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The actual sky of Van Gogh’s Starry Night - a multidisciplinary reconstruction: #VanGogh ’s famed ‘Starry Night’ to an actual night sky from 1889: https://apnews.com/article/van-gogh-starry-night-space-6385c8e37f748bddc4137cdda5c76887

The Fall of #ScientificAmerican: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scientific-american-springer-nature-trump/ - when the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in; now its future is uncertain.

NASA’s Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope mission has now entered the science commissioning phase, having successfully completed a comprehensive checkout and refinement of the observatory and primary instrument performance: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/10/22/nasas-roman-space-telescope-enters-final-commissioning-phase/

Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22: #ArtemisIV

With a successful Mars gravity assist in its rearview mirror, NASA’s #Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is accelerating to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/psyche/2026/10/22/pedal-to-the-metal-nasas-psyche-heads-toward-asteroid-belt/ - on Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in with mission controllers on Earth; this keeps the mission on track for its rendezvous with the asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt by the summer of 2029.

Key Non-Polar Destinations Across the #Moon to Address Decadal-level Science Objectives with Human Explorers: https://www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEPS-SSB-24-06 -> interactive site / recording of a webinar today: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/29401/interactive/ / https://vimeo.com/1233465493

Active crustal straining and fault reactivation at Valles Marineris: #Mars Is Still Tectonically Active Today: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/giant-canyon-mars-still-tectonically-active-today - scientists have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed.

Disk Truncation Triggers Relativistic Jet Launching of a Highly Accreting Supermassive #BlackHole: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aeaa2c -> What Drives the Jets Fired from Hungry Supermassive Black Holes? https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/what_drives_the_jets_fired_from_hungry_supermassive_black_holes.html

The fear of Halley’s Comet in 1910 is preserved in a cave in southern #PuertoRico: https://bcra.org.uk/pub/docs/downloads.html?f=cks158061.f -> In 2024, we solved an astronomy-related cave-art mystery dating back more than 100 years: https://x.com/ProfAbelMendez/status/2112923778405581041 / The Comet Panic of 1910, Revisited: https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-comet-panic-of-1910-revisited/ - a recent discovery in a remote Puerto Rican cave sheds new light on the hysteria that greeted Halley’s Comet a century ago.

Evidence for symmetry-reduction in solid H2O above 222 GPa: #water can change its structure under the scrutiny of intense pressure, giving us an idea of its appearance on extraterrestrial worlds.