https://www.astropanda.space/blog daily 0.75 2017-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1495946435100-SRZUMO4GYVSSL14V301D/HorseheadNebula.jpg Blog https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/8/27/panda-thoughts-eclipse-postmortem monthly 0.5 2021-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1503966348891-Q6FYE9436V1CKWO8S7DR/OnTheWayToTennessee.jpg Blog - Panda Thoughts: Eclipse Postmortem A funny thing happened on the way to Tennessee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1503871831778-8Q41JPOJBUH5IY06BY3E/PandaThoughts_EclipsePostMortem.jpg Blog - Panda Thoughts: Eclipse Postmortem Image credit: George Lu / CC BY | NASA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1503966310836-323WS1B65T2RHUAVYAYT/EclipseDriving.jpg Blog - Panda Thoughts: Eclipse Postmortem I'm so pale, I only go outside during solar eclipses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1503965708687-2164CPF85U8RJCPSCWYF/Conrad-Pope-Eclipse.jpg Blog - Panda Thoughts: Eclipse Postmortem This is the most true-to-life image of the total solar eclipse I could find online. Just imagine the sky a little lighter, and the corona eerily waving around, and you're nearly there. Image credit: Conrad Pope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1503957971588-ON4RPHIU8AZR2O63N113/Lakes_Huron_Michigan.jpg Blog - Panda Thoughts: Eclipse Postmortem Yeah I did. Image credit: Z. Morris. https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/8/16/panda-thoughts-eclipse-edition monthly 0.5 2021-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1503080578455-NEWBQHHL4AVCS53NLVKB/TNordren_Mizzou.jpg Blog - Panda Thoughts: Eclipse Edition Tyler Nordren has made a suite of beautiful posters, including this Mizzou one, celebrating the 2017 solar eclipse across America! Get yours here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1503082768981-MBCJ8XPT5335WIG0VL9N/PandaThought_Eclipse.jpg Blog - Panda Thoughts: Eclipse Edition Image credit: George Lu / CC BY | NASA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1503078711667-TE767Q8ONKMHIEG17OCX/EclipsePanda.jpg Blog - Panda Thoughts: Eclipse Edition Wow now that sure is... a car! Let me tell you! (I don't know anything about cars.) 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Kornmesser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1499551887694-DIA91A48EMZDNWX198OL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The First Alien Handshake: Expanding Our Minds Tufa towers emerging from the extremely saline waters of Mono Lake, California, where the first ever microorganism capable of feeding off toxic arsenic was discovered. Image credit: Seth Hancock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1499551929096-V0H3L1CTN2HZ10NC1YVK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The First Alien Handshake: Expanding Our Minds "Black smokers", hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor emitting black smoke rich with chemicals and particles that feed the bacteria forming the basis of a surprisingly diverse ecosystem. Image credit: NOAA. https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/5/27/december-trivia-star-of-bethlehem monthly 0.5 2017-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1497846099499-7JF2MMOH2J7GTZ976OSP/Bethlehem.jpg Blog - Star of Bethlehem A depiction of the Star of Bethlehem. Image credit: Garrett W. / CC BY https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/5/28/pluto-vs-neptune-mortal-kombat-or-romcom monthly 0.5 2017-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1495944403749-B9JFC972LVQUKQI6ZREB/image-asset.gif Blog - Pluto vs Neptune: Mortal Kombat or RomCom? A view of Pluto's orbit (in red) from above, compared with Neptune's (blue planet). Animation credit: Lookangmany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1495944606420-BD4SK4M3F3ECK09N15AN/image-asset.gif Blog - Pluto vs Neptune: Mortal Kombat or RomCom? A sideview of Pluto's orbit (in red) shown to be highly inclined compared to the plane of the Solar System. Animation credit: Lookangmany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1495944221090-AU8VA5SQ87Q7NKHOBN0U/image-asset.png Blog - Pluto vs Neptune: Mortal Kombat or RomCom? In Theaters All The Time (but also never IRL....). Image credit: N. Ouellette. https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/4/20/august-trivia-comet-swift-tuttle monthly 0.5 2017-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1494995732563-48SSSQ95HQAZIQNIP1YV/Swift_Tuttle Blog - Comet Swift-Tuttle False colour image of Comet Swift-Tuttle taken with the Spacewatch Telescope. 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Ouellette. https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/5/28/lifetime-of-our-sun monthly 0.5 2017-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1495945018052-BLWBGFB7KVJCSKFW27UC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Lifetime of our Sun An artist's depiction of the life stages of our Sun, from birth to death as a white dwarf within a planetary nebula. Image credit: ESO/S. Steinhöfel. https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/5/28/meteor-showers monthly 0.5 2017-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1495944869740-XEB1YLAFSBHDU9LIUGZU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Meteor Showers! The 2012 Geminids over South Dakota. Image credit: David Kingham. https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/5/28/the-solar-cycle monthly 0.5 2017-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1495944047669-JXNG80N433SEW1INQ3BN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Solar Cycle A solar cycle: a montage of ten years' worth of Yohkoh SXT images, demonstrating the variation in solar activity during a sunspot cycle, from after August 30, 1991, to September 6, 2001. Credit: the Yohkoh mission of ISAS (Japan) and NASA (US). https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/5/27/meteors-over-russia monthly 0.5 2017-05-28 https://www.astropanda.space/blog/2017/5/27/may-trivia-2012-apocalypse-via-galactic-alignment monthly 0.5 2017-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1495943359785-5V76EBIG0Y1FB9U6928J/Galactic_Alignment.jpg Blog - 2012 Apocalypse via Galactic Alignment The X-ray view of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/F. 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Unfortunately, she passed away in March 2019, but she was a light in my life for 10 years and I’ll forever be grateful of having been her keeper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1497076320597-8XQ9UQ1KCZGSEFMP0AID/SHIVir_Logo.jpg About Me You can find SHIVir's photometric catalogue produced by Prof. Mike McDonald (MIT) here. https://www.astropanda.space/media-enquiries daily 0.75 2020-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1574362957796-YZOS2F8JIU4CRV92PF7Z/UdeM_lores.png Contact Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1539268428759-6O71U63LKDECK953LPXT/Lesfrancstireurs Contact Me Demain le monde: la conquête spatiale, Les francs tireurs (3 octobre 2018), Télé-Québec. https://www.astropanda.space/pagecv daily 0.75 2023-03-17 https://www.astropanda.space/home daily 1.0 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1484952674533-5R5R1NMJOHDE2CDP6GA0/image-asset.jpeg Home At the SDSS telescope, February 2012. Photo credit: Stéphane Courteau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1484086618980-PCY0IZORBR5QUDCPOVLV/Arkansas_talk.jpg Home At the "Structure and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies" conference in Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, August 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1484889612379-D7NSV4WFDK4RXBLPGAGP/image-asset.gif Home Science blinded me with science. https://www.astropanda.space/outreach-1 daily 0.75 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1597716617678-P4PXFJL216L9131DQPYH/19-1022-SP-Nathalie-Ouellette-1003.jpg Outreach Visiting the James Webb Space Telescope in October 2019 while it’s undergoing environmental testing. Photo credit: Northrop Grumman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586ff5863a0411c0731cd364/1484951915649-5ECSEDR6UAA70TF3HB11/seeyou.jpg Outreach Double-glassing it during the Venus Transit of June 2012. 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