low-angle, near-twilight scene follows rugged mountains formally known as Norgay Montes from foreground left, and Hillary Montes along the horizon, giving way to smooth Sputnik Planum at right. Layers of Pluto's tenuous atmosphere are also revealed in the backlit view. With a strangely familiar

🔭 A Plutonian Landscape

Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute

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appearance, the frigid terrain likely includes ices of nitrogen and carbon monoxide with water-ice mountains rising up to 3,500 meters (11,000 feet). That's comparable in height to the majestic mountains of planet Earth. The Plutonian landscape is 380 kilometers (230 miles) across.

I happened to catch part of a training video by a prominent psychologist who was using quantum physics to support their argument about the brain. It was disturbingly wrong about quantum physics.

Misusing physics to sound profound undermines both science and public trust.

#badscience #scicomm

Icy mountains on the surface of Pluto — captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

New Horizons continues to observe objects in the Kuiper Belt. It is expected to eventually enter interstellar space in the 2040s.

UVic Astronomy PhD Candidate, Dori Blakely, was recently interviewed on CBC Radio's 'Quirks & Quarks' segment 👏

Title: "Watching planets form in a baby solar system"

Listen to the podcast here:
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

#UVic #UniversityofVictoria #Astronomy #UVicAstro #CBCRadio #CBCNews

Have you ever wondered about the risk to local infrastructure in the event of a large earthquake? Dr. Ed Nissen (@faultydata.bsky.social) shared his insight on the topic with Victoria News last month. www.vicnews.com/local-news/o...

Todays Life Hack

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/theory-3

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day.

Academics can support our autistic colleagues and students by providing ways to access services that do not require the use of speech.

For more tips, see my autistic-friendly research groups guide: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17929

🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM #ActuallyAutistic

In a surprising turn of events, climate scientists are blamed for delays and poor communication.

“the IPCC, the UN climate panel he chairs, is not in crisis and remains relevant _despite criticism it is too slow_ in publishing its landmark scientific reports on […]

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SMBC regularly cracks me up. How Zachery Weinersmith thinks up these things is beyond me.
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