ROFLMAO! No shit...

🚀 Ya se puede visitar en el Museo de la Ciencia de #Valladolid la maqueta 1:1 de la #Voyager. Este es un fantástico proyecto de mis amigos Salva y Antonio, en el que he colaborado como asesor y montador 😅 Y con charla incluida al finalizar www.museocienciavalladolid.es/event/maquet...

Estos días ha tenido lugar la primera edición del curso Observando el cosmos: astronomía y astrología en tiempos del románico, pero para quien se haya quedado con las ganas, volverá a realizarse entre el 24 y el 26 de julio! ☄️⛪️✨
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Diría que a España ya llegó, que en Canarias ya subieron las temperaturas.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Primera etapa GS-1 recuperada. Blue Origin se convierte en la segunda empresa tras SpaceX en reutilizar y recuperar con éxito una primera etapa de un lanzador orbital.

Meanwhile, a little something something arrived :)

C/2025 R3 📸 Michael Jaeger, Gerald Rhemann April 18, 2026 AZM Martinsberg Austria

Comet C/2025 R3
📸 Michael Jaeger, Gerald Rhemann
April 18, 2026
AZM Martinsberg Austria

This is the last image taken before perihelion, captured in Austria using an 8-inch RASA telescope and a color CMOS camera (10 exposures of 2 minutes each)

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Comet with a bright nucleus and wispy tail with streamers rises over a ridge of trees and a water tank. Taken with an Askar SQA55 and modified Sony Alpha 7 III camera. Comet image, 15s at ISO 1250. Foreground image, 15s at 3200 ISO. Processed separately and composited in Photoshop.

Success with Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS this morning! Clouds will prevent future attempts. It reaches perihelion Sunday, swings around the Sun and becomes a southern hemisphere object. This is a composite of a tracked image of the sky and untracked foreground image. Details in ALT. #astrophotography

Unfortunately…

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating - NASA Science On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the

NASA shuts down Low-energy Charged Particles experiment on Voyager 1 to keep the nuclear-powered spacecraft operating, nearly 49 years after launch.
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Tonight, look low in the west after sunset for the young #moon near the sunset point, and near an exceedingly bright object - #Venus - the brightest planet visible from Earth. They'll be a spectacular sight! Visit EarthSky’s night sky guide at: buff.ly/uw2mYAQ
Or watch a video here: buff.ly/h5O1iWN

power point slide showing the camera locations on the orion spacecraft. For Artemis II, the vehicle-mounted OIS comprises: • 4 Solar Array Wing (SAW) cameras • 3 in-cabin wireless cameras • 3 external wired cameras • 2 human-health monitoring cameras • 2 camera controllers • 1 Fwd Bay high speed camera Other optical systems: • 4 wireless cameras for NatGeo payload (proprietary data) • 4 Portable computing devices (tablets) with webcams • 2 Nikon D5 DSLR camera bodies (+ lenses, batteries, etc.) • 2 ZCube video encoders (prime + spare) • 1 Docking Camera (DCAM) • 1 Optical Navigation (OPNAV) camera • 1 drag-on temp-mount camera to monitor crew ingress (KSC system)

Of course I only found this post-flight, but there is a good presentation of all the camera systems installed on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft. #Artemis

Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzU...
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Un Falcon Heavy lanzará el rover europeo Rosalind Franklin hacia Marte Es el cuarto cohete que está previsto que ponga en camino la misión; a ver si a la cuarta va la vencida.

Un Falcon Heavy lanzará el rover europeo Rosalind Franklin hacia Marte | #Ciencia #Espacio | por @wicho.bsky.social

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A slightly grainy, zoomed-out photo of the launch of Artemis 2, showing the rocket plume climbing into the blue sky.

I took this photo of Artemis 2 with a TLR film camera from the 1950s
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Quiero un IMAX en Gran Canaria :~(

Me apetece un nuevo visionado en IMAX.
¿Espaciotrastornados de Madrid?

El rover europeo Rosalind Franklin viajará a Marte en 2028 con un Falcon Heavy - Eureka Pocas misiones hay con peor suerte que el rover europeo Rosalind Franklin. Justo cuando estaba a punto de despegar en 2022 se quedó en tierra por las repercusiones políticas de […]

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View of the night sky from Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, with the Anglo Australian Telescope visible in the lower left hand corner. Image Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Macquarie University)

Happy International Dark Sky Week! 🌌 Access to dark skies:
🔭 enables world-leading science
✨ preserves shared cultural knowledge and traditions
🌠 sustains wildlife ecosystems
🌌 encourages people to look up

Learn more at: idsw.darksky.org

Image Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Macquarie University)

Trump has launched three more boat strikes this week, bringing the total death toll to 177.

Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it.

This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

También estuve por ahí, y por el de la ciencia, en septiembre :)

En este caso, las autoridades incompetentes.

APOLLO 11"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong ARTEMIS II "I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." - Reid Wiseman

Well, that's progress I guess...

Two weeks today, already.

The launch of Artemis II from near the VAB 🚀 SOUND UP!

The nerves, the excitement, the joy, the promise of what was to come.

Who else would turn back the clock and relive the last two weeks?

(Possibly some debris at 14 second mark, bottom left?)

Hmmm…

Book cover, featuring a low-angle self-portrait of the rover on Mars.

I wrote THE book about The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job. And because space robot design is conservative, it’s a pretty good resource for both the Perseverance rover and the Dragonfly Titan quadcopter. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

El futuro de la ISS y las futuras estaciones espaciales privadas estadounidenses - Eureka Durante el evento denominado Ignition de finales del pasado marzo, el administrador de la NASA presentó el cambio en la estrategia del programa Artemisa (añadiendo la misión Artemisa III de […]

En el blog > El futuro de la ISS y las futuras estaciones espaciales privadas estadounidenses
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This is NASA's #Artemis II crew, spotted from Earth while returning from their epic journey 🚀 🌕

Guau.

R.I.P Moya Brennan.