Ben Farmer

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

If you happen to need high-resolution images of the entire planet #Earth, and are happy with the Japan side of the planet, I recently came across this very excellent interface to #Himawara8 weather satellite data, maintained by the "Digital Typhoon" website: agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typh...

It was a huge honor to speak with Stephanie Nolen at the @nytimes.com about our mutual obsession with tuberculosis. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Oh wow, this is *such* a cool concept - a 'game' procedurally generated from Wikipedia, in which you can literally traverse all of human knowledge and walk down rabbit holes

This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.

forget everything you think you know about data visualisation and go try @emily.space's sk8plotlib package

Thinking of Bill Anders, on the first anniversary since his passing, of one of the most influential photographs ever taken. He took 'Earthrise' during Apollo 8 #OTD in 1968. Remastered here from the original flight film. Happy holidays one and all.

From the preface of Carl Sagan's book "The Cosmic Connection", 1973. Such optimism for what we would have accomplished by now! #astronomy #carlsagan

Learning math mostly isn't about specific rules and certainly isn't about memorising anything at all. It's about training and developing the brain. Looking around the world, I can't help feel like we need a whole lot more of it, not less.

Almost exactly 51 years ago, in November 1973, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was passing by Jupiter, the first spacecraft to do so. It took the attached photographs during its flyby. It was the first human-made object to reach the outer solar system, and it is still on its way into interstellar space.

An experiment in dynamic histogram generation with #Bokeh, #Python, #Jupyter. You'd think this would be in the library, but it is not, unless I am dumb and missed it. Fortunately the custom JS was not so complicated. Code here: snippet.host/cfxnwc

Still learning this app, so here's a thing I built in #NoMansSky one time, that seemed to be appreciated by the people of Reddit.

I don't even play Minecraft, but this is incredible: youtu.be/3Aq0KJMo4RA?...

Nasa's cassini spacecraft captured the incredible view of Saturn

I somehow missed this back in May :(. RIP Akastuki, probably. More Venus missions please! Personally I want a permanent Venus weather satellite! www.space.com/jaxa-loses-c...