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Observation of the Shadows of the Moon and Sun Using the Pierre Auger Observatory at an Average Energy of $7\times10^{17}\,$eV
Katar\'ina \v{S}imkov\'a (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08582

Observation of the Shadows of the Moon and Sun Using the Pierre Auger Observatory at an Average Energy of $7\times10^{17}\,$eV
The interaction of cosmic rays with celestial bodies such as the Moon or the Sun produces a shadow in the arrival direction distribution of the cosmic rays reaching the Earth. Such deficits from an isotropic flux have been observed by astroparticle observatories below energies of $10^{15}\,$eV. Above this energy, measurements were limited due to the low number of events as a result of the steeply falling cosmic-ray flux with energy. With more than 10.6 million events recorded during 20 years of…

And the the #Pleiades #occultation by the #Moon is already history in Bochum, Germany: a final timestep at 22:34 UTC, with the Moon having cleared all major stars of the cluster. Nice show that was - though only for the camera (which was a Panasonic DMC-FZ300 on a tripod, mostly at maximum zoom; this image 1/5 second at f/3.2 and ISO 200, with the Pleiades 25° up).

Primordial Black Hole Formation and Spin in Matter Domination Revisited
Weitao Ye, Yungui Gong, Tomohiro Harada, Zhaofeng Kang, Kazunori Kohri, Daiki Saito, Chul-Moon Yoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10070

Primordial Black Hole Formation and Spin in Matter Domination Revisited
In this article, we calculate the mass distribution of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the matter-dominated (MD) era by the peak theory. We apply the Zel'dovich approximation to track the nonlinear evolution of overdensities and compute the PBH abundance and mass function by incorporating a PBH formation criterion based on the hoop conjecture. We find that the PBH abundance $β$ follows the scaling law $β\simeq A_γσ_h^{*5}$ for $σ_h^*\ll 1$. Here, $σ_h^*$ is the quantity that chara…

#SilentSunday

"""
In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

#FotoDerWoche mit Vollmond.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/07/12/photo-of-the-week-summer-moon/

Photo of the week: Summer moon
Nur der Vollmond Anfang Juni, in diesem Sommer groß und gelblich leuchtend, und auch wenn das zu einem guten Teil optische Täuschung ist, doch immer einen Blick wert.

Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
Jake D. Turner, Jack O. Burns, David Rapetti, Philippe Zarka, Jean-Mathias Grie{\ss}meier, Judd Bowman, Gregg Hallinan, Joshua Hibbard, Johnny Dorigo Jones, Laurent Lamy, Corentin K. Louis, Richard Lovelace, Nivedita Mahesh, Ronald Polidan, Xiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09222

Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
Exoplanets with and without a magnetic field are predicted to form, behave, and evolve very differently. Therefore, there is great need to directly constrain these fields to holistically understand the properties of exoplanets including their potential habitability. This goal aligns with the Astro2020 Decadal Survey recommendations. Observing planetary auroral radio emissions is among the most promising detection methods, but decades of searching have yet to yield a conclusive detection, though…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Mildlife:
🎵 The Magnificent Moon
#Mildlife
https://mildlife.bandcamp.com/track/the-magnificent-moon-tornado-wallace-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/04EPqKDNKEJx80mzW7qMvZ

The Chameleons presentan su nuevo disco de estudio, el primero tras el regreso de la banda el año 2021. «Arctic Moon» lleva por título este šlbum.
#TheChameleons

A prismatic-etale comparison theorem in the semistable case
Yichao Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08451 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.0…

A prismatic-etale comparison theorem in the semistable case
Let $K|\mathbb{Q}_p$ be a complete discrete valuation field with perfect residue field, $O_K$ be its ring of integers. Consider a semistable $p$-adic formal scheme $X$ over $\mathrm{Spf}(O_K)$ with smooth generic fiber $X_η$. Du--Liu--Moon--Shimizu showed recently that the category of analytic prismatic $F$-crystals on the absolute log prismatic site of $X$ is equivalent to the category of semistable étale $\mathbb{Z}_p$-local systems on the adic generic fiber $X_η$. In this article, we…

Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 are the first smartphones to ship loaded with Android 16, and the Watch 8 Series are the first to get Wear OS 6 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartph…

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 are the first phones to launch with Android 16
Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 are the first phones to ship out of the box loaded with Android 16.

