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Planet found orbiting backward between two stars https://arstechni.ca/AeZs #exosolarsystems #exoplanets #whitedwarf #astronomy #Science

How to Get Your Research Paper Accepted https://lobste.rs/s/ffsgv1 #science
https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/how-to-get-a-paper-accepted

I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars.

These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born.

https://public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/ #space #science #tech #nature

Earlier, from Joelle DiPaolo: “If biological sex were as obvious as lawmakers keep insisting that biological sex is, we wouldn’t be here. You wouldn’t have to try so hard to legislate the gender binary into existence.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-lege-pushes-to-define-biological-sex/

#politics #USpol #news #trans #transgender #LGBTQIA+ #transphoia #TXlege #Texas #gender #science

This lady was on Cerys Matthews BBC 6 Music show and communicating great scientific joy at Nature and all it's hideous but intriguing glory

I hope she considers an account on the Mastodon, with us fellow nerds
https://www.sophiepavelle.com/about

Dr. Meredith Palmer and embedded engineer Akiba(of http://freaklabs.org/ ) joined Chris( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia( @logicalelegance ) this week to talk about lions, terror, conservation, and technology.

Dr. Palmer mentioned a weird bird-giraffe relationship.
Find out about this and other interesting conservation conversations in this week's show:
https://embedded.fm/episodes/501.

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#PPOD: This view from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, stitched together from 28 images, was captured after the rover ascended the steep slope of a geologic feature called “Greenheugh Pediment.” In the distance at the top of the image is the floor of Gale Crater near a region called Aeolis Dorsa that researchers believe was once a massive ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Selected tiled-NavCam after Perseverance rover's drive during sol 1512 (May 22, 2025) to site 74.0. Looks like a site that's ripe for contact science.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades https://www.byteseu.com/1034636/ #EverythingScience #Science

New Martian vistas captured four hours ago by Perseverance, stationed on a rock outcrop of the ‘Krokodillen’ plateau.

#Mars May 22, 2025 - Sol 1512
: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#BlueGhost

Firefly Aerospace Adds UAE’s Rashid 2 Rover to Blue Ghost Mission to the Far Side of the Moon

The rover will join Firefly’s second lunar mission in 2026 in addition to other payloads, incl. NASA’s LuSEE-Night radio telescope.

https://fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-aerospace-adds-uaes-rashid-2-rover-to-blue-ghost-mission-to-the-far-side-of-the-moon/

A classical #electromagnetism experiment in this time of the year (i.e. towards the end of my EM course): magnetic breaking acting on a falling magnet (home version).

The left magnet just falls in free fall, the right one gets braked by the induced magnetic field within the aluminum cylinder (mad just sticking together three aluminum foil wraps for kitchen use).

Where is the induced magnetic field coming from? From #Faraday's induction law of course!

New #Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a #Chinese Space Station

It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create #spores, and may have evolved to #survive hundreds of miles above our planet’s surface.

This #bacterium, never before seen on Earth, was detected on #China's #Tiangong #space station. It has been named Niallia tiangongensis, and it inhabited the cockpit controls on the station, living in #microgravity conditions.

https://www.wired.com/story/bacteria-unknown-on-earth-appears-on-chinese-space-station/

Perseverance Rover on the move again. A drive on sol 1511 (May 21,2025) took the rover SSW and further down-slope. The drive duration was 143 minutes, but that included a pause to capture some images.

alertez les lucioles

JF Julian
tags : les lampyridae femelles attirent les mâles pour les dévorer (National Geographic), #light #women #animals #photography #science