Rubin bags 11,000 new asteroids! This is just the beginning, too. There are more millions more out there waiting to be seen.

The Vera Rubin observatory has already discovered 11,000 *previously unknown* asteroids... and the proper observing sessions haven't even begun yet!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-bags...

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Murray and Pierre return to the lab after an evening out to find a blue glow emanating from the aparatus

On this day, 20th April 1902 Marie Skłodowska Curie and husband Pierre successfully isolated one tenth of a gram of Radium, the first sample of a radioactive element, from 8 tons of pitchblende.
Artist: Frank Hampson
‘Madam Curie’ (1970)

The cover of the New 52 Action Comics #14. Superman hovers in the air as a swarm of beings that look a lot like Angels from Doctor Who descend on him.

In four panels, Superman uses a fork to explain what is happening. “In THREE DIMENSIONS this fork is ONE single object, right? But when it interacts with a TWO-DIMENSIONAL surface — like the cover of your JOURNAL, Noah — it leaves FOUR distinct points.” Superman pokes the book with the fork, leaving four points imprinted in the cover. He continues, “The MULTITUDE isn’t a MULTITUDE at all. It’s not a RACE of beings — the multitude is all ONE thing — a single WEAPON with COUNTLESS POINTS aimed at us from a HIGHER, 5th DIMENSION. We have to hit ALL of them at the same time.”

Superman uses a fork to explain higher dimensions — Action Comics #14 (2013) #superman #dccomics

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1-NANCY IS USING THE GARDEN HOSE WATER THE LAWN, WHEN IT STARTS TO RAIN FRITZI CALLS OUT TO NANCY FROM THE WINDOW… FRITZI: NANCY -- IT'S STARTING TO RAIN P2- NANCY: DON'T WORRY--- I WON'T GET P3- FRITZI LOOKS OUT THE WINDOW P4- ITS POURING RAIN, BUT NANCY HAS POINTED THE GARDEN HOSE STRAIGHT UP, AND THE WATER GOING UP FROM THE GARDEN HOSE IS STOPPING THE RAIN FROM FALLING ON NANCY.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 16,1949

Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

4x4” mini painting of Earthset

good bye, Moon

We put Newton's third law to the test by simulating the science behind how rockets lift off 🚀

Superman flies through a snowstorm, thinking “BEAUTIFUL snowstorm! Man, it’s great to be BACK! One of the things I MISS in space is the weather…” (A voice from below is less appreciative, saying “Doesn’t matter where I park, blasted SNOW PLOWS always bury my car!”)

Space weather is just not the same — Superman The Man of Steel #31 (1994) #superman #dccomics

BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter

The experiment successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons across CERN’s main site, a remarkable first step towards delivering antimatter to other European laboratories.

Find out more: home.cern/news/press-r...

Superboy and Neon face each other left to right. Neon unleashes a blast of electricity on Superboy (“BZZZZZZT!”) but Superboy is unfazed: “See, I’m gonna live ‘cause this Neo-villain never LEARNED that even blastin’, like, a BAZILLION gigawatts of electricity is pretty lame —“

We now see Superboy full length, hovering about six inches above the ground. “… when the BLASTEE isn’t GROUNDED!” “Mmm! A mild, TINGLY sensation — not unlike a BREATH MINT!”

Superboy avoids an electric shock — Superboy #17 (1995) #superboy #dccomics

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS IN BED AND SLEEPING SHE IS DREAMING THAT SHE IS BLOWING A BUBBLE WITH A PIECE OF BUBBLE GUM P2-NANCY CONTINUES TO DREAM SHE IS BLOWING A BUBBLE ,ITS BIGGER THAN SHE IS P3- NANCY CONTINUES TO BLOW HER BUBBLE, ITS THE SIZE OF A BUS BY NOW P4-NANCY’S BUBBLE IS NOW ASTRONOMICAL IN SIZE NOW A MARTIAN, SEES ON NANCY’S BUBBLE ON THE PLANET EARTH 38 MILLION MILES AWAY

