"My independence, which is my strength, implies loneliness, which is my weakness." (Pier Paolo #Pasolini, from 'The chaos') A deep thought that concerns the fragility and also the strength of the human soul. #BookSky #poetry #quotes

"My independence, which is my strength, implies loneliness, which is my weakness." (Pier Paolo #Pasolini, from 'The chaos') A deep thought that concerns the fragility and also the strength of the human soul. #BookSky #poetry #quotes

Joan Birman is amazing! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

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1/14 At #Saturn’s south pole a powerful wind belt doesn't run straight: it bends into 10 sides. That bend is an atmospheric wave, visible in the clouds. #Hubble has watched it take shape since 2023. It is not like the northern hexagon: it is younger, uneven, and still forming.🔭🧪⚛️ #planetsci

Claude has produced a formalized proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Of course FLT had already been proven by Andrew Wiles, but this proof is simpler, and “formalized” means machine-verifiable. The news isn’t the proof, but the form. Still too long to fit in a page margin, though.

Thomas F. Varley@thosvarley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jesus Christ. www.anthropic.com/research/for...

Listening to a man at the farmers market explain he’s out of eggs as “the ladies aren’t producing due to heat stress”— and another poultry vendor says he’s out, as he can’t keep them in this heat. Climate change is all around. We just have to open our eyes to see how it’s affecting our daily lives.

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1/14 At #Saturn’s south pole a powerful wind belt doesn't run straight: it bends into 10 sides. That bend is an atmospheric wave, visible in the clouds. #Hubble has watched it take shape since 2023. It is not like the northern hexagon: it is younger, uneven, and still forming.🔭🧪⚛️ #planetsci

1/10 The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment — LZ — sits in a South Dakota mine. In the liquid xenon it caught one unusual flash. A hint of #darkmatter? It’s far too soon to celebrate. Here are the facts — with the caveats. ⚛️🧪🔭 newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/09/01/l... Image by M. Kapust / Sanford Research Facility

Heard the news? The new VLT instrument MOONS, built by a consortium led by the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, has made its first observations 🙌 Get the gist with this video by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlAdjG7exug 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation 1/2

MOONS captures its first light, no telescope has ever seen this before

MOONS has captured its first light, almost one thousand objects in ...

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🧵 Sept. 1-2, 1859: The Carrington Event, during the solar cycle 10. On 1 Sept. 1859, English astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson noticed a sudden brightening on the Sun's surface like they'd never seen before— the first record of a solar flare... 1/5 🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #histsci

1/10 The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment — LZ — sits in a South Dakota mine. In the liquid xenon it caught one unusual flash. A hint of #darkmatter? It’s far too soon to celebrate. Here are the facts — with the caveats. ⚛️🧪🔭 newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/09/01/l... Image by M. Kapust / Sanford Research Facility

1/12 Under Gran Sasso (Italy), a detector built for dark matter has seen the Sun’s faintest neutrinos: a very light knock on an electron (elastic scattering). It is the lowest energy threshold ever reached for detecting any #neutrino.⚛️🧪🔭 www.physics.columbia.edu/news/xenonnt... #physics

1/12 Under Gran Sasso (Italy), a detector built for dark matter has seen the Sun’s faintest neutrinos: a very light knock on an electron (elastic scattering). It is the lowest energy threshold ever reached for detecting any #neutrino.⚛️🧪🔭 www.physics.columbia.edu/news/xenonnt... #physics

1/3 New method: gas in SMOG2, next to the VELO, LHCb’s detector pinpointing where the collision happens. Same proton beam, two gases: hydrogen (protons at rest) and argon (a nucleus). Same energy, so you can compare “with a nucleus” and “without”. ⚛️🧪🔭 #physics

LHCb Experiment@lhcb.bsky.social · 6d ago

First measurement of the ratio of ψ(2S)-to-J/ψ inclusive production in pAr and pp collisions at √s=113GeV with SMOG2 - Data samples were collected during argon and hydrogen gas injections in the SMOG2 storage cell, resulting in pAr and pp collisions, respectively. arxiv.org/abs/2608.30534

1/3 New method: gas in SMOG2, next to the VELO, LHCb’s detector pinpointing where the collision happens. Same proton beam, two gases: hydrogen (protons at rest) and argon (a nucleus). Same energy, so you can compare “with a nucleus” and “without”. ⚛️🧪🔭 #physics

LHCb Experiment@lhcb.bsky.social · 6d ago

First measurement of the ratio of ψ(2S)-to-J/ψ inclusive production in pAr and pp collisions at √s=113GeV with SMOG2 - Data samples were collected during argon and hydrogen gas injections in the SMOG2 storage cell, resulting in pAr and pp collisions, respectively. arxiv.org/abs/2608.30534

