Playoff bound Flyers!!!!!!!

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Got you

Love that it was Houston who helped fix the Ms.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

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@bytimbooth.bsky.social this you??

How to discover which constellation is best at local SEO 😄👇

yep, looks like it -- good footnote

screenshot of Nerdwallet's SEO traffic as measured by Semrush

Nice rebound for Nerdwallet since the Core Update began.

As seen from Artemis 2, the Moon with an earthshine crescent eclipses the Sun, and four planets are visible to the lower right of the Lunar disk. These are Saturn, faint Neptune (which needs a pointer), Mars and Mercury

Here it is.👍🙂

A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination. [alt text from NASA]

Eclipsed Moon, with Venus, from #Artemis II. The subtle color in the corona is beautiful.

I was impressed with what it was doing at the latter rounds of thinking when I messed with it over the weekend.

Photo of the year.

Gotta be some kind of record, no?

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it…

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

Screenshot: Key lunar flyby times, milestones All times Eastern, subject to change based on real-time operations 1 p.m. NASA+ coverage of lunar flyby begins 1:56 p.m. Crew passes distance from Earth record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 2:45 p.m. Lunar flyby begins 7:02 p.m. Orion closest approach to the Moon (4,070 miles) 7:07 p.m. Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth (252,760 miles) 8:35 p.m. Orion enters solar eclipse

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA).

It should be amazing to watch!

My City of Ruins - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Moda Center, Portland, April 3, 2026 YouTube video by Matt McGee

Song of the day: My City of Ruins - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

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Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up!

(Never been simultaneously brought to tears, felt like I was in church, and also wanted to run through a brick wall at the same time.)

Every episode messes me up.

My guy, every episode messes me up. 😭😅

View from Orion in high Earth orbit, April 2, 2026, 10:54 UT

The best current “view from a height”…. (10:54 UT) #ArtemisII

This will be great -- congrats Lily!!!

(also good call not announcing yesterday 😄)

nope, not clicking

Thanks SO much!! We were both excited to see it. :-)

This wrecked me. Artemis II

(Echoey voices in the middle are the astronauts)

Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.

The Artemis II astronauts are going more than 15,000 MPH JFC mindblowing 🤯🤯🤯

Legitimately getting emotional watching this Artemis II countdown to launch.

Going through all the checks -- so many people and depts involved in making it happen, and then the launch director gives that beautiful, short inspirational launch message to the astronauts. 🥹

I'm all for responsible publishing, in general, but I don't know...it reminds me of all the phony stuff that AI Overviews (and GPT, etc.) will repeat just because they find it online.

At some point, they gotta be smart enough to pick up on intentional jokes, satire, etc.

I have a feeling a lot of MLB umpires are going to quit or retire after this season.

Watching this M's-Yankees series and seeing them miss pitch after pitch and have their mistakes put on the jumbotron, on TV, etc...damn, that can't be fun.