In Koblenz ist ein Meteorit in ein Hausdach eingeschlagen, auch im Hunsrück und in der Eifel hat der ehemalige Himmelskörper Schäden angerichtet. Augenzeugen berichten von einem hellen Flugkörper – verletzt wurde niemand.
The Milky Way arcs over and behind this view looking up at Rubin's shiny silver dome toward a starry night sky.
Alerts from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory have been flowing for about a week...how many have there been?? 🚨
So far, Rubin has generated....drumroll please🥁
~1.7 million world-public alerts!
That's ~1.7 MILLION objects that changed in brightness or position in just seven nights 🤯
🔭🧪
A black and white still photo of a dozen or so of the main characters and others in the episode standing in a group on a sidewalk or driveway looking pensively straight ahead at something offscreen. The men are wearing casual shirts and pants, the women casual dresses. A dark colored station wagon is partially visible in the background at left.
Tonight in 1959, “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” (season 1, episode 22)—Rod Serling’s taut and unforgettable Cold War parable depicting the societal consequences of irrational fear and paranoia of communist infiltration—was broadcast for the first time on CBS.
Scientific American has updated the figure, now grouped into swimmers, fliers, walkers/runners, and vehicles. A person on a bicycle remains the most efficient way to travel, compared to all forms of biological locomotion and mechanical transport.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
Two images of a planetary nebula in space. The image to the left, labelled “Euclid & Hubble”, shows the whole nebula and its surroundings. A star in the very centre is surrounded by white bubbles and loops of gas, all shining with a powerful blue light. Farther away a broken ring of red and blue gas clouds surrounds the nebula. The background shows many stars and distant galaxies. A white box indicates the centre of the nebula and this region is the image to the right, labelled “Hubble”. It shows the multi-layered bubbles, pointed jets and circular shells of gas that make up the nebula, as well as the central star, in greater detail.
Wowowow - our @science.esa.int Hubble's picture of the month for March is the Cat's Eye Nebula, from combined images of #Hubble and #Euclid. Euclid's wide field and low surface brightness sensitivity brings out an external shell. Incredible image. esahubble.org/images/potm2... 🔭
![Gazing into deep this dusty maelstrom using near-infrared filters, Hubble reveals many stars and star-forming activities that might otherwise be obscured by dust. Strongly red spots indicate [Fe II] emission. There are only a few tiny splotches of those. Make of that what you will.
Data from the following proposal were used to create this image: Peering to the Heart of Massive Star Birth
Red: WFC3/IR F164N
Cyan: WFC3/IR F160W
Blue: WFC3/IR F110W
North is 45.51° counter-clockwise from up.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz5uoq2emhdgxcnndqq5our4/bafkreifil5mu7znyn2agqvxoif5a6wm23mz6obqnqy7zrkzl7rdgddrwlu)
Gazing into deep this dusty maelstrom using near-infrared filters, Hubble reveals many stars and star-forming activities that might otherwise be obscured by dust. Strongly red spots indicate [Fe II] emission. There are only a few tiny splotches of those. Make of that what you will. Data from the following proposal were used to create this image: Peering to the Heart of Massive Star Birth Red: WFC3/IR F164N Cyan: WFC3/IR F160W Blue: WFC3/IR F110W North is 45.51° counter-clockwise from up.
RAFGL 5180 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jcRWq8
i was hiking there 30 years ago and the disappearance of most of the glacier (compared to my memory) is really shocking.
Just a quick one this morning while I have nothing else to do. HST_9473_06_ACS_HRC_F435W_sci HST_9473_06_ACS_HRC_F555W_sci HST_9473_06_ACS_HRC_F814W_sci
Super Star Cluster M82-F - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/bUFygH
This seems like a wonderful idea, please support if you agree: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
1317 Km Altitude Orbit (Perijove) 34 - 7/6/2021 Credit: © Nasa/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/AndreaLuck Data processed from Nasa's Juno PRODUCT ID : JNCE_2021158_34C00001_V02
Ganymede Flyby - Nasa’s Juno PJ 34 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mUN9EP
Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds.
Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year www.theguardian.com/environment/...
An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.
80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.
16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
NSF Update
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
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In Kopenhagen gibt es die Vorschrift, dass alle wichtigen Radwege bei Schneefall bis spätestens 08:00 Uhr morgens geräumt sein müssen, damit die Menschen sicher mit dem Fahrrad zur Arbeit fahren können. So sieht dass dann aus❤️😀
The full list of science activities paused is here. Includes stuff like Chandra, future missions to Venus, Habitable Worlds…
nasawatch.com/space-scienc...
I like being able to see if my JWST observations succeeded by checking bluesky. 🔭,
White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill gizmodo.com/white-house-...
Had a blast speaking to curler and geologist Derek Leung about the geology of curling rocks. 🥌 🧪
Mondays are better with an octopus squid 🦑💫
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.
EVs now represent more than 10% of new car sales in 39 countries, including Vietnam at 38% and Indonesia at 15%.
In the U.S., that figure is less than 10%.
The gap signals a competitive problem that goes far beyond climate – it's about who controls the future of automotive jobs. buff.ly/H5ETTBQ
I remember Challenger as well. But my mother as a girl survived concentration camps in Indonesia, while both her parents perished. That is a whole different type of trauma. Only as an adult I realized how that trauma permeated her entire life, and in some form, passed down to her children.
Enjoy a Medieval Cover of R.E.M.‘s “Losing My Religion” www.openculture.com/2026/01/enjo...
Dragonfly 😍 dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/Gallery/file...
The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
If you need some extra distraction from *gestures broadly at everything,* Kilauea is here to help. The next eruptive episode, episode 41, looks to be kicking off right now! Fountains are starting to grow in height.
USGS LIVE stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...
The Nesin Mathematics Village in western Turkey was dreamed up by award-winning mathematician Ali Nesin to engage his students
A nighttime, street-level, almost impressionistic color photograph of the United Nations headquarters building in New York City showing it and surrounding buildings illuminated from the inside as a few cars stream north on 1st Avenue. In addition, projected near the top of the south side of the building, in large, bright letters, are the words, "NUCLEAR WEAPONS NOW ILLEGAL 22 JAN 2021."
OTD five yrs ago, thanks to the dedication and hard work of @nuclearban.bsky.social, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force, making the development, testing, production, possession, stockpiling, and use—or threatened use—of nuclear weapons anywhere in the world illegal.
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
