This little wave through the window of the Boeing Space Starliner capsule really made my day ht 📸Trevor Mahlmann🚀

One of the more amazing spacecraft photos I've seen: SpaceX's Dragon "Endeavour" backing away from the International Space Station, with only the capsule's navigation lights and engine plume illuminating the darkness of space. Credit: Cosmonaut Nikolay Chub

It was great fun being a guest on the Dead Planets Society podcast with Chelsea Whyte and Leah Crane !

once got my head stuck between the ground and the ceiling in a cave. i don't go in caves anymore

Eerie and cool

we live in a post-comedy world

This week's episode of Dead Planets Society is one of the most fun and most unhinged ever newscientist.com/article/243774…

“If they had only selected one provider, it would have been Boeing, because SpaceX was the risky prospect at the time. So in a way, this is a triumph of the Commercial Crew Program,” our Executive Director Laura Seward Forczyk 🌙💫🚀 told New Scientist. Read more: newscientist.com/article/244542…

Bit of aurora in London!

We have something a little different in this week's magazine: a choose your own adventure that lets you decide how to try and save Earth form an impending asteroid impact. The available options might surprise you... newscientist.com/article/mg2643… by Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋☄️

Every single sentence of Daniel M. Lavery's Conclave review is perfect. "There is of course too the prospect of seeing Ralph Fiennes’ enormous face looking conflicted and earnest for several hours, which is as good a thing as I can possibly imagine." thechatner.com/p/i-accuse-you…

My latest solar system composite photo illustrates something that can be difficult to visualize: the angular size of the planets. This is how “big” Mars is in the sky compared to Jupiter. It’s much closer, but much, much smaller. Captured with an 11” scope from my backyard.

fuck it give Tramell a Tony too

Astronomers, I'm looking for something a bit niche for a story I'm working on. Is anyone planning to use Rubin to look for any superluminal effects (eg light echoes, image doubling, time reversal GRBs)? If you are, or know anyone, do get in touch! jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com

Do people outside chicago know what it’s like here? Whistle patrols? People on foot or bikes patrolling our streets around school arrivals and dismissals to alert staff, students, and families if we see ICE? Does anyone understand what this is like? Are you hearing about us?

Wild aurora pillar over Chicago just now!

…this is the craziest photo I’ve ever seen

pure of heart