Another timestep of the #Pleiades #occultation by the #Moon, at 21:26 UTC - Merope had just emerged behind the dark side. Interestingly no stars whatsoever could be seen in 11 x 70 binoculars though the Moon - nice terminator - was a beauty. The Moon's elevation was 15°; 1/4 second at f/3.2 and ISO 200.

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Geonhee Sim, Gyeongsik Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09973 https://

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity representation. However, modeling pose-driven deformations, such as non-rigid cloth deformations, requires numerous pose-rich videos, which are costly and impractical to capture in daily life. The second, a diffusion-based approach, learns pose-driven deformations from la…

Find the lie.
https://www.tumblr.com/hashtagloveloses/787481694420746240/theres-something-to-be-said-about-movies-like?source=share

Language of Persuasion and Misrepresentation in Business Communication: A Textual Detection Approach
Sayem Hossen, Monalisa Moon Joti, Md. Golam Rashed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09935

Language of Persuasion and Misrepresentation in Business Communication: A Textual Detection Approach
Business communication digitisation has reorganised the process of persuasive discourse, which allows not only greater transparency but also advanced deception. This inquiry synthesises classical rhetoric and communication psychology with linguistic theory and empirical studies in the financial reporting, sustainability discourse, and digital marketing to explain how deceptive language can be systematically detected using persuasive lexicon. In controlled settings, detection accuracies …

higher than the moon, hazy like a beautiful illusion, crazy and in confusion

Eberflus: 'Limiting the explosive pass' key to Cowboys stopping Giants Russell Wilson https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/13/cowboys-dc-matt-eberflus-giants-qb-russell-wilson/8…

Acceleration of nuclear power development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight
Acting NASA director Duffy cites plans by China and Russia to put a reactor on the moon by the mid-2030s
as part of a partnership to build a base there.
If they were first, China and Russia “could potentially declare a keep-out zone” that would inhibit what the United States could do there, Mr. Duffy said.
The directive calls for the appointment of…

NASA’s Acting Administrator Calls for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A reactor would be useful for long-term stays on the moon.

Full Moon Rising / Neil #Halstead
Palindrome Hunches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8brjvcOK2A

Here are some lovely shots of last night’s #LunarEclipse taken by Kamlesh Bora, Maxime Piralla and Adrian Tuschinsky from #mpsgoettingen. The first two photos were taken in #Goettingen

🥮 Lunar soil could support life on the Moon, say scientists
#moon

Lunar soil could support life on the Moon, say scientists
Scientists have developed a technology that may help humans survive on the moon. In a study published in the journal Joule, researchers extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemicals for fuel—potentially opening new doors for future deep space exploration by mitigating the need to transport essential resources like water and fuel all the way from Earth.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Death Valley Girls:
🎵 Fire and Brimstone
#DeathValleyGirls
https://deathvalleygirls.bandcamp.com/album/sisters-of-the-moon-b-w-fire-and-brimstone
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jRq49pjTXmk5QOd6tHmxl

Why would the trumpies want to put a reactor on the moon?
Wouldn't it be more in keeping with the maga-mind's "big beautiful clean coal" message to build a coal powered power plant on the moon?
That would really show the Russians and Chinese who is boss of the moon!

