Spiff The Spaceman
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Holy moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble.
One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed - NASA
Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight
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December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Holy moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble.
One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
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Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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WE ARE HEADED TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP
November 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
WE ARE HEADED TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP
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This was so fun I temporarily forget how anxious I am about tonight’s game. Follow Batting Around, sub the Patreon, profit.
new episode with @megrowler.fangraphs.com is up!
The Salmon is Why I Can't Buy a House with Meg Rowley
We check in on Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and Effectively Wild to make sure she's doing okay during this ALCS. We talk about all the other stuff going on with the postseason, its commercials, and checkin
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October 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This was so fun I temporarily forget how anxious I am about tonight’s game. Follow Batting Around, sub the Patreon, profit.
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NO NO NO NO NO NO
If you’re a Washington Spirit fan, there’s bad news from tonight’s CONCACAF game against Monterrey: Trinity Rodman went down hard and had to come off the field on crutches. Hoping it’s not too serious, but she looked like she was in lots of pain.
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
NO NO NO NO NO NO
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🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL
FINAL
✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1093rd unique final score in NFL history.
FINAL
✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1093rd unique final score in NFL history.
September 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL
FINAL
✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1093rd unique final score in NFL history.
FINAL
✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1093rd unique final score in NFL history.
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Easily one of the top 2 members of the Catholic clergy who famously supports Chicago area sports teams
A college basketball icon is calling it a career 👏
Sister Jean has retired from her official campus duties at Loyola Chicago weeks after celebrating her 106th birthday, she confirmed to student publication The Loyola Phoenix.
Sister Jean has retired from her official campus duties at Loyola Chicago weeks after celebrating her 106th birthday, she confirmed to student publication The Loyola Phoenix.
September 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Easily one of the top 2 members of the Catholic clergy who famously supports Chicago area sports teams
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New HLSP: First results from the Rocky Worlds DDT program are now available at MAST! This release includes calibrated light curves, model fits, preliminary eclipse depth estimation, and auxiliary data for GJ 3929 b. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/rocky-w... #HLSP #RockyWorlds #JWST #HST #Exoplanets #MAST 🔭
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
New HLSP: First results from the Rocky Worlds DDT program are now available at MAST! This release includes calibrated light curves, model fits, preliminary eclipse depth estimation, and auxiliary data for GJ 3929 b. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/rocky-w... #HLSP #RockyWorlds #JWST #HST #Exoplanets #MAST 🔭
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I bet it's been a while since you've had your mind vaporized by a JWST image so here's one of a cluster of galaxies so immense it's visibly warping space.
Bonus: I explain what you're seeing! Because that's kinda my thing!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-incredi...
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Bonus: I explain what you're seeing! Because that's kinda my thing!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-incredi...
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An incredible JWST image of an immense city of galaxies
Abell S1063 is a jaw-dropping example of the power of the big telescope
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I bet it's been a while since you've had your mind vaporized by a JWST image so here's one of a cluster of galaxies so immense it's visibly warping space.
Bonus: I explain what you're seeing! Because that's kinda my thing!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-incredi...
🔭🧪
Bonus: I explain what you're seeing! Because that's kinda my thing!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-incredi...
🔭🧪
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30-part YouTube series unpacking Kirk Cousins saying Jesus has a plan for him while flying to Antigua for stem cell treatments he can’t legally get in the US because of abortion politics
July 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
30-part YouTube series unpacking Kirk Cousins saying Jesus has a plan for him while flying to Antigua for stem cell treatments he can’t legally get in the US because of abortion politics
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This animation was assembled from a combination of Hubble images of Mars taken from December 28-30, 2024. At the midpoint of the Hubble observations, Mars was approximately 61 million miles from Earth. 🔭 🧪
Mars Rotation - Hubble Space Telescope - 35th Anniversary
YouTube video by Space Telescope Science Institute
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June 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This animation was assembled from a combination of Hubble images of Mars taken from December 28-30, 2024. At the midpoint of the Hubble observations, Mars was approximately 61 million miles from Earth. 🔭 🧪
Come for the great journalism, stay for the quote at the end where the developer just says “Good luck with your story. Nobody cares.”
