Also note that the UK does not move to Summer Time (Daylight Saving) until 29th March, so the offset between UK and US time is an hour less than normal!

The definition of communicant is in canon 17 sec 2 and communicant in good standing in sec 3.

IIRC (having been through reception a few years back), and having just looked at the c&c “communicant in good standing” doesn’t have to be confirmed – e.g., canon 4 sec 1a “A confirmed adult communicant in good standing, or, in extraordinary circumstances, a communicant in good standing…”

Arglwydd – the original word in the Welsh poem – means “Lord”, and the references to Calvary (Pen Calfario) make it clear that it refers to Jesus.
“Jehovah” is wrong on so many levels…

Astronomers discover galaxy made of 99% dark matter | CNN A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

I'm quoted mis-quoting the Princess Bride in this CNN article on Li et al.'s discovery of a galaxy that appears to be 99% composed of dark matter. #extragalactic
"Mostly dark is slightly bright"
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/s...

Lucifer means bringer of light, so I would think it was the person who carried or lit the candles (it’s also a dangerous early sort of match, prior to modern safety matches, and the planet Venus as the morning star – thus Lucifer in Isaiah 14:12 (KJV) is “morning star” in the NIV and NRSVue)

I chanted the EOW version today. It's good and has got rid of the "ick" of the Rite 1 version. I did the Rite 1 a couple of years ago, the first time I chanted it, and had to change some petitions on the fly, so I've done EOW since then.

These connections influenced when Easter is. Our church calendar is, for better or worse, historically based on the northern hemisphere seasons, so I think it’s fine to draw the links.

Very thin crescent moon to the left of a mountain silhouetted against the evening.

Crescent Moon, with the old Moon visible in the arms of the new. A bright dot just below and to the right of the Moon is the planet Mercury.

A man with an ash cross on his forehead.

Moon, Mercury, M-Mountain and … ashes?
Not entirely a coincidence – Easter is always the Sunday after a full Moon, so Ash Wednesday is always within a few days of the new Moon. Mercury was just a random interloper though!
#AshWednesday #Conjunction ⚓️

Pancake on a plate with a sliced lemon Ona smash plate and a sugar bowl

If life gives you lemons (and sugar, flour, milk and eggs) make sugar and lemon pancakes!
#ShoveTuesday #PancakeDay ⚓️

Looks like it needs to be just #Extragalactic. Go to the original post to read the thread describing the results

We did not find any evidence for dark galaxies or the pressure-supported turbulent spheres proposed to explain these sources.

From the VLA observations: The ones that were compact (so long lived) turned out to have optical counterparts;
the others look to be short-lived, transient clouds probably formed by ram-pressure stripping or tidal interactions, and we remeasured them as having narrower velocity widths.

Long story short: we looked with the VLA at six “dark” neutral hydrogen clouds (ones without identified optical counterparts) we’d previously found with Arecibo in the Virgo cluster. While clouds in Virgo aren’t new, these particular clouds had high velocity widths, making them rare in simulations.

High resolution observations of 'dark' neutral hydrogen clouds in the Virgo cluster with the Very Large Array We have observed six `dark' neutral hydrogen (HI) clouds discovered in the Virgo cluster by the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), giving higher a...

Paper day! No, you’re not seeing double, it’s a second paper this month! This one is:
“High resolution observations of 'dark' neutral hydrogen clouds in the Virgo cluster with the Very Large Array” (Minchin et al. 2026, ApJ, accepted) #RadioAstronomy #ExtragalacticAstronomy

arxiv.org/abs/2601.19011

Church with snow on the ground with an Episcopal Church flag and a Progress Pride Flag in front and a notice board saying “Epiphany”

Church in the snow this morning in Socorro. ⚓️

This Is One of the Most Unique Road Trips in the U.S.—With 52 Sites Dedicated to Space, Stargazing, and UFOs New Mexico really can be out of this world.

The New Mexico Space Trail—a roadtrip of 52 historic sites related to space—includes the NSF #VeryLargeArray! 📡🌌

via AOL

#Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #NewMexico

That should be #Extragalactic.

Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in clusters : the peculiar gas loss of VCC 1964 Context : Ultra Diffuse Galaxies are low surface brightness systems which have been detected in HI in the field, where their line widths sometimes indicate significant dark matter deficits. They are r...

Paper day!
“Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in clusters : the peculiar gas loss of VCC 1964”, Taylor, Partík & Minchin (2026), A&A, accepted.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.05948
(Actually came out on Monday, but I was down with a post-#AAS247 cold)
#Extragalctic #Radioastronomy

Marian blue for the Magnificat?

TEC certainly receives as priests people who have resigned their ministry in the RC church (I would assume this also applies to other churches with the historic episcopate), so I would say no.

Radio telescopes uncover “invisible” gas around record-shattering cosmic explosion - National Radio Astronomy Observatory Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array and ALMA have uncovered dense, “invisible” gas surrounding AT2024wpp—the brightest known fast blue optical transient—revealing that a massive star was torn a...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory: Radio Telescopes Uncover “Invisible” Gas Around Record-Shattering Cosmic Explosion public.nrao.edu/news/radio-t... #AAS247

Award being handed to Maura

Maura speaking with slides on a large screen to the left

Maura McLaughlin’s plenary talk on low frequency gravitational wave astronomy (ie, pulsar timing arrays) getting under way at #AAS247, preceded by the award of the 2025 Bruno Rossi Award to Maura and Xavi Siemens for NANOGrav

If you didn’t manage to catch me at the poster, you can see it online at aas247-aas.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx...

Man in front of a TV screen showing a poster

I’m by my poster on the nuclear outburst in NGC 660, at terminal 110 in the #AAS247 exhibit hall.

Notice pinned to board, giving the information given in the post

Christian Astronomers dinner at #AAS247. Meet at the notice board at 18:30–18:45 or 19:00 at Majerle’s sports bar (2nd and Washington), in a back room.

Graph on a slide, showing how much better ngVLA will be than the current VLA or the SKA1 for this work

Slide off conclusions ending with: “A next generation Very Large Array promises a major step forward in all of these areas. “This work is possible because of the U.S. national radio facilities. Thank you to the NRAO, ALMA, and NSF staff who make them work!”

Plenary ends with what ngVLA will add in terms of extending this work and a shout-out to the @thenrao.bsky.social, @almaobservatory.bsky.social and NSF
staff.

I used to call it the “countdown galaxy” when we were looking at it with SOFIA. We made some nice [CII] maps of it (and many of the other nearby galaxies Adam showed).

Speaker on stage to the right with a slide on a large screen to the left

Adam Leroy’s plenary talk on PHANGS and the VLA Local Group L-band Survey getting underway at #AAS247.

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-p...