Origin of the lunar isotopic crisis from solidification of a stratified lunar magma ocean
Wenshuai Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06519 https://arxiv.org/p…

Origin of the lunar isotopic crisis from solidification of a stratified lunar magma ocean
According to the giant impact theory, the Moon formed through accreting the debris disk produced by a collision between Theia and the proto-Earth. The giant impact theory can explain most of the properties of the Earth-Moon system, however, simulations with respect to giant impact between a planetary embryo and the growing proto-Earth show that more than 40 percent of the materials in the circum-terrestrial debris disk produced by the giant impact originates from the impactor. Thus, the giant i…

The limits of cosmology
Joseph Silk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08066 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08066

The limits of cosmology
The Moon is our future. It may seem like a chimera with a projected cost in excess of 100 billion\$, and counting, dispensed on ARTEMIS with little to show to date. However it is the ideal site for the largest telescopes that we can dream about, at wavelengths spanning decimetric radio through optical to terahertz FIR. And it is these future telescopes that will penetrate the fundamental mysteries of the first hydrogen clouds, the first stars, the first galaxies, the first supermassive black ho…

Lunar eclipse this evening. Parts of the country will see a blood red moon as the moon is eclipsed by the Earth and Raleigh scattering in our atmosphere causes red light to shine on the moon, which will reflect it back. In Glasgow, the red moon will be eclipsed by clouds.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Echo & The Bunnymen:
🎵 The Killing Moon
#NowPlaying #Echo #TheBunnymen
https://billwhite.bandcamp.com/track/the-killing-moon-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/35E2eKIEXXnP5q9L51iOAk

Optimal Multi-Mode Propulsion Mission Design Using Direct Collocation
George V. Haman III, Anil V. Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07336 https://arxiv.org/p…

Optimal Multi-Mode Propulsion Mission Design Using Direct Collocation
The problem of minimizing the transfer time between periodic orbits in the Earth-Moon elliptic restricted three-body problem using a multi-mode propulsion system is considered. By employing the true anomaly on the primary orbit as the independent variable and introducing normalized time as an additional state, the need to repeatedly solve Kepler's equation at arbitrary epochs is eliminated. Furthermore, a propellant constraint is imposed on the high-thrust mode to activate the multi-mode capabi…

NASA will get a safety process cut before it gets money to satisfy the empty promise from this administration. Folks will die, Trump will blame scientists, install yet more political hacks, and leave office having achieved nothing more than hollowing out another science-based government entity.

NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon
“I can tell you what, I’ll be damned if that is the story that we write.”…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: Hideaway? Avon, if I got my hands on that kind of money, I'd have gone somewhere I could enjoy it. What is the point of having money if you have to exist on a hole like that!
AVON: You are forgetting, there is a big difference between you and Egrorian. HE has a brain.

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Ms. Marvel is #1. 🤷
Sure, I liked the show... but is it better than Loki, Wandavision, Moon Knight, Hawkeye... even She-Hulk?
No. Just... no. I gotta wonder if this is an #MCU fan troll.
✅ Every #Marvel TV show in the Cinematic Universe, ranked | Polygon

Every Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show, ranked
From Ironheart to Loki, from WandaVision to Jessica Jones, we rank the best MCU TV shows and the worst, and cover which Marvel shows are canon.

The picture of James Baldwin with the moon and corona halo are from Maria Popova's The Marginalian website: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/06/james-baldwin-giovannis-room-love-choice/?mc_cid=a97353e0…

James Baldwin on Love, the Illusion of Choice, and the Paradox of Freedom
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

Full Sturgeon #Moon (from last night)

Yeah, one of the two guys, a smart engineer, told me the llm answered him why the moon is always facing the same to earth, being the shape of the moon the cause of being locked in place.
A quick research on Wikipedia seems to confirm it was just wrong. It's because the orbital period was faster than earth's rotational period: https://

The #Moon in front of the #Pleiades star cluster as seen from #Bochum, Germany, ten minutes ago (at 20:42 UTC) - not only a number of stars show up but also the earthshine, very faintly.

But the moon has its own tricks to keep the clouds at bay.
#photography #amateur #moon

@… wow danke für den Tipp, bin gerade richtig positiv geschockt :) Und dann lese ich noch "SECRETS OF THE MOON mit Jubiläumsshow zu Antithesis (2006)" Was geht denn da ab? Gerade in letzter Zeit wieder öfter gehört.

