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Extinction StudiesSoak up some rays. <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BadDayCures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BadDayCures</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HashTagGames</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/lasertag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lasertag</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/cosmicrays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cosmicrays</a>

tomsharpIn 1911 Victor Francis Hess discovered cosmic rays, a previously unknown but damaging radiation from the cosmos that penetrates Earth’s atmosphere. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Physics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicRays</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Hess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hess</a> (<a href="https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1911b.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1911b.html</a>)

💧🌏 Greg CocksSizes Of Tropical Glaciers Reach Historic Lows -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.ugii.cwga" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.ugii.cwga</a> <-- shared technical article -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg7546" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg7546</a> <-- shared paper -- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glacier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glacier</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glacial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glacial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tropical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tropical</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glaciers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glaciers</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/melting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#melting</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/holocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#holocene</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatiotemporal</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatialanalysis</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/highaltitude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highaltitude</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAmerica</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peru</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CostaRica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostaRica</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bolivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bolivia</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PandeAzucar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PandeAzucar</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Queshque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Queshque</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Zongo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zongo</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CharquiniNorte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CharquiniNorte</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Andes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Andes</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/dating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dating</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/isotopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#isotopes</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geochemistry</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#model</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/modeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modeling</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cosmicrays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cosmicrays</a>

StratoCatFirst balloon mission of the NASA balloon campaign in ESRANGE has been terminated at about 11:00 UTC today. Payload (HELIX instrument) descended in Ellesmere Island, Nunavut Territories, Canada after 6 days and 8 hours of flight. The landing point is located in a permanent snow and ice area 120 miles NNE of Grise Fiord the only populated settlement on the island. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Balloon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Balloon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Esrange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Esrange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HELIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HELIX</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicRays</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EllesmereIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EllesmereIsland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nunavut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nunavut</a>

BonnettsBooks5/10/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please. Right now, visit the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration site and find out if you might get to see the northern lights this weekend. <a href="https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/</a>But don't count on getting super powers!<a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/BonnettsBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BonnettsBooks</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/DaytonOhio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DaytonOhio</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/BrickAndMortar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrickAndMortar</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/UsedBookStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UsedBookStore</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/WorldsOldestComicShop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldsOldestComicShop</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/FantasticFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FantasticFour</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/WorldsGreatestComics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldsGreatestComics</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/GraphicNovels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GraphicNovels</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicRays</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/SolarStorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarStorm</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/SpaceWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceWeather</a> <a href="https://mastodonbooks.net/tags/AuroraBorealis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AuroraBorealis</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mastodonbooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mastodonbooks</a>

franco_vazzaA new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AstrophysicsFactlet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AstrophysicsFactlet</a> prompted by a smart question posed by a student of my Astroparticle course for astronomers.In a nutshell: why the maximum energy of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicRays</a> we can capture as they collide with the atmosphere of our planet is so much bigger than the maximum energy of the cosmic rays we can accelerate with human made accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a>

Spaceflight 🚀<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Computer</a> errors 🐞 from <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/OuterSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OuterSpace</a> from a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/airliner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#airliner</a> ✈️ that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight ⤵️, injuring dozens of passengers. A pacemaker's ❤️ built-in computer data got corrupted mid-flight. A group of researchers investigated more than 2,000 bit errors logged by a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/satellite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#satellite</a> 🛰️ over roughly two years in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/orbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#orbit</a>. A huge number of the errors were clustered in an area called the South Atlantic Anomaly. According to <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Nasa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nasa</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronauts</a> 👨‍🚀 on the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceShuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceShuttle</a> used to notice that their <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/laptops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laptops</a> 💻 sometimes crashed when the space shuttle passed through the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SAA</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceWeather</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SolarStorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarStorm</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicRays</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RadiationProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadiationProtection</a>

Euclid Consortium<a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/ESAEuclid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESAEuclid</a> is a space mission. While that means it's not susceptible to rain and clouds, it is affected by "SpaceWeather"! The <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sun</a> ☀️ is ramping up its activity in the <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/SolarCycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarCycle</a>, and when emitting substantial bursts, these will be noticed by 🛰️ <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacecraft</a> - and Earth. For <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Euclid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Euclid</a> this can mean many more hits by <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/cosmicrays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cosmicrays</a>.(👉🏼 See also: <a href="https://www.euclid-ec.org/whats-in-euclids-first-light-images" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.euclid-ec.org/whats-in-euclids-first-light-images</a>) For Earth this can mean <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/aurorae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aurorae</a>! This picture of an <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/aurora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aurora</a> above <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Edinburgh</a> just now was taken by our EC member Gordon Gibb.

Euclid ConsortiumAnother feature that you can see in <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/ESAEuclid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESAEuclid</a>'s first images: What are these? Satellite streaks 🛰️? Asteroids ☄️? Superwoman (or Superman) 🦸🏽 ?No, much smaller: these are traces by <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicRays</a> ⚡, hitting <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Euclid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Euclid</a>'s <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/VIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VIS</a> and <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/NISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NISP</a> detectors directly, depositing energy and electric charges in their pixels. Read more about all the features and objects you can see in <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Euclid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Euclid</a>'s <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/FirstLight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstLight</a> images:👉 <a href="https://www.euclid-ec.org/whats-in-euclids-first-light-images" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.euclid-ec.org/whats-in-euclids-first-light-images</a><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESA</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/DarkMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkMatter</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/DarkEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkEnergy</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a>

Miro CollasFirst Real Life Test of Cosmic Rays In Navigation...It Worked! - YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNJVxClcQvc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNJVxClcQvc</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navigation</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cosmology</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicRays</a>

MagpieblogRadiocarbon traces left in tree rings by cosmic ray blasts are making it possible to date many historic events and ruins with remarkable accuracy.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicRays</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TreeRings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TreeRings</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MiyakeEvents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiyakeEvents</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dendrochronology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dendrochronology</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/marking-time-cosmic-ray-storms-can-pin-precise-dates-history-ancient-egypt-vikings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/marking-time-cosmic-ray-storms-can-pin-precise-dates-history-ancient-egypt-vikings</a>

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