Anna Richards @MsHouseMD@qoto.org

The Jaw-Dropping New Plan To Send A Robot On A 1,000 Years Journey To An Alien Planet https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/12/09/the-jaw-dropping-new-plan-to-send-a-robot-on-a-1000-years-journey-to-an-alien-planet/

“To find a science teacher is hard; to appoint a good, experienced and skilled science teacher is almost impossible!” https://edu.rsc.org/feature/where-have-all-the-science-specialists-gone/4016603.article

Pink Snow Is Not a Cute Phenomenon—Here’s Why. Researchers are trying to understand what drives the algal blooms that tinge ice—and have implications for the drought-stricken American West’s water supply. https://www.wired.com/story/pink-snow-is-not-a-cute-phenomenon-heres-why/

The Codex in the Classroom: Practical Dimensions of Medieval Diagrams https://www.medievalists.net/2022/12/the-codex-in-the-classroom-practical-dimensions-of-medieval-diagrams/

JWST has broken the record for most distant galaxy ever confirmed https://www.newscientist.com/article/2350876-jwst-has-broken-the-record-for-most-distant-galaxy-ever-confirmed/

Pink Dawn.

Mid-November 2021, 9.30 am in Siglufjörður which is just above 66° north. The sky and the snow-covered flanks of Hafnarfjall (about 540 m high) are tinted pink by the rising sun.
#Iceland #SaturdayPhoto #SunriseOnSaturday

On Air: Hawai'i Public Radio broadcasting The Conversition with astronomer R. Brent Tully, on Local Supercluster Orbits Mapped

Our home galaxy of the Milky Way resides in a “supercluster” of more than 100,000 other galaxies. The orbits of those galaxies have been mapped for the first time.

https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/show/the-conversation/2017-12-13/the-conversation-wednesday-december-13th-2017

#radio #radioshow #publicradio #news #astronomy #astronomer #laniakea #supercluster #universe #cosmology #astrophysics #honolulu #hawaii #hawaiilife #aloha #space #science #research

Broad-billed Hummingbird

Brilliantly-colored hummingbird with dark tail and mostly red bill. Primarily a Mexican species, but occurs locally in the southwestern U.S. Can appear all dark at a distance, but in the right light, look for beautiful iridescent blues and greens on male's body. Females are less colorful than males, dusky grayish below with prominent white stripe behind the eye. Compare especially with female White-eared Hummingbird, which is more spotted below and has a broader white eyestripe and darker cheek. Occurs in scrubby riparian woodland, canyons, and thorn forest. Often visits hummingbird feeders.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/brbhum

The Spodek music & sports arena channelling the final sequence of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Katowice this evening 👽🛸

#poland #photography #itsneveraliens

Today in 1945, Dr. Roberta Bondar is born in Sault Ste. Marie. An original member of the Canadian Astronaut Corps, she went to space, becoming Canada's first female astronaut, in January 1992. Spending eight days in space, she was also the first neurologist in space.

#Space #Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons #Canadian #Space #SpaceHIstory #Astronaut

My husband took this photo in 2020, it shows Comet Neowise over the Longstone at Mottistone on the #IsleofWight.
We have wonderful dark skies here which really helped. We made the walk up to the neolithic monument late at night which was really magical. I was given a torch and duly light painted the Longstone with it whilst my husband snapped away.
We had our teenage son with us and once we had the shot we sat down and stargazed. #StandingStoneSunday

Coppery sunset on the Platte River, Nebraska
#ArtAdventCalendar #sunset #FlyoverCountry

Morning.

In Katowice for the Silesian Science Festival & some #JWST talks.

And in the hotel bar with us last night, the cast & crew of the Original Enigma Voices tour, who we talked to.

Yes, *that* Enigma 😱

You can’t make this stuff up. One for #SpaceRocks, perhaps? 🙂

#synchronicity

I could stare at these images all day and they still wouldn’t compute somehow. Great work by @markmccaughrean to bring them a little more down to Earth. #jwst #spacerocks 🖖🤘#katowice

A foggy Blade Runner evening in Katowice, looking out from the International Conference Centre. Sometimes it can be good to have a smeary lens 🤪

Today’s talk on #JWST done – I’ll have 33% more time for the same talk tomorrow, so will be able to speak more slowly & spare the nerves of the simultaneous translator a little 😱

#scicomm #photography #poland