RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant
Image Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA, T.A. Rector (Univ.of Alaska/NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Obs./NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
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APOD: 2023 March 3 - RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant
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"Seated statue, restored as Urania; the body is late 1st to early 2nd cent. AD and comes from Tivoli, in the area of the so-called Villa of Cassius. The head is from the first half of the 2nd century AD; Vatican Museums, Museo Pio Clementino, Statue Gallery, Inv. 746."
Fabrizio Garrisi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Canyon Diablo Meteorite; found 1891 Arizona, USA. Photo taken at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute.
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"Visitors from Space Reach the Earth"; Artist Unknown (1935).
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Visitors from Space Reach the Earth, 1935 by Unbekannt
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Plate 1: The Meteor of July 27, 1894; drawn by Chauncey M. St. John from "Meteors and Sunsets observed by the Astronomers of the Lick Observatory in 1893, 1894 and 1895," by A.J. Johnston (1895).
Public Domain via Rijks Museum. Cropping and color edits.
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"Meteor of the Perseids in real-time, taken on 14 August 2019 in Berlin."
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"Head of Halley's Comet, May 8, 1910; Reduced from Photograph taken at the Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory," from "A Beginner's Star-Book" by Edgar Murphy (1912). Color and cropping edits.
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A slice of the Homestead Meteorite that fell on February 12, 1875 in Iowa, USA.
Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Oooh! Australian bees!
Aussie Native Bees Steal the Show
In European honeybees, the queen governs the hive with her sterile female workers. Meanwhile, the males are little more than freeloaders, or hangers-on (sorry boys).
But most Australian bees are different. Some are solitary. Others live in cooperative, egalitarian societies where individuals share and jointly defend a nest. There is no clear division into queen and worker castes.
Move over, honeybees: Aussie native bees steal the show with unique social and foraging behaviours
New research provides insights into the evolution and ecology of Australian bees. The capricious masked bee employs female nest guards in a cooperative social structure. Meanwhile, fussy feeders abound.The Conversation
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Plaster model for the marble "L'Étoile Filante" by Félix Maurice Charpentier (~1895).
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Félix Maurice Charpentier, L'Etoile filante
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Rare earths stick to rare cyanobacteria: Future potential for bioremediation and recovery of rare earth elements
Biosorption of metal ions by phototrophic microorganisms is regarded as a sustainable and alternative method for bioremediation and metal recovery.Frontiers
BREAKING: #Walgreens will not dispense #abortion pills in several states where they remain legal. The decision follows pressure and threats of legal action from GOP AGs and anti-abortion groups. #WomensReproductiveRights #WomensRights #WomensHealth #health
Walgreens won’t distribute abortion pills in some states where they remain legal
The decision is the latest to demonstrate how widely abortion access can vary state to state in a post-Roe America.POLITICO
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Etched slice of the Toluca meteorite (first find date uncertain, Mexico ~1776). Exhibit in the Naturmuseum Freiburg, Germany.
Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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DELAURENTIS "Aquarium - Fantasy Variation" [LIVE SESSION]
Adaptation of Camille Saint-Saëns' famous "Aquarium" theme from Le Carnaval des Animaux.Here's an Ableton Live Push Performance, shot @Institut du Monde Arab...YouTube
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Lunar Eclipse at the South Pole
Image Credit & Copyright: Aman Chokshi
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APOD: 2022 November 5 - Lunar Eclipse at the South Pole
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One of the many beautiful illustrations from « Les étoiles : dernière féerie » by J.-J. Grandville; text by Méry; Astronomie des dames by Cte. Foelix.
This one shows "Les étoiles" studying Astronomy and includes a depiction of Urania.
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Image from page 446 of "Les etoiles; derniere feerie" (1847)
Identifier: lesetoilesdernie00mery Title: Les etoiles; derniere feerie Year: 1847 (1840s) Authors: Mery, Joseph, 1798-1865 Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847 Raban, 1795-1870. Astronomie des dames Subjects: Grandville, J. J.Flickr
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Israeli forces kill 11 Palestinians in Nablus raid
Dozens of Palestinians also wounded by live fire after the violent Israeli incursion into the occupied West Bank city.Al Jazeera
【GoW 1】End One Story, Start Of A New
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Overgrazing by deer poses a threat to a giant quaking aspen tree colony in Utah that scientists have named Pando.
