What a cool picture! The center of our galaxy hanging over the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope 🔭 (operated by National Solar Observatory). I've seen something very similar with my own eyes on Haleakalā's sister mountain Maunakea.
For 50+ years, Ron Harris has been part of NOIRLab's Instrument Shop legacy: he visited as a child and he now leads a team of machinists. 🛠️🔭 Read more about Ron (noirlab.edu/public/blog/...noirlab.edu/public/visit...)
A passionate panegyric for fundamental discovery science www.theceomagazine.com/executive-in...
Founded during the unrest of post-war Europe, CERN was intended to promote cooperation and scientific advancement. Director-General Fabiola Gianotti continues to champion those ideals.
"The most powerful solar telescope on Earth has just given us a key to help unlock the magnetic mysteries of the Sun." My telescope! It's so exciting 😄😄😄 #DKIST#InouyeSolarTelescope
The most powerful solar telescope on Earth has just given us a key to help unlock the magnetic mysteries of the Sun.
This video tours Arp 107, two galaxies that collided hundreds of millions of years ago. #NASAWebb has captured the pair of galaxies in the process of merging, which will take hundreds of millions of years. 🔭 🧪
YouTube video by Space Telescope Science Institute
Reposting for folks who didn't see it when first posted a couple of weeks back!Reposting for folks who didn't see it when first posted a couple of weeks back!
Dale the Porsche Guy on rec.music.gdead still lives rent-free in my head all these many decades later
write your own damn emails, also you should probably drink the bottle of water
A single 100-word email generated by an AI chatbot using GPT-4 requires 519 milliliters of water, a little more than 1 bottle. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.
If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.
