🌔💥 You had questions about the impact flashes the crew of Artemis II saw during their lunar flyby--and @leebillings.bsky.social has answers for you! Follow all our mission coverage here: spklr.io/6001EyN07
There it was: the swirly blue crescent of our planet, with all of us -- you, me, everyone we know -- in tow.
Earth dipped ever lower on the horizon of a lifeless, pockmarked moon, a poignant farewell to the members of the crew as they plunged into radio silence.
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part of Hansen’s astronaut training occurred at NASA alongside Wiseman.
when aspiring astronauts join NASA's training program, their loved ones join a support network. this often leads to intimate bonds across families, even before a mission is assigned 🤍🕊️
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NASA’s Artemis II crew restored contact with Earth after flying around the moon’s far side, which had caused a planned radio blackout.
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"It’s a bright spot on the moon,” CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen said, his voice breaking up, “and we would like to call it Carroll.”
The crew all shared a hug after.
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recap of Artemis II mission day 4. they're now more than 2/3 of the way to the moon 🚀🌙
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"You look amazing, you look beautiful," Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, the first Black man to journey around the moon, said about seeing us from afar.
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Earth.
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis
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Let's be frank: the thing we're all wondering, looking at those astronauts in that tiny pod, is how anyone is going to 💩. Fortunately, @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social brings us the science of the Artemis toilet www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...
sooo much of the science explanation doesn’t make it into the film, from the way Ryland Grace figures out how he’s in another star system to the mechanism behind astrophage works. think less science, more humor, but enjoyable to watch nonetheless especially when paired with reading the book
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Andy Weir spoke to The New York Times about the science underlying Project Hail Mary & the process of adapting his novel into a feature film:
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New data adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. Gift link:
Via @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social
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NASA smashed a spacecraft into one of a pair of asteroids. the impact shifted the pair’s orbit around the sun:
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This feels like prologue. They cut the reseach about keeping crowds safe www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/s...
i am equally proud to have worked w you!
My first book, Entangled States, will be published in exactly three months. Please ask me about it! I will come on your podcast or write for your mag about quantum physics and how it intersects with my life anytime!
The galaxy designated MoM-z14 is currently the farthest galaxy ever detected, spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and confirmed spectroscopically with its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument. Through Webb, we are seeing this galaxy as it appeared in the distant past, only 280 million years after the universe began in the big bang. Its light has traveled through space for more than 13 billion years to reach us. Like some other galaxies Webb has discovered in the early universe, MoM-z14 is brighter, more compact, and more chemically enriched than astronomers expected to find in this early era. While it may pass out of record books quickly as the farthest galaxy, MoM-z14 will still play a role in helping astronomers and theorists reach new understanding of the earliest chapters in the universe’s story.
News from the edge of the visible universe:
JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.
(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭
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People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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as a journalist my favorite word is TK
A photo of Claudette Colvin in a red sweater
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
THE TIMES IS UNION-MADE: Today we began bargaining our new contract, and in our first session, we not only told management we were united, we showed them. Our bargaining committee presented a pledge signed by 80% of our union, supporting five core priorities…..
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