In this image by #Landsat 9, Pando’s yellow leaves are visible for about 200 meters on either side of State Route 25. go.nasa.gov/3KPIeNU
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Saving a Forest of One
Overgrazing by deer poses a threat to a giant quaking aspen tree colony in Utah—one of the largest organisms in the world.go.nasa.gov
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What’s Up: Skywatching Tips from NASA
Watch the latest video in NASA’s “What’s Up” series to discover the skywatching highlights for this month.NASA Solar System Exploration
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Back in the year 1006, humans recorded the arrival of light from a supernova explosion caused by the death of a star 7,000 light-years away!
In this #HubbleClassic view, some of the supernova's “leftovers” are seen as a red ribbon moving through space: go.nasa.gov/3IM5s5b
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How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Rewind the Universe
A new simulation shows how NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will turn back the cosmic clock, unveiling the evolving universe in ways that have never been possible before.Ashley Balzer (NASA)
No ZDNET Linux 6.2 WILL NOT Run On M1/M2 Macs
Recently this ZDNET article was making the rounds making some absolutely wild claims about the state of Asahi Linux and it's ability to run on M1 macs, it's ...YouTube
Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics
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Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Review, the authors discuss the latest advances in profiling multiple molecular modalities from single cells, including genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic and proteomic information.Nature
The Octopus Test for Large Language Model AIs
In 2020, before the current crop of large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT and Bing, Emily Bender and Alexander Koller wrote a pkottke.org
From the Sunlit to the Aphotic Zone: Assembly Mechanisms and Co-Occurrence Patterns of Protistan-Bacterial Microbiotas in the Western Pacific Ocean
TAMPA: interpretable analysis and visualization of metagenomics-based taxon abundance profiles
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TAMPA: interpretable analysis and visualization of metagenomics-based taxon abundance profiles
AbstractBackground. Metagenomic taxonomic profiling aims to predict the identity and relative abundance of taxa in a given whole-genome sequencing metagenomic sSarwal, Varuni (Oxford University Press)
Influenza A virus coinfection dynamics are shaped by distinct virus-virus interactions within and between cells
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Influenza A virus coinfection dynamics are shaped by distinct virus-virus interactions within and between cells
Author summary The co-occurrence of distinct virus populations within a single host occurs commonly, when an individual acquires a second infection before a prior one has been cleared.journals.plos.org
Assembling the perfect bacterial genome using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing
A perfect bacterial genome assembly is one where the assembled sequence is an exact match for the organism’s genome—each replicon sequence is complete and contains no errors.dx.plos.org
Bacteriophage-mediated lysis supports robust growth of amino acid auxotrophs
The majority of microbes are auxotrophs, organisms unable to synthesize one or more metabolites required for their growth.bioRxiv
Launch. Check!
Lunar orbit. Check!
Splashdown. Check!
We're giving an update on the data from the #Artemis I flight test around the Moon, which launched successfully in Nov. 2022. Tune in March 7 at noon ET (1700 UTC) for the results: go.nasa.gov/3YdDCEr
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NASA to Discuss Findings from Successful Artemis I Moon Mission
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EST Tuesday, March 7, to provide an update on data analyzed thus far on the agency’s Artemis I Moon mission, the first integrated flight test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, uncrewed …Roxana Bardan (NASA)
1833 Leonids by Adolf Vollmy (1888).
"The most famous depiction of the 1833 Leonids, actually produced in 1888 for the Adventist book Bible Readings for the Home Circle. The engraving is by Adolf Vollmy based upon an original painting by the Swiss artist Karl Jauslin, that is in turn based on a first-person account of the 1833 storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner on his way from Florida to New Orleans."
Adolf Vollmy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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NASA Skywatching Home
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