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Map Room: A Radical Reading List on Cartographic Power, Perspective, and Possibility - Longreads Seven stories celebrating our fascination with maps.

"All that has an undeniable hold on me still, but putting together this list, I found myself drawn to essays from diverse worlds that challenge how we think about maps and mapmaking."

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Expedition to Star Cluster Pismis 24 This scientific visualization takes viewers on a journey to a glittering young star cluster called Pismis 24. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured this fantastical scene in the heart of the Lobster Nebula, approximately 5,500 light-years from Eart...

This scientific visualization takes viewers on a journey to a glittering young star cluster called Pismis 24. #NASAWebb captured this fantastical scene in the heart of the Lobster Nebula, approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth. 🔭 🧪

A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a local star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars. Four roughly circular areas are toward the center of the frame: a small oval toward the top left, a large circle in the top center, and two ovals at bottom left and right. Each circular area has a luminous blue glow, with the top center and bottom left areas the brightest. Brown-orange filaments of dust, which vary in density, surround these four bluish patches and stretch toward the frame’s edges. Small zones, such as to the left and right of the top-center blue circular area, appear darker and seemingly vacant of stars. Toward the center are small, fiery red clumps scattered among the brown dust. Many small, yellow-white stars are spread across the scene, some with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb. A few larger blue-white stars with diffraction spikes are scattered throughout, mostly toward the top left and bottom right.

Hooray for three years of paw-sitively amazing #NASAWebb science! To celebrate, the telescope examined a singular “toe bean” of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a massive star-forming region. Webb reveals gas, dust, and massive young stars: webbtelescope.pub/4khJK9T 🔭

Reply with an image of your pet’s paws! 🐾

The NASA planetary science fleet chart. It shows two spirals with missions to Moon/Mars and the Solar System. I’ve crossed off all of the missions that will be cancelled in the president’s budget… and there are a lot of them.

The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed Jupiter’s aurora.

The observations help astronomers better understand how Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is heated & cooled, and may prove useful to our #ESAJuice mission, en route to the gas giant.

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There's this lizard-brain sense among some voters that We Need A Guy Like Trump To Fight Trump, which is both wrong/stupid on the merits and elides the fact that Cuomo is SO MUCH like Trump. Here as there, his whole team is otherwise-unemployable dipshit loyalists who are constantly doing crimes.

This is fair but I’m pro-bananas. Breaking the baseball=MLB hegemony is good and fun. Ticket lottery & youtube casts fix two main gripes w MLB. Provides new opportunities for players/staff while MiLB contracts. Diminishing returns on their gimmicks tho, they’ll have to evolve as novelty wears off

I got a 20 dollar bill that says no one wants to see u at the prudential center in Newark New Jersey, Jesse

Saturn has 128 newly-discovered moons. Here they are color-coded by their MPEC release. Orange: MPEC 2025 E153, Purple: MPEC 2025-E154, Green: MPEC 2025-E155.

You know when you walk by a Golden Retriever and it looks at you with an expression that's like "hell yeah man we're on the sidewalk, how sick is that." I feel like that is broadly Pete Alonso's approach to being a Met, and that is the biggest part of why I'm glad he's back with the team.

The world if Jacob deGrom never got injured

Preparations for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory 🔭🪐 (HWO) are well underway.

Planned to launch in the 2040s, this 'Super-Hubble' will revolutionise astrophysics and survey at least 25 potentially habitable exoplanets for signs of alien life. 👾

This week we held a HWO workshop in Baltimore. 🧵

Twilight of the Heroes of Capitalism How Michael Lewis got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried.

I wrote about a lousy literary genre rocketing into its self-satire phase, and my hope that Michael Lewis's Sam Bankman-Fried book will someday be appreciated as a comic masterpiece. nymag.com/intelligence...