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Mañana de monte.

#dogsofmastodon

Playa de Plentzia/Gorliz. La marea está muy alta y hay muchas olas para esta playa tan resguardada. El cielo está muy azul y el mar también.

Perrete a un lado del camino. Detrás se ve parte de la bahía de Gorliz y el mar muy azul.

Bahía de Gorliz desde el monte. El cielo está muy azul y el mar también. En primer plano se ven unis campos con aspecto otoñal, y algunas maderas de uso agrícola. La foto está sacada a través de una valla de malla oxidada.

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Mi pueblo. El mejor sitio para ver el eclipse del 12 de agosto de 2026.

Castillo de Ciria (Soria)

#eclipse #soria #starlight #eclipse2026

Castillo en ruinas, en realidad apenas se conservan las murallas. Se ve en lo alto del todo y está situado sobre una imponente roca de piedra a modo de precipicio. Es otoño y ha llovido. Las rocas tienen marcas de desgaste por las cagadas de los buitres que tienen nidos en ellas.

Castillo en ruinas, es apenas una muralla circular con un hueco de entrada. Se diferencian unas pocas almenas. La muralla se eleva sobre unas rocas, como si fuera una extensión de ellas. El paisaje es totalmente roca. Es otoño, ha llovido.

Castillo en ruinas, sobre una roca, es apenas una muralla con unas pocas almenas en pie. Es primavera y el castillo se ve al fondo de un campo verde con flores amarillas. El castillo parece emerger de las rocas del fondo, como si formara parte ellas.

Castillo en ruinas, conserva apenas las murallas, que encajan perfectamente sobre una roca escarpada, casi vertical, que parece un precipicio. Es el atardecer y los últimos rayos de sol iluminan las murallas, como si las piedras fueran oro, al tiempo que el castillo queda recortado sobre un cielo que cada vez se oscurece más.

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Teaser 😉

In the 1990s, I discovered this beauty while making an IR survey of dense molecular cloud cores in the Milky Way, searching for signs of star formation ✨🔭

Almost 10 light years long, it's a bipolar outflow of gas ejected at hundreds of km/sec from a young, massive protostar 🌟

Officially HH288, it's also called The Dragon Jet, thanks to its fire-breathing appearance 🐉

And next week, you'll get to see my JWST image of it – it's special 😱

Stay tuned 📻

#Space #SpaceScience #Astronomy

An image of space showing many stars and a long, linear feature running from upper right to lower left. It resembles a Chinese dragon, with the head breathing fire to the lower left, and the long tail to the upper right. The image is monochrome, but has been rendered with a look-up table where the background is red and the brighter stars and jet are yellow.

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@_elena

Drake meme where face has been replaced with EU symbol.
No: Boosting existing grassroots efforts which undermine the broligarchy
Yes: Copy what americans do and come up with our own techbro shit

@PhilStooke a "same but different" case on Io:
https://mastodon.social/@sharponlooker/115933454258616742

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Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known. When Star Trek became an animated series, the studio hired only a few of us to reprise our roles, excluding Nichelle Nichols and myself. Leonard looked at that decision and simply said, "No."

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People generally don't realise that a #museum is a major storage and archive that offers to find and show the public and scholars any given object in its care, with provenance, century after century.

70 years ago, Evert Baudou looked at 90 stone axes in the Swedish #History Museum. This week I got to handle *every single one* again. A few of them have been in that collection for 200 years by now. ❤️

#archaeology #museums

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@sharponlooker
I ask slightly different questions and use computer-supported statistical methods that weren't available yet in the 1950s except for at the Pentagon. I expect to provide a higher-resolution picture of what Baudou saw the broad strokes of.

AFAIK, no petrologist has ever studied these axes. But archaeologists of the past 150 years have called this rock "porphyrite" or "dioritic porphyrite".

@mrundkvist amazing, do you think you'll come to completely different conclusions than him? 😉

What kind of rock did they use for that one, with all the clasts?

#kratrarsombergeffekten version #IoMoon, this time for science 🙃

Seeger et al: "Mountain Degradation Mechanisms on Io Based on Geologic Mapping of the Cocytus Montes Region From JunoCam Imagery"
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE008955

Fig 1 from the paper: map and old Voyager image of the studied formation, with the Juno image furthest to the right where, when you can get your eyes properly adjusted, the formation casts shadows consistent with a mountain.

Hard to catch up with all the science when papers for 2 years of #PerseveranceRover campaigns (upper delta, margin unit and #NeretvaVallis / #JezeroBrightAngel) all get released within a few weeks 🤦‍♂️

Jones et al: "A Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment Preserved in the Jezero Crater Inlet Channel, Neretva Vallis"
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009420

#JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroMarginUnit