Why do we need Roman if we already have Webb? ➡️https://science.nasa.gov/roman-and-webb/
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Why do we need Roman if we already have Webb? ➡️https://science.nasa.gov/roman-and-webb/
So glad all the trauma was worth it. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
From the first sighting of a colossal squid in the wild to a seriously goofy octopus, 2025 delivered some astounding photos from the ocean’s depths
Shout out to @chrislintott.bsky.social for teaching me what the thick disk is a few months ago. Now we included it in a new diagram of the Milky Way! nasa.tumblr.com/post/8033060...
A closeup of a bat’s face. The poor silly guy has teeny black eyes, a large snout, and gigantic ears. As if that weren’t bad enough, it is also a ginger with lots of fuzzy reddish hair. Credit: J Sedlock
They looked so similar to other species that even when scientists did find them, they lumped them in with others. Genetic sequencing and an ultra-close look at their teeth, fur, and skull shapes revealed them as separate species. (Photo credit: J. Sedlock)
A photo of a bat with outstretched wings that are so thin that they’re almost transparent. They look greenish with pink leaf-like veins. Text below the image says: scientists discover six new itty-bitty bat species.
Meet six new species of itty-bitty bats! They’re only about the size of a walnut and as light as a AAA battery, and their leaf-like wings help them blend right in with the trees. Researchers found them lurking in the shadowy forests of the Philippines.
An orca pod has been spotted for the first time repeatedly targeting and flipping young great white sharks onto their backs to paralyze and dismember them
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed a tidal disruption event, dubbed AT2024tvd, located outside its galaxy’s core. Now, astronomers are trying to understand what the black hole is doing 2,600 light-years from where they expected it to be. www.astronomy.com/science/blac...
Check out the toads that transform from chocolate pudding brown to lemon meringue yellow, not to attract females but deter other males: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
A photo of the first page of a book with one line starred and underlined: “One by one, the giant stars popped off like firecrackers, ejecting heavy elements that sizzled with radioactivity as they rode shock waves through the murk like so much scattered confetti.” The full paragraph for context is: “This story properly begins 4.6 billion years ago, with the birth of our solar system from a cloud of cold hydrogen and dust several light-years wide. The cloud was but a wisp from a much larger mass of primordial gas, a stellar nursery manufacturing massive stars destined to explode as supernovae. One by one, the giant stars popped off like firecrackers, ejecting heavy elements that sizzled with radioactivity as they rode shock waves through the murk like so much scattered confetti. One of those enriching shock waves may have compressed the cloud, our cloud, in its passage. The cloud became dense enough for gravity to seize control, and it collapsed in on itself. Most of its material fell to its…”
@leebillings.bsky.social’s book Five Billion Years of Solitude has ruined science writing for me, because how is anything I write ever supposed to compare to this line? 🤩
new gecko just dropped
via @ashleybvigil.bsky.social @andreatweather.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/six-...
I saw it earlier and saved it to read when the kids are asleep! 😊 check the hashtag for another question from a while back lol
Used to pronounce both Os in Oort ☁️
#askethan Would you consider pop II and I stars to be enriched or contaminated by metals?
I think it might be broken…it didn’t play any music when I opened it? But fr we freelancers should each have a top 8 clients section we regularly update lol
Edge-on spiral galaxy angled pointing lower left to upper right. It's glowing with a bright core that's cut with the dark veins of dust clouds. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.
A smooth, cigar-shaped galaxy angled pointing lower left to upper right glowing with a bright core. Two bright stars beam just to the upper left and lower right of the galaxy. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.
A face-on spiral with a bright core and sweeping arms knotted with blue clusters of star-forming regions. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.
A face-on spiral with a bright core and a single thin arm wrapping all the way around, almost looking like a ring. Two bright blue stars beam above and to the lower left of the galaxy, with a third yellow star to the lower right. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.
Happy birthday, Vera Rubin! 🥳✨
What better way to celebrate than with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of galaxies SHE studied?
NGC 4343, 4526, 4535, and 4378 are just a few gems from our Cosmic Treasure Chest. Explore them and more at skyviewer.app 🔭🧪
The park’s newest hydrothermal feature has an otherworldly milky texture from dissolved silica
If some men feel like they’ve been “reduced to ‘walking wallets’ in romantic relationships,” perhaps they should consider bringing something more to the table.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe made the closest-ever studies of the Sun -- and got this unprecedented look at multiple solar eruptions piling up on top of each other. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/science-rese...
Both much better than pubic affairs!
It’s been a month now and I still think about this gif reply sometimes and laugh 😂
Hi, I would like to include a quote from you in a story I’m writing about this for Astronomy.com — can I email you? Or feel free to reach out to me at ashleymbalzer@gmail.com. Hoping to turn a draft in within the next 8-24 hours!
American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history
The largest brain drain in history was when thousands of scientists left Nazi Germany; it became known as "Hitler's gift."
America's current assault on science is set to surpass that.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #science
Something lost a bit in the amazing images released earlier: Vera Rubin Observatory is a steely-eyed asteroid hunter! It's already found thousands of new ones in just a few nights, and is predicted to find *3.7 MILLION* more.
THREE POINT SEVEN MILLION
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/vera-rubin...
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A screenshot from the article that says: Mothers have less money in personal retirement accounts, and they also receive less money from Social Security because they're more likely to have gaps in their employment history, and their caregiving isn't valued by society in the way that it should be. Which is to say, caregiving is neither paid nor truly respected.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
My mind is absolutely blown by these stellar halos nearby NGC 4364!
Left: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (DR10)
Right: Newly released @vrubinobs.bsky.social imaging!!!
#AstroSci 🧪🔭
What about a science writer 👀
Attn 🔭 fans: the Vera Rubin US Quarter is now available!!
www.usmint.gov/american-wom...
"For every $100 the US government spent, it put 40¢ in the bucket for NASA. And what do we get for that?
✨The Universe ✨"
"One of these bills represents, to scale, the federal budget & the other with NASA’s total budget trimmed off the edges. Can you tell the difference?" @philplait.bsky.social
