Astropotamus 🔭🦛

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✨Time Traveling podcaster exploring the Star River - where ancient history meets astrophysics. Join me for a drink and a deep conversation about our connection to the infinite. You’re already in the River. 🍷 Listen: https://astropotamus.com/star-river

Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. stands next to a U.S. flag planted on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first men to walk on the lunar surface. (Neil A. Armstrong/NASA via AP, File)
An orange and white cat caught in the act of sneaking into the AstropotaPOD. I think he's leaving. Or maybe he's looking for back door. I don't know. A telescope is shown aimed at the sky and above it is a fake wasp nest to keep away the wasps.
Spiders from Mars
A woman sits on a couch in front of a pillow that has pom poms on it that, at first glance, looks like she has enormous feet with many big toes.
An image of Sam Neill from the movie Red October.
A two-pronged coat hook commonly seen on the back of bathroom doors for hanging your jacket. Text underneath it reads " drunk octopus wants to fight "
Star trails in the night sky leaving streaks of color along with a single streak that crosses the entire sky which is most likely a very bright satellite.
An orange and white cat sits on a massive pile of boxes
A screenshot showing the two podcasts, side by side. The left has the title "Not Today, Satan: Managing the VLA Telescope with Signe Mason" while the right has the title "The Parking Lot Conversation"
Astrophotography of the North American Nebula (NGC 7000) and the Cygnus Wall, captured using an SVBONY SV503 telescope and Optolong L-eNhance dual-band filter. High-contrast cosmic clouds of rich, glowing red hydrogen gas form a dramatic, fiery ridge resembling a coastline across the center. To the right, a ghostly, delicate teal expanse of ionized oxygen gas contrasts with the deep, neutral ink-black background of space. Pinpoint stars of varying brightness are scattered across the entire stellar field.
A picture of the Sun, taken with a backyard telescope, emphasizing the sunspots and structures on the surface.
A portion of a nebula.
Star trails in the night sky.
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An orange and white cat sits on a large Amazon cardboard box with the Amazon logo prominent. The box is on a metal outdoor table. The cat looks comfortable.
Tommy Cat stares at the inside of the bathroom door.
Trump touring a detention facility, appearing as if he is detained himself behind razor wire.
A downed tree blocking a road and arcing flames where it's crossing the power lines.
The dashboard of a car showing that the temperature is 99° f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Jupiter-6
Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand walks to a car with his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. This photo was taken minutes before his assassination. (AP Photo)
A radio telescope dish in the night
You’re looking at a live view of the VLA. The camera is mounted on our Antenna Assembly Building, also known as “The Barn.” The camera gives a view toward the northeast, and updates every 15 seconds. The number of visible telescopes and their locations will depend on which configuration the VLA antennas are in at the moment. The antennas work together, so usually all the dishes will point in the same direction. You might see a dish or two pointing straight up, which means it is probably in maintenance mode. We have a three dish rule, where up to three dishes can be in maintenance mode and the science still gets done.
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Mark Zuckerberg wearing a clown face full of zinc sunscreen
This photo made available by the U.S. National Archives shows a portion of the first page of the United States Constitution. (National Archives via AP)
A TV from the '70s with channel control knob, volume knob, color controls, and a few other things that I can't remember. All in a tastefully '70s walnut wooden case.
A black and white picture of the Sun with a few sunspots on it.
A picture of the Eagle Nebula, mostly in reddish tones with wispy hints of interstellar gas converting on a pillar of clouds and dust in the central portion highlighted by sections of bright star formation.
A man in a neo-Nazi outfit holds a megaphone. It's a scene with Henry Gibson from the movie, The Blues Brothers.
The entire contents of the NRAO Newsletter where they call out my Star River Podcast episode with Shane Baca. The image is very long and narrow and contains a lot of text so I'd recommend if you need assistance with it, to please join the NRAO and have them send you newsletters you can use readers on! Support the Mission!
26 year old Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman to travel in space, is pictured as seen in a television transmission from her space craft, Vostok 6, June 16, 1963. (AP photo/Tass)
Each image shows the full sky, down to the horizon at the image's edge. Depending on the current operating mode of the LWA's Prototype All-Sky Imager experiment, there may be one or two images. If there is one, it shows the total intensity — the power coming from each point on the sky. If there are two, the left will show the total intensity, and the right will show the intensity of circularly polarized radio waves. At the upper left you can see the average time of the data that went into the image (given in UTC, which is basically the same as Greenwich Mean Time). There is no time gap between the images: we are imaging sky in real time with a 100% duty cycle. At the upper right is the central frequency of the image. In the center is a 100 kHz bandwidth spectrum from a single antenna and polarization; the images are produced from the middle 75 kHz. Finally, we've labeled the brightest objects in the sky: Cas A — a supernova remnant Vir A — a supergiant elliptical galaxy also known as M87 Tau A — the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant Cyg A — a bright radio galaxy Jup — Jupiter, which only can be seen when it is bursting Sun — the Sun, which can become so bright that it wipes out everything else in the image! Dashed line — the plane of our galaxy GC — the center of our galaxy
The Astropotamus sitting on the field in front of the satellite dishes of the Very Large Array, listening on headphones as he leans in to stare intently off into the distance. All in beautiful black and white silver halide glory.