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Last Notes

2026-07-29 15:01:44 UTC

#PPOD: This image shows the stunning night sky above three of the Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Conditions at the site make it one of the best places on Earth for astronomical observations, with the band of the Milky Way, as well as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, visible to the unaided eye. Credit: ESO/N. Schafer
#space #science
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2026-07-16 15:01:06 UTC

#PPOD: As of June 23, 2026, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has spent an incredible 17 years orbiting the Moon, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has been hard at work ever since.
This lunar volcano is so ideally shaped and is evidence of ancient explosive eruptions of highly silicic magmas in the Moon’s distant past. There are multiple areas on the Moon where explosive eruptions have occurred, but none is as picture-perfect as this one!
#planetaryscience #space
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2025-12-25 16:00:22 UTC

#PPOD: This Hubble image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. It spans nearly 400 billion miles — 40 times the diameter of our solar system. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen from Earth, the dark, dusty disk resembles a hamburger. Hubble reveals it to be unusually chaotic, with bright wisps of material extending far above and below the disk. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Kristina Monsch (CfA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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2025-04-14 20:32:16 UTC

From Sasquatch to Nessie to Chupacabra, mythical creatures have long fascinated us. We look at the latest Bigfoot news and a beloved hoax with a surprising connection to a medical breakthrough. It’s Skeptic Check: Cryptids on Big Picture Science.
Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/skeptic-check-cryptids
#science #podcast #scicomm
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