Thanks for your awesome coverage Tony!

NASA's next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed The path to exploring the high-energy Universe was clear and compelling. Here's how 2025's cuts are still causing NASA casualties in 2026.

NASA’s next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed

Did you think that the cuts to NASA made in 2025 had all been reversed, and everything is now fine?

Think again.

NASA's AXIS mission, on account of that 2025 bloodbath, is now dead.
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#space #astro #NASA #AXIS #Xray

why don’t we throw shoes anymore

Some SMD Activities Paused Pending OMB Guidance the following memo "Guidance to Limit Commitments in Advance of SMD Apportionment" was sent out yesterday to NASA center CFOs

Russ Vought's attacks on NASA earth science continue

thanks for covering this!!

Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe No stars were seen in it, showing it really is a relic of the dawn of the cosmos

Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young.

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it’s incredibly important to note that on the new footage that came out from the ICE agent himself, halfway through the video he switches his phone between his hands, opening up to grab his gun way before renee good even starts driving

The new Congressional NASA budget does look way better, but we need to acknowledge that even if NASA "gets its budget back," it will not undo the massive amount of damage done across the country. It won't bring back the many scientists and engineers who've lost their jobs and had to move on!

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We actually didn’t name it! It was the ninth gas cloud discovered by Chinese astronomers around the galaxy Messier 94, so pretty much just a coincidence.

I mean, fair point! But I don’t really think the name matters at the end of the day.

I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States! I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately. It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.

there is a dark matter halo with neutral hydrogen gas, but not massive enough to collapse and form stars. And no dust, because you need stars to make dust.

man this sucks

Astronomers are on "Cloud 9" with a new, starless gas cloud Astronomers have found starless gas clouds before, but Cloud 9 might be the most pristine one of all, with big lessons for cosmic history.

Astronomers are on “Cloud 9” with a new, starless gas cloud

Just 16 million light-years away is a massive cloud of gas, weighing in at around 1.4 million solar masses.

And yet, there are no stars inside at all. Here's what that means.
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#space #stars #astronomy #astro

This is an awesome write up, thank you!

NASA's Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object - NASA Science A team using Hubble uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud, a remnant of early galaxy formation.

Really proud of this work from our small team on the discovery of the first starless galaxy

#astrosci 🔭🧪

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I see 6x10^5 in McQuinn+15 (which is where we pulled from), though McQuinn+24 has it at about half that now!

we get into that possibility in the discussion section of the paper, but such a configuration would be really short lived (~10 million years) compared to the age of the universe, so we think it’s pretty unlikely.

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)

the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.

It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.

Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!

Find them here: reps.fyi

The mistake that the Senate Dems are making is that they think they are playing a game that will be repeated in the future-in which case, the optimal course of action is compromise. But the Trump regime is doing all it can to ensure this is the last cycle under the Constitutional order.

They're tearing Goddard apart for scraps and I'm supposed to write as many proposals as I can to scramble for a fraction of the money NASA has left? Depressing, degrading, and dehumanizing in a time when the future of planetary science can be measured in the number of people it leaves behind.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.

Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA:
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if you are at all interested in the status of the local value of the Hubble constant/tension, I would very much recommend reading this new paper!

the local results are very robust, and point to a sizable and significant tension with measurements inferred from data from the early Universe

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This is Figure 1 of the paper, a conceptual overview of the Local Distance Network, a many routes approach, featuring what looks like a metro map with routes converging on H0.

#Cosmology

The Local Distance Network: a community consensus report on the measurement of the Hubble constant at 1% precision

The baseline result is H0=73.50+/-0.81 km/s/Mpc.

by the H0DN Collaboration: Stefano Casertano, et al (incl. @styrofoamplates.bsky.social)
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23823 🧪

can’t even make this shit up anymore

someone get the FBI to investigate OKC this shit is unwatchable