Little-known weather phenomenon creates 'beautiful' sunsets up north
By Gemma Ferguson

A "beautiful" optical illusion has been impacting sunsets in Australia's north, with a little-known weather phenomenon appearing to split golden hour into different coloured beams.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/crepuscular-rays-weather-phenomenon-nt-sunsets-bom/106691518

#WeatherPhenomena #Photography #EarthScience #GemmaFerguson

#AbSciCon26

Poster 361
#SciX Supporting Open & Interdisciplinary Science
Tue May 19 3:45-5:15 PM CDT

4,966 #astrobiology publications is a lot to manage
36M #research products even more so

learn to navigate the scientific literature effectively & efficiently

detail from NASA Astrobiology pubications webpage, public domain
#openscience #NASAScience #FAIR #astrophysics #Earthscience #planetaryscience #heliophysics

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project [massive afforestation with just cedars and cypresses] is to blame

https://feddit.org/post/30062358

What's New @SciXCommunity

- #Astrobiology blog
- #legacy data queued for digitization
- @univofmaryland.bsky.social talk recap
- #Earth 's crust electrical resistance modeled

#astrophysics #heliophysics #planetaryscience #Earthscience #NASAscience #openscience #digitallibrary #interdisciplinary #digitaltransformation

https://scixplorer.org/scixhelp/whats_new/

#AbSciCon26
come learn
* how #SciX can support your #openscience
* about the digital library as #interdisciplinary as #astrobiology
* to find data, software, & proposals (yes, papers too)
to visual your literature review

#planetaryscience #Earthscience #astrophysics #heliophysics #biology #physics #NASAscience @SciXCommunity

Congratulations, Anna Kelbert, for thoroughly mapping subsurface electrical resistivity.

We are vulnerable to #geomagneticstorms. Understanding the risk is important, but we also need timely predictions and effective responses.

@SciXCommunity, she is establishing the basis for such capabilities.

#EarthScience #Earthcrust #SolarActivity #geophysics

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-map-hidden-electrical-structure-us-revealing-new-clues-about-earths-interior-and

Scientists find climate change is reducing oxygen in rivers worldwide

https://lemmy.world/post/46965053

Water stress by country, measured as freshwater withdrawals relative to renewable water resources (2022)

https://lemmy.world/post/46959395