The 2025 @swc-can.bsky.social Science Writers and Communicators of Canada conference is getting started! I'm excited to be at UNB with @perimeterinstitute.ca this morning to connect with writers and science comms experts from across the country.

So when JWST came online three years ago, it had to photograph the nebula too. Not just for reasons of science, but for the satisfaction of a collective humanity wanting to know that it's still there, still dazzling, still unspeakably vast.

But Hubble wasn't the first to image the Pillars. Between 1949 and 1976, the Palomar Observatory in California was the most powerful telescope in existence.

It's how the 'Pillars of Creation' became embedded in our psyche, a visual landmark in our collective mind-map of outer space.

Saw a wild owl for the first time today! Gorgeous creature.🦉

The northern lights are out to low latitude tonight. 😍

What a show!