ONE WEEK UNTIL THE LAUNCH OF MMX! 🚀 There is some subtle messaging at the station closest to the JAXA Sagamihara campus.

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Happy New Years from Mars. It's the first day of the new Martian year, which lasts 687 Earth days. According to the internationally adopted timekeeping system, this is Mars year 39. The Curiosity rover sent down this view from Gale Crater today.

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can't believe I get to say this, but I'm now officially Dr Sean Richards! I got profiled by the University website on my journey -- "from gamer to stargazer", and being the first Sāmoan physicist from the University of Auckland. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026...

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I was in a meeting today where some young scientists presented truly amazing work they have done developing agentic assistants for astronomy. It makes me so pissed off that this transformative technology is being ruined by shitlords.

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Astronomers applying to use JWST (& leaving everything to the last minute) have crashed the tool used to apply. I know at least two people who will use any extension to throw in a new proposal…

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