, 2024 at 5:37 PM
This video from Sid Vision is a proud submission to the SkyPixel 10th Anniversary Contest and has won the Monthly People's Choice Award, which includes a brand-new Osmo Pocket 3 Creator Combo.
Submit your work here 👉 brnw.ch/21wPhTQ
Submit your work here 👉 brnw.ch/21wPhTQ
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"Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense."
Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907)
#books #mathematics
Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907)
#books #mathematics
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"Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, 1824 - 1907. Scientist, resting on a binnacle and holding a marine azimuth mirror" Carbon print, 19.00 x 14.70 cm
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December 17, 2024 at 10:32 AM
"Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense."
Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907)
#books #mathematics
Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907)
#books #mathematics
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Jan. 1, 2025 will be the centennial of the official announcement, by Edwin Hubble, of measurements that proved that there were other galaxies besides the Milky Way. The full story on my blog bit.ly/galaxies100 Raise a toast to the year of the galaxies!
#astronomy #astroedu #Hubble #astronomyhistory
#astronomy #astroedu #Hubble #astronomyhistory
Celebrating the Centennial of Galaxies January 1 2025
Exactly one hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble's paper announcing the existence of other galaxies was read at an astronomy meeting.
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December 30, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Jan. 1, 2025 will be the centennial of the official announcement, by Edwin Hubble, of measurements that proved that there were other galaxies besides the Milky Way. The full story on my blog bit.ly/galaxies100 Raise a toast to the year of the galaxies!
#astronomy #astroedu #Hubble #astronomyhistory
#astronomy #astroedu #Hubble #astronomyhistory
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