I would say that about every 2nd (more?) NASA employee has access to "secret information", which includes most of aerospace high-tech, detectors, etc. Which hence isn't a good discriminant.

Mosaic of gravitational lense images, found in early data of the Euclid mission.

Space Warps is back! Do you want to join forces with #Euclid Consortium scientists and discover gravitational lenses that no human has ever seen before?

#astronomy #science #GravitationalLenses #ESA #space #CitizenScience #ESAEuclid #Zooniverse

A recommended read by Hiranya Peiris:

"[we] had a quality problem long before LLMs...publish or perish, citation metrics as proxy for impact, volume as proxy for productivity... have been producing incremental, poorly checked, & sometimes wrong papers for decades"🧪🔭⚛️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An astronomical image featuring the backdrop of the dark night sky with a faint grey-blue speckle at the centre. The nebulous cloud has the shape of a four-leaf flower. Four orange laser beams are pointing to it.

This isn't a scene from #StarWars.

What you're looking at is the Tarantula Nebula. While those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes that comprise our VLTI.

But why are we sending lasers into the sky? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2616a/

🔭 🧪
📷 A. Berdeu/ESO

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Of course they should have half-time shows. 30min long with flags and monster trucks and kid rock medleys. People need to get something on return for their 2000$ tickets.

Well, there are places in the world, mostly outside the US, that are different. So it's possible. And to provide good public transit a choice that a community can make.

US suburbs are a problem, though. Too sparsely populated.

I did. We chose a place that permitted using bikes and public transit.

Well, the current US gov is basically practicing the Two-Santa-Strategy on steroids. Leave behind only a wasteland and debt, then let someone else clean up and then take over again.

Nothing fundamentally new, only taken to extremes.

Demand change.

They spent a decade forging ICE emission tests and fighting regulations. That's where their "investment" went to. They didn't even start properly when it was clear that EVs would dominate. Then they focused on the "premium segment". This has nothing to do with investment and all with bad management.

Absolutely, I was trying to make the point that Toyota is offering a upper-class EV for $27k while VW rejects even building an entry-level EV for under 20k€. Which is why also Germans buy from other manufacturers.

Yep. I don't have a car. Never did. But we have 13 bikes in our garage and public transport passes.

It would. But it doesn't exist, even though VW was urged many years back to offer a <20k€ EV or else they might see China win. They ignored that.

Just today the GER gov tried to ram through a law allowing EV subsidies, even if you buy a 200k€ Porsche. Ridiculous.

In Germany Volkswagen announced that they might have an entry-level EV starting at 25k€ maybe in 2027.

Not the same thing.

Yes, very. And it's the 2nd version, where the first was already bad, then got retracted. They doubled down. Gah!

AI-Assisted Spectral Decomposition of Euclid Q1 Gravitational Lenses: Extended-Coverage NISP Extraction with Vision-Language Model Quality Control Spectroscopic redshift determination from R ~ 450 slitless grism data is vulnerable to line-identification degeneracy when only a small number of features are detected. This paper presents a custom ex...

Just FYI, nothing in this arXiv submission is real or true. This is completely misunderstanding the NISP instrument onboard #Euclid and then creating AI slop "results" based on that.

arxiv.org/abs/2604.02726

How is that working for you today?

But on a more serious note, we have mid 2026, such a rendevous taking place in 27 and a landing in 28 is complete unrealistic. This is a purely political schedule.

Nono, next year is when Starship lands on Mars.

Maybe @mpoessel.de?

I prefer the balloon, at least for "all objects move away from all other objects", closing with "and now you only need to think this in 3 dimensions moving into a fourth, but don't worry, no astronomer can do this either".

Warum diese Katjes-Kampagne für Aufregung sorgt - und die Empörung schwachsinnig ist In der neuen Katjes-Veggie-Kampagne ist eine Frau mit Hidschab zu sehen. Genug Grund für einige Twitter-Pöbler sich so richtig auszulassen.

Alle paar Jahre wieder aufgegossen. Das hier war vor 8 Jahren:

www.stern.de/neon/wilde-w...

Lohnfortzahlung bei Krankheit: Bundesregierung prüft Einschnitte Die Bundesregierung hat am Wochenende nach Wegen gesucht, die ausufernden Kosten im Gesundheitswesen in den Griff zu bekommen. Diskutiert werden einschneidende Maßnahmen für die Versicherten.

Wisst ihr noch, wie SPD mit "Respekt für dich" geworben hat? Nun, wir, die 99% sind nicht gemeint gewesen.

I'm going to call it.

On top of capturing the far side of the Moon, Earthshine on the far side, the solar corona (maybe some zodiacal light), Saturn, Mars and Mercury... this #artemis2 photo includes Neptune!!

Just out of frame on the left were Venus and Earth.

I mean, mind-blowing!

🧪🔭🚀🌙👩‍🚀

Parteivorsitzender bei Sonstige?

Yeah, same here. If our battery would finally be working again then the amount of network electricity would be zero.

Currently it seems to be "crewed" throughout.

More interesting than the communication loss behind the Moon I'll find the solar eclipse they will encounter, which means no photovoltaic power. They'll need to use their batteries.

And the loss of both toilet and Outlook.

#Artemis2

How wide is the beam at a few AU distance? It probably depends on the focussing optics, right?

It was not.