This was one of the first things I painted after my dad passed 💕 shows the other side

Woah last post kinda blew up - For those of you that don’t know me here is a quick recap of my journey :) I started my career as an integration engineer at an aerospace Prime building NASA weather satellites. Then I moved to join a startup building rockets/lunar landers. I

The `sudo systemctl soft-reboot` on Linux is used for performing a userspace only reboot operation. It will reboot the Linux distro without the BIOS, UEFI or the hardware having to perform a complete cold boot.

A poignant article by Senator Mark Kelly on how ensuring a continued American presence in space is crucial to keeping our country’s engine of science and innovation moving. nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opi…

Going to start the day painting this little space opal. This is the little gem nebula captured by Hubble in visible light ✨🥹

Sad news. I had the great pleasure of interviewing Jim Lovell - he told me that of all the Apollo flights he could have chosen - Apollo 8 was the one because it was the first navigation of the ocean between Earth and Moon. He was in lunar orbit on my first Christmas Eve. RIP.

It’s here: The Planetary Society’s biggest advocacy event of the year—the 2025 Day of Action on October 5 and 6. This time, we’re not just fighting for one or two missions, we’re fighting for the future of NASA science. And we’re not alone. Nearly a dozen organizations are

Everything should still be written in Fortran 77.

🧡 my oil painting of a dying star

You don't need top tier equipment to photograph the Milky Way This is the results from a Fujifilm XT4, an iPhone 16 Pro, and a Sony A7SIII camera.

Everyone should listen to Carolyn Porco … this alien spaceship stuff is completely out of hand - it’s OVERWHELMINGLY likely to be a lump of ice and rock. We went through similar nonsense with the ‘LHC might create a black hole and destroy the world’ fiasco. There is value in

oryx is a TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux. A good tool for developers, sysadmins, IT and infosec folks for troubleshooting problems.

Prints launch in 10 days 🥹🥹💕✨

I spy with JWST’s golden eye, a possible new moon for Uranus in the night sky. ✨ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny world only six miles (10 km) across. Too faint for Voyager 2 or Hubble to catch, this little moon hid in plain sight until Webb’s sharp gaze

Ian and I took a photo of the horsehead nebula 🥰 turned out so pretty. 👀 at those ripples ooooooof Ian Lauer Astro

Abel 85 oil painting :)

Happy 34th Birthday, #Linux! 🐧🎈🎂 On August 25, 1991, 21-year-old Linus Torvalds announced he was developing “a (free) operating system…” Today, from nest devices to NASA, #android smartphones to the top #supercomputers: #Linux powers #tech of all levels, all around the

Last week, The Planetary Society hosted a Mars Exploration briefing in Washington D.C. to commemorate 50 years since Viking 1’s launch. The discussion explored how the U.S. approaches Mars exploration, from selecting, landing, and operating rovers to preparing for future crewed

Wow!

YEY SOLD!! This painting is off to Paris!! 🥳 If you’d like a print, the store is open 🥰✨ catmachin.com/pages/ea_aurora