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I have never seen such a concentration of kind, interesting people, cool things to learn about, and dopamine supply in my life. Y'all are fabulous.

Saw this in a nearby post office and it reminded me of all the poor Mastodon admins this week ...

When an exoplanet passes between its host star and us, the star's light is filtered by the exoplanet's atmosphere, each molecule leaving a different imprint.

Similarly, during a lunar #eclipse like the one on Nov 7-8, sunlight passes through the Earth's atmosphere before reaching the Moon. We can thus use lunar eclipses to find clues of life on Earth, which will hopefully help us identify life elsewhere. I wrote about it here:

➡️ eso.org/public/blog/is-there-l

#astronomy #astrodon
📷 ESO/M. Kornmesser

You are not a brand.

Kill your inner capitalist.

I (and a host of other science and non-science folks) am going to be in the new Cosmic Shambles Network documentary, “Rapid Motion Through Space: An Incomplete History of Speed”, which is released next year. Check out the trailer here! 🤓 youtu.be/6HPhhbDjZyQ

I came to mastodon a few days ago with the and just migrated my account over today to qoto.org from my first server so here's a quick

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