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Project 2025 and DOGE What could go wrong? NOT AUS translates to "emergency" off or "kill switch".

A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA

You only die twice: Recent theoretical models suggested that some stars could destroy themselves in two, successive supernova explosions. Now we have direct visual evidence that such doubled stellar deaths really happen. 🧪🔭 www.eso.org/public/news/...

One of the brightest auroras I’ve ever seen

A messy human learning curve visible in orbit.

Mark Smith Photography

One of the clearest images of Venus taken by Japan's Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter. -Credits: JAXA

The difference of 5 minutes.

“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.” — A. Whitney Griswold

CFHT Astronomy Image Of The Month - July 2025 Angel Nebula (NGC 2170) Credits: © 2025 CFHT; Data obtained using the MegaCam camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; Image by Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum) www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStar... 🧪🔭

Another reason I left the continent. What on Earth are they playing at. Such arrogant delusion is useless to everyone. Rapid evolutionary steps don't stop just because your paper is accepted to a group of self important people. Why?!

There is no right or left. There is only decency and criminality. Moderate political actors are willing to tolerate a certain amount of criminality and also grant social welfare to promote their positions. Without public health and protected retirement programs for savings, you have no governance.

Another reason I left the country over 20 years ago. Shocking bad health system even if your insurance is good. No regrets. Wake up and push for a better culture America.

The brief biography describes Robinson’s childhood in California, his time in a segregated Army unit during World War II and his role in breaking baseball’s color barrier.

The move reflects the fact that a vast majority of female police officers already opt to wear pants.

Stealing in Russia and spending in Europe was a favorite oligarch pastime. Not really war, more like a middle finger to a fool who has burned through way too much military personnel and hardware to do anything but protest. Me thinks the lady doth protest too much, said Europe. 🇺🇦 has the tech.

buff.ly/bl1qPiz Scientists have announced that a dim star in a constellation easily visible after dark from the Northern Hemisphere is finally on the verge of exploding. The binary star system, called T Corona Borealis (TCrB), could become visible to the naked eye next week. 🧪 🔭

Found in a Canadian grocery store. A lot of countries grow oranges. Good bye, Florida 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And it is time to take the apple from the pigs mouth and serve it. Pitty the Oligarchs won't be able to steal in Russia and spend in Europe anymore, not! Everyone is sick of bullying and greedy psychopaths.

🇹🇷 Mass protests continue in Turkiye against the arrest of Erdogan's main opponent - the mayor of Istanbul

En Israël, une purge nocturne par le gouvernement Nétanyahou et «l’ombre d’une guerre civile»

Bluesky says it is now sending referral traffic through its "go" subdomain to make it easier for publishers to track the traffic coming from the social network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Lockheed Martin is so upset with their choices right now it is funny to watch.

A very good documentary about dam engineering - and why all dams are temporary.

Luxembourg's administrative court dismissed Amazon's appeal against a record €746M fine imposed by the country's privacy regulator in 2021 for GDPR violations (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The United States of #America is crumbling into this. Politicians forget this has been simmering under the surface since the 1990s. People are getting screwed out of their paid retirement, SSI + Healthcare. This is not about politics it is about reality. Tax disbursement is not one-way theft.

🚨 BREAKING: The European Parliament today banned Huawei lobbyists from entering its premises, following allegations of bribery linked to the Chinese technology giant's lobbying activities in Brussels. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/huaw...

A landmark ruling on transgender rights in Poland! The country’s Supreme Court has issued a ruling that eliminates the requirement for trans people to involve their parents in gender recognition proceedings.

Weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall's market capitalization overtook automotive behemoth Volkswagen Group yesterday, a sign of Germany's economic shift from cars to defense.

This remarkable image, processed by Robert Gendler, shows the complex region of the Vela supernova remnant, the glowing material from a massive star that exploded some 11,000 years ago. #astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotography #astroimaging #astronomyimages #photography #spaceimages #science

Turnabout is fair play.

🚨 BREAKING: Germany’s Friedrich Merz has reached a breakthrough with the Greens on a gargantuan spending plan. Here’s the developing story: ow.ly/Rcfs50VhYef

#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity rover captured this image of the Sun through the dusty martian atmosphere in July 2018 while the dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission was still raging. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appéré 🧪 🔭

The acquittal of two former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings over the 2011 nuclear disaster at its Fukushima No. 1 power plant has been finalized after no appeal was filed against the latest rulings.

Narwhals are difficult to study, partly because they live so far north in the remote Arctic. In today’s episode,  a  mysterious creature with a tooth longer than your body. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...

I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization... Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️

First, of course, the total fertility rate — a metric that summarizes birth rates across age groups of women in one particular year. ourworldindata.org/grapher/chil...

War crimes and genocide. Religion is not an excuse.

Canada to be EU’s 28th member? Nearly half of Canadians say yes: The European Commission isn't strictly ruling it out either.

New Study Reveals How Rogue Planetary-mass Objects Form In Young Star Clusters astrobiology.com/2025/03/new-... #astrobiology #exoplanet #Interstellar #LPSC2025

NASA's Dragonfly Mission Student and Early Career Investigator Program astrobiology.com/2025/03/nasa... #astrobiology #Dragonfly #Titan #LPSC2025

From @Rocketlab "The Mars Sample Return mission represents one of the most ambitious and scientifically valuable endeavors in NASA’s history. Rocket Lab is ready to enable this mission. Here's our mission concept." www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/mar... #Astrobiology #Mars

The Helix Nebula, 650 light-years away in Aquarius, is a dying star’s cosmic tantrum. Captured by Spitzer, GALEX, and WISE, this planetary nebula glows as its white dwarf core heats expelled gas. Once like our Sun, the star now leaves behind a stunning celestial display. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA SMD Is Merging All FACA Advisory Committees Into One: Janet Petro has directed NASA to merge these five committees into a single advisory committee with broad representation from across the NASA science community. Memo: nasawatch.com/space-scienc... #NASA #LPSC2025

teslatakedown.com #3E #TeslaTakeDown

#Afghanistan: One child has died from measles each day in Afghanistan in 2025, according to data we collected at three hospitals where we work. See all the data and get the whole story about this alarming surge in cases: www.msf.org/msf-records-...

Emmanuel Macron with the chiefs of staff of 34 allied free nations. The US is not invited.