heise online English
heise online English  ·  4 weeks ago

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NASA faces massive budget cuts from Trump administration

The new US government wants to cut 20% overall and 50% in scientific research. This would mean the end of important NASA missions.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/NASA-faces-massive-budget-cuts-from-Trump-administration-10350405.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Astronomie#DonaldTrump#ElonMusk#NASA#Politik#Raumfahrt#Wissen#Wissenschaft #news

Autonomie und Solidarität
Autonomie und Solidarität  ·  6 months ago
DEUTSCHLAND: VERABSCHIEDETE ANTISEMITISMUS-RESOLUTION GEFÄHRDET GRUND- UND MENSCHENRECHTE

„Diese Resolution schafft Raum für Missbrauch, kriminalisiert legitime Kritik an der israelischen Regierungspolitik und bedient das rassistische Narrativ vom 'importierten Antisemitismus'. Daran gibt es seit Monaten Kritik von namhaften Jurist*innen, Kulturschaffenden und prominenten Stimmen aus der Zivilgesellschaft. Es ist ein fatales Signal, dass die Abgeordneten des Bundestages sogar alternative Formulierungsvorschläge ignoriert haben.

Bei der Umsetzung des Antrags sind nun unverhältnismäßige Eingriffe in die Meinungs-, Kunst-, Wissenschafts- und Versammlungsfreiheit zu befürchten. So bleibt es völlig unklar, wie sichergestellt werden soll, dass bei der Verwendung der weitreichenden und unbestimmten IHRA-Definition als Maßstab für Maßnahmen wie Straf- oder Asylrechtsverschärfungen, der Verweigerung staatlicher Fördermittel oder Eingriffe in das Hochschulsystem keine von der Meinungsfreiheit geschützten Aussagen sanktioniert werden. Unklar ist außerdem, wer diese Prüfung durchführen und wie ein Missbrauch der Regelung vermieden werden soll…..“

https://www.amnesty.de/pressemitteilung-antisemitismus-resolution-deutschland-verabschiedung-gefahr-grundrechte @palestine @israel

#Repression#Deutschland#Israel#Antisemitismus#Bundestag#Antireport

Autonomie und Solidarität
Autonomie und Solidarität  ·  6 months ago

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Ausschreitungen in #Amsterdam - Medien korrigieren sich #Maccabi

"Nach den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen mehrheitlich migrantischen Einwohnern Amsterdams und israelischen Fußballfans am Donnerstag haben mehrere internationale Medien ihre Berichterstattung korrigiert. Wie sich jetzt herausgestellt hat, haben Zeitungen und Sender ihre Berichte über gewalttätige Angriffe auf die Fans von Maccabi Tel Aviv mit Bildern illustriert, die diese als Opfer zeigen, obwohl sie die Angreifer waren. Maccabi-Ultras waren zuletzt in Athen mit ähnlichen Gewalttaten gegenüber arabischen Menschen bekannt geworden.

Die Fotografin Annet de Graaf, deren Bilder verwendet wurden, wies bereits am Freitag auf dem Kurznachrichtendienst X auf die falsche Berichterstattung hin und forderte eine Richtigstellung. Mehrere Medien, darunter #SkyNews und die deutsche #ARD, kamen dieser Aufforderung nach. Ein Videobeitrag der Tagesschau enthält nun den Hinweis: »Diese Bilder zeigen nicht Angriffe auf israelische Fußball-Fans.« Andere Medien, wie »Bild«, haben die irreführenden Illustrationen mit Maccabi-Fans als Opfer jedoch weiterhin online......"

Danke an @matthimonhttps://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1186660.fan-gewalt-in-amsterdam-ausschreitungen-in-amsterdam-medien-korrigieren-sich.html @palestine @israel

#Presse#Medien#Israel#Hooligans#Palestine#War#Journalismus#News

Daniel Pomarède
Daniel Pomarède  ·  2 months ago

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Webb unmasks true nature of the Cosmic Tornado

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy.

📷 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_unmasks_true_nature_of_the_Cosmic_Tornado

#JWST#Webb#Astronomy#Astrophysics #Astrodon #science #news #galaxy

Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner of the image is a conical shaped orange-red cloud known at Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. At this same location there is a background spiral shaped galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outwards to blend in with red spiral arms. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. The black background of space is clearer, speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies.
Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner of the image is a conical shaped orange-red cloud known at Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. At this same location there is a background spiral shaped galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outwards to blend in with red spiral arms. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. The black background of space is clearer, speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies.
Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner of the image is a conical shaped orange-red cloud known at Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. At this same location there is a background spiral shaped galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outwards to blend in with red spiral arms. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. The black background of space is clearer, speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies.
heise online English
heise online English  ·  2 months ago

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Months late: Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore back on earth

A few days on board the ISS turned into months for Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore due to problems with the Boeing Starline. Now they have returned.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Months-late-Suni-Williams-and-Barry-Wilmore-back-on-earth-10320510.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#ISS#NASA#Raumfahrt#SpaceX#Wissen #news

heise online English
heise online English  ·  2 months ago

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SpaceX: Starship self-destructed after fire on board

The seventh flight of the Starship ended with an explosion. The US space company SpaceX has announced the reason.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/SpaceX-Starship-self-destructed-after-fire-on-board-10294954.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Raumfahrt#SpaceX #news

Robin Riley
Robin Riley  ·  3 months ago

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Staying informed in the US is not going to get easier anytime soon, especially as old standbys fall to billionaires or preemptive obedience to the authoritarian regime.