🧵 Here is SS 433, the first identified microquasar. It is about one of the most exotic star systems known, a binary star microquasar consisting of a stellar-mass black hole and its companion, a giant star. The star is about 30 solar masses, ... ➡️ www.desy.de/news/news_se... 🔭 🧪 #cosmology

1/16 What if #stringtheory wasn't a complicated invention of physicists... but the only thing that could emerge from a few basic rules? A new study from Caltech (and collaborators) says just that. Let's see what it's all about.🔭🧪⚛️ - www.caltech.edu/about/news/s... #physics #science

1/16 What if #stringtheory wasn't a complicated invention of physicists... but the only thing that could emerge from a few basic rules? A new study from Caltech (and collaborators) says just that. Let's see what it's all about.🔭🧪⚛️ - www.caltech.edu/about/news/s... #physics #science

🧵 This image provides an overview of the 25 brightest stars in the night sky (as seen by humans). It shows them in true color, highlighting their beauty and diversity. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061... For more, read the thread. 🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #science #Universe #Astronomy #HistSci

Are you awake? 🥱 NASA Live coverage of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch starts at 6:20 a.m.! Launch is scheduled for 7:26 a.m. You have time to make coffee. ☕ #NASARoman 🔭 🚀

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NASA live: Follow live television broadcasts on NASA+, the agency's streaming service, and NASA's social media channels with this schedule of upcoming live events including news briefings, launches and landings.

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It's gonna get much hotter next summer. Right now the Niño 3.4 anomaly is +2.3°C. The previous record was in 1997 - then the anomaly hit +2.8°C. But we're not even in an El Niño yet! We'll probably get one next year. And then the Niño 3.4 anomaly is expected to hit 3.5-4.3°C. Really scary.

More Fucked Today than Yesterday

And even more fucked tomorrow

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🧵 That blue is not the true colour of the sand as a standard observer would see it on the surface. 🔭🧪⚛️ HiRISE colour products are usually enhanced IRB composites (IR, red and blue-green bandpasses displayed as R, G and B), with a strong per-channel contrast stretch. 1/4

Bernard Valeur@bvaleur.bsky.social · last wk.

Étonnant ce bleu ! Qu'elle est son origine ?

🧵 That blue is not the true colour of the sand as a standard observer would see it on the surface. 🔭🧪⚛️ HiRISE colour products are usually enhanced IRB composites (IR, red and blue-green bandpasses displayed as R, G and B), with a strong per-channel contrast stretch. 1/4

Bernard Valeur@bvaleur.bsky.social · last wk.

Étonnant ce bleu ! Qu'elle est son origine ?

The bright white crescent is exactly where it should be: the northern limb still in penumbra. 🔭🧪 The rest is almost entirely in umbra. Beautiful. #Moon #LunarEclipse

Jennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷@astroprofhoff.bsky.social · last wk.

That red glow is sunlight, filtering through the Earth’s atmosphere and getting redirected to hit the Moon’s surface. A lovely visual treat created by the gravitational dance of the three celestial bodies. 😍

August 26, 1918: NASA's trailblazer and mathematician Katherine G. Johnson was born. Her calculations of orbital mechanics were vital to U.S. first triumphs in human spaceflight. I reshare a 🧵 about her. 🔭 🧪 #maths #science #WomenInSTEM #histsci

Nereide@drnereide.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧪 🔭🧵 #histsci #February11 is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. So I would like to highlight Katherine Johnson, #NASA mathematician and computer scientist. A biography➡️ nasa.gov/centers-and-... She was a trailblazer in the quest for racial equality and, as a champion of STEM education,

1/2 This stunning shot by Chris Kotsiopoulos captures the total lunar #eclipse of 15 June 2011. 🔭 Storm clouds nearly ruined the view, but they parted just in time during totality — and the result was pure magic.⚛️🧪 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21052... #astrophotography #nature #sciart

The bright white crescent is exactly where it should be: the northern limb still in penumbra. 🔭🧪 The rest is almost entirely in umbra. Beautiful. #Moon #LunarEclipse

Jennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷@astroprofhoff.bsky.social · last wk.

That red glow is sunlight, filtering through the Earth’s atmosphere and getting redirected to hit the Moon’s surface. A lovely visual treat created by the gravitational dance of the three celestial bodies. 😍

1/2 This stunning shot by Chris Kotsiopoulos captures the total lunar #eclipse of 15 June 2011. 🔭 Storm clouds nearly ruined the view, but they parted just in time during totality — and the result was pure magic.⚛️🧪 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21052... #astrophotography #nature #sciart

🧵 1/ For those who missed it, this recent image from Webb's NIRCam features a part of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (the blue stars at lower right) along with countless other galaxies in the background. Reference➡️ esawebb.org/images/LeoP/ A team's research, done 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #Webb #JWST

Spectacular views of Sophie Adenot outside the ISS as she completes her second spacewalk alongside NASA astronaut Anil Menon.