Must be especially rare in a win, when chasing

The Big Bang with Harry Hill, Phil Wang and Professor Chris Lintott YouTube video by HARRY HILL

Full version of my lovely chat with Harry Hill & Phil Wang now up: youtu.be/bcRXarwTR2Q?...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

A print of a whale next to an infographic of a nose and the following text Newfoundland's Coast Blackwood was born and raised in Wesleyville, a coastal community in northeastern Newfoundland. Young Blackwood and his father would load up their boat to fish and catch lobster in the Atlantic Ocean. What is this smell? This composition evokes the scentscape of Newfoundland's coast-a blast of briny, salty, iodine seawater, sea air-cured wooden structures, and a symbolic note of ambergris,* an animalic musk that originates in the belly of Sperm whales, as well as themes depicted in Blackwood's prints like ice floes, whales, and fishing towns. Rounding out the composition is fine seaweed absolute (Fucus vesiculosus, also known as "bladderwrack") and traces of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), the primary chemical that produces the scent of the sea released naturally by phytoplankton. *The ambergris note is synthetic and does not contain any animol moteriots

Only ‘traces’ of dimethyl sulfide, I note. 🔭

I don’t deserve a bunny YET

(I am still in the meeting Jessie has left)

LIES

I know their astronomers and as you are Friend of Astronomers can connect you if needed.

How lovely.

Presumably one could find a flavourful contrast agent

Cubic Space Division (Cube Space Filling) | The Art Institute of Chicago Maurits Cornelis Escher, 1952

It's not a demo, but the best I've got is imagining living on a cube in Escher's Cubic Space Division, when the rods between the cubes are expanding. www.artic.edu/artworks/118... I think that intuitively gets across the idea of expansion with no centre, & you can derive Hubble's Law too...

Sonar might detect sufficiently dense raisins?

A lime turned up in my tennis bag the other day.

Send me the response.

Have you seen it? I looked at mine through a telescope and it was an odd feeling.

I saw someone saying one of the astronauts was ‘the furthest anyone has been from their dog’ and am trying not to waste hours working which side of the Earth was where and whether any of the Apollo 13 crew had pets.

I'm sure this sober contribution to the debate will be received in the spirit in which it was meant...

Candy was a leader of the Mars Zoo @zooniverse.bsky.social project, and sometime guest on #SkyAtNight. I hugely admired her leadership in all things, but her advocacy for the importance of getting a camera on Juno. She’ll be much missed. 🔭

Enjoyed this chat with @davidkipping.bsky.social on a bright spring day in Oxford. Maybe you will too? 🔭

Sadly this idea has been vetoed

I do like a potato!

Does anyone have recommendations for a restaurant in #Birmingham that could accommodate a group of 20-30, ideally in a private room. Nice but not fancy (and sadly probably not a balti!). Gastropubs? Budget is probably £75/head.

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Plenty to enjoy here if you’ve been following #ArtemisII cc @telescoper.bsky.social

It always makes me think of an engineer I once interviewed who described his spacecraft’s performance as ‘consistent with being perfect’

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

‘Nominal’ is such a good word.

"The European Service Module has performed flawlessly throughout this flight." Thanks @esa.int ! Here's a webcam view into the control centre in Noordvijk, Netherlands:

#Artemis websites I am watching today:
Main commentated broadcast:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...
Uncommentated feed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rwf...
Flickr photostream:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Telemetry feed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mtZ...
Amateur-produced live timeline:
x37b.nl/artemis/

I’ve always found this fun: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUO...