Lucian Popa
lucianpopalp.bsky.social
Lucian Popa
@lucianpopalp.bsky.social
PhD in Computer Science
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Circling a martian butterfly www.youtube.com/watch?v=tibW... www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
ESA’s Mars Express takes us on a dizzying flight around a butterfly crater on Mars.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Ubuntu extended their LTS (paid) support to 15 years, meaning that you could support a Ubuntu version from 2014. Ubuntu 24.04 would have support til 2039.

Meanwhile Microsoft is obsessed to phase away computers from 2017.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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"I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.

Credit: Met Office Gibraltar
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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do you think the icy moons are a good place to search for life? ❄️
June 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to welcome Dr Cian O’Donell @cianodonnell.bsky.social (@ulsteruni.bsky.social)

🗓️Wed 11 June 2025
⏰2-3pm BST

Talk title: 'Neurobiological constraints on learning: bug or feature?'

ℹ️ Details / registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
UCL NeuroAI Talk Series
A series of NeuroAI themed talks organised by the UCL NeuroAI community. Talks will continue on a monthly basis.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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soooo introduction time!
i’m jasmine (or jaz), a first-year grad student in the utsa/swri space sciences program. i study europa and its habitability/composition.
i am a science communicator and space nerd who loves astrobio, empowering women in stem, and sharing my love for space with everyone 🌌
November 8, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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EUROPA CLIPPER TOOK A THERMAL IMAGE OF MARS!!!

it’s so hard to put into words what it feels like when a spacecraft you’re working on sends images back to earth 🥹

GO CLIPPER!!!!
May 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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years ago i thought i was failing at life and “wasting time”, but now i get to celebrate getting data from an instrument on a spacecraft millions of miles from earth so DON’T GIVE UP EVER. YOUR DREAMS WILL COME TRUE!!!
May 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Should I get rid of my microscope? DNA microscopy lets you image your sample using only sequencing, now in 3D! 🧪 Super cool work from University of Chicago. Subscribe today! #DNA #biotech #imaging #microscopy
plentyofroom.beehiiv.com/p/dna-micros...
DNA Microscopy: Seeing by Sequencing Revolution!
DNA microscopy revolutionizes imaging: sequencing techniques create unprecedented 3D cellular visualization, transforming how we image biological samples.
plentyofroom.beehiiv.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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That first sip of fresh coffee in the morning:
May 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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HAPPY NATIONAL SPACE DAY!!!!
May 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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A test to compare the results for improvements in contrast and details of sunspots and faculae.
In addition, an image of some of the main active regions on those days.
Follow the link below to see the technical details.

www.localvoid.net/2025/04/20/s...

#astronomy #astrophotography #sun #sunspot
Solar mosaics in different wavelengths. Experimenting with filters. 25 december 2024
Three images of the solar disk, acquired using three different filters: O-III, Ca-K and the solar ERF, mainly used with the H-Alpha Quark. The idea was to compare the results with the simple white lig...
www.localvoid.net
April 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
April 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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— so many stars ✨
January 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Pink vs Shadows - Le Havre, France

What do you think of this sunset ?

#photography #Sunset #France
January 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan: using JWST, we figured out how giant galaxies grow with active supermassive black hole in their center.
www.nao.ac.jp/news/topics/...
🔭 🧪
January 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I imaged a part if the sky I never imaged before - IC 447 which is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Monoceros. I plan to try again tonight with a wide field of view. #astrophotography #astronomy #moon #science #space #photography #sciart @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I stand by this.
January 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Such a lovely photo of a magical moon over Kyiv by Yevhen Kotenko, Ukrinform
January 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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— in the mist 🗻
December 20, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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What's happened since the universe started?

The time spiral shown here features a few notable highlights. ⬇️

Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi
December 1, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Stunning image of Venus

Credits: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
December 2, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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The oldest photo of the moon and worlds first true astrophoto

Credit: Dr. John William Draper, 1840
November 22, 2024 at 3:13 AM