Scheduling calls with people in Australia might as well be trying to schedule a call with someone on the moon. 😅

ESSENTIAL: Episodic and Semantic Memory Integration for Video Class-Incremental Learning
Jongseo Lee, Kyungho Bae, Kyle Min, Gyeong-Moon Park, Jinwoo Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10896

ESSENTIAL: Episodic and Semantic Memory Integration for Video Class-Incremental Learning
In this work, we tackle the problem of video classincremental learning (VCIL). Many existing VCIL methods mitigate catastrophic forgetting by rehearsal training with a few temporally dense samples stored in episodic memory, which is memory-inefficient. Alternatively, some methods store temporally sparse samples, sacrificing essential temporal information and thereby resulting in inferior performance. To address this trade-off between memory-efficiency and performance, we propose EpiSodic and SE…

Samsung unveils the $1,100 Galaxy Z Flip 7 with a 4.1-inch external and 6.9-inch internal display, 13.7mm body, a more durable folding hinge, and more (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/sma…

Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 has a bigger battery and is still thinner than last year's model
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Z Flip 7, along with the Z Flip 7 FE and the Z Fold 7, during its latest Unpacked event.

The moon, just past full
Throws shadows against the earth
Hoping some will stick.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon
#haiku
#poem

It was almost the witching hour, so most people in this beach community are home and in bed. I was out #running and came across two big packs of teenagers, both of whom had someone with the stones to give me the “good evening, sir” treatment. Full on Eddie Haskell delivery. 😂
They are, of course, way too young to know about Eddie Haskell. What is their generational equivalent?
Anyway, t…

Koalas vs. Crows: An Evolutionary Theory of #Software
https://ajmoon.com/posts/koalas-vs-crows-an-evolutionary-theory-of-software

When I was a little kid, the only thing I ever wanted for my birthday was a tricycle. I never got one. This yr, on my 64th bday, my dream finally came true. Mr. Boots got me an electric trike.
I AM OVER THE FCKING MOON. 🥰
He’s making me get—and wear—a helmet, tho. 😒 #ZiggyTheTrike #TheCircleOfLife

🦠 Synthetic biology could support future outposts on the moon and Mars
#space

Synthetic biology could support future outposts on the moon and Mars
As humanity sets its sights on long-duration missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond, keeping astronauts healthy will be as critical as building rockets or habitats. A new paper appearing in npj Microgravity explores the possibilities of synthetic biology in accomplishing this.

#moon #photo

An instrumental-heavy list from me this week, with a bit of dorky folk and some power pop thrown in for good measure.
Dirty Three, "Moon on the Land" (2012)
https://dirtythree.bandcamp.com/track/moon-on-the-land
Future Folk, "Moons of Hondo" (…

Moon on the land, by Dirty Three
from the album Toward the Low Sun

By the by, that “nuclear reactor on the moon:” story is another distraction from them ending what ever is left of democracy in Texas and from the president being a pedophile.

Last night: back yard/front yard edition

Sonnet 107 - CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death…

The limits of #cosmology: #telescopes that we can dream about, at wavelengths spanning decimetric radio through optical to terahertz FIR. [...] Here I will set out my vision of the case for #LunarAstronomy over the next several decades."

I don't know if it's the black hole imagery, the intriguing name, or a desire for space stuff but Moon Mystery looks *sooo* appealing to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwk6w0KR4Ak
Too bad it's sitting at Mixed on Steam right now. Sounds like it's really buggy. I sho…

"Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader David Moon (D) told host Alicia Menendez that two bills he's introduced would enable his state to begin withholding state funds meant for the federal government. Moon defended the bills as necessary due to the Trump administration's recent announcement withholding $7 billion from K-12 schools across the country."
'Act like a collections agency': Democrat reveals blue states' secret weapon against Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/blue-states-trump/

New #Music by the San Jose based prog band Fractal. Formed in 2000, they released two albums Continuum and Sequitur then life intervened for a while and they are now back with Ice Miner (about mining ice on the moon in 2049) and their usual, unusual rhythmic patterns. Available on all the usual music platforms

Who's gonna tell them?

