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What is the mass of the Central Black Hole of the Phoenix Cluster?

Here’s a nice animation to blow your mind.

20 BILLION of our SUNS.

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ok bye

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IRAS 13481-6124 and its cradle

Credit: ESO/Spitzer/NASA/JPL/S. Kraus

#Mufasa #he lives in you

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Women Of Color Who Changed Science. And The World.

Part 1 • Part 2 • Purchase

#women in science #women in stem #wise #stem #wiset

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Gender inequality in the sciences? It’s still very present in Canada.

In the last few decades, very little has changed for Canadian women in science, technology, engineering and math

Last week, Nobel laureate Tim Hunt made some foolish remarks to a group of scientists and journalists: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.” Unsurprisingly, the comments were not well received, and within a week he had resigned from a number of prominent positions in the U.K.

The comments triggered an international discussion about the status, treatment and experience of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). While we like to think that gender inequality in STEM is old-fashioned and that as a society we’ve made great advances in equal opportunities, the numbers don’t always tell the same tale.

The truth is, in Canada at least, very little has changed.

Still underrepresented

Despite an increase in women with STEM degrees, the percentage of women working in the fields has barely changed in almost 30 years. In 1987, 20 per cent of the STEM workforce was women. Today, it is 22 per cent.

Still underpaid

In 1997, women in STEM were paid 15 per cent less than their male coworkers. Things have improved, but on average they are still paid 7.5 per cent less today. Here’s how they fare in the different fields:

#women in science #WISE #WISET #STEM

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The United States government is observing Endangered Species Day Friday in order to “recognize the national conservation effort to protect our nation’s endangered species and their habitats.” The observance shines a much-needed light on the tragedy of animal extinction.

All of the animals above — and more — are “critically endangered.”

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Bachelorette pad?

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Researchers at the University of Indiana, Bloomington released a study today indicating that everyone’s favorite form of procrastination — watching videos of cats-being-cats on the Internet — “boosts viewers’ energy and positive emotions and decreases negative feelings.” The study quantifies what even the most casual partaker of online cat videos knows — that watching them reduces anxiety, annoyance, and general levels of stress in the viewers. The study’s author, Jessica Gall Myrick, noted that the positive effects of watching cat videos were comparable to those of pet therapy, and as such could be used in the future as a more economical alternative to it.

Strong work, science!

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I wish my job brought pets to work… even just now and then.

Wednesday is astronomy day!

Good morning Philae, so long LightSail! Also: Mars scientists emerge from isolation…

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#astronomy #blog #cubesat #esa #lightsail #mars #nasa #news #orbit #philae #rosetta #science #solar sail #university of hawaii

mothernaturenetwork

10 female astronomers everyone should know Research by these women has changed the way we think about space.

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World’s dopest selfie. #astronaut #space #galaxy #selfie #noflash #nofilter #japan #buzzfeed

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Women In Science by meganleestudio // meganlee.etsy.com

• Mary Anning - fossil collector and paleontologist whose discovreies made fundamental changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. • Ada Lovelace - mathematician considered to be the world’s first computer programmer. • Marie Curie - pioneer in the field of radioactivity, as well as the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry. • Lise Meitner - nuclear physicist who was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission. • Emmy Noether - mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. • Cecelia Payne - astronomer and astrophysicist who discovered that the universe is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. • Barbara McClintock - cytogeneticist best known for her discovery of transposition which she used to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. • Grace Hopper - computer scientist who developed the COBOL computer programming language. • Rachel Carson - marine biologist, conservationist, and author known for advancing the environmental movement. • Dorothy Hodgkin - biochemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. • Hedy Lamarr - both a popular Hollywood actress and an inventor who contributed to an early technique for frequency-hopping spread spectrum communications which paved the way for today’s wireless communications. • Rosalind Franklin - biophysicist whose work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA led to her discovery of DNA double helix and her data was used to formulate Crick and Watson’s 1953 hypothesis. • Esther Lederberg - microbiologist who devised the first successful implementation of replica plating and helped discover and understand the genetic mechanisms of specialized transduction. • Jane Goodall - anthropologist and primatologist known for her extraordinary study of the interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. • Jocelyn Bell Burnell - astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars (signals coming from rapidly rotating neutron stars). • Mae Jemison - engineer, physician, professor, and former NASA astronaut who became the first African American woman to travel to space.

#WISE #WISET #women in science

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Photo of the day: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, a flight engineer for Expedition 32, appears to touch the bright sun during a spacewalk mission with Japanese astronaut and flight engineer Aki Hoshide (visible in the reflection of Williams’ helmet visor) on the International Space Station. The mission, which lasted for 6.5 hours, completed the installation of a Main Bus Switching Unit that was hampered last week by a possible misalignment and damaged bolt threads.