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Astronomy diapsid and number cruncher, other skills as required. Primary focus is exoplanets, but relatively up on other aspects of space/astronomy/spaceflight. Not indebted to π’€­π’Œ“. Trying not to be just a stabby bird lost in the Outer Dark (p ≀ 0.05).

'blog is about what you'd expect (pdn4kd.github.io)

(Also on esper and libera IRC servers)

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Uranus's Largest Moon: Titania
Image Credit: NASA, Voyager 2; Processing & License: zelario12

Explanation: Titania's tortured terrain is a mix of canyons, cliffs, and craters. NASA's interplanetary robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed the largest moon of Uranus in 1986 and took the feature picture. That the trenches of Titania resemble those on another moon of Uranus, Ariel, indicate that Titania underwent some violent surface event possibly related to water freezing and expanding in its distant past. Although Titania is Uranus's largest moon, it is only about half the radius of Triton - the largest moon of Uranus's sister planet Neptune, which itself is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon. Titania, discovered by William Herschel in 1787, is essentially a large dirty iceball that is composed of about half water-ice and half rock. There is recent speculation that radioactive heating melts some underground ice into oceans.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260331.html #apod

PSA:

1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly

2. If you are silly, you must stay silly

2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't
[insert joke here about the albedos and emissivities of assorted genders]
merry trans day of visibility, and to all, a good gender

A new microseason in the "Spring equinox" (ζ˜₯εˆ† Shunbun) division has begun:

Distant thunder (ι›·δΉƒη™Ίε£° Kaminari sunawachi koe o hassu)

This microseason will last until April 4.

A stellar evolution code that should be suitable for teaching purposes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25792 https://github.com/yreclab/yrec/tree/yrec_2026_release

A review of utra-compact X-ray binaries: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13813

The YREC Stellar Evolution Code: Public Data Release

In this paper we present the public release of the Yale Rotating Evolution Code (YREC). YREC is a stellar evolution code that covers brown dwarfs and stars across a wide range of masses, and evolutionary states from the pre-MS through helium burning. We summarize the key ingredients of the code, document the code performance, and discuss its strengths and limitations. We present libraries of input files, documentation, sample use cases, and scripts. In addition to usage as a research tool, we highlight the utility of the code for educational purposes.

arXiv.org
What's wrong with this picture?
The Curta won't grind the beans but it will compute that 21g coffee x 15:1 ratio = 315 ml water
High score, not quite a single bingo