A state senator aided a disgraced developer’s ‘affordable’ East Baltimore project
A state senator aided a disgraced developer’s ‘affordable’ project
Sen. Cory McCray’s involvement in Ronald Lipscomb’s proposed apartment building raised alarms, ethical concerns, emails show.
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June 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Come for the great journalism, stay for the quote at the end where the developer just says “Good luck with your story. Nobody cares.”
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June 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Whatya looking at down there, buddy? Are you feeling ok?
Mars Perseverance Rover, Sol 1500
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Mars Perseverance Rover, Sol 1500
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May 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Whatya looking at down there, buddy? Are you feeling ok?
Mars Perseverance Rover, Sol 1500
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Mars Perseverance Rover, Sol 1500
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Hubble has spent 35 years in orbit! 🥳 Celebrate with an array of compelling images recently taken by Hubble: Mars, dramatic views of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent spiral galaxy: bit.ly/4jjsAs7 🔭 🧪
April 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hubble has spent 35 years in orbit! 🥳 Celebrate with an array of compelling images recently taken by Hubble: Mars, dramatic views of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent spiral galaxy: bit.ly/4jjsAs7 🔭 🧪
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There's going to be about a billion people who decide it's a good time to stream "Conclave" this week who are going to be wildly unprepared for the turn that movie takes, and, good
April 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There's going to be about a billion people who decide it's a good time to stream "Conclave" this week who are going to be wildly unprepared for the turn that movie takes, and, good
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I’m going to pull my teeth out if the left tears itself apart over whether Pete or AOC would be a better candidate while Trump dismantles every single check on his power.
Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.
Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.
April 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I’m going to pull my teeth out if the left tears itself apart over whether Pete or AOC would be a better candidate while Trump dismantles every single check on his power.
Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.
Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.
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One more--this is just so cool:
Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪
fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...
Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪
fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...
March 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One more--this is just so cool:
Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪
fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...
Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪
fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...
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Blue Ghost is on the moon.
The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:
The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:
March 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Blue Ghost is on the moon.
The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:
The lunar horizon, with Earth in view, seen from our lander's top deck:
Bridge!
The design of the new Key Bridge was unveiled today in Maryland. #Baltimore
Photo: Phil Yacuboski, WBAL
Photo: Phil Yacuboski, WBAL
February 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Bridge!
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1/ ☄️ Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is gracing our skies, and we’d like to share some amazing images from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile!
This stunning shot by our friend Yuri Beletsky, with the comet next to an Auxiliary Telescope, is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Congrats, Yuri! 🔭 🧪
This stunning shot by our friend Yuri Beletsky, with the comet next to an Auxiliary Telescope, is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Congrats, Yuri! 🔭 🧪
January 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
1/ ☄️ Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is gracing our skies, and we’d like to share some amazing images from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile!
This stunning shot by our friend Yuri Beletsky, with the comet next to an Auxiliary Telescope, is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Congrats, Yuri! 🔭 🧪
This stunning shot by our friend Yuri Beletsky, with the comet next to an Auxiliary Telescope, is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Congrats, Yuri! 🔭 🧪
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What a beauty! This is comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passing through the field of view of the LASCO C3 coronagraph.
It wasn't for certain whether it would survive it's closest approach to the sun on January 13th, but it did and delivered us a spectacular show!
#comet #C2024G3 🔭
It wasn't for certain whether it would survive it's closest approach to the sun on January 13th, but it did and delivered us a spectacular show!
#comet #C2024G3 🔭
January 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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JOURNALIST: I've noticed you exude a kind of joy when you're talking about ultimate cosmic destruction via vacuum decay... why is that?
ME: I just think it's neat :)
ME: I just think it's neat :)
January 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
JOURNALIST: I've noticed you exude a kind of joy when you're talking about ultimate cosmic destruction via vacuum decay... why is that?
ME: I just think it's neat :)
ME: I just think it's neat :)