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Erika 

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Canadian Astrophysicist • Chasing distant worlds & mountain peaks • Breathing with the Earth through yoga • Writing what the soul whispers.

Somewhere in the mountains.
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Erika 
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Moon Europa. Image taken by #NASAJuno and processed by myself. #Europa #Jupiter #News #Astronomy #Science #NASA #Photography 🐘 https://t.co/qXLlKueFHx
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If you found yourself inside a cosmic void, a vast region of the universe near empty of matter, you wouldn’t find yourself truly alone, though you might feel like it. You’d still be bathed in the faint glow of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), a relic of the universe’s
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VALA
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🎬 Sneak peek from our Go Fund Yourself episode! Tune in Thursday at 4PM PST on Cheddar TV to see how we’re Sparking change with the VALA app.
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A new study led by researchers at @UNIGEnews finds that the elusive substance known as Dark Matter appears to obey the familiar laws of gravity, just like the ordinary matter we see in stars, planets and galaxies. By analysing large-scale cosmological data, the team compared
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Researchers have resolved a roughly 70-year-old puzzle in solar physics: how the outer atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, can reach temperatures of millions of °C while its visible surface (the photosphere) hovers around 5,500 °C. A team has now directly detected small-scale
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The Dark Forest Hypothesis, conceived by Chinese science-fiction author Liu Cixin in his novel "The Dark Forest," offers a speculative explanation to the Fermi Paradox, the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial ... 1/ https://t.co/ZDUWq9Iq7G
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BetterPlayInitiative
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Did You Know: Extensive testing has confirmed that recycled rubber is environmentally resistant — ensuring that it remains resilient throughout the year. Recycled rubber preserves existing drainage systems and keeps surfaces safe to use after bad weather, without requiring
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The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked fascination because, as it approached the Sun, it behaved in unexpected ways, brightening and showing a bluish tint instead of reddening. But none of this requires a non-natural explanation. As the object nears the Sun, its surface
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🚨 3I/ATLAS: The Mystery Deepens 🚨 According to Avi Loeb, something truly strange is happening with the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. As 3I/ATLAS moved closer to the Sun, it entered an environment with temperatures approaching 5800 K — temperature of the Sun’s surface. The
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Although some online commentators have claimed that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS accelerated “unnaturally” as it passed perihelion, the evidence so far points toward a perfectly natural explanation. Like comets within our own Solar System, 3I/ATLAS likely contains volatile
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On the night of November 5th, 2025, the sky will be illuminated by the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. This marks the second supermoon of 2025, a celestial display that will bathe landscapes around the world in an extraordinary silvery light. The Moon’s orbit
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A research team led by Tatsuya Kotani and Tomoharu Oka at Keio University has achieved a remarkably precise measurement confirming that the universe was hotter in the past, a cornerstone prediction of the Big Bang model. Using archived observations from the @almaobs in Chile,
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Clay Willis
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The Qoheleth Philosophy - The Wisdom of Solomon, by @ClayWillis10 Looking for a philosophy for this life? Read about the greatest philosopher who ever lived and who shared his philosophy 1,000+ years before the time of Jesus - a must read for both Christians and unbelievers with
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Every second, trillions of extremely elusive particles known as neutrinos pass through your body utterly unnoticed. Because they have almost no mass, no electric charge, and interact so weakly with matter, they sail through us and nearly everything else, making them
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The Lagrange points, named after the French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange, are unique locations in space where gravitational forces create a delicate equilibrium btw the gravitational pull of 2 large celestial bodies, such as a planet & its moon or a planet & the sun. 1/
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An accretion disk is a flattened, rotating structure of gas, dust, or plasma that forms around a massive central object, such as a young star, white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, as gravity pulls material inward. Formation When matter falls toward a massive body, it
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How Big is Space? When we talk about the enormity of the cosmos, it’s easy to toss out big numbers — but far more difficult to wrap our minds around just how large, how far, and how numerous celestial bodies really are. 1/ Video © @NASAExoplanets @wonderofscience @latestinspace
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Noumenal Labs
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Hiring: Executive Assistant / Operations Associate We’re a small, high-performing team seeking an exceptionally organized, tech-savvy, and grounded Associate to help keep operations running smoothly. This flexible, remote-friendly role offers competitive hourly compensation
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What does the Sun look like from other Planets? Video © YT morn1415 #Astronomy #Space #Science
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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful events in the universe, emitting more energy than the Sun's 10-billion-year lifespan. They are categorized as long (several seconds to minutes) and short (milliseconds to 2 seconds). Long GRBs result from massive stars collapsing
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This is Betelguese, ~650 light-years away. It might not exist anymore...
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The three-body problem is a classic and notoriously difficult question in physics and mathematics. It asks: How do three objects, such as stars, planets, or moons, move under the influence of each other’s gravity? Unlike the simpler two-body problem, which has precise and
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Everyone is headed somewhere. Whether it’s toward a promotion, a new career path, or your next degree, Grace College allows you to achieve your goals in any field! Head toward your goals without actually going anywhere.
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Quasars, or quasi-stellar radio sources, are incredibly luminous and distant active galactic nuclei (AGN) that emit energy across the electromagnetic spectrum. They are powered by supermassive black holes actively accreting matter. Among these extraordinary objects, APM
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In astrophysics, dead stars represent the final evolutionary stages in the life of a star after it has exhausted the nuclear fuel that sustained it during its active phase. These compact stellar remnants, white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, are the endpoints of stellar
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New research suggests that the very first generation of stars in the universe, so-called Population III stars, did not form singly but rather in binary pairs. Although these primordial stars cannot yet be observed directly, computer models have long shown they were extremely
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