"There are trillions of galaxies. Each galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars. Each star has at least two planets. And 10% of them are very likely similar to our own," says French-American astronomer Franck Marchis. His conclusion: "It is impossible that there isn't other intelligent life elsewhere in our universe."
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On this week's #SETILive, we learned about the evidence of a planet-planet collision in a distant star system, including drops in the star's brightness and increases in the infrared glow. Watch the full episode: https://youtube.com/live/eW0dJu8xv1E
Cruciferous vegetables are very healthy
But not in #space
4 people in a spacecraft the size of 2 minivans means excess flatulence- which has methane and hydrogen, is not just malodorous, but downright dangerous: flammability
" #NASA even carefully curates astronauts’ meals to reduce flatulence as much as possible. Among the foods on its naughty list are Brussels sprouts, baked beans, cabbage and broccoli"
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PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-launches-discovery-and-futures-lab-to-explore-the-human-dimensions-of-life-beyond-earth/
The SETI Institute announced the launch of the Discovery and Futures Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to understanding the global scientific, philosophical, and societal dimensions of discovering life beyond Earth.
The Discovery and Futures Lab’s mission is to anticipate and explore humanity’s responses to the discovery of life beyond Earth by connecting science with other kinds of research.
#PPOD: This image of Neptune and Triton was captured by Voyager 2 as it departed the Neptune system on 31 August 1989. Voyager 2's flyby over Neptune's northern hemisphere bent the spacecraft's trajectory downwards out of our solar system's orbital plane. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Justin Cowart
Splashdown in around 6h45m from literally as I post
eta: they just said 5:07pm Cascadian/Pacific time for splashdown so now you have a clock time too
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The Fedi logo seemed like a pretty obvious application of my art 😁 acrylic on wood with varnish, about 7.5” wide.
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This is a great summary of why it has been so satisfying to watch humble, distinguished competence in action on this journey. We’re desperate for a reminder of what has and can be in the face of abject, corrupt weaponized stupidity.
https://lizplank.substack.com/p/artemis-ii-is-competency-porn-and
The Guardian: Jubilant return of Artemis II shadowed by ‘extinction-level’ cuts to Nasa: ‘It’s discordant’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/11/artemis-ii-nasa-budget-cuts
Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear…
—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)
Yuri Gagarin completed a single orbit of the Earth #OTD, 12 April, 1961. Today is the International Day of Human Space Flight
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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/
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What are exoplanet clouds hiding?
Join Dr. Lauren Sgro and Dr. Sagnick Mukherjee as they explore a new way to detect clouds in alien atmospheres and reveal what's happening on distant worlds.
📅 Today
⏰ 2:30 pm PDT
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In a recent #SETILive discussion, astrophysicist Dr. Moiya McTier spoke with astrophysicist Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis, a final-year astronomy Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. They shared evidence for a system called Gaia GIC1 (also referred to as Gaia20ehk), which may represent an ongoing planetary-scale collision.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/news/planet-crash-cosmic-collision-caught-in-action/
Dr. Milan Gošić is a solar physicist who has been working on the spatio-temporal evolution of the solar magnetic fields using multi-instrument, multiwavelength observations. His field of expertise is space and ground solar observations, data processing, and data analysis.
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#PPOD: The Expedition 74 crew on the International Space Station turned into meteor chasers as Earth passed through a cloud of dust and small debris left behind by comet Thatcher in 1861. ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot set up a camera to automatically capture thousands of images in hopes of catching a shooting star from the Lyrid meteor shower, an elusive event that often lasts only a fraction of a second. Credit: NASA/ESA – S. Adenot
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What happens on a planet where rock melts into oceans?
SETI Live returns with Moiya McTier and Claire Marie Guimond discussing K2-141 b—a lava world with extreme heat, rock vapor atmospheres, and possible nightside volcanism.
📅 May 7 (TODAY)
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The #Pentagon will begin releasing never-before-seen files containing unidentified anomalous phenomenon, or #UAPs, on a dedicated website, the agency announced Friday morning.
At the direction of Trump, the files & photos will be released to the public on a rolling basis at War.gov/ufo.
…Also referred to as #UFOs, UAPs have been in conversation among whistleblowers in government, sparking interest among the public.
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https://wgntv.com/news/pentagon-publishes-ufo-file-collection-online-tells-public-to-make-up-their-own-minds/
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It is ON! Japan & Europe are collaborating on Ramses, a mission to asteroid Apophis as it makes a rare, unusually close pass by the Earth in April 2029.
The Ramses spacecraft will study Apophis & see how it changes under the pull of Earth's gravity.
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Ramses_ESA_s_mission_to_asteroid_Apophis #space #science #nature #tech
I'm flat-out amazed that we can monitor the currents of molten metal in Earth's outer core, 2200 kilometers underground--but we can. Lately, part of that flow has reversed direction, for reasons unknown.
There's a whole other dynamic world inside the world we see.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Swarm/Insights_into_Earth_s_molten_outer_core_from_space #space #science #tech