For its 36th anniversary, Hubble looked back at a piece of the Trifid Nebula. Over a few decades, jets shot out by young stars have expanded, and the stars’ positions have changed ever so slightly. Explore the scene: https://go.nasa.gov/4mCfKrS 🔭
Just taking a moment to say my community college students are just the best group of people to spend my career with. I don't know how I'd face this timeline without the hope they give me.
I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country.
The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
And so I will circle around to my constant point: the instinct for a comforting aristocracy is endemic in the human populace, and the job of democracy is to ruthlessly destroy it whenever it appears. Not build a political, legal and moral (prosperity gospel) framework which fucking encourages it.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
This is a pretty remarkable document from House Democrats laying out how NASA illegally scrapped programs to align with Trump's budget requests over Congress'.
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
This is your standard reminder that any article or report about higher ed that does not mention community colleges should be trashed immediately.
Our REU renewal was funded!
We found out today so we are accepting applications now! Like right now!
Application review is going to happen swiftly as we know we’re are late in the typical cycle.
pa.msu.edu/undergraduat...
#reu #physics #astronomy #research
San Diego next, please. (And I'd make it for any vacation home, honestly.)
Congrats to Jayke! Also known as one of the hosts of Astronomy on Tap-San Diego, btw. #AOTSD
🌌 Major milestone for DESI: full originally planned survey footprint was completed on April 15, ahead of schedule!
47M+ galaxies & quasars mapped → the largest 3D map of the Universe ever made.
Keep posted: Observations continue through 2028.
More: tinyurl.com/Y5DESI
#DESI
An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky!
DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology
newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/d...
Ready to meet the cosmic bat? 🦇
Hidden in one of the darkest corners of the Orion constellation, NGC 1788 resembles a bat. This nebula is spreading its hazy "wings" through interstellar space two thousand light-years away.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1904/
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Webb directly imaged 29 Cygni b, an object 15 times the mass of Jupiter, to find out if it formed like a planet or a star, since they result from different processes. Data show it's a planet! t.co/K48elMpcRs
🔗 science.nasa.gov/missions/w...
NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Koch, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, Friday, April 10 at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭
Swalwell drops out of the race for California governor
Watch for more offerings. I think the next one will be in June. 🙂
This Saturday night, join me and the Fleet Science Center for the "Palomar Observatory Experience" - a behind-the-scenes tour of the observatory. Transportation and dinner are provided, and I'll be the featured speaker. See ticket info here: www.fleetscience.org/events/sky-t... #sandiego
I need to remember to watch more often. NIN always brings me out, though. :)
Watching the #Coachella replay. Loved the mini-sets during the Peel It Back tour, so I'm looking forward to the album.
Will let folks know. Thanks!
I'm going to point out that we spent a shit ton of taxpayer money on moderna and he's stealing it from us.
Child in a space suit costume cheers with arms outstretched amidst a crowd watching the return of the astronauts to Earth
“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.”
Photo by Sandy Huffaker
FYI: It's been a gorgeous day in San Diego, so please let the astronauts chill outside once they reach North Island.
If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
Can't wait to follow your "secret" accounts. ;)
Science is good. We should fund it.
I think they mean both but won't admit it. ;)
