Finally!! Congrats!! 🇮🇪

"All that has an undeniable hold on me still, but putting together this list, I found myself drawn to essays from diverse worlds that challenge how we think about maps and mapmaking."

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This scientific visualization takes viewers on a journey to a glittering young star cluster called Pismis 24. #NASAWebb captured this fantastical scene in the heart of the Lobster Nebula, approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth. 🔭 🧪

Hooray for three years of paw-sitively amazing #NASAWebb science! To celebrate, the telescope examined a singular “toe bean” of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a massive star-forming region. Webb reveals gas, dust, and massive young stars: webbtelescope.pub/4khJK9T 🔭

Reply with an image of your pet’s paws! 🐾

The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

the best baseball post of all time

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed Jupiter’s aurora.

The observations help astronomers better understand how Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is heated & cooled, and may prove useful to our #ESAJuice mission, en route to the gas giant.

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There's this lizard-brain sense among some voters that We Need A Guy Like Trump To Fight Trump, which is both wrong/stupid on the merits and elides the fact that Cuomo is SO MUCH like Trump. Here as there, his whole team is otherwise-unemployable dipshit loyalists who are constantly doing crimes.

Saturn has 128 newly-discovered moons. Here they are color-coded by their MPEC release. Orange: MPEC 2025 E153, Purple: MPEC 2025-E154, Green: MPEC 2025-E155.

You know when you walk by a Golden Retriever and it looks at you with an expression that's like "hell yeah man we're on the sidewalk, how sick is that." I feel like that is broadly Pete Alonso's approach to being a Met, and that is the biggest part of why I'm glad he's back with the team.

The world if Jacob deGrom never got injured

Preparations for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory 🔭🪐 (HWO) are well underway.

Planned to launch in the 2040s, this 'Super-Hubble' will revolutionise astrophysics and survey at least 25 potentially habitable exoplanets for signs of alien life. 👾

This week we held a HWO workshop in Baltimore. 🧵

I wrote about a lousy literary genre rocketing into its self-satire phase, and my hope that Michael Lewis's Sam Bankman-Fried book will someday be appreciated as a comic masterpiece. nymag.com/intelligence...