Notices tagged with scicomm

#PPOD: The Apollo 11 landing site is pictured here with the lunar module descent stage casting a shadow toward Little West crater, as imaged with the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera on India's Chandrayaan-2 from an altitude of 100 km on April 2, 2021. Credit: ISRO / Chandrayaan-2 / OHRC / JPMajor

#moon #space #science #scicomm

1. “Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place on the planet?”

#science #scicomm #assemblytheory #exobiology

Here's some pre-sketches I've made when planning out bakes! Never felt comfortable enough to post these on the other place.

#astronomy #astroart #scicomm #science #baking

Like many other scientists I often get "debate me" emails from random people with weird ideas about #astronomy. If I answer, they feel validated. Same if I don't. So I always pick the option that doesn't waste my time. Don't fall for the "debate me" trap, folks, you can't win. #scicomm

ALMA tiramisu. A desert dish dessert dish, if you will

#alma #chile #astronomy #scicomm #baking #tiramisu #chocolate #radioastronomy

My gingerbread creations from the past two years. Any ideas for what I should try this year?

#science #astronomy #space #baking #art #scicomm #nasa #NASAWebb