Direct Hit! A snake-like filament launched as a big #solarstorm while in the Earth-strike zone. NASA predicts impact early July 19. Strong #aurora shows possible with this one, deep into mid-latitudes. Amateur #radio & #GPS users expect signal disruptions on Earth's nightside.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, dated to be written around 2100 BC, already spoke of "ancient times."

Haters mad because I can experience childlike wonder

Earth photographed from the Apollo 11 CSM on July 17, 1969 #OTD from a distance of about 98,000 miles (158,000 km). 🌍

love my new job.

Don’t let folks hold ignorance like a shield while wielding bigotry as a club.

i honestly can't take someone seriously intellectually if they refer to anything as judeo-christian

every lab has a weird little guy. if you don’t think your lab has one, then you’re the weird little guy

re-normalize being bedridden for three days with fevers after receiving shocking news

A very interesting lunar image. From Lunar Orbiter 5, frame 102 M.

space: the new Mediterranean

Civil war era soyjak memes. (1861)

Rare waterspout report from Northern Canada (Lake Athabasca)! icwr.ca facebook.com/robbyjaxonryde…

I was inspired to have a new go at the Einstein Ring around LRG3-757, 11bn light years away The photons forming the blue ring left a galaxy when the universe was less than 3bn years old & have been travelling for 80% of the life of the universe Mine from back garden ... Hubble 1/

Abolition of slavery was the result of a confluence of factors: the spread of Enlightenment ideas of liberty, the slave revolts (esp after Haiti), the changing needs of capitalism from mercantilism to industrialism, the moral influence of abolitionism & inter-imperialist conflict

Give me one good reason why every single four-way intersection shouldn’t be turned into a roundabout/traffic circle