Bluewalker 3 ruining the view of the night sky for amateurs and professionals. ASTMobile plans to put 100 of these satellites into orbit. (photo by KPNO/NOIRLab/IAU/SKAO/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks)
One of the dumber things I'll admit is how grating the term 'dual fuel' is for me. It gets the point across, but I find the way the words are close to rhyming but they don't, frustrating
At sixty years old, the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope is still one of the best looking astronomical facilities in the world. (photo by KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld)
Sending people and stuff to the Moon and beyond doesn't do any good if you can't talk to them. That's where NASA's Deep Space Network comes in, with ground stations in California, Madrid, and Canberra. (photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech)
I've been contributing to GLOBE Observer for several weeks now, part of which involves timing an observation to coincide with a monitoring satellite being overhead. Missing a pass because I'm at work feels like being too busy to hang out with a friend. Saying a whole lot about my job.
An interesting fact that disappointingly I never get to use in normal conversation, is that if you put your phone in airplane mode and then placed it on Jupiter, it would be the brightest radio source in the Green Bank Telescope's field of view. (photo by NRAO/AUI/NSF)