Fraser Cain

I can see a lot of people subscribing to space photo feeds, but most seem to contain uncredited and AI photos. Spam. Here's the one I'd recommend above all others. @hourlycosmos.bsky.social It's run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social. He knows what's real, what's fake and how to give proper credit.

A new paper suggests that Venus has been a hellscape for its entire history. No oceans, ever. This result comes from the estimated ratio of water vapor in volcanic outgassing. On Earth, eruptions are mostly steam from interior water, but on Venus, they're 6% at most. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

The Pizzable Zone is the region around a star where the temperature is ideal for cooking a pizza (450-500°C). Inner boundary: too hot, pizza burns instantly. Outer boundary: too cool, pizza won't cook properly.

Just a quick meeting with my editor to see why I've been neglecting to refill my bird-feeder.

I just came back to work after being away from my desk for almost a week. I'm catching up to all my newsfeeds in my RSS reader and it's overwhelming, of course. Except for NASA feeds. They are... sparse. So little research news coming out of NASA.

I wonder if I should answer the doorbell? Pretty skinny bear, hopefully he'll fatten up now that berry season is here.

You were awesome, video is coming next week...

Another clear night of using the Seestar S50. I set this up in Plan mode, picked 4 targets and went to bed. The pictures were waiting for me on the telescope when I got up. Neat.

The enshittification of podcasting is in full effect. I recently changed my podcast hosting provider and it "broke" the feed on both Apple and Spotify. The new feed works fine, and new episodes download on all podcatching apps. But not those two, because... walled gardens.

Finally figuring out how to operate my new Seestar S50. I did a 20 minute exposure of M51 before the clouds rolled in. Nice, it's time for a whole new hobby rabbithole.

Now that Universe Today is totally ad-free, we can do whatever we want. And what we want is a 5-part overview of the new science coming from JWST's Cycle 4. www.universetoday.com/articles/jws...

We're doing a 4 part deep dive into all the science approved with JWST Cycle 4. Here's Part 1 www.universetoday.com/articles/sci...

Firefly released their image of the lunar eclipse from last night, but I'm not sure what I'm looking at. They say that you can see the Sun peeking out from the edge of the Earth reflected in the Solar panel, but the scale looks way off. Need a red glow version. www.flickr.com/photos/firef...