High-Energy Photon Generation from Self-Organized Plasma Cavities in Field-Enhanced Laser-Preplasma Interactions
Prokopis Hadjisolomou, Rashid Shaisultanon, Tae Moon Jeong, Christopher Paul Ridgers, Sergei Vladimirovich Bulanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06045

High-Energy Photon Generation from Self-Organized Plasma Cavities in Field-Enhanced Laser-Preplasma Interactions
The interaction of an ultraintense Nd:glass laser pulse with a near-critical plasma self-organizes into a highly efficient $γ$-ray source. Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate that relativistic self-focusing, aided by a self-generated electron cavity, enhances the laser intensity by more than an order of magnitude, driving the system into the radiation-reaction-dominated regime, i.e. one where the electrons lose a substantial amount of their energy as hard radiation. Peak…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Arc De Soleil:
🎵 Riders of the Moon
#ArcDeSoleil
https://open.spotify.com/track/0deK1kN7aBhfhCy0BEoN1G

I see a bad moon rising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today.
Don't go 'round tonight,
It's bound to take your life.
There's a bad moon on the rise.
-- J. C. Fogerty, "Bad Moon Rising"

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up,
and nobody is quite sure why.
These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life,
but they also haven't gone unnoticed by science.
Tuesday, Aug. 5 is the next date when Earth's rotation is expected to speed up, shortening the day by between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds. 
On Aug. 5, 2025, the moon will be quite a bit further south than the equato…

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever
The Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why.

Moon.exe has stopped working

Born too late to go to the moon
Born too early to go to the moon
Born just in time to be told we'll go to the moon

Slantwise convection and heat transport in the icy moon oceans
Yaoxuan Zeng, Malte F. Jansen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06480 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06…

Slantwise convection and heat transport in the icy moon oceans
Ocean heat transport on icy moons shapes the ice shell topography, a primary observable of these moons. Two key processes control the heat transport: baroclinic instability driven by surface buoyancy contrasts and convective instability driven by heating from the core. However, global ocean simulations cannot accurately resolve convection under realistic icy moon conditions and instead often use Earth-based convective parameterizations, which capture only vertical convective mixing and cannot r…

“Nasa to put nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev2dylxv74o

up till 4 wandering under the full moon idgaf abt sleep most real ive felt in ages

>comes home after shift.
>sees clear skies.
>Milkyway further away from the moon.
>!!!!

PRATUSH experiment concept and design overview
Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Saurabh Singh, Srivani K S, Girish B S, Keerthipriya Satish, Somashekar R, Raghunathan Agaram, Kavitha Kalyanasundaram, Gautam Vishwapriya, Ashish Anand, Udaya Shankar N, Seetha S
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05654

PRATUSH experiment concept and design overview
PRATUSH -- Probing ReionizATion of the Universe using Signal from Hydrogen -- is a proposed cosmology experiment to detect the global red-shifted 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization (CD/EoR). PRATUSH orbiting the Moon will seek to precisely measure the low-frequency radio sky-spectrum over 40 to 200 MHz. The scientific observations would be made in the radio-quiet region when in the farside of the Moon, and the data would be transmitted back to Earth when in the near-sid…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Arc De Soleil:
🎵 Riders of the Moon
#ArcDeSoleil
https://open.spotify.com/track/0deK1kN7aBhfhCy0BEoN1G

“It doesn’t get anywhere close to The Dark Side Of The Moon, but a few years ago it had clocked up 12 million sales. That’s pretty big!”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on the band’s classic album — with the “bloody awful” cover https://flip.it/qgpOgk?utm_source=dlvr.it&am…

“It doesn’t get anywhere close to The Dark Side Of The Moon, but a few years ago it had clocked up 12 million sales. That’s pretty big!”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on the band’s classic album — with the “bloody awful” cover
And no - it's not a concept album!

