A 93 percent illuminated waning gibbous moon rises behind the EdgeNYC observation deck at Hudson Yards two days after the full Harvest Moon in New York City, Monday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #moon
#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: https://go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc
NASA’s proven track record of exceeding its requirements continues apace. 🔭🧪 Invest in American space sciences, and vote. science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/...
Fuel Savings Double Potential Lifetime for NASA’s Roman Mission - NASA Science
The results are in: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s very accurate first mid-course correction, along with other fuel savings, are expected to more
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Tonight‘s aim: another image of Supernova 2026aaiv, which is currently happening in NGC 7331. 🔭🧪
A new supernova in NGC7331 (SN2026aaiv), again after SN2025rbs last year. bit.ly/4wyBeu3 🔭#Astrophotography🔭📷
Almost 1st thing done in Live Astronomy during @dragoncon.org last Friday night - from SARA 1m Kapteyn telescope at La Palma, series of 30s exposures of Nancy Grace Roman space telescope transiting the faint galaxy KOS 222659.3-215011 in Aquarius. (Range 636,000 km)
Here you go... what's especially exciting is that a recent image of this galaxy NGC 7331 will also show the new supernova 2026aaiv, a "sibling" type Ia supernova! www.wis-tns.org/object/2026a...
Jennifer Johnson@jajohnson.bsky.social · 4w agoWhere's the arrow? How am I supposed to find the supernova without the arrow?
Quick thoughts on LZ's dark matter result. Because I know that's what everyone is waiting for. Usual caveat that I'm a theorist and I don't build experiments, which is good for me and for the experiments. I do write papers on dark matter direct detection, though some of those gears are a bit rusty.
More good news on the continuing Roman deployment: high gain antenna and sunshade both activated successfully. It's also crossed the Moon's orbit and continues towards L2. science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/...
NASA Roman Space Telescope’s Antenna, ‘Visor’ Deployed - NASA Science
Roman’s antenna and visor-like sunshade have successfully deployed.
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Early on the morning of Sunday, August 30, 2026, #NASARoman was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. STScI is the science operations center for the telescope. This mission will revolutionize our understanding of dark energy, extra-solar planets, and astrophysics. 🔭 Credit: STScI.
I am so excited to see this 'Photonics Focus' article on GRB 221009A live !!! ft. comments from me, Eric Burns, Lauren Rhodes, + Brendan O'Connor (& featuring a Wen-fai Fong mention!) a very fun read about a very fun object !!!!!! ⛵ 🧪🔭☄️👩🔬 spie.org/news/photoni...
Ok, here’s my version of #RomanLaunch. Different angle taken from OSB II facility.
A stunning launch for @nancyromansci.bsky.social today, so grateful to have witnessed it. Congrats to the entire team at @stsci.edu and beyond.
I’ve been working at @stsci.edu to give everyone access to data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Our treasure chest is open for anyone, anywhere, anytime. And today, the telescope is IN SPACE. 🧪🔭🚀 #astrocode
Orion rising over the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in a few hours. Go Roman!
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on the launch pad! Go Roman!!
Top-tip: if anyone wants to give you the kind of "mentorship" that you being unionised would prevent, get a new mentor fast.
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · last mo.Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
#JWST MIRI image of the remnant of Kepler's Supernova, which was observed in the year 1604. The supernova was a type Ia, in other words an exploding white dwarf. 🔭🧪 #supernova #Kepler Not perfect, but here is my result after working on it for 3 hours. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SN...
(3/3) Dolly called and asked if there was any way to help with this tragedy. Abumrad replied she was on a vaccine research team but it was expensive and they were still seeking grants. When Dolly heard this she replied "Well I have money" and donated $1m. Abumrad's team produced the Moderna vaccine.
The Roman Space Telescope is due to launch this coming Sunday. In this wonderful graphic, Chris Hirata has captured the complex and tortured 26 years of history that it took to get to this mission. My part was to PI the Dark Energy Space Telescope (Destiny) study, and to serve on random committees.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been enclosed inside the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket’s fairing in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: https://go.nasa.gov/4xZRgNM #NASARoman 🔭 🧪
There is actually only one true spreadsheet person. The rest of us are just posers. www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tats...
Meet Tatsuo Horiuchi, the 77-Year-Old Artist Who 'Paints' Japanese Landscapes With Excel
For over 15 years, Japanese artist Tatsuo Horiuchi has rendered the subtle details of mountains, cherry blossoms, and dense forests with the most unlikely tool: Microsoft Excel. The 77-year-old illust...
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lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2mo agoif spreadsheet people was ever meant as an insult, i am reclaiming it. my columns and rows are beautiful even if others don't see what i see within them
New paper! We report JWST pre-explosion imaging of a dusty AGB-like source at the site of a rare, nearby Type Ia-CSM supernova, SN 2026sqf, in NGC 3310. Likely a carbon-rich companion feeding an exploding white dwarf. A first for Webb. We may be wrong, but I doubt it! arxiv.org/abs/2608.13321
this sounds great but we shouldn’t be satisfied until the number of rats complaining is down to zero
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2mo ago22% decline in rat complaints since NYC started rolling out “empire cans” www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDLhP6Sc/
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
The pundits have completely lost the plot
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Rubin will repeatedly image COSMOS over the next decade, complementing earlier observations from other telescopes and helping scientists better study how the sky changes over time.🔭🧪