I despise this idiotic, sanitized ritual, and yet I am unwilling to return home eggless. The joy of discovery rings hollow against the monumental indifference of the universe. What, other than regret can hatch from this empty chocolate vessel.
'Hunting for Easter eggs with Werner Herzog'
a cartoon by Tom Gauld
The same is true in Node 3 of the ISS home to both the ARED exercise device and the Waste Hygiene Compartment though they are not quite so cramped.
Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Some rather gnarly looking rocks near the Mars Perseverance Rover, imaged yestersol (Sol 1799) using MastCam-Z.
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Multiple inages taken by Perseverance's WATSON camera stitched together by Stuart Atkinson to make a single "selfie" image
LOOK! Images to make a brand new Perseverance selfie just arrived! Here it is... love this view! Look how proud she looks! Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson
Any story on space mirrors should include this marvelous Life magazine article from 1945...
"The German Space Mirror - NAZI men of science seriously planned to use a man-made satellite as a weapon for conquest"
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#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover
March 11, 2026 Sol 1797: #WATSON Camera
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Auto-portrait du rover Perseverance à contre-jour acquis le 11 mars 2026 (sol 1797) à 10h30 heure locale martienne. Le rover se situe à proximité d'un ensemble de rochers de couleur gris-bleuté. Le sol est de couleur ocre et le ciel beige pâle. Au loin s'élèvent des collines. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Thomas Appéré
🤳 Selfie de Perseverance réalisé ce matin sur Mars alors qu'il analyse des rochers très intéressants situés non loin de "Lac de Charme".
📷 Cette photo est une mosaïque de 42 images individuelles.
🔎 En plus haute définition ici www.flickr.com/photos/thoma...
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Advocacy exceeded reasonable bounds and placed the mission, the crew, and America’s space program at risk. Disagreement over crew return options deteriorated into unprofessional conduct while the crew remained on-orbit,” NASA's Jared Isaacman will say.
Wow.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Today, NASA will release an investigative report on the 2024 botched crew test flight of Boeing's Starliner, where the agency will declare the mission to be a Type A mishap -- the most severe category it can assign www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
THX 1138 (1971)
@astrokatie.com I'm not sure if this is good news or bad news for an author but I noticed that your book is on sale on Amazon today.
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![THE APPLE COMPUTER COMPANY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
JOBS, Steve (1955-2011), WOZNIAK, Steve (b.1950), and WAYNE, Ronald (b.1934). Typed document signed (“Stephen G. Wozniak”, “steven p jobs” and “Ronald Wayne”), [Mountain View, California] 1 April 1976. Three pages, letter-sized paper. Estimate
USD 2,000,000 – USD 4,000,000](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7jw3bp36ss5mhtsjp5gxd4up/bafkreifuhogzx7y3bst2a2nrzpk7rj7cbuw5lij3fv6rvn2u7tbvn6hdvm)
THE APPLE COMPUTER COMPANY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT JOBS, Steve (1955-2011), WOZNIAK, Steve (b.1950), and WAYNE, Ronald (b.1934). Typed document signed (“Stephen G. Wozniak”, “steven p jobs” and “Ronald Wayne”), [Mountain View, California] 1 April 1976. Three pages, letter-sized paper. Estimate USD 2,000,000 – USD 4,000,000
An historic document up for auction at Christie's - the original partnership agreement founding Apple Computer signed in April 1976 by Jobs, Wozniak, and Ron Wayne. Wayne later sold back his 10% share for $800 which in hindsight was a really bad decision.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
Sometimes you stumble over to a packed breakout session at your big annual academic conference and learn that some billionaires have decided to build not one, but FOUR, complementary new telescope facilities, and build them fast
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
The Samuel Beckett Advent calendar by @tomgauld
(This accurately reflects my feelings about the holiday season.)
"Another time lapse of the solar particle event last month. I accidentally captured parts of the window frame but I think it adds to the ISS feel. Nikon Z9 | 14mm | Nov 12, 2025."
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Wow, this is not an alien planet in a science fiction movie. Earth seen in a timelapse taken by astronaut Jonny Kim from the ISS....
Trey Anastasio at the Beacon Theatre live...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSi8...
Recap, Setlist & Full Show Video: Trey Anastasio (@trey.com) was joined on Friday by the rest of TAB, the Rescue Squad strings + Jeff Tanski for the first of three shows celebrating the 5th anniversary of the #BeaconJams
Read @rystorm.bsky.social's report ...
This deep image shows the famous Trifid nebula in Sagittarius, also known as Messier 20 or NGC 6514: www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Nebula... The complex cloud displays an unusual combination of both red emission and blue reflection areas as well as numerous intricate dark patterns. The nebula is located 9000 light years away in the direction towards the galactic centre. The entire area is sprinkled with thousands of stars and fainter dusty and nebulous areas throughout. A separate prominent dark cloud appears dramatically silhouetted against the starry background to the right. A curious example of gas evaporation can bee seen near the core of the Trifid itself. Here a dense stalk, 8 light years from the centre, is emerging from the edge of the bubble surrounding the central cluster, and in the other direction a powerful stellar jet from a young star, HH 399 embedded in the gas, is shooting out in an upwards direction. The bright young stars in the central cluster emit strong radiation which eats away the surrounding gas and dust. The stalk only appears because a denser region lies at its very tip and protects a thin strip of the cloud from this interstellar erosion. The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged this fascinating area in high resolution. Also, the proper motion of the irradiated plasma in this jet has been measured and a paper has been published detailing these findings. Also, throughout the nebula lies countless young T Tauri stars just h...
Messier 20: A Deep Look at The Trifid Nebula and Surrounds - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2ky4FU3
"Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood" 1976
Photo by Chris O’Dell/National Portrait Gallery, London
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David Hockney's "Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy" 1968, sold for $44,335,000 in the 20th Century Evening Sale last night at Christie’s in New York. His first double portrait is 'a masterpiece of pictorial drama.'
www.christies.com/en/stories/d...
This view perfectly captures the comet's two tails—one of dust and ice particles, and another of ionised gas.
The particulate tail shows remarkable flow structures that reflect how the comet's nucleus is coming apart with decreased solar distance. The ion tail points directly away from the Sun.
Holy shit look at this
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), photographed by Chuck Ayoub on 30 October 2025.
The comet made its closest approach to Earth (90 million km) on October 2025.
Source: Chuck's Astrophotography (@chucksastropho1 on Twitter), h/t @p-s-v.bsky.social
A flight in a 737 Max 8 full-motion simulator with SkyCommand is today's livestream...
www.twitch.tv/skycommand
