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Phil Naranjo

@philnaranjo.bsky.social
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He/Him. Product Management Director @ Tableau | Building AI-driven insights to make data intuitive. 🤖📊 Space enthusiast, orbital mechanics nerd, and radio astronomy fan 📡. Passionate about cooking, gardening, and exploring the American Pacific Northwest 🏔️

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Memory Orb used by Dr. Ana Stelline’s character in Blade Runner 2049 to design/shape replicant memories. Inspired by vintage analog cameras, the prop actually worked and drove 5 motors spinning anodized concentric rings. Beautiful #artifact.
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Blade Runner 2049's Most Complex Practical Prop
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The tide turns under the Golden Gate Bridge about four times a day, and at its strongest this week the surface water ran through at nearly 4 knots. San Francisco Bay, 19 to 26 September 2026. Data: NOAA SFBOFS model #SanFrancisco #SFBay #dataviz
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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow, one of the year's biggest tides reaches Ireland. Tuesday is an equinox spring tide: Dublin's high water at 01:18, then the sea drains almost four metres below it by mid-morning. Every shore going dry is real seabed, one lunar day in 20 seconds. #Ireland #tides #dataviz #maps
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘…March 1847 incident involving “spontaneous electrical currents” disrupting the telegraph systems on the Midland Railway, as a “brilliant aurora” glowed in the British Isles.’ #spaceweather #uk
arstechnica.com
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
arenamag.com
Making Space Lasers Boring
Telling the Great American Story, in Print. $99/yr
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“…the first direct detection of auroral radio emission from an exoplanet, the giant planet β Pictoris b…”
independent.co.uk
Strange signal detected from planet outside solar system for first time
Findings mark first direct magnetic field strength measurement for an exoplanet
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sunset from Seattle as we approach the autumnal #equinox. Fine streamers, filaments of clouds forming over the Olympic range. Orographic cloud formation from moist Pacific air flowing toward the mountains, being forced upward.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Old data for @planetarysociety.bsky.social's LightSail 2 mission The sail angled face-on to catch sunlight & maximize thrust when moving away from the Sun in LEO, and then rotated edge-on, or "feathered," to minimize opposing solar pressure and atmospheric drag when moving toward it.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Milky Way Shootout - Seestar vs. Full Rig
YouTube video by Nebula Photos
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Project Moonwatch made a human “meridian fence”: observers aimed small telescopes at different slices of a precisely known north–south line & timed satellite crossings. The crossing time fixed right ascension, the telescope angle gave declination, and later sightings yielded an orbit.
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Stellafane 2022 - Operation Moonwatch: Citizen Science at the Dawn of the Space Age
YouTube video by Stellafane, the official STM YouTube Channel
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“…processes ⁠physics data based on technology that Anandkumar helped pioneer years ago, called neural operators.”
independent.co.uk
AI experts build model that could ‘read War and Peace 5 million times in one sitting’
Model understands the world completely differently from famous artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT and Claude
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
…So, in roughly 4¾ hours of simultaneous observing, they could collect approximately as many photons as one Seestar operating for 246 hours. The combined image has about 7.2 times better signal-to-noise than one telescope observing for the same 4¾-hour period.
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52 Seestars Shooting at Once: 246 Hours of Exposure, and the Results Are Insane
YouTube video by Rooftop Astronomy
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Chang’e 7, the mission aims to be the first ever to touch down directly at the moon’s south pole, where it will search the region’s dark, foreboding craters for water ice.”
scientificamerican.com
China is about to launch its most ambitious moon mission yet
The country’s latest mission, Chang’e 7, will be the first ever to land directly at the moon’s south pole. Whatever it finds there could radically reshape a new space race
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“…Some of these elements are, unsurprisingly, rounding errors compared to the amount we mine each year. But that’s around 1 percent of global annual palladium and thallium—a remarkable amount to eject into space.”
arstechnica.com
SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
spectrum.ieee.org
Use a DIY Backyard Radio Rig to Trace the Mark of Dark Matter
Probe this invisible cosmic enigma with a DIY radio telescope
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Along the way, this Skagit Valley-rooted project collected data on kelp, ocean temperatures, waves and whales, with a commitment to make the research openly downloadable. Not billionaire-scale science, a small boat stitching together an open portrait of two continents’ oceans.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
2/3 From there, One Ocean sailed down the Atlantic coast of the Americas, through the Caribbean, around Cape Horn, and back north via the Galápagos and Hawaii, a 27,000-mile loop from the high Arctic to the southern tip of the continent.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
1/3 The Around the Americas expedition is nearly home. It left Anacortes, Washington, US, in May 2025 aboard a 48-foot sailboat, then headed north through Alaska and slipped through the Northwest Passage during the brief Arctic opening.
oneislandoneocean.com
One Island, One Ocean | One Island, One Ocean
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ask Ethan: Should we stop worrying about vacuum decay? Vacuum decay is one of the most frightening, and undetectable-until-it-happens, possibilities for how this will all end. But if we learn enough, there could be a way to stop it. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #physics #cosmology
bigthink.com
Ask Ethan: Should we stop worrying about vacuum decay?
