Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, seen in this #HubbleClassic image from 1999, has captivated astronomers for centuries. The spot is a vast storm, spinning like a cyclone.
It’s the largest known storm in our solar system and almost twice the size of Earth: go.nasa.gov/3SWCK5W
#Hubble
Are you in NYC april 28-29? If so come to the Open Source Hardware Summit!
and also then you can attend my free BUBBLEPUNK workshop
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Bubblepunk: Make Upcycled Toys for Fun and Science
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Elon Musk Uses Twitter to Humiliate Fired Employee: 'Guy Did No Actual Work'
Musk holds an awkward, public exit interview with Haraldur Thorleifsson, who was uncertain whether he'd been fired or not. Musk at one point replied with laughing emojis.Michael Kan (PCMag)
US-RSE February Community Call - Workflow Tools
Workflow tools figure prominently in some RSE fields and are barely used in others. In this call we will compare notes on how people are working with workflo...YouTube
APOD: 2023 March 7 – Deep Field: The Large Magellanic Cloud
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.By James Clayton (BBC News)
Remember the concept of "management by walking around" that was all the rage back when I went to business school?
Now we get "management by tweeting around."
Dota 2 removes OpenGL support, new hero Muerta now live, big update due in April
The latest major update to Dota 2 from Valve has landed, bringing with it the removal of OpenGL support and the new hero Muerta.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Deal with a UFO crashing into a small village in Kujlevka, releasing in April
Kujlevka from developer Callback and publisher Crytivo is a quirky adventure about a flying saucer crash landing into a small distant Russian village.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Flathub in 2023, they have some big plans
Robert McQueen, CEO of the Endless OS Foundation and GNOME Board President, has given a big update on what's going on with Flathub. Sadly, the Plaintext Group recently turned their funding proposal down.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 28: Losing My Marbles
Marble Blast was first released in 2002, before being updated to Marble Blast Gold in 2003. The demo can be obnoxious, with it showing a begging screen imploring you to buy the full game after completing each and every level.Hamish (GamingOnLinux)
Looking to contribute to the Nextcloud project? Nextcloud Text is a great place to start!
Check out our blog for a list of 'good first issues' and start contributing today!
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Contribute to the Text app: the hidden gem! - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Office comes with powerful and visible apps like Talk, Groupware and Deck, but quietly working in the background is perhaps the lesser known Text app.Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)
French parcel-gilt bronze allegorical figures of Urania and Clio. Cast from models by Eutrope Bouret (~1875).
Learn why SCM, a holding company that manages tens of billions in industrial holdings and production assets chose Nextcloud Talk for their communication!
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Nextcloud Talk offering secure corporate messaging for SCM LIMITED - Nextcloud
JSC System Capital Management Ltd or SCM (wikipedia) is a holding company that manages tens of billions in industrial holdings and production assets that are SCM Holdings’ investee companies.Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)
Comet 2021 A1 (Leonard) on January 2, 2022 by Christian Gloor, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A fragment of the Morasko Meteorite at the Mineralogical Museum, Wrocław, Poland.
Mariuszjbie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Great Britain. Her family lived in poverty, selling fossils to make ends meet.
Scientists of Anning’s day could not believe that a poor young woman could posses her knowledge & talent. She has been described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew' yet many are still unaware of her incredible contributions.
The majority of her discoveries ended up in museums & collections without credit. ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anni… #history #science #HistoryRemix
I'm not sure about her level of obscurity. In my local library, in the 1970's Mary Anning was in all the "Dinosaur" books that I devoured.
Household name, maybe not. Well known amongst small children with a passion for paleontology, fossils and dinosaurs, unavoidable!
Deep Field: The Large Magellanic Cloud
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)
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APOD: 2023 March 7 – Deep Field: The Large Magellanic Cloud
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
A photomechanical print of the porcelain figures of Apollo and the Muses Urania and Melpomene (~1880).
Public Domain via Rijks Museum Item RP-F-F25653-AB.
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What are you doing step-chart?
~ -10%, can you beat me?
"The Fall of Phaeton" by Peter Paul Rubens (~1605).
Peter Paul Rubens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edit.
Hyakutake Passing Ursa Major by Dennis Harper Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr: flic.kr/p/8zdDyE
Now imagine we are in ancient times and a huge CME hits the Comet, ripping off fragments that fall to Earth...
Hyakutake passing Ursa Major or Big Dipper 2
Those are tree tops shading the bottom and right side. Since stars are point light sources they readily peek through the branches. There are no leaves on them in March.Flickr
"The Fall of Phaethon (Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2, 31-328.)," by Jan Carel van Eyck after Peter Paul Rubens (~1636-1638).
Jan Carel van Eyck, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edit.
Comet Morehouse on September 30, 1908.
Edward Emerson Barnard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Phaeton's Fall" by Gustave Moreau (1878).
Gustave Moreau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"The Nine Muses - Urania (Astronomy)" by Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1782).
Johann Heinrich Tischbein, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
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Large Celestial Sphere at Kublai Khan's Observatory in (Yuan Dynasty) Peking (~1892).
Public Domain via the Rijks Museum Item RP-F-2001-7-1126-12. Color and cropping edits.
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#ISS
Expanded Station Crew Works Together Before Quartet Departure
The newly-expanded International Space Station crew of 11 members kicked off a busy work week today conducting a variety of research and visiting vehicle activities.blogs.nasa.gov
Do you see the tendrils hanging from this ''jellyfish'' galaxy? As jellyfish galaxies move through intergalactic space, gas is slowly stripped away, forming trails that resemble tendrils illuminated by star formation. go.nasa.gov/3ykqRxr
#NASAExoplanets
Hubble Peers at a Galactic Seascape
A “jellyfish galaxy” with trailing tentacles of stars hangs in inky blackness in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) near Messier 45, the Pleiades; January 2015.
theilr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: flic.kr/p/qR2QRk
Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) and the Pleiades (M45)
28x30sec at ISO 12800 180mm f/4 Nikon D750 Clear sky, no moon, new camera, and news of a comet in Taurus -- who cares if it's a little cold out there....Flickr
Comet C/2016 R2 PanSTARRS on January 16, 2018.
Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona, CC BY-SA 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons.
Great Instrument (Armillary) of Kublai Khan's Observatory in (Yuan Dynasty) Peking (~1892).
Public Domain via the Rijks Museum Item RP-F-2001-7-1126-5. Color and cropping edits.
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Mantle clock ("Pendule Uranie - Muse of Astronomy"). Clockmaker: Jean Lepaute. Sculptor: Jean-Antoine Houdon.
Public Domain via the Met Museum. metmuseum.org/art/collection/s…
The Lafayette Martian Meteorite was mysteriously found in Purdue's collection in 1931.
Claire H., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: flic.kr/p/5y1fAJ
Stone Achondrite Meteor
(Martian Calcium-rich Pyroxenite) Found in 1931, original impact site unknown.Flickr
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