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skrishna

@skrishna@wandering.shop

#space | #science | #startrek | #gaming | #scicomm | #tech | #scifi
Freelance space editor, Inverse. Occasionally: Fast Company, Wired, NPR, Science Friday, StarTrek dot com
Author of A POCKET GUIDE TO STARGAZING (Chronicle Books, 2023) and co-editor of SWORD STONE TABLE (Vintage, 2021).

I live outside Philly.

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skrishna, to space
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Boeing Starliner is scheduled for its first crewed launch on May 6. The history of this spacecraft is MESSY — here’s the full story on why it’s seven years late.

Newsletter edition goes out tomorrow morning, sign up: adastraspace.com

https://youtu.be/J7QCmvVo3nY

skrishna, to space
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If you want to read about why the Hubble Space Telescope is in trouble and is in safe mode right now, here's your link:

https://www.adastraspace.com/p/hubble-space-telescope-safe-mode-gyroscopes


https://wandering.shop/@skrishna/112356385897060107

skrishna, to space
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Hi all! I'm still in a newsletter subscription push mode -- with the demise of the bird app, it's gotten really hard to get the word out about projects like this that don't have an internal algorithm to help people find it.

If you like , , , or just want to support a woman of color doing STEM stuff -- please subscribe! Ad Astra is a weekly newsletter that tells you what's going on in space science and spaceflight.

https://www.adastraspace.com

skrishna, to random
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A few people have pointed out that it's worth mentioning that my newsletter is on Beehiiv, not on Substack.

I chose a service that doesn't platform hate speech, and the tradeoff was I gave up on the other service's internal algorithm and tools for helping people find your publication.

Hence why I'm doing this push. Beehiiv is GREAT, they have been really good to me, and I very much recommend their service.
https://wandering.shop/@skrishna/112332886203206306

reillypascal, to space
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@skrishna is super cool and I love this newsletter! https://wandering.shop/@skrishna/112332886203206306

It's about the latest news in space and astronomy, and the RSS link is here: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/BX2SPZ0naG.xml

#Space #Science #Stem #RSS #Newsletter

ChandraScience, to Astro
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We recently released version 2.1 of the Source Catalog!

In short, everything we observed that was released publicly prior to the end of 2021 has been reduced, processed, and made available for easy consumption. With over 400,000 individual sources and covering 730 square degrees, the CSC opens the X-ray sky to all astronomers -- even if you've never looked at an X-ray photon before.

Learn more:
https://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/879

tom30519, to random
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Unprocessed photo, taken in southern Quebec. We were extremely fortunate that (a) my house was smack in the middle of the line of totality, and (b) the sky was perfectly clear throughout the event.

Now, with 9x bracketing, I have a mere 639 photos to evaluate, process and merge. But what an experience! Awesome, really.

chris, to fediverse
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🚨 BOOST CHALLENGE! 🚨Ok and . If I tell my Canadian Member of Parliament, Gord Johns, that he will get 2000 followers within one week of creating a Mastodon account, will you make that happen?

I want him to be able to say when he stands in the House and presents the petition for an official Fediverse server that he himself is the first Canadian MP to be on the Fediverse!

Boost for yes! I am going to show him this post! I'm counting on you, literally! 🔥 🙏 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 🙏

A gif of the lincoln pointing finger we want you 🫵

skrishna, to space
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Space news is here!! This week:

  • The Intuitive Machines moon lander didn’t wake up from lunar night
  • A view of magnetic fields around our supermassive black hole
  • Polar ice melt is affecting the Earth’s rotation
    -NASA will launch rockets into the eclipse
  • SpaceX is preparing for the fourth test launch of Starship




https://youtu.be/Jo7jNhMH8MI

skrishna, to space
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Weekly space news is here!

  • How to de-ice a telescope from a million miles away
  • A new star may appear in our sky soon
  • VERITAS, the mission to Venus, is back!
  • A map of 1.3 million quasars

and more!

Newsletter version will go out in the morning.

https://youtu.be/vWf2gpmk95c

skrishna, to space
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Have you heard recently about discrepancies in the Hubble constant and are wondering what’s up?

I dive into the Hubble tension in my latest video.

https://youtu.be/rVb_opP1qik

astro_jcm, to mastodon
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1/ After having tested it for some time, phanpy.social ( @phanpy ) is now my one and only #Mastodon client. The interface is sleek, and you can tell there's clear intentionality behind every single design choice.

