Science Committee Democratic Staff Report Reveals Details on NASA’s Illegal Implementation of Trump’s FY2026 Budget Request Without Congressional Approval. democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...
Just FYI, nothing in this arXiv submission is real or true. This is completely misunderstanding the NISP instrument onboard #Euclid and then creating AI slop "results" based on that.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.02726
Seems to be a busy day on Bluesky, so if I did a Kickstarter, like one of the following two topics.
The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out.
We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal.
This is another extinction-level event for NASA science.
Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
Ramona has become a big space fan. Welcome home, Artemis II. What an incredible quest.
The Lunar flyby happens today. Follow @barbylon.bsky.social for an insider view from the #ArtemisII Lunar Science Team! 🧪🔭🌘🚀
Chocolate Easter bunny with a chocolate Alien xenomorph face hugger attached, and a second chocolate xenomorph egg is still unopened. Today is not going to end well.
Errrr, I seem to be having a problem with a couple of my Easter eggs…
The Orion cabin configured for crew sleep. It looks like a mess with blue sleeping bags draped over everything.
It’s 03:30 for me, so how about a review of the sleep config of the Orion cabin? This is a fairly straightforward config & the crew has some flexibility for how they want to arrange things. Typically crew sleep is a cameras off period, but I’m sure they’ll give folks a peek at some point.
“Vice President JD Vance thinks aliens are visiting earth and that they are Demons” is the most “I wish Carl Sagan were alive” moment I’ve had in a while.
an old white man with glasses and a beard, with a stripey brown white and orange cat occupying his lap and chest
a small gray cat with intense golden eyes, lounging on a chair with a bright yellow stuffed tiger
I am apparently locked out of my main bsky account @bowlerhatscience.org (permanently?), so I've made this alt. I can prove it's me but I really don't wanna *have* to do it.
Composite showing two red dots, representing the exoplanets WISPIT 2b and 2c, embedded in the white ellipses of scattered light.
Delighted to see our WISPIT team announce the second directly imaged exoplanet from the WISPIT 2 system! Led by Chloe Lawlor (Galway) with Richelle van Capelleveen (Leiden), we also have a spectrum of the inner, more massive planet, showing carbon monoxide features. ☄ #exoplanet #astrodon
When you offer charitable services or give to a cause, you don't usually have strings attached. It's done out of kindness and concern. I guess someone with more money than some nations (and complains that money hasn't made him happy) has yet to figure that out.
Have to thank @beamjockey.bsky.social for reposting this and putting this on my radar. This year's LPSC seems like it's the proverbial "canary in a coal mine" for the state of Planetary Science here in the US. This SHOULD be a very vibrant time, but instead it seems moribund.
So, what do you think of Project Hail Mary?
Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up ☄️
Comet K1 fragmented into at least four pieces while the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was watching. The odds of that happening while Hubble viewed the comet are extraordinarily miniscule!
🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
@science.esa.int @stsci.edu
trail camera of a water-filled bioretention basin on the morning of March 17. in the sky is a crudely drawn but respectable "meteor" "falling" from the sky.
none of our trail or process cameras captured the meteor this morning but Nicole did offer this artist rendering.
Latest press release illustrated by yours truly
Nancy Grace Roman telescope is back from the vibe test. Shaken but not stirred!
From March 9th to March 13th, Pisa will be home to the global gravitational waves community! EGO and Virgo will host the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration Meeting, the biannual meeting of the gravitational wave community, for the first time in Italy after more than a decade.
This is lovely and affirms something I say all the time: Stories matter. Even kinda silly ones you watched as a kid (I have a long list of those, ones I still fondly rewatch sometimes).
They show us what to emulate, what to fight against, how to better ourselves, how to see through others' eyes.
This should be getting better as we leave solar maximum. Here's an update of HST altitude vs. sunspot number.
Really useful to see data on what a lot of us have felt. Algorithmic feeds are drugs that are not good for us.
👀 Did you know that ESA has Bluesky accounts in multiple languages?
🇩🇪 @de.esa.int — German
🇫🇷 @fr.esa.int — French
🇮🇹 @ita.esa.int — Italian
🇪🇸 @es.esa.int — Spanish
🇳🇱 @nl.esa.int — Dutch
If you’re looking for updates and events closer to home, make sure to follow your local ESA page!
If only Boeing engineers put as much effort into materials comparability and O-ring sizing as I had to put into figuring out all the interesting redactions
youtu.be/L96asfTvJ_A
An embroidered patch shows a scene in space with an asteroid hurtling towards earth and a Tyrannosaurus rex (also in space) with its mouth open, either screaming or trying to bite the asteroid (I don't know). Along the top of the patch it says "NEO SURVEYOR." At the bottom of the patch it says, "NEVER AGAIN."
This unofficial patch for the NEO Surveyor project that my husband brought home from work is sending me.
A large mosaic of 700 thumbnails of declassified spy satellite images on spacefromspace.com
A screenshot of a dark world map with many coloured outlines representing the areas covered by satellite images on spacefromspace.com.
spacefromspace.com/declassified... is now home to over 700 georeferenced spy satellite images of locations all over the world taken between 1960 and 1984!
I've also published a new, very experimental, map view search method for all images available on the website: spacefromspace.com/declassified...
When the LD went around the horn and did her GO/NOGO poll to enter Term Count (T-10m), and got a GO, we got a little excited in the sim room, because when we restarted the countdown clock and came out of the hold, we knew we’d be passing through the events that stopped us during the first WDR.
