A cosmic hawk and its starry eyasses 🐦

What looks like a hawk spanning its wings above massive newly born stars is the RCW 36 nebula.

Now, a team of astronomers has used, yes, the HAWK-I instrument on our VLT to study the very dim stars called brown dwarfs hidden in the nebula and how they form: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2609a/

📷 ESO/A. R. G. do Brito do Vale et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116348445665717040

While it's good that people stepped up to help her, I'm sure she'd prefer to have her job uninterrupted by political scumbags.

This bit stood out: "The board also voted at the meeting to cut ties with the American Library Association"

Tennessee kids are in bad shape thanks to these pathetic Republican asses.

It's no secret that I've been struggling, and my therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.

I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display.

Little did I expect that it's now being seen by anywhere from 200 to 600 people at any given time with 130,000 people having looked at it in the last 24 hours. People are even building projects around my API.

Yesterday, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone working in Mission Control in Houston... and they're using my dashboard! He even sent me a photo, but I can't share it until after the crew has splashed down.

Mind blown, and an absolute pick-me-up. The best part? It's being served from my basement.

https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/

#artemis #artemis2 #artemisII #nasa #csa

Okay folks of #Books

Going to get serious about organizing my ebooks and audiobooks. Which filename convention do you think is best (for file-based management)? (suggestions?)

Author Last Name, First name, series name, book number, title
eg: Sawyer, Robert J, The Quintaglio Ascension, Book 1, Far-Seer

Series name, book number, title, author name
eg: The Quintaglio Ascension, Book 1, Far-Seer, by Robert J Sawyer

(boosts for reach appreciated)

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President #Zelenskyy

💬 "When the whole world learned about #Bucha. About the Ukrainians brutally murdered on the streets of Bucha by russian occupiers. About our people tortured in basements. About those shot on the roads. About the adults and children whose bodies were found in mass graves in Bucha.