First, look at how gorgeous nested replies look! I no longer struggle trying to decipher who's replying to what. And when you reach too many nested levels, a button gives you the choice to deploy them or not, to keep things clean.

paulcuth, to RSS
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I made a thing to help me find RSS feeds, and I really liked it. So I made it prettier so you can use it too, if RSS feeds are your thing.

As it turns out, in my corner of the fediverse there’s a ton of them…

https://rss-is-dead.lol

czottmann, to science
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TIL that the universe was opaque after the Big Bang, which is nothing I've ever thought about before, and I was all 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AApjeHdpX0

Thanks, @skrishna!

skrishna, to space
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Reminder: As we start getting closer to the April eclipse, places are going to start selling out of eclipse glasses (some already have!) I highly recommend you order some soon, and please don’t just get them off eBay or Amazon, fakes are a problem.

These are good:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1284713-REG/celestron_44405_eclipsmart_solar_shades_observing.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA84CvBhCaARIsAMkAvkLsYaX9lrI_rYJsivpbg-D5VRObC5oN4zorhM6IIVFTbLDVY4ZxgBgaAsRcEALw_wcB

VoxofGod,
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@skrishna allow me to interject in this thread but if anyone wants to confabulate an event complete with any number of things, including Beethoven's 9th being sung (bass soloist and the soprano are filled), I'm looking for a spot that has good acoustics, hopefully with a view of the path of totality, to watch it moving toward us, that is somewhere in the square made where this totality crosses with the 2017 totality

65dBnoise, to space
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"In case you forgot me" postcard
By

Just arrived from Mars.
Received: 2024-02-24T03:34:51Z

Slightly processed, undistorted, rotated HELI_RTE
Image captured from RMC 72.0001/1
Sol 1065, LMST: 14:02:54

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01065/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1065_0761491016_819ECM_N0720001HELI00001_000085J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

trekcore, to StarTrek
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NEW! Check out the new final season trailer — and see new photos from Season 5!

See more: http://tinyurl.com/dsc5-trailer

PhilStooke, to random
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Here are two last views from Apollo 16. Top: Stone Mountain (image AS16-113-18326). Bottom: Smoky Mountains (image AS16-107-17471).

skrishna, to space
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There will be more information in the hours and days to come, but it’s official: Intuitive Machines successfully landed their spacecraft on the moon

Rjdlandscapes,
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@skrishna

Good news -

"After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data.
Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface."

ismh, to random
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This has become never-miss read for me: https://wandering.shop/@skrishna/111981262729861412

spacetelescope, to random
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Girl Power is a one-day STEM expo held on the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory campus designed for students to explore careers in STEM.

Girl Power is aimed at elementary and middle school students and includes activities from local STEM organizations, including STScI. Register: https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/EventLink/Event/379

stim3on, to space
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The new Episode takes an in depth look at the damage to Ingenuity's rotor blades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6r4-rDc-3U

stim3on,
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New Mastcam-Z images that were downlinked earlier today further confirm that one of the blades from the upper rotor is entirely missing.
Previously this damage was only seen in the helicopter shadow in images taken by the navigation camera from Ingenuity.

The outer 25% of the remaining upper blade is also broken off and the new blade-tip is bent slightly upwards.

2x upscaled Mastcam-Z right image.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

the Mars Helicopter standing on the slope of a sand ripple. two small dark marks can be seen in the sand next to her, these were presumably made by the impact of the rotor blades. Only three rotor blades are visible, from the point of view of the camera, the upper left blade is missing.

skrishna, to space
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My weekly space news show Ad Astra is here! Have 10 minutes? Then you can hear about my favorite space, space science, and space flight stories this week.

https://youtu.be/In-obkK-uLI

sundogplanets, to random
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Really great (absolutely terrifying) research by plasma physicist @carlysagan is being highlighted today on https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=02&year=2024

Is there anything that tens of thousands of disposable satellites won't completely fuck up?

Satellite companies need to stop launching until they fund research on the upper atmosphere and magnetosphere(!) and show their plans are safe (which...is probably impossible since they aren't safe).

AkaSci, to random
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Briefing and Q&A session today at 1:00 p.m. ET (18:00 UTC) on NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, which suffered some mission-ending damage to its rotors on Jan 18.

You can send questions to the Ingenuity team using the hashtag on twitter.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkZ6jkqPMEc

Check out https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/111818677364045064 for some background info.

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