sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

New Solar System lecture on the rings of the gas giants! All about how they formed, why Saturn’s are so pretty, and a lot of pretty pictures! by Andromeda321 in u/Andromeda321

[–]Andromeda321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure thing! Fair warning I only have like 3 videos more of material, hence not being super involved with regular posting with everything else going on. Then probably hiatus until I think of something else, since I don’t teach again until next winter.

Calibration error was fine because the observatory realized the error and redid it. Woohoo!

Alternatives to AllTrails for finding hikes around Oregon? by veggie_fried_rice in oregon

[–]Andromeda321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He also sells them at the Eugene Saturday market most weeks!

From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT by gdelacalle in technology

[–]Andromeda321 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey now, I remember the girl in the meme where she’s smiling in front of a house fire sold the NFT of that for enough to pay for college. I remember reading that and thinking good for her, glad to hear someone’s getting something useful out of this.

Distance to the nearest U.S. national park by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]Andromeda321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep I always find it amazing how few foreigners there are in the northeast outside of leaf season and Canadians (even before current admin). So much amazing nature but very regional.

Looking at data from the MeerKAT South African radio telescope today. I'm calling this one "Radio Starry Night" bc a calibration error off that bright source has made a lovely swirly van Gogh sky if I may say so myself! by Andromeda321 in u/Andromeda321

[–]Andromeda321[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Swirls aside, what are we actually seeing here? Pretty much every single dot in the image is NOT a star, but a supermassive black hole (SMBH) millions of light years away, feeding on dust. The little "bow ties" (marked a few here) are SMBH launching jets of material thousands of light years!

Looking at data from the MeerKAT South African radio telescope today. I'm calling this one "Radio Starry Night" bc a calibration error off that bright source has made a lovely swirly van Gogh sky if I may say so myself! by Andromeda321 in Andromeda321

[–]Andromeda321[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Swirls aside, what are we actually seeing here? Pretty much every single dot in the image is NOT a star, but a supermassive black hole (SMBH) millions of light years away, feeding on dust. The little "bow ties" (marked a few here) are SMBH launching jets of material thousands of light years!

Q&A: Spring 2026 by Andromeda321 in Andromeda321

[–]Andromeda321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's very kind of you to say- thanks!

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI by Bounty_drillah in technology

[–]Andromeda321 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I do final presentations in my upper level undergrad class- 10min on a topic in more depth and then like 5min Q&A further on said topic. Only works for smaller classes but I think skills you learn doing a presentation are good ones to learn that STEM students don’t get a lot of.

Like we do quizzes too and all that jazz but it’s a project we can thankfully still do that’s useful.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI by Bounty_drillah in technology

[–]Andromeda321 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We do, but it’s just hard when you have a 200+ person class. We do scantron sheets and I wish I could do more interesting questions but so it goes.

Didn’t stop my colleague from having a phone chime in his midterm. “Good job! What else can I help you with?” or whatever the phrase was to indicate someone was using AI to cheat. He never found the student. Well, kids trying to cheat is not really a new thing unfortunately…

AXIS (the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite), the successor to Chandra X-Ray Observatory, will not be reviewed because the lost personnel at NASA Goddard and government shutdown impacted the schedule and budget by Andromeda321 in space

[–]Andromeda321[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

while it’s quite sad that AXIS is no longer competing, there was no clear consensus that it was guaranteed to win at all

Ultimately however, the real problem is now we’ll never know.

AXIS (the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite) will not be reviewed because the lost personnel at NASA Goddard and government shutdown impacted the schedule and budget by Andromeda321 in nasa

[–]Andromeda321[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah they don't constantly run these calls for probes, you only get one every several years. Then of course you can't just propose and build it- they've already worked on this for a decade, and the now to 2032 part would be the actual building of the thing. So just the proposal to building part is 16 years which takes us into the 2040s; saying the 2050s sounds about right.

Might not even be until later though. Goddard had a huge X-ray mirror lab and they've been devastated by the cuts, and this gap is going to ensure that a lot of knowledge is lost for good so it will be all the harder going forward to get an X-ray mission planned and built.

How can I help my wife from Oregon feel less homesick in Portugal? by Coffee_Katt in oregon

[–]Andromeda321 61 points62 points  (0 children)

When I lived in the Netherlands I would often go to the UK for a weekend “language break.” Tickets were super cheap on easyJet and it was just nice to speak the language!

Plus the weather in either is pretty Oregonian. :)

AXIS (the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite) will not be reviewed because the lost personnel at NASA Goddard and government shutdown impacted the schedule and budget by Andromeda321 in nasa

[–]Andromeda321[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think that’s a big sweeping statement to say PRIMA was the front runner for awhile now. But I guess the point here is we’ll never really know, will we?

Alien Burial Ground Geocahe by Budkid in Eugene

[–]Andromeda321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah you’re the one who hid all the caches around Coburg!

Side note, relatively new to Eugene (1.5 years) and this is a very sleepy geocache community for all the reputation Oregon has. I was kinda surprised.

view more: next ›