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spacegeck, to random
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My friend sent these photos from Oklahoma. I’m totally amazed! Nothing here yet in Modesto, California.

Glowing reddish purplish sky with stars and outdoor lighting visible at the same time. There's a USA flag jutting out from the left.

spacegeck,
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Barely visible to the naked eye, but my phone could see it great! Here's a little animation.

A night sky view. Vertical lines of magenta aurora with a faint cyan on the horizon. The lines shift positions while the stars move due to Earth's rotation. There are short dark hills. A few planes cross the view.

spacegeck,
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The best view was actually right at the start when it first started to become visible. Seemed to taper off after that.

AkaSci, to random
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This Sunday (April 14) on CNN at 8:00 p.m. EDT - "The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?"

Presented by Kristin Fisher on "The Whole Story" with Anderson Cooper.

Kristin Fisher: "We’ve spent two years following 2 teams as they became some of the first scientists to ever work with Webb. Thrilled their stories will air on Sunday!"

It will be followed by the 2-part finale of "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight."

Yes, more science please on the idiot box!

spacegeck,
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@AkaSci I may or may not be in that.

spacegeck, to random
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anyone know some good software for working with FITS cubes? Ideally I'd like to be able to either save all of the slices individually or flatten them all into a 2D image

spacegeck, to random
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Got a few Tarantula datasets downloaded. Just some quick messing around with the HST imagery. It'll be combined with some other telescopes later.

andresmh, to random
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Princeton continues to dive into the Fediverse! 🐅 ❤️ 🐘

Multiple units across our campus are setting up their own accounts on the brand-new micro.blogs.princeton.edu Mastodon server!

Follow the Center for Information Technology Policy at @citp
and the Department of
Computer Science at @PrincetonCS

spacegeck,
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@thomasfuchs @andresmh @citp @PrincetonCS countless human years of refining techniques and observations passed from one generation to the next only for an algorithm to come and spew out a three legged elefootrunk with a floating lamp post and fake flowers and apparently even a fake nassau hall because the masonry and architecture is all f'ed up and it looks nothing like any photos

franco_vazza, (edited ) to academia
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"Good morning Sir...this is the invitation to attend a multi-cultural initiative to promote a dialogue between science and spirituality in an unbiased way...would you please join us....by the way it's going be hosted in a MONASTERY WITH MONKS"
etc etc

No, thanks no!

My bottom line here is that no, I think that while people have their spirtuality, there should be no legitimacy for an equal ground dialogue between science and sprituality.

Thoughts?

spacegeck,
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@hfalcke @franco_vazza @NatureMC one hard thing I learned as an atheist is we are far too willing... eager, even, to give up all sense of soul and god to organized religion. it's worthwhile and useful to redefine it and take it back in a way that suits yourself... well, not in a way that imposes on other folks, I mean.

spacelizard, to Astronomy
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I want a big poster print of this. Fortunately we do already have a high quality digital copy of it so it would be easy to do.

spacegeck,
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@spacelizard @astro_jcm Every time I look at something like this I remember in college when the graphic design students were tormented by the teachers who forced them to do everything manually a few times so that they could, uh, experience it, I guess? Because the teachers had to do it for decades? I was spared the worst of it in my courses, but I still had to manually draw some typography and a few other things.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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[video of cute non-human mammal doing literally any activity]

tumblr: you are KILLING them!

(I'm both happy, and slightly offended that I never get comments about how "doing that is, in fact, abusing ants"... I may however make such comments... but that's a whole other story. Nah, only puppies and kittens get this kind of worry...)

spacegeck,
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@futurebird FWIW, spouse saw me watching the video of ants being dropped from a tree to observe how they do a controlled glide and was quite worried that this was harmful to the ants.

spacegeck, to random
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Sometimes you just gotta do some heavy lifting and remove a few quadrillion trillion tons of burning hydrogen out of the way.

The same nebula, without stars to obscure the view.

spacegeck,
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god paints with a fleeting light

spacegeck,
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Another layer.

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The year is 2004. Once more, in October, Hubble turns to look at the light echo of V838 Mon.

spacegeck,
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It's hard to see blended against the other observations, so here's that last layer on its own. Seriously looks liquidy.

spacegeck,
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anyone else see the Easter bunny in there? 😂

spacegeck,
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Brought the stars back after isolating them to their own layer so they wouldn't add up and be super bright since they're all in the same spots over the years unlike the nebula. Also added a 2005 observation. Unsure if I want to add more or just stop here.

spacegeck,
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Stick a fork in it, it's done. (For now.) Added one final dataset from 2006 in violet. It definitely needed violet. 🏳️‍🌈 😆 https://flic.kr/p/2pFpQbY

mike_malaska, to Geology
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Two comparison images of the shore of Lake Manly near Badwater Basin, Death Valley. 24 h apart.

The spit is at image center in both images. The more recent (dry image),has a view more looking towards the N.

Such a huge difference! The water is just gone!


Spit in dry lakebed lookong over salt playa. This same as lake area just 24 h later.

spacegeck,
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@mike_malaska I get some of this fluff every winter near the threshold of my garage... but only on one side of the two car garage. Who put the salt there? 🤷‍♀️

spacegeck,
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@mike_malaska Just concrete. There’s a crack where it accumulates and I wonder if the crack enabled the salt leaching or if the salt damaged it.

vicgrinberg, to berlin
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Uhm... OK.

spacegeck,
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@vicgrinberg haha I love this photo and the secret selfie in the reflection of the reflection!

spacegeck, to random
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My computer is down while I wait for a replacement power supply. I drew a phoenix on a tiny piece of scrap board to test out some pencils I bought last month to pass some time.

kellylepo, (edited ) to random
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Next in the 19 days of galaxies series is the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 4321, as seen by and .

NGC 4321, also known as M100, is about 50 million light-years (15 Mpc) away.

It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and entered as object 100 in Messier’s catalog of “fuzzy things in the night sky that are not comets”.

📷 https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2024/105/01HMC157NG9PDPKYDPHFZMC35Z
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spacegeck,
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@kellylepo my one and only contribution to the Hubblesite 😆

spacegeck, to random
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I've never had this happen before. Not sure why, but I lost a few days' worth of work to it.

spacegeck, to random
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tonight's question: do x-ray astronomers care at all about what bands color imagery generated from their data use? does it matter?

fun fact: x-ray images come from event files and each photon gets its energy level recorded, so you can divide the bands however finely or coarsely you want! this does not make it easier to decide what color to make things...

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