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Nereide
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Physicist interested in Astrophysics and Particle Physics| Research in Math and Science Edu| Math and Science Writer| Teacher and Teacher Trainer| WomenInSTEM

My science blog: https://www.tutto-scienze.org/

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#WorldScienceDay for Peace and Development.

Science lets us understand the wonderful universe we live in.

It allow us to find answers to emerging challenges so we can create a more just and fair global society.

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #ScienceDay #Science

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#WorldScienceDay for Peace and Development.

Science lets us understand the wonderful universe we live in.

It allow us to find answers to emerging challenges so we can create a more just and fair global society.

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #ScienceDay #Science

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November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was born with different and more ancient chemistry, has been more irradiated, and is speeding toward the Sun faster compared to Solar System comets. It's got a unique personality. But since literally Day 1 it was recognized as a comet and has only ever done comety things.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

― Carl Sagan, born 9 November 1934

Video Credit: @planetarysociety.bsky.social

#PaleBlueDot 🔭 🧪 #CarlSagan
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#WorldScienceDay for Peace and Development.

Science lets us understand the wonderful universe we live in.

It allow us to find answers to emerging challenges so we can create a more just and fair global society.

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #ScienceDay #Science

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November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A 1953 draft story described two collaborative teams (the experimentalists Wilkins-Franklin; the theorists Watson-Crick), with Franklin as an equal partner in testing the model.

The draft was discovered by Cobb and Comfort in the archives and represents contemporary evidence...

🧪 #histsci

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The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

― Carl Sagan, born 9 November 1934

Video Credit: @planetarysociety.bsky.social

#PaleBlueDot 🔭 🧪 #CarlSagan
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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On 7 November 1878, physicist Lise Meitner was born.

Read Baez’s thread: a real jewel of science storytelling and passion.

Lise Meitner also kicked the door wide open for women in physics with nothing but genius and grit.

Read it, fall in love, share it.

⚛️ 🧪 #physics #HistSci #WomenInSTEM
Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission and did the experiments that led Pauli to postulate neutrinos, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much.

I tell a bit of her story here:

mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)
Attached: 1 image Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much. The Austrian government did not open the universi...
mathstodon.xyz
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A 1953 draft story described two collaborative teams (the experimentalists Wilkins-Franklin; the theorists Watson-Crick), with Franklin as an equal partner in testing the model.

The draft was discovered by Cobb and Comfort in the archives and represents contemporary evidence...

🧪 #histsci

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The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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In this splendid photo from Valerio Minato three wonders were captured in a single shot:

- the Basilica of Superga, located near Turin (Italy)
- the Monviso, the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps
- the setting Moon, captured in a crescent phase

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23122...

🔭 🧪 #sciart

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November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
On 7 November 1878, physicist Lise Meitner was born.

Read Baez’s thread: a real jewel of science storytelling and passion.

Lise Meitner also kicked the door wide open for women in physics with nothing but genius and grit.

Read it, fall in love, share it.

⚛️ 🧪 #physics #HistSci #WomenInSTEM
Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission and did the experiments that led Pauli to postulate neutrinos, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much.

I tell a bit of her story here:

mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)
Attached: 1 image Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much. The Austrian government did not open the universi...
mathstodon.xyz
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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This stunning image shows NGC 2185 and NGC 2183, two reflection nebulae in southeastern Monoceros.

Image: Adam Block /Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

Image source➡️ adamblockphotos.com/ngc-2185.html

Via Wikimedia Commons

🔭 🧪 #science

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November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In this splendid photo from Valerio Minato three wonders were captured in a single shot:

- the Basilica of Superga, located near Turin (Italy)
- the Monviso, the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps
- the setting Moon, captured in a crescent phase

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23122...

🔭 🧪 #sciart

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November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This stunning image shows NGC 2185 and NGC 2183, two reflection nebulae in southeastern Monoceros.

Image: Adam Block /Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

Image source➡️ adamblockphotos.com/ngc-2185.html

Via Wikimedia Commons

🔭 🧪 #science

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November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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3I/ATLAS has both Ni and Fe vapor, like 2I/Borisov and dozens of solar system comets. These are probably from carbonyls formed when metal reacts with ice, and seems pretty universal. Its 3I/ATLAS’s hyperbolic orbit that tells us it formed in another star system.
3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet spotted in 2025, shows vaporised nickel far from the Sun metal usually won’t evaporate there. It hints at the comet formed in a distant, cold star system, possibly older than our Sun.

Image: NASA/ESA/AP
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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What a sight!

The emerald-green core of C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) glows among Boötes’ stars: a view of pure magic by Simeon Schmauß.

