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PACER is, and always has been, a disaster. And the idea that Americans have been paying for it by the page is nuts.
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BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
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Did you hear that loud boom this morning? Our web cams captured this meteor flying over Snowbasin! ☄️
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Saving the best for last. Do not miss this video. Do not miss the last ten seconds. Holy moly.
Harvard astronomy professor @AlyssaAGoodman shows before/after.
Then zooms in…
……..and way out.
https://nitter.gq/t.co/IXiHY6P8VQ
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I had to make a before and after to really appreciate how good the James Webb Telescope really is.
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👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
ALT The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.
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Bright white noctilucent clouds to our north. At altitudes of around 250,000 feet (yes, around 50 miles), they're usually only visible a couple hours before sunrise or after sunset near summer solstice. Bright star to the left of them is Capella. #wawx
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An amazing discovery: a near complete, mummified baby woolly #mammoth was found in the Klondike gold fields within Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory.
yukon.ca/en/news/mummified-b…
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Video near Yellowstone National Park shows a house falling into the raging Yellowstone River on Monday.
Heavy rain and melting snow have caused flooding, damage and triggered evacuations in and around the park. apne.ws/uMJhVJD
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Quoting someone saying they will do "anything I can," before noting that they also said they will not do anything they can, is good reason to not quote them on the first part and instead to simply report that they will not do anything they can.
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A total lunar eclipse over the #SouthPole last week. At its peak a giant band of auroras stretched across the sky, as Allen Foster and I watched spellbound from the roof of DSL. Zoom in to see us between the @NSF @SPTelescope and @BICEP_Keck telescope. An absolutely magical night
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Simulation of a car getting smashed using gravity values for different celestial bodies:
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I found the AI's joke explanations even more impressive. Closest thing to an AI "Fire Alarm" I've seen in a while.
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Crooks are now hacking police, govt email accounts/websites to send fake "emergency data requests" to wireless providers, ISPs, social media firms. The requests claim it's a matter of life & death, can't wait for subpoena. The compliance rate is high. krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/…
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Final sunset in the 5 pm hour is tonight!
After today, the sun won’t set before 6 pm until Oct. 27
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Well - look at you @CityofSeattle - with your perfectly clear skies. This view was captured live at 9:04 AM this morning when the @Space_Station passed you by 260 miles above.
How was your morning coffee?
@NWSSeattle
@fox13seattle @komonews @KIRO7Seattle @KING5Seattle
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According @googlemaps, there is a "traffic jam" at 3:15 in the morning on the road from Belgorod, Russia to the Ukrainian border. It starts *exactly* where we saw a Russian formation of armor and IFV/APCs show up yesterday.
Someone's on the move.
