A piece of the Angra dos Reis Meteorite that fell on January 20, 1869 in Brazil. It is the type specimen of the Angrites and one of the rarest meteorites.
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After Hatch Closure, Crew-5 Prepares to Undock
At 12:29 a.m. EST, the hatch closed between the Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to Earth of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission.go.nasa.gov
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NASA TV is Live for Crew-5 Hatch Closure
Watch live coverage now on NASA TV, the NASA app and the agency’s website as hatch closure and undocking preparations are underway for the return of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission.go.nasa.gov
Fan with watercolor drawing: "Allegory of Science and Astronomy" by Unknown (~1780) from The Fan Museum.
LIVE: #Crew5 is getting settled in their @SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft as they prepare to depart the @Space_Station and head home.
Watch with us—then stop back by at 1:45am ET (0645 UTC) for our live undocking coverage. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKD…
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Exhibition of the Eiduranion at London on October 11, 1817; at the English Opera House (Lyceum Theatre, London).
James Stow, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Black and White Version: Edward Francis Burney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Comet 17P/Holmes on November 21, 2007.
Don McCrady CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/48M2T2
Comet 17P/Holmes (Nov 21, 2007)
After brightening explosively in October 2007, it's coma has begun to expand so much that it's reflection is now more diffuse and is starting to dim.Flickr
"Urania Observatory, Vienna" by Alexander Demetrius Goltz (1912).
Alexander Demetrius Goltz , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
A Comet that appeared in 1742, with Observations from March 13 to April 15.
Matthäus Seuttetre, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
"The Muse Urania" bronze by Unknown (~1700).
The Wallace Collection CC BY-NC-ND via ArtUK.org
The Pasamonte Meteorites fell on March 24, 1933 in New Mexico, USA.
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"Gilded brass celestial globe by Johannes Reinhold and Georg Roll made at Augsburg in 1586."
Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
When you are on top of the ratpile, it is your responsibility to make sure that those on the bottom are cozy and can breathe easily. #rats #petRats #ratsOfMastodon
The lesson is left as an exercise for the humans.
@AlanSill That automatic updates switch is on the OS update page though. This has to be for the OS (and it used to work).
There is another one for the App Store settings which does app updates (that works, except on devices with parental controls where it makes me update apps manually, one at a time, and enter both my password and the child’s password for each one).
Quadrans Muralis from "Atlas Maior" at Meermanno by Joan Blaeu (~1662-1665).
Joan Blaeu, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Data from the #Artemis I mission shows we’re ready for Artemis II, we captured stunning new imagery of a pulsar wind nebula, and testing continues on rockets that will return humans to the Moon—all that, This Week at NASA.
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NASA Sets Coverage for Next SpaceX Resupply Launch to Space Station
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 14, to launch the company’s 27th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff will be from Launch Complex 39A at the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Claire O’Shea (NASA)
It's a bit overdue, but you can add Team and User icons in Luro now.
*I* am (of course) using this feature *responsibly*.
"Uraniborg" by Heinrich Hansen (1882).
Heinrich Hansen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Time Lapse of an English Five Pound Note Reconstructed From Shredded Production Waste
When the Bank of England misprints banknotes, they shred them into tiny little pieces. In this time lapse video, compressed fromkottke.org
Black Inc. has stumbled with its anthology of neurodivergent writing. The term is not a diagnosis – it is part of a political movement
After an outcry on social media over its requirement that writers provide a medical diagnosis, Black Inc. has put on hold a planned anthology: Growing up Neurodivergent in Australia.The Conversation
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DIY Methods, a zine-based conference on exploring experimental research methods. This year’s theme is about “knowledge as a gift and research as care work”.
Piece of the Vícenice Iron Meteorite that was found in 1911 in the Czech Republic.
Moravské zemské muzeum v Brně, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Millions of Galaxies Emerge in New Simulated Images From NASA's Roman
Scientists have created a gargantuan synthetic survey that shows what we can expect from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s future observations.Ashley Balzer (NASA)
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Webb Events to Take Place at South by Southwest, in Greater Austin
Scientists from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, also called “Webb” or “JWST,” will participate in panels at the 2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festivals, as well as two local events, from March 12-16 in Austin, Texas.Jamie Adkins (NASA)
Teachers: Celebrate #PiDay in your classroom!
Challenge your students to use pi to solve some of the same problems our scientists and engineers face while exploring other worlds. Answer key is available on March 15. Slice into our #NASAPiDayChallenge: go.nasa.gov/3mJ7mfq
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Student Project: The NASA Pi Day Challenge | NASA/JPL Edu
Can you use π (pi) to solve these stellar math problems faced by NASA scientists and engineers?NASA/JPL Edu
Finally, the Answers to Cold Weather Mysteries
If you live in any sort of winter climate, you have, at one time or another, wrestled with the two great mysteries of cold weathkottke.org
Celestial Globe by Ibrahim ibn Said al-Sahli (1085) at the Museo Galileo.
Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Mississippi River Valley is home to most of the rice farms in the United States. 🌾🍚
This #Landsat 9 image shows the patchwork of flooded rice fields in southwestern Louisiana on February 3, 2023. go.nasa.gov/3LmwPFw
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Louisiana is the nation’s third-largest producer of rice, after Arkansas and California.
In 2021, the Rice Belt (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) produced about 73%of all rice in the U.S. The map here shows rice-growing areas within these states (in blue) in 2022.
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