Hiccups happen to everyone... even planets.
Hubble observed an exoplanet orbiting so close to its parent star that it experiences a consistent, torrential blast of energy, which evaporates its hydrogen atmosphere – causing it to puff off the planet: go.nasa.gov/3OzYIvm
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#Hubble
Hubble Sees Evaporating Planet Getting the Hiccups
A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
Clouds from above... ☁
Photos of pink and gold clouds hanging over oceans around the world were captured as the space station orbited roughly 260 miles overhead.
More of Earth from space: flic.kr/s/aHsmACYoYM
#ISS
Earth
Photographs of Earth taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.NASA Johnson (Flickr)
Interested in an overview on how you can use Nextcloud for integrating data from various sources, creating reports, and using flexible visualizations? 📊📈
Then this talk is for you!
youtu.be/nD_QVePRh34?t=27
Open Source reporting with the Analytics app | Nextcloud Conference 2022
more videos from Nextcloud Conference 2022 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4eBKdNy6FCGX2WW6fFqMiFJvi4gf_Hiw*Marcel Scherello* Analytics & Audioplayer cre...YouTube
#ISS
Astrobee Powered Off; Crew Completes Payload Maintenance and Preps for Upcoming Missions
The Expedition 69 crew members carried out more station maintenance activities today aboard the International Space Station as they gear up for a busy month of mission events in August.blogs.nasa.gov
If you're in parts of the Eastern Seabord, you might be able to see Cygnus lift off in person!
Here's when (and where) to look on Aug. 1, weather permitting: go.nasa.gov/3DuU6QP
#NASA
Watch the next Antares NASA Cargo Resupply Launch from Wallops
The next Antares launch is scheduled for 8:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 1, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia.Jamie Adkins (NASA)
The next cargo mission to the @Space_Station will launch from @NASA_Wallops in Virginia. Liftoff of @NorthropGrumman's uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is set for Aug. 1 at 8:31pm ET (0031 UTC).
How to watch, from prelaunch to space station arrival: go.nasa.gov/3Qe2n2S
#NASA
NASA Sets Coverage for Cargo Launch to International Space Station
NASA and commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman are targeting 8:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 1, for the launch of the company’s 19th resupply mission to the International Space Station from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.Claire O’Shea (NASA)
Combat-free RPG set in an occult library BOOK OF HOURS launches August 17th
Releasing on August 17th from developer Weather Factory, BOOK OF HOURS is an "elegant, melancholy, combat-free RPG set in an occult library" and it certainly looks different.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Homeworld Remastered Collection and Severed Steel are free on Epic Games
As a space-nerd, I couldn't miss telling you that you can grab the entire Homeworld Remastered Collection free on Epic Games right now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The gameplay is amazing and it runs like a dream on the Steam Deck.
#NASAEarth
This is the most important article on the Internet today. Everyone who has found some kind of solace or community online needs to read this.
Big Tech is harming kids and everyone else. But #KOSA will make that worse, not better. teenvogue.com/story/kids-onlin…
Archive of Our Own Survived a Cyberattack, But Will It Survive Congress?
Archive of Our Own (AO3), a fanfic site loved by young LGBTQ+ people, was compromised by hackers. But the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is the real threat.Sarah Philips (Teen Vogue)
Check out the new demo for Aurora: The Lost Medallion - The Cave
Aurora: The Lost Medallion - The Cave is an upcoming coming-of-age tale of destiny, friendship, and discovery.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Happy #NationalInternDay!
@nasainterns help us answer questions in Earth science, communicate @nasa’s findings, and more. 🌍
Meet a few of our amazing 2023 interns 👇intern.nasa.gov/
#NASAEarth
This is my little friend. There might not be many thoughts in her head, but she's very cute.
Our #JunoMission is making ever closer passes by Jupiter’s moon Io. The spacecraft will take another look at the active, volcanic moon on July 30 – with even closer flybys to come. 🌋 missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasa…
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#NASASolarSystem
NASA’s Juno Is Getting Ever Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io - Mission Juno
NASA's Mission Juno will explore Jupiter, seeking to unlock secrets of the giant planet and our solar system.Mission Juno
It's #NationalInternDay!
Our #NASAInterns have developed #Artemis mission animations, illustrated children's books about the future of space exploration, and become engineers and scientists helping plan future missions to the Moon and Mars.
Join us: intern.nasa.gov
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-… via @eff
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users
We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook.Electronic Frontier Foundation
it is a many points of failure instead of a single point of failure, but we have to push towards real peer to peer, to make the points of failures so numerous, that the cost of making them all fail becomes unaffordable 😁
"Sinead O’Connor is donating '30 years' of clothes to Irish transgender youth" irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ce…
Sinead O’Connor is donating '30 years' of clothes to Irish transgender youth
"for those youth (over 16) born 'legally' male who wish to enjoy being female".Anna O'Donoghue (Irishexaminer.com)
Some Zelda fanart I did on April ✨
I love so much Tears of the Kingdom 🥺
Hope you like it ✨✨
#art #MastoArt #mastoartist #artist #zelda #tearsofthekingdom #FanArt #DigitalArt #artistonmastodon
Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons arrives on Nintendo Switch Online
Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons are now available for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
Sinéad O'Connor with Allyson McCabe - You're Wrong About
This week, we fight the real enemy with Allyson McCabe. Here's where to find Allyson online here.You can find Allyson's book Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters here. Support us:Bonus Episodes on PatreonDonate on PaypalYou're Wrong About Spring TourB...Buzzsprout
For those that missed it here's our presentation for our graduation from the OLS-7 cohort. We're excited to keep building up our community with the direction we worked on formalizing during our time in the program.
