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The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).

Heute kurz vor Ladenschluss der Apotheke doch noch #rausgeschafft und dabei einen wunderschönen rosa-orangenen #Sonnenuntergang zu sehen bekommen. 15 Minuten später auf Rückweg war er schon wieder weg.
Und da ich eh schon die Veloklamotten anhatte, habe ich auch grade noch mit dem G-Li…

„Turtles“ in VR angespielt: Nostalgischer Ritt auf der Lizenzwelle
„Empire City“ ist das erste VR-Spiel rund um die „Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles“ und erscheint 2026 für Meta Quest 3, SteamVR und Pico-Headsets.

Has anyone ever gotten `services.webdav` to work on :nixos: #NixOS?
I have a very simple and probably very common task: Expose a directory (in my case `/var/lib/paperless/consume`) via #WebDAV so my scanner can upload their PDFs there. I'm pretty much doing this¹ here, but also this person has p…

Webdav - cannot write anything
I got it to work by allowing create (C) and update (U) permissions (permissions = "RCUD"): services.webdav = { enable = true; user = "paperless"; group = "paperless"; settings = { address = "0.0.0.0"; port = 12345; auth = true; scope = "/var/lib/paperless/cons…

🙌 Wir ergänzen als Nr. 8️⃣. diese wichtige und schöne These zum Verbleib der Stadt @… im #Fediverse¹ :
8️⃣ Konstruktive Kommunikation & Engagement bringen die positiven Veränderungen, die #SocialMedia dringend braucht.
Hier sind alle Thesen im thread 🧵:
👉 https://berlin.social/@kingconsult/115649180514673250
¹ https://mastodon.social/@mainz_de/115656922648428867

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

"Star Wars: Beyond Victory" Test – Die perfekte Tech-Demo für Meta Quest 3
"Star Wars: Beyond Victory" bietet rasante Pod-Rennen, Action-Figuren und eine neue Geschichte – doch wie gut funktioniert der Wechsel zwischen VR und MR?

Very funny, #Sun: many of the small groups on the disk have flared in recent days - (1)4298 on the far right in this SDO HMI view https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif from today just this morning with an X1.1: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1260371819450012 - but the big ones 4294 (center) and 4296 (left) that had received a lot of media hype and even press releases like https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2025/erhoehtes-sonnensturm-risiko-dlr-beobachtet-weltraumwetter-in-echtzeit have remained completely quiet during their march over the solar disk which is coming to an end soon.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
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