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#ISS 🛰️ Week Begins with Robotics Prep for Spacewalk and Advanced Research www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces...

Moving forward www.eso.org/public/video... Today’s Picture of the Week shows an exciting milestone: the massive altitude structure of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) was tilted for the first time in October 2026.

This mountain in China looks like it’s burning because the sun hits it at a perfect angle and the clouds are constantly moving. It is a phenomenon called alpenglow. Original post

“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.” ― Carl Sagan

ICE agents broke a U.S. citizen's arm when they intentionally struck him with an unmarked vehicle as he rode his e-bike in Long Beach, California. He screamed in pain as agents tased him twice and handcuffed him on the ground. His injuries are severe. Repost this everywhere!

Do not forget that Trump's first action was to release 1,500 violent criminals who once fought for him and now owe him. So in true gangster regime style, he started all this with an army of thugs who could threaten, overtly or tacitly, anyone (and their families) in his way. GOP capitulation anyone?

Source: Science Daily share.google/A5AbE0vY9vq9... Black Holes from the dawn of time #Science

Watch the universe emerge from the dark ages, with Lumina news.mit.edu/2026/watch-u... The new simulation tracks dark matter, galaxies, stars, and cosmic structures over the universe’s first 2 billion years, in greater detail and volume than ever before.

Cows seeing fresh grass for the first time in six months after a long Dutch winter. Original post

M42: The Great Nebula in Orion science.nasa.gov/image-articl... An immense, nearby starbirth region, is one the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away

Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe science.nasa.gov/image-articl... The gravity of unseen dark matter is the leading explanation for why galaxies rotate so fast, why galaxies orbit clusters so fast, why gravitational lenses so strongly deflect light, and how visible matter is distributed.

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Republican Record - 40 years. Vote Democratic 🗳

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge.” ― Carl Sagan

Rosetta's Selfie science.nasa.gov/image-articl... This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was snapped on October 7th, 2014. At the time the comet-chasing spacecraft was about 472 million kilometers from planet Earth, but only 16 kilometers from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

SPADEX Satellites Re-entry into Earth’s Atmosphere on October 12, 2026 www.isro.gov.in/SPADEX_Satel... science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... The mission demonstrated critical autonomous rendezvous and low-impact docking technologies using the two satellites, SPADEX-A and SPADEX-B

Step out of fear, hesitation, and paralyzing doubt. Believe life is worth living. Engage with the world boldly. Make active, conscious choices to find meaning and purpose in life. Have a great weekend everyone! #Life #Meaning #Purpose

A cosmic iris blooms in the velvet dark, crowned by a halo of ancient, burning dust. Gravity spins these stellar embers into a radiant diadem, an eternal eye gazing out across the silent void.

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind news.mit.edu/2026/qa-how-... Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate

El Niño Then and Now science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... A 35-year satellite altimetry record lets scientists hold this year's El Niño up against its strongest predecessors.

INFERIOR CONJUNCTION OF VENUS: It’s happening right now, Oct. 23-24. “The delicate crescent of Venus was a lovely sight,” says photographer Günther Strauch of Borken, Germany. This is what the planet looks like spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices news.mit.edu/2026/design-... “X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.

AM 0500-620 Image date: 24 April 2008, 15:00 Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) Source: ESA/Hubble

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth?” ― Carl Sagan

Stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron ✨ www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... This is a star-forming region named LHA 120-N 159, or simply N159, located 161 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435 science.nasa.gov/image-articl... The featured image is an illustration showing WD J1330+6435, a white dwarf star, surrounded by an accretion disk with gas and rocks orbiting the star.

Space Weather Alerts 🌌 Geomagnetic Storm www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ale... spaceweather.com

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time [...] when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority.” ― Carl Sagan

NASA’s CASALS Instrument Bridges Gaps in 3D Maps of Earth’s Surface science.nasa.gov/science-rese... Video from a CASALS flight over the Great Cypress Swamp in Delaware on Nov. 12, 2024, showing tree canopy tops in green, the ground in purple, and near-ground vegetation in blue.

“In science it often happens that scientists say, ’You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds [...] I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” ― Carl Sagan

Trinity student awarded 2026 Hamilton Prize in Mathematics www.tcd.ie/news_events/... Artem Tarasenko, who is studying theoretical physics, received the 2026 Hamilton Prize in Mathematics last week as part of the Royal Irish Academy’s annual Hamilton Day celebration

“One of the great commandments of science is, ’Mistrust arguments from authority.’” ― Carl Sagan

NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers www.nasa.gov/missions/moo... NASA released a Moon Base video update offering a closer look at progress being made on the commercial lunar terrain vehicles & robotic rovers that will enable surface mobility needed to build humanity’s 1st lunar outpost

Halloween 🎃 is coming

A MAGICAL MORNING--ORIONIDS, MARS AND JUPITER: If you had to pick one day in 2026 to wake up before sunrise, Thursday, Oct. 22nd, might be it. It’s a magical morning. The brightest stars of winter will be sparkling overhead while Mars and Jupiter converge in the southeast. spaceweather.com

MMX mission successfully launches 🛰️ Idefix® rover on its way to Martian moon Phobos www.dlr.de/en/latest/ne... MMX aims to determine the origin of Mars' moons and, in 2031, bring soil samples from Phobos back to Earth for the first time