It will actually be a hood, so it will be half the knitted length in the end!

Look I don’t want to talk about the pace at which I’m doing this, but I’m now done with 7/10 skeins and it is getting close to as long as me. 🧶

Vivid green grass with many sizable (large peas) pieces of hail visible. A white woman’s index finger is pouting to one that is substantially larger than her fingernail, at least triple the size of the other pieces of hail.

Someday I will find a better way of realizing it’s hailing beyond “that is WAY too loud to just be rain”

Happy I was inside and not driving for this round of ice flung from the sky

"Just got a report from the Undersea Medical Officer." All four astronauts are "green" i.e. medically doing great and "ready to be extracted as soon as possible"

A rendition of the earth set photo from the Artemis 2 crew drawn in colored pencils on white paper. Behind the Earth is black from a combination of colored pencils and sharpie markers, with ragged edges all the way around. The moons surface is loosely shaded in gray and browns with the indication of craters and a rough edge to toss upper silhouette.

Drew it. Experiments with colored pencil (& sharpie for some black). 🔭🐡

A rendition of the earth set photo from the Artemis 2 crew drawn in colored pencils on white paper. Behind the Earth is black from a combination of colored pencils and sharpie markers, with ragged edges all the way around. The moons surface is loosely shaded in gray and browns with the indication of craters and a rough edge to toss upper silhouette.

Drew it. Experiments with colored pencil (& sharpie for some black). 🔭🐡

EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface. Hertzsprung Basin appears as two subtle concentric rings, which are interrupted by Vavilov, a younger crater superimposed over the older structure. The lines of indentations are secondary crater chains formed by ejecta from the massive impact that created Orientale. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. Credit: NASA

One of my favorite Artemis II shots so far: a different kind of Earthrise. Double crescents!

(Another difference: Strictly speaking, it is an Earthset.) 🧪🔭

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Artemis II in Eclipse art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appe...

Just gorgeous images to look at on the NASA Johnson Flickr this morning www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

These are the moments we live for in science 😍

Artemis II science officer Kelsey Young's reaction to the astronauts reporting that they saw at least FOUR impact flashes on the Moon during their observations.

Just crossed closest approach!

I bet they are glued to that window.

Well captured, well captioned, well alt-texted. 🔭

Fully understood re:messenger! But what a waste. Cliff is clearly marked as a cliff and yet.

what

Relieved to see that #ArtemisII has safely launched - I hope the crew have an extremely uneventful trip and take some extremely good photos.

Congratulations!!

Post it notes. Write every single name down on the post it note first. BEFORE you write it in the book. (Also bring your favorite pen.)

I think I’m topping out at four or five this week. It takes so much time to take good care of a body

Things I thought I would be doing on spring break
- sleep
- video game

Things I am actually doing on spring break
- telecon
- telecon
- doctors appointment
- doctors appointment
- doctors appointment
- emails
- emails
- emails
- emails
- emails
- emails

🫠

Riddle-Master of Hed, by Patricia McKillip!

There’s ready for break, and then there’s “read a fantasy trilogy in three days” ready.

☹️ that does not sound like a good time!

Text message from Mar 17 at 9:43 am reading “The loud explosion heard just after 9 this morning was due to a meteor. This is from the National Weather Service. No action is required.”

Very fun weather alert yesterday, in spite of me not registering the loud explosion at all.

If you are immunocompromised in any capacity, CDC advice is to get it early (any time over 19). I got mine last year and the pharmacist said she was glad I was doing it - she’d seen people younger than me coming down with shingles.

Jupiter is big and Almathea is small

Oh, Michele. I’m so sorry for your loss ♥️

Hey AstroSciCommers!

Salt o’clock is a load bearing hour!

Literally, we are so obnoxious you guys

A recipe for Quick All Bran Muffins from the pack of the pamphlet which starts out by asking you to rehydrate the cereal into mush.

The inside of the pamphlet, which has colored foil for holding forty needles and a needle threader. About 1/3 of the needles are still in place.

I understand the cereal based recipe.

I don’t understand forty needles and a needle threader in the same packet.