I've assembled a list of 40+ outlets that I find valuable, prominently featuring:

* nonprofit, co-operative, and independent news rooms,
* outlets relevant to Petaluma and the Bay Area,
* international outlets,
* and, yes, a selection of for-profit outlets.

Many of them are on fedi or Bluesky.

https://blog.riley.pub/news-and-information-in-2025/

#News

Daniel Pomarède
Daniel Pomarède  ·  3 months ago

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A Dragonfly for Titan

A new eight-rotor robotic probe will head to the solar system’s most Earth-like moon. Here’s what its team is doing to prepare.

Check out this extensive paper by Matthew R. Francis for Eos, AGU's science news magazine

https://eos.org/features/a-dragonfly-for-titan

#Dragonfly#Titan#Saturn#Moon #satellite #solarsystem #planetaryscience #science#STEM #engineering #drone#AGU#Eos #news #magazine

Stan Carey
Stan Carey  ·  3 months ago

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The BBC asked minority groups what they thought of the BBC:

"Participants...viewed journalism as a form of oppression that had the same impact on their lives as the police. Journalism in general, and the BBC in particular, they said, felt like an arm of the state."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/the-bbc-asked-marginalized-groups-how-it-could-do-better-they-didnt-hold-back/

#journalism#BBC #news #research#MainstreamMedia

aproitz
aproitz  ·  4 months ago

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@georgetakei

From the 20th of January it's going back to the Ole
#KuKluxClan (White) House !

Who thought it would come to this second Term ?
#YMCA will play for #Trump exclusively, pretending, their Song was never ment gay - what "relieving" #News for the #World. At least the most cringe Comment, whatsoever. Maybe the gay #Community should look for another Hymn, after this Comment from #VictorWillis.He made sich #Statements already before.

Daniel Pomarède
Daniel Pomarède  ·  5 months ago

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Wowzer! Map of cosmic flows, by yours truly, makes it to the cover of the Nature Astronomy journal.

"Galaxies from
wherever flock
together"

I'm no poet, but could this be a Haiku?

https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/8/issues/12

Credits:
Image: Daniel Pomarède, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l’Univers, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay.
Cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic.

#Cosmology#Galaxies#Astronomy #Astrodon#Astrophysics#Cosmography#Cartography#Map#Cosmicflows #science#STEM #news #space

A cover of the Nature Astronomy journal, dated December 2024, Volume 8, issue number 12, featuring a three-dimensional visualization of the cosmic velocity field inferred from the Cosmicflows-4 catalog of galaxies' distances and velocities. This map spans two billion lightyears from top to bottom. The velocity field is mapped by means of tens of thousands of very thin streamlines, seeded at the positions of the catalog's galaxies. Streamlines are shown white and semi-transparent, against a black background. They exhibit a very complex pattern with multiple attractors, seen as points of convergence of the lines. A text reads Galaxies from wherever flock together.
A cover of the Nature Astronomy journal, dated December 2024, Volume 8, issue number 12, featuring a three-dimensional visualization of the cosmic velocity field inferred from the Cosmicflows-4 catalog of galaxies' distances and velocities. This map spans two billion lightyears from top to bottom. The velocity field is mapped by means of tens of thousands of very thin streamlines, seeded at the positions of the catalog's galaxies. Streamlines are shown white and semi-transparent, against a black background. They exhibit a very complex pattern with multiple attractors, seen as points of convergence of the lines. A text reads Galaxies from wherever flock together.
A cover of the Nature Astronomy journal, dated December 2024, Volume 8, issue number 12, featuring a three-dimensional visualization of the cosmic velocity field inferred from the Cosmicflows-4 catalog of galaxies' distances and velocities. This map spans two billion lightyears from top to bottom. The velocity field is mapped by means of tens of thousands of very thin streamlines, seeded at the positions of the catalog's galaxies. Streamlines are shown white and semi-transparent, against a black background. They exhibit a very complex pattern with multiple attractors, seen as points of convergence of the lines. A text reads Galaxies from wherever flock together.
Daniel Pomarède
Daniel Pomarède  ·  5 months ago

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An asteroid’sdestruction may have given Mars rings, then moons

Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and tiny Deimos.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/science/mars-moons-asteroids-rings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck4.3uM1.EupDU6iZI7Uo&smid=url-share&et_rid=1080503712&et_cid=5442065

Credits video: Jacob Kegerreis, et al./NASA Ames

#Mars#Phobos#Deimos #science #Astrodon#STEM #space #rings#NYTimes #news

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