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 24,1947

@comicbookphysics.bsky.social
Marvel Comics Presents #43

Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger #8

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY SEES A MAN BENT OVER LOOKING AT THE SNOW COVERED GROUND. NANCY: DID YOU LOSE SOMETHING? MAN: YES--- I LOST MY WATCH IN THE SNOW P2 NANCY IS RUNNING NANCY: I'LL BE RIGHT BACK P3- NANCY ENTERS A DOCTORS OFFICE NANCY: он, DOCTOR, МАУ I BORROW SOMETHING? P4- NANCY IS USING THE DOCTORS STETHOSCOPE TO LISTEN FOR THE TICKING WATCH LOST IN THE SNOW THE MAN IS HAPPILY SURPRISED TO SEE NANCY TRYING TO FIND HIS WATCH

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 01,1950

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Don’t you know mercury is the only metal that’s liquid at room temp

Leo pointing meme

Yes Mercury said the line!

X is for X Bomb Betty
#LegionOfSuperHeroes

Most of the Sun is pictured peeking over a hill. On the surface of the Sun are several sunspots including a very large sunspot region toward the center-right. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun

Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020...

Silver age Legion of Super-Heroes. Sun Boy, Saturn Girl, and Invisible Kid sit looking at an applicant for membership sell himself. He got a blue and orange costume and irradiates a green aura. "I injected chemicals into myself so that I can radiate green rays that turn everything nearby temporari GREEN! It'd be great camouflage!" Sun Boy replies, "Many planets have red or yellow vegetation, not green as on Earth, and it wouldn't work there! Sorry, we can't use you!"

Letter writer asks editor of Silver Age Superman how Superman found out about his origin. Editor says he overtook the light-rays from Krypton and watched them. Okay?

a scene from a comic, a woman wearing a spacesuit is trying to remove her helmet while thinking "six, seven"

I accidently drew a meme into my comic last year, so prescient.

Pete Ross, Lana Lang, and Lex Luthor are sitting together in the front seat of a car. Lex, driving, says “I don’t know … I have theorized that ONE-WAY communication with the future might be possible by bouncing a radio beam off a distant planet, so that it would return to Earth hundreds or even thousands of years in the future. I won’t GUARANTEE anything but it’s sure worth a TRY!!”

Lex Luthor has an idea about how to communicate with the future — Adventures of Superman #444 (1988) #superman #lexluthor

In the left panel, Black Squadron is being shown around Megalox by the warden. She says “I understand that you intend to meet with one of our more… NOTABLE… prisoners. Grakkus the Hutt. That’s fine, of course— but first, I feel it is my duty to inform you of the way things work around here.” The right panel shows her gloved hand gesturing towards the planet below. “Or more specifically, down there. The enormous size and high density of the planet generate a gravitational field ten times standard.”

A close up of the prison on the surface of the planet, covered by a force-field dome. The captions read “And so, Megalox has no exterior walls. It doesn’t need them. Step outside the standard grav-field dome generated from orbit by this station, and you are instantly crushed under ten times your own weight.”

A prison with no walls — Poe Dameron #4 (2016) #starwars #marvelcomics

13 Sunsets | 5 Years | 68°

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "13 Sunsets | 5 Years | 68°" by Andrei Dumitriu

www.astrobin.com/u3uhak/

#astrophotography

My 5-yr old: "Tell me more about black holes."
Me: "There's one at the centre of our galaxy called Sagittarius A*. It's the biggest thing in the galaxy."
5-yo: "No it isn't. 'UY Scuti' is bigger."
Me: "UY Scuti is the biggest STAR, but... let me look it up."

*Looks it up*

Me: "Yep, you're right."

#JunoCam: A collage of Jupiter images (processed with exaggerated color and contrast) taken by the Juno spacecraft as it approached then departed the gas giant.

Interested in processing your own images? buff.ly/yyrESGe

📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift

1-panel SMBC comic update. A woman stands in front of a class, by a blackboard with a drawing of the Earth it, with arrows near the top. The teacher says "that's right. No more simplistic 101 stuff" to the students. The caption below the comic reads "in advanced physics, you learn about perfectly spherical cows *under rotation.*"

I realized after I drew this that I got the right hand rule wrong. But this is advanced physics, OK?

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