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- Out-of-season water escape during Mars' northern summer triggered by a strong localized dust storm: www.nature.com/articles/s43... -> An unusual dust storm reveals how Mars lost some of its water: blogs.esa.int/to-mars-and-...
- Strategy for Identifying Vera C. Rubin Observatory Kilonova Candidates for Targeted Gravitational-wave Searches: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> How Many Kilonovae Will Rubin Observatory Help Us Spot? aasnova.org/2026/02/04/h...
- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrTHEY CAME FROM OTHER STARS! A new all-ages comic by @makinaro.com and me about 3I/ATLAS, `Oumuamua, and Borisov: why they're exciting, and why they're both familiar and alien at the same time. www.snexplores.org/article/inte...
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- Carbonaceous Cosmic Dust Analogs Distinguish between Ion Bombardment and Temperature: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> This student made cosmic dust in her lab. What she found could help us understand how life started on Earth: www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...
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- The first detection of cosmic-ray excited H2 in interstellar space: arxiv.org/abs/2508.20168 -> Cosmic Radiation Brought to Light: www.uni-due.de/2026-02-03-f...
- X-Ray Polarimetry of Accreting White Dwarfs: A Case Study of EX Hydrae: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> UI researcher helps NASA capture first X-ray of a white dwarf star: dailyiowan.com/2026/02/02/u...
- In 10 minutes the Artemis II Fueling Test News Conference will stream at www.youtube.com/live/ycqk3uN... - as announced in www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and x.com/NASAAdmin/st... the first launch attempt has already been moved to March.
- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrFun fact: we recently moved two satellites to meet a plane. Why? For valuable scientific data on atmospheric reentries. Find out more about the why & how 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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- The end of the Artemis II WDR: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... - a lot of unfinished business ...
- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrArtemis II / SLS / Orion and the 98.5% Moon caught Monday night from Titusville as the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) is underway.
- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrNew JWST 🔭 data is available for Uranus, here is just a brief look, manual color stretching with DS9. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
- 🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (URANUS). RGB Filters: 444, 356, 277 PI: El Moutamid, Maryame, program 06379. CRVAL: 50.546041, 18.249746 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
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- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lr🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 Here is the first known picture of the 19th Century astronomer Richard Carrington – who had the largest geomagnetic storm in history named after him. It was found by our assistant archivist Kate Bond thanks to some brilliant detective work.🕵️♀️ 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrToday’s large (X8.1-class) #SolarFlare produced a dense, slow moving eruption – but not the rapid coronal mass ejection that aurora chasers were hoping for. Much of the material falls back to the Sun, dense enough to appear near-opaque (‘optically-thick’) at some wavelengths!
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- One more Artemis II piece in www.cbsnews.com/news/4-artem... (13-minutes video and transcript) - which highlights the HLS 'race' between SpaceX and Blue Origin but falsely claims that they are the first to actually show the Blue Moon MK1: see www.instagram.com/p/DRVZLMkkVgO/ from last November ...
- Need to get 'into the mood' about Artemis II? The 27-minute feature www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoX... from NBC News could do the job.
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- A live view of the Artemis II stack on the pad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrP... - where the countdown for the Wet Dress Rehearsal has begun at 1:13 UTC; see www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... for the timeline and skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/g... for maaany Artemis-related links going back to 2023.
- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrCurrent updated Artemis II WDR timeline: - Call to stations (49 hours before simulated launch): Saturday 31st at 20:00 EST (Sunday 1st at 01:00 UTC) - Simulated launch: Monday 2nd at 21:00 EST (Tuesday 3rd at 02:00 UTC) #ArtemisII
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- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrUnion workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
- A Closed-form Analytical Theory of Nonisobaric Transmission Spectroscopy for Exoplanet Atmospheres: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> LMU physicist Leonardos Gkouvelis has found a mathematical solution for investigating the atmospheres of distant worlds: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- GMIMS-DRAGONS: A Faraday Depth Survey of the Northern Sky / A Three-dimensional Model for the Reversal in the Local Large-scale Interstellar Magnetic Field: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... / iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> news.ok.ubc.ca/2026/01/29/n... / www.ucalgary.ca/news/mapping...
- Ion-Scale Wave Emission and Absorption for Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in the Inner Heliosphere: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... -> U of A researchers unravel mysteries of the solar wind: news.arizona.edu/news/kissing...
- Stratigraphy of Carbonate-Bearing Rocks at the Margin of Jezero Crater, Mars: Evidence for Shoreline Processes? agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... -> New clues to Mars’s habitability in discovery of ancient beach: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
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- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrYou may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space? Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭 youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps Processing: Simeon Schmauß
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- Capture into Apsidal Resonance and the Decimation of Planets around Inspiraling Binaries: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> Why are Tatooine planets rare? Blame general relativity: news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/30/w...
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- The first Crew-12 presser today - www.nasa.gov/news-release... - is now streaming officially on www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTjH... while the second one with the crew will stream at 18:00 UTC on www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-r...
- Evidence of medium response to hard probes using correlations of Z bosons with hadrons in heavy ion collisions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... -> The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy: news.mit.edu/2026/study-i...
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- An observational study of rotation and binarity of Galactic O-type runaway stars: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... -> ICCUB astronomers lead the most ambitious study of runaway massive stars in the Milky Way: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
- A phoenix rises from the ashes - WOH G64 is still a red supergiant, for now: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... -> Keele-led team reveals massive star WOH G64 is still a red supergiant: www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...
- Exomoon search with VLTI/GRAVITY around the substellar companion HD 206893 B: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... -> An unprecedented signal around HD 206893 B: an exomoon candidate revealed by high-precision astrometry: observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/an-unprecede...
- It's too cold in Florida ... "Multiple sources" have told x.com/cbs_spacenew... that the wet dress rehearsal for Artemis II "is slipping 48 hours" - there is no confirmation from NASA, "but also no confirmation the practice countdown is actually underway as it would be if the test was on track".
- Detection of an NH3 Absorption Band at 2.2 μm on Europa: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... (based on data from the old Galileo mission) -> NASA’s Galileo Mission Points to Ammonia at Europa, Recent Study Shows: science.nasa.gov/blogs/scienc...
- A nomenclature for individual exocomets: arxiv.org/abs/2601.15176 -> How to ID some extrasolar dusty snowballs: astrobites.org/2026/01/28/h...
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- Two new comets were just announced, none of them will be become bright, though: see www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005... and earlier www.facebook.com/sunguoyou.cn... for C/2026 B2 (Sun-Gao) and www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005... for P/2026 B1 (PANSTARRS).
- The South Pole is so crowded now they might need to build another Pole nearby ...
- A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2: arxiv.org/abs/2601.19870 -> Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth? science.nasa.gov/universe/exo...
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- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrThe Royal Astronomical Society is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Read our statement 👉 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
- High resolution observations of 'dark' neutral hydrogen clouds in the Virgo cluster with the Very Large Array: arxiv.org/abs/2601.19011 -> thread bsky.app/profile/robm...
- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrJew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
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- An X-ray-Emitting Proto-Cluster at z ≈ 5.7 Reveals Rapid Structure Growth: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/p... -> NASA Telescopes Spot Surprisingly Mature Cluster in Early Universe: chandra.si.edu/press/26_rel...
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- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by did:plc:swlmt7npmr42tvymjyhyw7lrmy grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
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- ASASSN-24fw - Candidate Gas-rich Circumsecondary Disk Occultation of a Mainsequence Star: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... -> thread bsky.app/profile/auss...
