Anna Richards @MsHouseMD@qoto.org

@neuralengine Oh that "scifi news" hashtag (#GalacticOnion) is fun, hope it catches on.
Extremely short #scifi stories told in a toot.

Bull Elephant, Ngorongoro Crater wall behind him

#ArtAdventCalendar #Photography #Africa #Tanzania #wildlife #Nature #elephant

The power of hot #coffee on the porch in the winter.

Parts of gas and dust clouds of the #star formation region, a fraction of the IC 1396 complex, may appear to take on foreboding forms.

#astronomy #astrophotography
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221212.html

Today is International Mountain Day! Here are some of my favorite shots from recent ascents.

Loveland Pass, Colorado - 11,990 ft / 3,655 m
Wheeler Peak, New Mexico (State High Point) - 13,167 ft / 4,013 m
Mount Taylor (Tsoodził), New Mexico - 11,305 ft / 3,446 m
Mount Magazine, Arkansas (State High Point) - 2,753 ft / 839 m

#InternationalMountainDay #Photography #Landscape #Mountains

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. She was a pioneer of stellar classification and co-creator of the Harvard Classification Scheme. Over her lifetime she *manually* classified around 350,000 stars.

Image: Harvard University, Radcliffe Archives

On 20 December the thin Waning Crescent Moon will appear close to the double star Zubenelgenubi (Alpha Librae). Should be a fine photographic opportunity. Look southeast from 5am. #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astro #Space #Astrophotography

#Artemis Orion capsule is now approaching the #geosynchronous orbit, at about 36 000 km away from the #Earth surface.

Image credits: #NASA from https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1

Peak twitter moment for the South Pole Wall with this tweet by Ron Howard 👀

The article on Fox News on the discovery of one of the largest known structures in the universe: https://www.foxnews.com/science/astronomers-discover-huge-galactic-wall-hidden-behind-milky-way

#universe #cosmology #southpolewall #ronhoward #hollywood #cinema #movie #fox #news #foxnews #movies #astronomy #astrophysics #darkmatter #galaxies #cosmos #cosmicweb #space #science #research #astrodon #milkyway #galaxy #cosmography #map #maps #cartography #physics

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