
Saturn's largest moon Titan casts a colossal shadow in breathtaking amateur portrait (photo). Via @spacedotcom #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy
Saturn's largest moon Titan ca... [www.space.com]

Saturn's largest moon Titan casts a colossal shadow in breathtaking amateur portrait (photo). Via @spacedotcom #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy
Saturn's largest moon Titan ca... [www.space.com]
Scott Manley's take on Eris TestFlight1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98haEggTw4A
He adds some interesting details about the design of the rocket, e.g. the use of fixed main engine nozzles with reaction control thrusters.
Dropping the new Hackster Café episode in this thread: a preview of the @oshwassociation Open Healthware conference happening Friday/Saturday this week, ft. Herine Palacios-Rodriguez & Avinash Baskaran.
It was a really fun session! The two speakers' areas of expertise played off each other in a really fun way, despite me getting lost in my extensive notes a couple times #Robotics, #zines, #accessibility, #space, #OSHWA open hardware organizing, and more!
India safely launches a $1.5 billion satellite for NASA https://arstechni.ca/EeHh #earthobservation #SeanDuffy #Space #nisar #space #isro #NASA
https://www.ufofeed.com/140411/saturns-largest-moon-titan-casts-a-colossal-shadow-in-breathtaking-amateur-portrait/ Saturn’s largest moon Titan casts a colossal shadow in breathtaking amateur portrait #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration
Second version of #TheGrandTour of #teskooano - More lighting and shader improvements, logarithmic camera - the celestials are in the accurate positions and all it working well - and with that I go on holiday now so there won't be more updates for a couple of weeks
Why "vibe physics" is the ultimate example of AI slop
Know anyone who's been collaborating with an LLM to develop their novel theory of physics?
Turns out the only thing they're developing is a novel species of crackpot.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #ai #science #space
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#PPOD: A collision between two galaxies has resulted in a merged star system with an unusual appearance and bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) features a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its nicknames, the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy. Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); Acknowledgment: S. Smartt (Institute of Astronomy) and D. Richstone (U. Michigan)
And it turns out, no sings of life on planet K2-18b.
// Article in French //
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Et il se trouve, pas de signe de vie sur la planète K2-18b.
https://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/actualites-scientifiques/2025/07/30/preuves-vie-k2-18b
Happy to see our NASA DARES White Paper on Post-Discovery/Post-Detection Futures up on arXiv - https://astrobiology.com/2025/07/seti-post-detection-futures-directions-for-technosignature-research-and-readiness.html.
Written by 14 members of the SETI Post-Detection Hub for the NASA DARES Decadal Survey on the next 10 years of astrobiology, the paper gives a short summary of 6 key areas for growing readiness for the discovery of life beyond Earth.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11587 #Astrobiology #Astrodon #LifeInTheUniverse #Readiness #Space #MoreThanHuman #FuturesStudies https://astrodon.social/@ukseti
Gilmour Space have now released some video of Eris TestFlight1 to the media and it's getting posted in various places, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rtKV9t_Cqs
The video shows the flight from two different cameras. In the second clip you can clearly see that there is a failure of one of the four first stage engines almost immediately after lift off, leaving the rocket with a thrust to weight ratio very close to one. Eris ends up basically hovering near the launch pad, but then a second engine fails and it drops to the ground.
The guidance system did a good job keeping the rocket upright during all this.
Tuesday 30 July 1963
Was Stephen Ward just a rake, a lady-killer, a filthy fellow? Or was he a pimp and a ponce, a man guilty of the loathsome crime of living off immoral earnings? These are the questions put to the jury as the Stephen Ward trial reaches its close.
The Leo Trio
Credits: Steve Cannistra
#nature #space #astrophotography
Today's Wandering Shop Stories #prompt is #space. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "space" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @extraspecialbitter
Light pollution is stealing our view of the stars
Mountaintop observatories worldwide face growing skyglow from city lights and LEDs.
Protecting dark skies isn’t just for astronomers – it’s about preserving a universal right to see the cosmos.
https://theconversation.com/light-pollution-is-encroaching-on-observatories-around-the-globe-making-it-harder-for-astronomers-to-study-the-cosmos-260387