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Just Released. First image from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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The deepest view ever obtained in the universe. Filled with galaxies. The several spiked objects are local stars in our own Milky Way. Ignore them. Everything else is an entire galaxy unto itself. Notice that many distort into arcs. These are distant galaxies that reveal the curvature of spacetime caused by the gravity of a cluster of galaxies in image’s center.
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[nasa.gov/webbfirstimages]
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I love the smell of the Universe in the morning.
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Main-streaming the universe.
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@NASAWebb telescope images on “billboards” in Times Square, the heart of Manhattan.
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[ 5:30pm ET, July 12, 2022; Intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue, NYC ]
From the Photo Archives
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I’ve never been Captain of a Starship. But if I were, this is how I would sit in the chair, about to outsmart an enemy vessel.
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[Between takes, filming Season 5 of @PBS’s “NOVA ScienceNOW.” Green screen studio, New York City 2009]
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US Independence Day
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Celebrating the badass moment when the American Colonists declared their independence from the King of England, five years before that independence was actually won.
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[From the deck of the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, now the Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum, Hudson River, New York City. July 4, 2012. Photo by Stephen Tyson Jr.]
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Godspeed James Web Space Telescope. Launched 7:20 am ET, December 25, 2021
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Headed for Earth-Sun Lagrangian Point “L2” a million miles away.
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Congratulations to @nasa, thousands of engineers & my fellow scientists.
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Evidence that exploration remains alive in the human spirit.
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Tonight’s Full Moon, the largest of the year, is 8% larger than an average Full Moon. Will be called by some a “Super Duper Moon.”
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I’m okay with that, but only if you think a 16-inch pizza is super-duper-sized compared with a 15-inch pizza.
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Saturday, April 16, 2022
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Full Moon today — the first one after the March Equinox. The Sunday following that Full Moon is, by definition, Easter.
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This rule precludes solar eclipses from ever taking place on Easter Sunday.
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[Available to anyone with a telephoto lens, the Full Moon shows large dark areas — lunar maria — where lakes of lava once settled. Countless craters visible too. Earth’s atmosphere shields us from most meteor impacts. Those that do occur typically erode over time by the forces of weather.]
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8:12 pm, NYC Time
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Monday, May 30, 2022
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Crowds gather. Traffic halts. Cross streets glisten with fiery orange light, rendering otherwise-shadowed urban canyons aglow. Behold sunset on the Manhattan grid. Behold #Manhattanhenge.
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[34th Street, Park Avenue, New York 2001; Sony Cybershot, Zeiss Lens]
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
– Martin Luther King Jr. 1963
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Sciencey 12-ft Christmas windows along 5th Avenue at Bergdorf Goodman, New York City
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(1) A psychedelic marine scene, (2) a psychedelic tree of life, and..
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(3) Psychedelic cosmic collage…
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It’s all there, and then some. Star charts, crescent moon, Galileo, a rocket, late 1950s Cadillac Eldorado fins, disco-balls, an hourglass, a wall-mounted dial telephone, dog & human robots, an armillary sphere (Google it), a phrenology head, Leo the Lion, a fashion model looking through three telescopes, a 1970s era boom box, and of course, on the far left, a jeweled six-foot electric guitar.
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Happy Holidays to all.
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Sciencey 12-ft Christmas windows along 5th Avenue at Bergdorf Goodman, New York City
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(1) A psychedelic marine scene, (2) a psychedelic tree of life, and..
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(3) Psychedelic cosmic collage…
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It’s all there, and then some. Star charts, crescent moon, Galileo, a rocket, late 1950s Cadillac Eldorado fins, disco-balls, an hourglass, a wall-mounted dial telephone, dog & human robots, an armillary sphere (Google it), a phrenology head, Leo the Lion, a fashion model looking through three telescopes, a 1970s era boom box, and of course, on the far left, a jeweled six-foot electric guitar.
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Happy Holidays to all.
January 4, 2022
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**Merry Perihelion to Planet Earth
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In our oval orbit, we are 3% closer to the Sun today than we will be six months from now.
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If interested: Solar flux scales as the square of the distance.
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If you do the math, Earth today receives about 6% more solar energy than in July.
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But we’re also moving faster in our orbit. Which largely cancels out the net gain.
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That’s why Winter is only 89 days long. Summer: 94 days
Dec 21, 2021
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Happy December Solstice to all Earthlings — one of four cardinal days in the Astronomical Calendar, each caused by the tilt of Earth’s axis relative to the Sun. Today the North Pole tips away.
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Without this tilt, Earth would not experience seasons as we know them.
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Finally created my own Tesseract.
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But don’t tell anybody.
The exact Rainbow any of us sees is entirely our own — a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.
That’s why Rainbows are **always** face-on. You’ve never seen one at an angle, which forever protects the Pot of Gold hidden at it base.
[Tour Guide “May”; Hobbiton, New Zealand. July 2017. iPhone SE]
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I once daydreamed that @levar.burton read “Goodnight Moon” to me.
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[Video: 3 min]
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Looks like some parts of the World need more Sunflowers — again.
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[Vincent van Gogh styled image of a Sunflower field. Mixed Media by David Pyatt]
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https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/david-pyatt
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Dogs have always enjoyed my books.
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Leo, from Virginia, received a special pre-release copy, and was rapt by the chapter on Truth & Beauty.
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(pre-order, if interested: https://bit.ly/starrysweeps)
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[Photo by Drew Pulley (@drewness17), Leo’s pet human]
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Reading his pre-release copy of Starry Messenger, Leo from Virginia was especially interested in the paragraph on Dog life-expectancy, in the final chapter titled “Life & Death”. #InternationalDogDay
[Photo by Drew Pulley, Leo’s pet human]
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Reading his pre-release copy of Starry Messenger, Leo from Virginia was especially interested in the paragraph on Dog life-expectancy, in the final chapter titled “Life & Death”. #InternationalDogDay
[Photo by Drew Pulley, Leo’s pet human]
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Perihelion Sun through Pine Trees
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91,406,842 miles away from Earth
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[10:06am ET, Jan 4, 2022; Long Island, NY; iPhone 12Pro]
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May the fourth be with you.
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In the chapter Meatarians & Vegetarians, Leo from Virginia was intrigued that some humans eat only plants. #InternationalDogDay
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[Photo by Drew Pulley, Leo’s pet human]
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