Moonset this morning in Bregenz Forest.
#moon #fullmoon #moonset #leica #leicasl #bregenzerwald #astrophotography #photography

If you were standing on a sub-Neptune exoplanet, would you be standing on a rocky surface or in a magma ocean? aasnova.org/2025/11/05/s... 🔭🧪

Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable

Well, a @ucl.ac.uk and @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests it's not good news for Jupiter and Saturn. 🪐

Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Published in #MNRAS: "Lightning activity on a tidally locked terrestrial exoplanet in storm-resolving simulations for a range of surface pressures", Sergeev et al. This is Fig. 4: to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know about Earth's ocean.

Published in #MNRAS: "A high stellar multiplicity rate amongst TESS planet candidates in the Neptunian desert using Gaia DR3 astrometry", Eeles-Nolle & Armstrong. This is Fig. 4: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

An update from my New Year’s resolution to compliment people more, especially focusing on when people are just exceedingly good at their jobs.

I love it. I notice more good things. People are genuinely thankful to be told they are amazing. Everyone wins.

I'm able to make this animation of how the ocean breathes in and out CO₂ because of data collected by NOAA scientists, data served at NOAA websites, and tools provided by NASA. All are under threat of being dismantled by the Trump administration.

From Anavi Uppal @anaviuppal.bsky.social : Fostering public trust in science is essential for creating a stronger and more informed global society. As researchers and communicators, what can we do to help build this trust? 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/11/building-trust-in-science/

I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization...

Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️

NASA needs to approve additional TESS cycles even if only to fill in the few remaining gaps. 🔭🧪🪐🌌⭐

Here are the pieces!

Cool new TESS caterpillar

The Milky Way. Taken from New Zealand's South Island. #photography #stars #nightskys #darksky

If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at jmogensen@motherjones.com or DM for Signal

“most traditional classrooms transform wonder-driven interactive questioning between children and adults into assessment-driven questions…As a result, questions from children to teachers disappeared”
#Curiosity #Education #EduSky
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-teacher...

3/ But here’s the thing: every morning you get out of bed, you’re already winning. Existing as yourself—laughing, loving, living—is the most powerful defiance against people who want you to disappear.