Comet Lovejoy And The Pleiades

A neutron star located within the remains of a supernova - known as 1E 0102.2-7219 (E0102) - in the Small Magellanic Cloud located 200,000 light years from Earth. [3985 × 6287]

Cygnus Shell Supernova Remnant W63 via NASA https://ift.tt/2znmGCd

I’ve been seeing some of the studyblrs that I follow are doing the 100 days of productivity challenge, and I’m considering attempting this. As a non-traditional, upper level university student, I’m trying to keep my life together by finding balance with school and family.

My kids got sick the first week of school, which carried on into the second week and I’ve been trying to catch up on the assignments I’m behind in (which is now down to half of my classes).

Have any of you guys done this challenge? What are the pros and cons from your experience?

And that’s when Earth made dolphins. LOL.

This image is beautiful, and closer to my heart because I have done a field study at NRAO. Such an incredible experience!

The W50 supernova remnant in radio (green) against the infrared background of stars and dust (red).

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, K. Golap, M. Goss; NASA’s Wide Field Survey Explorer (WISE).

55 Nights with Saturn

This year’s winners of Nobel Prize for Physics includes a woman! 🎉🎊

Her name is Donna Strickland. Together with Arthur Ashkin, and Gérard Mourou, they are awarded the Nobel Prize “for their groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” which help open up doors for potential research in biomedical physics.

[The announcement comes one day after a senior scientist with Cern, the academic home to a number of Nobel prize winners, was suspended for saying that physics was invented and built by men.

“We need to celebrate women physicists because we’re out there. I’m honored to be one of those women,” Strickland said in a news conference following the announcement in Stockholm.

Speaking about being the third woman to ever win the award, she said she thought there might have been more, adding: “Hopefully in time it will start to move forward at a faster rate.”]

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Enceladus and Saturn

Image credit: Gordan Ugarkovic

The Aurora and the Sunrise : Auroras are one of the many Earthly phenomena the crew of the International Space Station observe from their perch high above the planet. (via NASA)