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Joined April 2009

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Aug 24
🌕 Look up on August 27! A deep partial lunar eclipse is coming to the Bay Area, with 96% of the Moon slipping into Earth’s shadow at maximum eclipse. For San Jose and the Bay Area: 🌕 Moonrise: 7:35 p.m. 🌑 Maximum eclipse: 9:12 p.m. 🌕 Partial eclipse ends: 10:51 p.m.
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🚨 SCHEDULE UPDATE: Today’s SETI Live has been postponed. Join Dr. Franck Marchis (@AllPlanets) and Kevin Hoy on Friday, August 28, at 2:30 p.m. PDT for our conversation about the possible first exomoon. We apologize for the last-minute change and hope to see you Friday!
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🌕 Is this the first exomoon? Astronomers have detected a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf — which itself orbits a star. It may be the first convincing detection of an exosatellite beyond our Solar System. But the discovery raises a surprisingly tricky question: What
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🌕 Is this the first exomoon? Astronomers have detected a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf — which itself orbits a star. It may be the first convincing detection of an exosatellite beyond our Solar System. But the discovery raises a surprisingly tricky question: What
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#PPOD: Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close 🟨 Sometimes scientific discoveries happen by accident. NASA’s @MarsCuriosity rover uncovered these yellow sulfur crystals after driving over and crushing a rock on #Mars in May 2024—the first time pure elemental sulfur had been
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Aug 25
At the SETI Institute, Rebecca Robinson follows the thread that connects everything — all the way to the Sun ☀️ From drilling ice cores in Iceland to researching the solar corona heating problem at the SETI Institute, @LifeOfBecca's path to #heliophysics is unlike any other. In
At the SETI Institute, Rebecca Robinson follows the thread that connects everything — all the way...
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