The non-existence of some Galois representations of moderate degree in small characteristic
Alexandru Ghitza, Takuya Yamauchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00635 https://

The non-existence of some Galois representations of moderate degree in small characteristic
Refining arguments of Hyunsuk Moon, under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, we prove the non-existence of irreducible mod 2 Galois representations unramified outside 2 of dimensions $\leq 4$, and of totally real such representations of dimensions $\leq 8$. We also prove the non-existence of irreducible totally real mod 3 representations unramified outside 3 of dimensions $\leq 4$. We show unconditionally that the image of an irreducible mod 2 symplectic 4-dimensional Galoi…

@…
This cartoon is from Tom Gauld's book: Revenge of the Librarians
copyright 2022
Get ALL his books. Read them. ALL of them are the best one.
#Reading

Juno Observations of Io's Alfvén Wing From 23 Io Radii: #Alfvén wing at a distance of ∼23 #Io radii south of the moon during perijove 62. Evidence for this passage was clearly seen in the #Juno plasma wave, magnetometer, and plasma data. The plasma wave signature was an intensification of quasi-electrostatic waves below about 1 kHz with a weaker magnetic component, all lasting for about two minutes. A strong perturbation of the magnetic field consistent with strong field-aligned currents was observed at the edges of the Alfvén wing. Ions in the range below about 1 keV/q were slowed within the Alfvén wing. As with other measurements in Io's Alfvén wing, we observe evidence of filamentation. The power in the Alfvén wing based on the measured Poynting flux is estimated to be ∼500–1,500 × 109 W."

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Neville Brothers:
🎵 Yellow Moon
#NowPlaying #TheNevilleBrothers
https://djandyp.bandcamp.com/album/the-neville-brothers-yellow-moon-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5azaQP9aqjy3XYwsuJ0ebJ

Sean Duffy, NASA's acting administrator, warned of
"letting safety be the enemy of progress"
when it comes to winning a space race
http…

Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon
It's full steam ahead for NASA — at least according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator

Wasn't there a TV show (spoilers: Space: 1999) where this was a thing and it turned out not to be a good thing?
Pete Buttigieg's replacement wants NASA to nuke the moon - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/pete-buttigiegs-replacement-wants-nasa-to-the-moon/

🌝 Solar powered moon brick factory could build future lunar cities
#space

Solar powered moon brick factory could build future lunar cities
Chinese scientists have developed a remarkable machine that could revolutionize how humans build structures on the moon. The device works like a 3D printer powered by concentrated sunlight, turning lunar soil (known as regolith) into strong construction bricks without needing any materials from Earth.

The moon last night, exactly 12h ago...
(Canon R7, 400mm, f8, 1/125s)
#Moon #AstroPhotography #BlackAndWhite

Here's how (the first partiality of) yesterday's Total #LunarEclipse looked from the #ISS: #refraction.

One of my dreams by now was to build an ecology on the moon and make it a comfortable place to live. "Homestuck" seemed to pale into insignificance alongside such thoughts.

Rain came and went, and what I thought was no humidity was really just camouflaged by a breeze. I found plenty of places where there was no breeze! 🥵
Still, that’s three runs and therefore a trend. I’ll happily take it.
#Running

Probing the Moon from Future Asteroid Impacts: A Review
Yifei Jiao, Bin Cheng, Hexi Baoyin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0143…

Probing the Moon from Future Asteroid Impacts: A Review
The Earth--Moon system has been experiencing impacts from asteroids and comets for billions of years. The Moon, as an airless body, has preserved a distinct record of these events in form of impact craters and ejecta deposits, offering valuable insights into the impact history and surface evolution of the Moon. However, the ancient impact relics can only provide limited information to the lunar interior structure, with an absence of the Moon's immediately dynamic response to the impact events. …

