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Seasons greetings to all the super-cool people out there. May you receive whatever it is you need.

Remembering that Jesus, Mary and Joseph were migrants in search of refuge is always a great contribution.

Let's remember tonight all those strangers who are not sleeping at home; who are walking through deserts in search of a better life; those who have suffered violence; those who are in hospitals or prisons; those who have disappeared.

This is by no means a new observation, but the modern world is far too noisy and I really wish we could get a handle on that. A good place to start is simply some basic awareness that not everything has to be done at an earsplitting volume. Then again it feels like society has lost most of its appreciation for silence.

Some holiday scenery courtesy of deep space: The Cone Nebula and The Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264)
(photo by ESO)

She is protesting the holiday sweater and looking like the saddest dog ever. #dogsofmastodon #dog #holidaysweater

I can let a dumb meme slide, but this one annoys me for being terrible and involving the JVLA in such unforgiveable terribleness.

Small but important: The Daniel K. Inoyue Solar Telescope's heat-stop. The heat-stop is a liquid-cooled aperture which reduces the light from the 4m primary mirror to a very narrow beam to protect the secondary mirror and instruments from excessive heat. Failure of the cooling system automatically shuts down the telescope by deploying covers over the primary and secondary mirrors, and closing the dome.
(photo by NSO/NSF/AURA)

Having fun boosting “toots” while I bake. Cranberry orange bread is first. Then fudge and coffee cake.

So umm... This year's Christmas dinner is being cooked underground.

The family have yet to find out about this plan 😬

I've reached that point in life where you start lusting after cargo bikes.

So Green Launch is a thing (new to me). Someone's giving Super HARP another try at using a ballistic launcher to replace rocket first stages.
(photo by Green Launch)

“Science is, at least in part, informed worship… If a traditional god does not exist, then our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival in an extremely dangerous time.” - Carl Sagan, who died on this day in Seattle in 1996

In the beginning, the earliest version of our Milky Way galaxy formed from the merger of two or three smaller galaxies. Now Hans-Walter Rix and colleagues have identified stars from that earliest period - the "poor old heart" of the Milky Way: mpia.de/news/science/2022-19-a

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