I made it out of the MRI machine. As much as the physicist in me loves magnetic resonance imaging - I don’t love the whole “stuck in a tube for an hour” aspect.
CatherineQ
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Astronomer, science communicator, over-thinker extraordinaire. @AucklandUni space person @AucklandSpace. Autoimmune illness. 🇳🇿🇺🇸
This is maybe a bit complex, but it's amazing science... (Also, anyone who describes "dark matter" as "just something we made up" is mid at best; yes it's a hypothesis but it is a hypothesis that makes predictions and one of them just passed a huge test) bigthink.com/starts-with-...
Dark matter passes a new cosmic test, while MOND fails
On cosmic scales, only dark matter (or something equivalent) gives us the Universe we observe. Now, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect agrees.
bigthink.com
Since #ArtemisII, I’m resisting the urge to write FULL SEND at the end of every email.
Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air
Seeing our precious planetary spaceship like this is so humbling. This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6. #ArtemisII
Overperforming on the way to the Moon? Nice.
ESA Exploration@exploration.esa.int · 4mo ago#Artemis II update: our European Service Module's main engine performed the translunar injection so precisely that flight controllers in Houston decided to cancel the first of three outbound trajectory correction burns on the way to the Moon 🥳
Those are words not heard about a spacecraft containing human beings for over 53 years. (And follow this guy - he's one of the world's top experts on spaceflight)
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589.bsky.social · 4mo agoTLI! Translunar injection complete, Artemis II apogee now over 400,000 km; they're heading to the Moon.
“This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.” #ArtemisII www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...
Artemis II: Nasa spacecraft orbiting Earth after spectacular launch on Moon mission - watch and follow live
The crew on the 10-day Artemis II mission won't land on the Moon, but plan to circle it, and could travel further from Earth than anyone has ever been before.
bbc.com
Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.
Kevin 🚀@astro-kevin.com · 4mo ago“Government can do good and NASA is proof” is a message I don’t really see that often from Dems, and that’s disappointing.
#NASA #ArtemisII - Go at six minutes 460 miles downrange just indicated that they will have a Nominal shutdown or MECO
Who else needed this sooooo badly in 2026 with y’know… everything going on? #ArtemisII
1 minute into flight. Faster than speed of sound as we approach MaxQ #ArtemisII
Just noting that we are still waiting the final T-0 liftoff time - terminal count hasn't picked up yet. #ArtemisII
