"Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out."--Max Planck, father of quantum mechanics, born OTD 1858.

Max Planck, whose pioneering work on the radiation emitted by an object at a given temperature propelled science toward quantum mechanics, born OTD 1858. Here's his famous formula:

You know it's true… Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.

An international team has discovered a six-planets system. In the planetary system #HD158259, all pairs of subsequent planets are close to the 3:2 resonance - the inner one completes about three orbits as the outer completes two. buff.ly/2z6GJrZ Université de Genève

"The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level."--Wolfgang Pauli, born OTD 1900.

The astounding mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan died 100 years ago today. His life is the opening vignette of this exploration of genius I moderated with Philip Glass, Julie Taymor, and renowned neuroscientists. youtube.com/watch?v=ZbE_jV…

🎵🎸🎶 Sing along to "The Astrobiologist Blues" with David Grinspoon, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Mike Massimino! 🎶🎸🎵

Listen closely! Can we hear gravitational waves?

Investment in space industry and in exploration for all!

Regardless of what breakfast day it is, Penny will be there five nights a week!

#Iconic images of #space No.36: A 'new' 2015 view of the NASA/ESA HUBBLE Telescope's iconic 'Pillars of creation' image from 1995 (corrected) 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

In this latest episode of our #GravityAssist podcast, we take you on a journey to Mars to discuss ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover’s mission and the effort to explore whether the Red Planet had life in the past, or even now. 🔉 Listen: go.nasa.gov/3aSKDSj

What a day 🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds startrek.com/news/star-trek…

#OTD 16 May 1960, first successful operation of a #laser is credited to US physicist and engineer Theodore Maiman, and now we mark this anniversary with UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #InternationalDayOfLight International Day of Light 16 May 👉 en.unesco.org/commemorations… #IDL2020 #SEETHELIGHT

Congratulations SpaceX on a successful launch. Godspeed Col. Doug Hurley and Liam in their Crew Dragon Capsule

Liftoff!

A day in the life of the Exp 63 crew as they talk to mission controllers and work science experiments. flic.kr/s/aHsmLto82z

Since the Universe has no center, you can’t be it.

In this exclusive, unaired clip from last night’s season finale, the happy couple gets one last gift from #StephenHawking. 💕 #BigBangTheory