Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There’s a little an excessive amount of darkness on this world and never sufficient gentle—a bit an excessive amount of pseudoscience and never sufficient science. We’ll let different publications give you a each day horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a unique route, discovering inspiration from very actual photographs of a universe that’s full of stars and surprise.
We’re again! A protracted-time reader and subscriber recently mentioned within the Ars Boards that they “type of” missed the Day by day Telescope posts that I used to jot down in 2023 and 2024. Though I’d have most popular that everybody desperately missed the Day by day Telescope, I respect the sentiment. I actually do.
I initially stopped writing these posts a couple of 12 months in the past as a result of it simply turned an excessive amount of to decide to writing one factor every single day. I imply, I might have achieved it. However doing so on the each day crossed over the road from pleasant to drudgery, and among the finest issues about working for Ars is that it tends very a lot towards the pleasant aspect. Anyway, writing one in all these posts on a weekly foundation feels extra sustainable. I suppose we’ll discover out!
As we speak’s picture involves you all the way in which from Mars. Probably the most highly effective instruments on NASA’s Perseverance rover is the WATSON digital camera hooked up to the top of the rover’s robotic arm. Within the nice custom of tortured acronyms on the house company, WATSON stands for Vast Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering. And due to course it’s, WATSON is positioned on the SHERLOC (Scanning Liveable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemical substances) instrument. Severely, NASA should stand for Not One other Screwball Acronym.