Bravo!

🔭 🧪 #CometC2025A6 #CometLemmon
#Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich.

16 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked).

#astrophotography 🔭
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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In mid-Dec. 2020, a Great Conjunction occured: Saturn & Jupiter appeared only 0.1 degrees apart.

Here, Saturn & Jupiter (right) are pictured above the Three Peaks of Lavaredo in the Italian Alps, about two weeks before the Conjunction.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20102...

🔭 🧪 #Science #planetsci

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November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
That GLOW we see is light from the universe at 380,000 years old.

This thread is the poem cosmology was missing (READ IT).

Repost + silent applause.

🔭 🧪 #cosmology #BigBang #Astrophysics #SciencePoetry
For the record, my answers are:

Probably, in some form, somewhere in the cosmos, since it’d be weird if Earth were THAT special. They probably haven’t visited though.

Yes, we can see it pretty directly! (More on this in next.)

There are surely some limits to our knowledge but we do know a lot.
yes darth but it is not the #1 question. the top three questions are:

are aliens real
did the big bang really happen
isn’t that stuff all just unknowable
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
What a sight!

The emerald-green core of C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) glows among Boötes’ stars: a view of pure magic by Simeon Schmauß.

Bravo!

🔭 🧪 #CometC2025A6 #CometLemmon
#Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich.

16 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked).

#astrophotography 🔭
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
In mid-Dec. 2020, a Great Conjunction occured: Saturn & Jupiter appeared only 0.1 degrees apart.

Here, Saturn & Jupiter (right) are pictured above the Three Peaks of Lavaredo in the Italian Alps, about two weeks before the Conjunction.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20102...

🔭 🧪 #Science #planetsci

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November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Why do corals glow in red, blue, electric green?

What pigments and microalgae weave this luminous symphony?

Could fluorescence be a trick for photosynthesis… or a warning cry to predators?

🧪 #Chemistry #CoralBleaching #ClimateChange #SaveTheReefs

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LES COULEURS DES CORAUX
Quels pigments sont responsables de ces couleurs ?
Pourquoi sont-elles si vives ?
Pour quelle raison nombre de coraux blanchissent ?
Pourquoi la couleur du corail rouge de Méditerranée est-elle inaltérable ?

Réponses dans mon nouvel article
👉 tinyurl.com/4j5nvpcb

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Les couleurs des coraux : flamboyantes mais précaires
Les couleurs des coraux étonnent par leur diversité et leur vivacité. Quels pigments sont responsables de ces couleurs ? Pourquoi sont-elles si vives ? Pour quelle raison nombre de coraux…
tinyurl.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Fascinating detections from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA!

#GW241011 & #GW241110 showcase unequal-mass, rapidly spinning black hole mergers—potentially hierarchical, with the massive primaries possibly "second-generation" relics from prior fusions in dense clusters.

#O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️ #science

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We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110

Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger?

ligo.org/science-summ...

#O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Why do corals glow in red, blue, electric green?

What pigments and microalgae weave this luminous symphony?

Could fluorescence be a trick for photosynthesis… or a warning cry to predators?

🧪 #Chemistry #CoralBleaching #ClimateChange #SaveTheReefs

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LES COULEURS DES CORAUX
Quels pigments sont responsables de ces couleurs ?
Pourquoi sont-elles si vives ?
Pour quelle raison nombre de coraux blanchissent ?
Pourquoi la couleur du corail rouge de Méditerranée est-elle inaltérable ?

Réponses dans mon nouvel article
👉 tinyurl.com/4j5nvpcb

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Les couleurs des coraux : flamboyantes mais précaires
Les couleurs des coraux étonnent par leur diversité et leur vivacité. Quels pigments sont responsables de ces couleurs ? Pourquoi sont-elles si vives ? Pour quelle raison nombre de coraux…
tinyurl.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Illuminated by the blazing blue star Rigel (just beyond the frame at upper left), a cosmic cloud looms ominously, as an eerie ghoul, in this interstellar scene to announce that #Halloween is here. 🎃

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20102...

Image Credit: Casey Good/Steve Timmons

🔭 🧪 #science

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October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Fascinating detections from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA!

#GW241011 & #GW241110 showcase unequal-mass, rapidly spinning black hole mergers—potentially hierarchical, with the massive primaries possibly "second-generation" relics from prior fusions in dense clusters.

#O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️ #science

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We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110

Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger?

ligo.org/science-summ...

#O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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In this spooky landscape, captured by JWST's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI), the iconic Pillars of Creation look like a giant cosmic hand, ready to grasp, in perfect #Halloween style!

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI)

➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

🔭 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM