Jaime Garza🫡 @jogarza@qoto.org

WASP-39 b is a planet unlike any in our solar system – a Saturn-sized behemoth that orbits its star closer than Mercury is to our Sun.

The observations with #JWST have provided a profile of WASP-39 b’s atmospheric constituents, including water, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, sodium and potassium. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-060

Details in five newly published papers. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10488 https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10487 https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10489 https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10493 https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10490

And as with every post/thread I make on #JWST, I'll now remind you that JWST needs to be renamed. I've made a conscious choice to not use the name, and only the acronym, when referring to this telescope, and I encourage you to do the same too.

#Astrodon #Science

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/

#musk #elonmusk #twitter

Ahhhh good ol' american thanksgiving, the most hypocritical of holidays.

We are approaching my favorite time of year for photography, where Lake Superior creates otherworldly scenes like this. I can't wait to get out for it.

#minnesota #lakesuperior #photography #landscapephotography #Winter

1000%

So I trolled my business partner today with the image that was floating around where someone photoshopped my company's team page (where I happen to show up).. They photoshopped my avatar from here on there...

I sent it to the company's group chat as an image and send "company page all done, updated"... needless to say he thought i was serious and he lost his shit for a good 30 seconds before he realized it was photoshopped.... soooo worth it.

Squinting at a graph is fine for getting a rough idea of the answer, but if you want to pretend to know it exactly, you neeed statistics.
https://xkcd.com/2701/

I enjoyed this far more than I probably should have.

#funny

Mastodon is perfect for GenX because we’re all just roaming from house to house totally unsupervised and unless something goes really wrong nobody cares #GenX

if Henry Kissinger outlives Twitter i'll lose my shit

There’s always one..

A new study reveals hundreds of years of volcanic activity may have helped transform Venus from a temperate wet world to the acidic hot house it is today, boasting temperatures around 864 °F (462 °C) on average. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3GxfE1D
#NASA

One of my fav pinhole images shot on fuji acros 100 #photography #seascape #talacre #landscapephotography #pinhole #film #analog

Why is the #night #sky never completely #dark ? The reason is because of #Airglow. This #APOD #photography was taken from #Tibet after a giant #thunderstorm over #Bangladesh, which "heat" the #atmosphere. The atmosphere then shined, a bit like an #aurora, but due to chemiluminescence (from a chemical reaction). #Sunlight is also a source of airglow.

In this #picture, we also see #gravity waves.

Read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221120.html

#Astronomy

“Then the spaceman took over the bird site so we all started tooting at the elephant place.”

“Oh…ok grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.”

Testing…testing….

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

Seeing how much people moving from twitter to here complain about minor inconveniences really sheds some light on why IT corporations spend millions on UX and then milions again on advertising their UX.