Oh and for those interested, here's the graphic without all the PBR impacts. It's a nice complement to the Decadal (imho) and something I plan to maintain as a living document going forward.

It is really depressing that all of the excitement from the forward-looking Decadal -- a Congressionally-mandated major planning report we expend tremendous community effort preparing once per decade -- has been usurped by the decimation the administration is proposing.

The Heliophysics System Laboratory is a term that was coined less than a year ago with the release of our Heliophysics Decadal Survey, referring to the full complement of all of these observatories regardless of funding agency; it also includes major modeling efforts not depicted

There are similar graphics out already that focus on NASA, so I wanted to make a graphic that also includes the impacts at NOAA and NSF as well (the NSF observatories that appear safe in this graphic are actually just ones that don't have detail in the PBR so who knows...)

It will take us decades to build back to where we are right now. In the meantime, other countries (China in particular) are building their own space weather capabilities and at least in China's case, are unlikely to share information with us.

The first of these dedicated to solar observation launched in 1994. The most recent in March this year. They are all still running. If we just turn them off, we can't just turn them back on later if the political landscape changes.

I kept waiting for it to turn to funny 1 star reviews, similar to the series of posters for national parks highlighting 1 star reviews like this one

This time around, we made little Teflon molds for our Arathane+cabosil (fancy curing space rubber basically) that make sure the solar panels can handle the chatter of a rocket launch and the day-to-day of being in the lab while we go through integration and testing for @suncetcubesat.bsky.social

To learn more about the award, eligibility, and see past awards, check out our webpage. (The new winners will be posted there soon).

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In the student category, Annelia Anderson for the article "Johannes Kepler and the Case of the Disappearing Sunspots”, published on @astrobites.bsky.social

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In the scientist category, Ryan French for the corpus of work throughout the year on TikTok, YouTube, and other social media; as well as an article on @spacedotcom.bsky.social

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www.youtube.com/@Sun.Scientist

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In the journalist category, Kathryn Schulz for the article "What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Plane", published in @newyorker.com

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