Lyndie Chiou
@lyndie.bsky.social
Science writer | Scientific American | New Scientist | NYTimes | Quanta Magazine | #Black
Stories on physics, math, astronomy! Also plays trombone.
Stories on physics, math, astronomy! Also plays trombone.
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Lyndie Chiou
@lyndie.bsky.social
Β· Dec 9
Mathematicians Crack a Fractal Conjecture on Chaos
A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a mysterious, deep connection that disappears without randomness
www.scientificamerican.com
A story about snowflakes and chaos.
Read my latest about how noise enables subtle, intricate patterns at every level (for Scientific American).
www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
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Read my latest about how noise enables subtle, intricate patterns at every level (for Scientific American).
www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
#science #math #physics ππ©πΎβπ¬
It's one of these "smart telescopes". 2" aperture, very transportable. The Seestar range is probably the most popular, but I have a Vespera.
February 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
It's one of these "smart telescopes". 2" aperture, very transportable. The Seestar range is probably the most popular, but I have a Vespera.
Reposted by Lyndie Chiou
Just like the snake-haired Medusa of Greek mythology, this nebula's head writhes with tangled thick filaments, leading to its name, the Medusa Nebula. The result of a star cooling into a white dwarf.
Image credit: my tiny telescope
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Image credit: my tiny telescope
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February 11, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Just like the snake-haired Medusa of Greek mythology, this nebula's head writhes with tangled thick filaments, leading to its name, the Medusa Nebula. The result of a star cooling into a white dwarf.
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
Just like the snake-haired Medusa of Greek mythology, this nebula's head writhes with tangled thick filaments, leading to its name, the Medusa Nebula. The result of a star cooling into a white dwarf.
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
February 11, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Just like the snake-haired Medusa of Greek mythology, this nebula's head writhes with tangled thick filaments, leading to its name, the Medusa Nebula. The result of a star cooling into a white dwarf.
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
It looks a little bit like a Roman amphitheater -- I can at least see the illusion of steps.
January 31, 2026 at 4:18 AM
It looks a little bit like a Roman amphitheater -- I can at least see the illusion of steps.
Gorgeous shot! I can see the crater clearly. Mine was taken in California.
January 30, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Gorgeous shot! I can see the crater clearly. Mine was taken in California.
Lucky shot! Looks like it was also taken last night.
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Lucky shot! Looks like it was also taken last night.
Reposted by Lyndie Chiou
"...Aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses... His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves about the sun on the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit..." -- Archimedes, _The Sand Reckoner_
See the solitary bright crater on the lower left? It's named after Aristarchus of Samos, who proposed that the Earth orbits the sun 1,800 years before Copernicus. An unbelievably insightful idea for its day (sadly ignored).
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
#science #history ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
#science #history ππ©πΎβπ¬
January 30, 2026 at 4:10 AM
"...Aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses... His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves about the sun on the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit..." -- Archimedes, _The Sand Reckoner_
Reposted by Lyndie Chiou
Gorgeous image!
Can you believe, that in the next weeks to a few months, there are going to be four humans which are going to go in a spaceship and sail around the other side of this other world that just hangs in our sky.
Go look at the Moon.
Four people will be on the other side of it soon.
Can you believe, that in the next weeks to a few months, there are going to be four humans which are going to go in a spaceship and sail around the other side of this other world that just hangs in our sky.
Go look at the Moon.
Four people will be on the other side of it soon.
See the solitary bright crater on the lower left? It's named after Aristarchus of Samos, who proposed that the Earth orbits the sun 1,800 years before Copernicus. An unbelievably insightful idea for its day (sadly ignored).
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
#science #history ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
#science #history ππ©πΎβπ¬
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Gorgeous image!
Can you believe, that in the next weeks to a few months, there are going to be four humans which are going to go in a spaceship and sail around the other side of this other world that just hangs in our sky.
Go look at the Moon.
Four people will be on the other side of it soon.
Can you believe, that in the next weeks to a few months, there are going to be four humans which are going to go in a spaceship and sail around the other side of this other world that just hangs in our sky.
Go look at the Moon.
Four people will be on the other side of it soon.
See the solitary bright crater on the lower left? It's named after Aristarchus of Samos, who proposed that the Earth orbits the sun 1,800 years before Copernicus. An unbelievably insightful idea for its day (sadly ignored).
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
#science #history ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
#science #history ππ©πΎβπ¬
January 30, 2026 at 3:57 AM
See the solitary bright crater on the lower left? It's named after Aristarchus of Samos, who proposed that the Earth orbits the sun 1,800 years before Copernicus. An unbelievably insightful idea for its day (sadly ignored).
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
#science #history ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image taken tonight by my tiny telescope.
#science #history ππ©πΎβπ¬
The beautiful Markarian chain, a drooping string of distant galaxies. And the loner who refuses to join the party, M87 on the lower left, hiding a supermassive black hole inside its heart.
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
January 21, 2026 at 8:21 PM
The beautiful Markarian chain, a drooping string of distant galaxies. And the loner who refuses to join the party, M87 on the lower left, hiding a supermassive black hole inside its heart.
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
Image credit: my tiny telescope
#science #astronomy ππ©πΎβπ¬
Not many connect math and Dr. Martin Luther King. But in 7th grade, I saw my geometry teacher silently weep through the school's MLK Day assembly, hiding his eyes behind a napkin. An unintended gesture that placed a symbolic welcome mat in front of his math-covered chalkboards.
January 19, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Not many connect math and Dr. Martin Luther King. But in 7th grade, I saw my geometry teacher silently weep through the school's MLK Day assembly, hiding his eyes behind a napkin. An unintended gesture that placed a symbolic welcome mat in front of his math-covered chalkboards.
π² did you ever chat with him?
January 17, 2026 at 8:50 AM
π² did you ever chat with him?
6:45am about 1 hr southeast of San Francisco!
January 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
6:45am about 1 hr southeast of San Francisco!
Maybe we were looking at the moon at the same time?
January 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Maybe we were looking at the moon at the same time?
Good morning from the moon...
January 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Good morning from the moon...
Anytime the sky is clear, it's up on the roof looking at something!
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Anytime the sky is clear, it's up on the roof looking at something!