40 years ago today, Voyager 2 became the first (and, so far, only) spacecraft to visit to Uranus, sending back astonishing images of the planet, its thin rings, and its peculiar set of moons.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/35-years-ago-voyager-2-explores-uranus/ #space #science #nature #history

This is incredible. An MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade along with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps.

https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow.

via tithsokphanny31

#photography
#moon
#rainbow

Me trying to be good at memeing, while having no idea what I'm doing 

#Aws #AwsOutage #AwsDown

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.

Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:

Today's the day that The Shattering Peace, the new book in the Old Man's War universe, is out in North America (UK, you have two more days). I wrote it to be enjoyable to new readers as well as old hands to the series. I hope you'll pick it up at your favorite bookseller!

I'm also on tour in the US: https://us.macmillan.com/tours/john-scalzi-the-shattering-peace/

You can also get signed books from me, by ordering from the bookstores above, or from Subterranean Press, which also ships internationally: https://subterraneanpress.com/scalzi-tsp/?searchid=916414&search_query=The+Shattering+Peace