The tiny particles from wildfires can lodge in the lungs or make their way to the bloodstream. Years of repeated exposure to wildfire smoke can increase chances of a premature death. www.sciencenews.org/article/what...

What's to blame for Canada's wildfires?

The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the wildfires and misinformation.

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Happy Fourth of July chipmunk.

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Two selfies with the Roman Space Telescope after she turned her mirror towards us today. To see the second you'll need to zoom in, my image is tiny and upside down.

The Artemis II images browser is in a much better shape now, with separate collections for the Earth, Moon, and Eclipse images. A complete scientific data archive prepared by the lunar science team and peer-reviewed is to be released through NASA's PDS. eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/... #Artemis 🧪🔭

A guide to finding Carroll Crater on the Moon svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5646/

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | How to See the Proposed Carroll Crater

Carroll is a lunar crater provisionally named by the Artemis II crew in honor of Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife Carroll Taylor Wiseman. It can be seen from Earth in backyard telescopes if you know...

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A sneak peek of today's Earthrise moment: Ernie Wright just published a visualization of today's Artemis II Lunar flyby: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5633/

This breathtaking visualisation from @thenasaearth.bsky.social's shows how the ICESat-2 laser altimeter has provided us with a staggering amount of geodetic information for Earth allowing us to track vital signs svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5616

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Global Views of ICESat-2 Data

ICESat-2 data products on a rotating Earth. Together they illustrate the satellite’s measurements of Earth’s land, ice, oceans, forests, and atmosphere.

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Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🛰️BIG NEWS! NASA has selected a @ucsandiego.bsky.social led satellite mission for the Earth System Explorers program. Led by Scripps Oceanography glaciologist @helen-amanda.bsky.social, Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) is one of two next-generation satellite missions selected. 🧵⤵️

another look at this generational chart crime

Don was visionary leader of SDSS and a wonderful mentor to many postdocs and students at U Chicago, myself included.

Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Donald G. York, co-founder of Sloan Digital Sky Survey and ‘visionary’ astronomer, 1944-2025 news.uchicago.edu/story/donald... 🧪🔭

Here is the 2025 version of our annual visualization of global temperatures from GISTEMP. NASA's estimate has 2025 tying 2023 for the second warmest year since 1880 (2024 was the warmest). svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5603

In the last decades, the world has made fantastic progress against extreme poverty. In 1990, 2.3 billion people lived in extreme poverty. Since then, the number of extremely poor people has declined by 1.5 *billion* people. 🧵

SVS is such a valuable NASA group!!

The New York Times article about the Escapade missions includes a beautiful visualization by the SVS's AJ Christensen. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

Almost Everything About NASA’s Latest Mission to Mars Is Unusual

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Coffee prices are skyrocketing and Rise Up Coffee isn't taking any chances.

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 2: Lines (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Lines,” I created a miniature globe of NASA SVS’ Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature visualization. Look closely to see the mesmerizing ocean eddies!

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

The different sources of atmospheric methane: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5424 a companion to the popular SVS visualization of carbon dioxide from 2023: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5110

This only happens to you once

New Quanta Magazine series on climate science. I was one of the people interviewed for this months ago and happy to start digging in now! www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...

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Refraction

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration 800,000 BCE - July 2025 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447/

This newly released visualization showing the progression of the Palisades and Eaton fires was the last visualization produced by the SVS's Cindy Starr after an incredible 37 year career. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5558/

NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat

A few tips: 1: Open up your aperture as much as you can for more bokeh. Faster lenses are better. 2: Make a mark on your focus ring + lens (I use two narrow strips of masking tape) so you can quickly and repeatedly hit your in-focus point.