#science space astronomy

[catchymemes]

Ohio Total Solar Eclipse

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[floweroflaurelin]

I got the chance to road trip out to the path of totality! My phone camera didn’t do it justice, so I painted what I saw instead 🌞🌚

Here’s the photo I took and the sketch I made with my finger in the notes app while watching it happen 😆

[the-wolf-and-moon]

The Pleiades

[nasa]

Follow, follow the Sun / And which way the wind blows / When this day is done ⁣🎶 ⁣ Today, April 8, 2024, the last total solar eclipse until 2045 crossed North America.⁣

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[maureen2musings]

In this video, take a flight through millions of galaxies mapped using coordinate data from DESI.

Credit: Fiske Planetarium, CU Boulder and DESI collaboration

astrohumanist

[nemfrog]

View of the Earth from Venus.

Astronomy for amateurs. 1904.

Internet Archive

[without-ado]

Different chemicals in meteors produce different colors; the faster a meteor moves, the more intense the color may appear(x)

[we-are-astronomer]

HIYA.

So a lot has gone on in the last little bit. NASA recently was ordered to scrub their site of women's contributions to astronomy and astrophysics, even took down their page celebrating women's history month and all the contributions they've made to NASA. So I did a thing and crawled through the wayback machine to find some articles, and decided to put this right here because fuck the government, fuck the orange in charge who told them to scrub their site, and fuck NASA for throwing their people under the bus and bowing to this authoritarian nonsense. This version of the site still has articles on some important figures like Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle, and ISS chief scientist Jennifer Buchli and chief deputy scientist Meghan Everett, who, in their words, "-provide the science strategy and make science recommendations for the International Space Station program, and help make sure all of the science on the International Space Station goes smoothly, from preparing for launch to conducting research on the space station with the scientists and astronauts and returning the science to Earth."

[catchymemes]

Solar eclipse shadows

[trainwreckrenegade]

[galactic-mermaid]

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🌍🌏🌎Earth is a wonderful planet, but of course, some of the people who live here can do some atrocious activities, like the genocide of the Palestinian people in their home of Gaza. 💔

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From the bottom of our hearts, Thank you so much for taking the time to listen.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Polaris, The North Star

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[nasa]

On Monday, April 8, 2024, there’ll be a total solar eclipse – and it’ll be the last one to cross North America for 20 years. Make sure you’re tuned in to our live broadcast for this exciting event: there’ll be views from along the path of totality, special guests, and plenty of science.

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[humanoidhistory]

Jupiter, observed by Voyager 1 on March 1, 1979.