makes our experimental protocols, data, statistical analysis code, and publications available at no cost to the community (see osf.io/9r5xf/). Thus our methods can be reviewed, repeated, + expanded upon by anybody. 3/4
ManyDogs 1
Repository of ManyDogs pre-registrations and study supplementary materials. Hosted on the Open Science FrameworkOSF
This. Is. Hilarious.
The PhD-Simulator
research.wmz.ninja/projects/ph…
#PhDs #phdlife #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG #AcademicChatter
PhD Simulator - A Text-Based Game by Mianzhi Wang
A completely random event based text game. Simply make your choice at the beginning of each month and see if you can graduate in time. All outcomes are determined by the random number generator and do not take them seriously.research.wmz.ninja
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Comb components not handled properly during clk and reset insertion passes · Issue #1640 · cucapra/calyx
I'm running into an issue where comb components are expected to have clk and reset ports during the clk and reset insertion passes. If I manually add @clk and @reset ports to the comb components ev...GitHub
The #OMN instances are based on the history of "offline" activism. #Activism is the crusty protest camp and #campaign, a #NGO office. #OMN value is that we "bridge" the two and keep this bridge in place
So protest camps have their share of "nutter" mess and the #NGO offices have the power politics mess. Let's try and get the two to compost this messy aproch to social change and challenge.
Prism Launcher for Minecraft Java has a nice bug-fix release out
Prism Launcher is easily one of the best ways to play Minecraft Java on Steam Deck and desktop Linux, thanks to a clear interface and great modding support. Prism Launcher 7.2 was just released to fix up some issues.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Another launcher!
Stay a while, stay forever!
Heroic Games Launcher gets a critical hotfix in 2.9.1
Heroic Games Launcher recently had a massive 2.9.0 version bump with some awesome new features like Amazon Games integration. However, it was just a little bit broken.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
APOD: 2023 July 27 - Galaxies in the River
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' gears up for merging into Mesa
This is exciting as heck! Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand and various contributors have been powering through developing NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"So perhaps it won't be too long until NVIDIA GPU owners can use Mesa to run Vulkan games, that would be pretty amazing."
they already can 🙃
not mine, but:
New folks on the Mastodon seem to be surprised when, after a day or two, no one has been a gratuitous dick to them. It's one of the beauties of the federated structure that gratuitous dicks get reported to their admins. Servers ban their habitual dicks. Those servers that don't ban their gratuitous dicks get blocked by the rest.
Servers that get blocked off by too many others, lose users to other servers that are still well-connected.
This is the immune system of the Fediverse acting to isolate and exclude bad actors.
For a good example of this in action, did you hear about the time the alt-right social media platform Gab set up a Mastodon instance and was instantly the largest site in the Fediverse? They're not around anymore. The how and why is an interesting story. See here:
youtube.com/watch?v=yZoASOyfvG…
Decentralized Social Networks vs the Trolls
Note: since publishing this video, I've spoken with various Black fediverse moderators and users, and many say that the Fediverse doesn't give them sufficien...YouTube
Galaxies in the River
Image Credit & License: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA; R. Colombari, M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230727.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2023 July 27 - Galaxies in the River
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
"Northwest Africa (NWA) 2892 Meteorite Thin Section."
Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/ZfmTgi
NWA 2892 Meteorite Thin Section - Gigapixel
H/L3 Chondrite Camera: Nikon D810 Zerene Stacker Picture Window Pro GIMP Imagemagick digiCamControl Full-screen gigapixel krpano panorama: cdn.solaranamnesis.com/ThinSections/krpano/nwa2892/Meteor... Post: blog.solaranamnesis.Flickr
Solar Anamnesis reshared this.
Comet C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) on Oct 29, 2017, near the star Alpha Camelopardalis.
CajunAstro, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/FZLx6K
Color edits.
Comet C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) on Oct 29, 2017
Comet Asassn again, but this time from semi-dark skies (Bortle Green zone.) The temps were in the mid-thirties and my camera loved it. I sat in the car to stay warm.Flickr
While Google executives aggressively peddled crappy e-waste Chromebooks to schools, they sent their own children to low or no-tech schools, just like the rest of the Silicon Valley elite. Why? "There is little robust evidence on digital technology's added value in education," a just published UN report says. We vastly overestimate the power of technology, whether in education or global warming.
rte.ie/news/world/2023/0726/13…
goodmenproject.com/uncategoriz…
theverge.com/2023/4/21/2369184…
School Chromebooks are creating huge amounts of e-waste
The US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund has found that cheap Chromebooks, due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability, are both less sustainable and more expensive for schools than pricier devices might be.Monica Chin (The Verge)
Panther
in reply to NASA • • •George Dinwiddie
in reply to NASA • • •If a planet can get the hiccups, perhaps a planet can also catch a fever.
(Boy, it's hot outside!)