At sunset last night I was leaving Monkey Run and noticed that the road (due south) was pointed right at the moon 240,000 miles away and the sun 94 million miles away was at a right angle
#photo #photography #sliceoflife

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Arthur Russell:
🎵 This Is How We Walk on the Moon
#ArthurRussell
https://bewilderedhallelujah.bandcamp.com/track/arthur-russell-this-is-how-we-walk-on-the-moon-bewhal-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/74LbkcDTjFV1WtMmTAtORI

Optimization of Transfers linking Ballistic Captures to Earth-Moon Periodic Orbit Families
Lorenzo Ano\`e, Roberto Armellin, Jack Yarndley, Thomas Caleb, St\'ephanie Lizy-Destrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04739

Optimization of Transfers linking Ballistic Captures to Earth-Moon Periodic Orbit Families
The design of transfers to periodic orbits in the Earth--Moon system has regained prominence with NASA's Artemis and CNSA's Chang'e programs. This work addresses the problem of linking ballistic capture trajectories - exploiting multi-body dynamics for temporary lunar orbit insertion - with bounded periodic motion described in the circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP). A unified framework is developed for optimizing bi-impulsive transfers to families of periodic orbits via a high-order…

The full series of Total #LunarEclipse pictures from Bochum now in the album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10231283437724136 - from first detection of the totally eclipsed Moon to near the end of second partiality.

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket successfully launched
after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days.
The success of this 10th flight showed the spacecraft had overcome its past failures
key to the Mars rocket’s reusable design.
The stainless steel behemoth,
403ft (123 meters) tall,
lifted Off from the company’s Starbase in southern Texas at 6.30pm local time (2330 GMT),
to loud cheers from engineering teams, a webcast showed.
This …

In situ and remote observations of the ultraviolet footprint of the moon Callisto by the Juno spacecraft: #Juno Detected the Final Missing Auroral Signature from Jupiter’s Four Largest Moons: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/juno/juno-detected-the-final-missing-auroral-signature-from-jupiters-four-largest-moons/

Energy Transition Domain and Its Application in Constructing Gravity-Assist Escape Trajectories
Shuyue Fu, Xiaowen Liu, Di Wu, Peng Shi, Shengping Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00518

Energy Transition Domain and Its Application in Constructing Gravity-Assist Escape Trajectories
This Note proposes the concept and theory of energy transition domain (ETD) defined by the mechanical energy of spacecraft in the Earth-Moon planar circular restricted three-body problem (PCR3BP) inspired by the pioneering work from Ano{è} et al. (2024) on the ETD defined by the two-body energy with respect to the secordary body in the PCR3BP. An effective construction method of gravity-assist escape trajectories is then proposed. Firstly, the concept of the ETD defined by the mechanical energ…

Stellar occultations in support of the LUMIO orbit determination
Davide Banzi, Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Marco Zannoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04177 https://

Stellar occultations in support of the LUMIO orbit determination
This work investigates the use of stellar occultation measurements to enhance the orbit determination performance of the Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) mission, operating from a quasi-Halo orbit around the Earth-Moon L2 point. During science phases, when radiometric tracking is sparse and low illumination limits conventional optical navigation methods, occultation events, defined as precise timings of stellar appearances/disappearances behind the Moon's limb, offer a suitable alternati…

Halogen abundance evidence for the formation and metasomatism of the primary lunar crust: #moon –> new clues about formation.

A previously unknown regular satellite of #Uranus has been detected in a series of images obtained by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope on 2025 Feb. 2: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005500/CBET005593.txt -> https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2025/08/19/new-moon-discovered-orbiting-uranus-using-nasas-webb-telescope/ - the object is located at a projected radial distance of 56250 /- 250 km from Uranus' center in the planet's equatorial plane, initial astrometry is consistent with the moon orbiting on a nearly circular orbit with an orbital period 0.402 days, and the observed IR flux from the object indicates a radius of 4 - 5 km, placing it well below the detection threshold of earlier images from Voyager and the Hubble Space Telescope.