@jeffgerstmann.com I only know about this banging theme tune thanks to you. This is all your doing, somehow.

ISS transiting the Sun here in Hokkaido a few hours ago. Pretty happy with this considering I used a telescope I made with mostly junk and cheap AliExpress parts and an iPhone held up to the eyepiece. 114mm Newtonian Dobsonian. Couldn’t have done it without transit-finder.com. 🔭 ☀️

Hormuz is a quantum Strait whose state is a superposition of |open> and |closed> states.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Inded at 2222 UTC the Chinese Space Station, whose lower inclination orbit is a better match to the track of the sublunar point on the Earth, was at 419656km from Artemis 2, an even larger distance. It was over New Orleans at the time.

I managed to tell @astrokatie.com something she did not already know, which is that the Integrity crew did not get to go straight to bed but instead had to do a lil obstacle course to see how freshly landed astronauts would escape the capsule, in, like, woods

and she was like WHO APPROVED THIS. WHY

Agreed, I've had this livestream on in the background almost continuously for the last week and it's been so amazing. It's unbelievable level of access from their PAO.

This view from a window aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shows the aurora australis glowing above Earth’s atmosphere as the International Space Station soared 270 miles over the Indian Ocean, just southwest of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Credit: NASA/Chris Williams

The Artemis II crew captures a faint view of a crescent Earth above the horizon on the Moon’s far side. Credit: NASA

Just imagine looking out the window and seeing this. Or this.

We are surrounded by cosmic beauty. Let's aim to live our lives to that standard. 🧪🔭

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The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

View of the spacecraft (bright, on the left), a dark thin crescent of Moon, and a very small, bright thin crescent of Earth next to it

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

The #Artemis II crew has just been given their upcoming distance of closest approach to the Moon as 4067 statute miles and they replied jokingly that they would prefer the number in kilometers and parsecs.

Astronauts... they're just like us [astronomers] ! 🥲

Just on this Moon road trip with my friends Victor, Christina, Jeremy, and Reid.

A tub of Nutella floating around the capsule. Thanks to Artemis II that's the furthest a tub of Nutella has been from Earth. #Artemisii #Artemis

I thought they were only going to the moon, but turns out it's innutella space...

A tub of Nutella floating around the capsule. Thanks to Artemis II that's the furthest a tub of Nutella has been from Earth. #Artemisii #Artemis

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

"Toilet is go for faecal use only" - CAPCOM #artemis #artemisii

The Social Media manager for The Honest Company could really easily earn their money today. #artemis #artemisii

The, now famous, Artemis II image of the night side of Earth (NASA's description of the image to follow) edited with a red circle around the star τ Ceti. Original image description from NASA: A picture of a full disk image of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o’clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o’clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet’s surface. Earth is set against the black of space.

Anyone else thinking τ Ceti is not looking as dim as the other stars? 🤔

The, now famous, Artemis II image of the night side of Earth (NASA's description of the image to follow) edited with a red circle around the star τ Ceti. Original image description from NASA: A picture of a full disk image of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o’clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o’clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet’s surface. Earth is set against the black of space.

Anyone else thinking τ Ceti is not looking as dim as the other stars? 🤔

When your Bluetooth device won't pair, how cool would it be to have the entire of NASA on the end as technical support...

...and then how annoying would it be when the support replied with "unpair it, and then repair it again."

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon. photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.

straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

SLS lift off for Artemis II

CONFIRMED: Orion was successfully placed into Earth's orbit. ✅ #Artemis II

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(Credits: ESA/S. Corvaja)

ok fine, one more ;-)

There are now 10 toilets in Space

International Space Station: 4
Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
Tiangong Space Station: 2
Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The BBC has launched a live weather stream, showing live shots of various towns and cities across the UK, accompanied by on-screen data and soothing music.

>> LINK: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Ok, this is cool.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU