It’s #NewstodonFriday — such a shame it’s been a slow news week! Just to refresh your memories, this is a day to feature work from newsrooms with an active presence in the #Fediverse. If you like what you see in the (long!) thread below, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments below.
Three astronomy undergraduates at MIT and their professor discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe. @gbhnews interviewed them about the field of stellar archeology and the “cannibalistic process” of galaxy growth.
Messier 53 (M53) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Coma Berenices. Messier 53 reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight around April 10th.
Last minute change to the Boeing CFT manifest — a urine processor on the ISS failed, apparently, and Boeing is taking a new one up for them. They had to pull off crew suitcases to make room.
#PPOD: To end our week, we look back at this beautiful picture of Titan and Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 22, 2015. Processed using calibrated near-infrared (MT2, CB2) filtered images. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
What is the basis conditions of the #UI#UX design of our rotating simulator for astronauts? Loads from the resulting accelerations, vibrations, optimal viewing direction, protection from accidental clicks.