Our Universe has a positive, non-zero value to the energy within empty space. Can we potentially save ourselves by considering vacuum decay?
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Earth Topo Relief Bot @reliefbot.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
//\ Relief #207 Location: Siskiyou County, California, United States Coordinates: 41.5314, -123.2259 Elevation Range: 879m to 2021m Terrain type: high-mountainous #ReliefOfTheDay #DataViz #Geography
Relief visualization in perspective style showing elevation data from Siskiyou County at coordinates 41.5314, -123.2259 with elevation range from 879m to 2021m.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#spaineclipse2026
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From the solareclipse community on Reddit: Mallorca will be a gridlocked mess, with many major cities in shadow during totality
Explore this post and more from the solareclipse community
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Psyche Captures Stunning Timelapse Video of Its Mars Encounter
YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The first in English by a woman, hers was the one used for Nolan’s #Odyssey.
newyorker.com
How Emily Wilson Made Homer Modern
Her vitally urgent translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey strip away the “tarnish of centuries.”
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The very first image from the surface of Mars, transmitted to Earth from NASA's Viking 1 lander, 50 years ago today. 🧪🔭 www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander had successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, this photo gave us our first view from the surface of another planet.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Carl Sagan - His Best Interview (1981)
YouTube video by WE ARE CONNECTED
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Interesting conservatory communication across time from curator to curator. Goal is to leave a trail for those who come after. Every treatment documented so future conservators can distinguish original material from later intervention, reverse today’s decisions if better techniques emerge.
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Adam Savage Meets the 2001: A Space Odyssey Spacesuit Helmet!
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
99% of a core-collapse supernova’s energy is invisible Despite how luminous core-collapse supernovae are, 99% of the energy they carry away is invisible: in the form of neutrinos. Here's why that must be the case. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #supernova #astro #space #neutrinos #physics
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99% of a core-collapse supernova's energy is invisible
Despite the brilliance of these cosmic beacons, only 1% of a core-collapse supernova's energy is observable. The other 99% is in neutrinos.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Mathematics formula found on Maya wall rivals insights of ancient masters
Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an astronomer called Sak Tahn Waax.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Aries 1B lunar lander from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the spherical lunar lander shuttle that glides to The Blue Danube, has been painstakingly restored after decades in storage. Kubrick ordered most of the 2001 sets, props, costumes, and models destroyed. This escaped in a shed. #2001ASpaceOdyssey
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The Last Surviving Spaceship from 2001: A Space Odyssey
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Likely more performance than a state of the Art orbit analysis. October 1957. Astronomers Fred Whipple and J. Allen Hynek trace Sputnik 1’s ground track across a giant relief globe, turning hundreds of visual observations into an understanding of humanity’s first artificial satellite.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A 1-meter f/6 Corrected Dall-Kirkham (CDK) with a 6-meter focal length, the PlaneWave CDK1000 is built for more than deepsky imaging. Its direct-drive mount slews fast enough to acquire & precisely track satellites in orbit, and same optics can support optical (laser) comms with spacecraft.
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Building The Biggest Telescope You Can Buy
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Yearly tradition, #Seattle Greenwood classic car show. My favorite are vintage Volkswagen and Dotson #280Z.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Based on info I had about today's #spacex #starfall missions NOTAM and press announcement, I used #claude AI to create a simple spacecraft ground track explorer to see possible orbit and where/when re-entry burn would occur. I can adjust potential orbit & burn variables to see what fits. #dataviz
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This reads like a Neal Stephenson novel. Thesis: Arrays of US-built industrial-grade robotic telescopes will be vital infrastructure for satellite tracking and a solar system spamming Internet driven by spacecraft laser communication.
arstechnica.com
This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it
I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans."
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Salsa Macha Pork Noodles — this looks like a delicious recipe to try this weekend. I’m trying to become a virtuoso at different noodle recipes. 🍜 😋
nytimes.com
Video: Salsa Macha Pork Noodles
These noodles are inspired by mazemen, a brothless ramen that is sometimes tossed with a saucy pork mixture. The dish comes together in less than half an hour, making it the perfect upgrade to an inst...
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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From the generative community on Reddit: Generative art on the Commodore 64
Posted by tomommow - 195 votes and 9 comments
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“…In terms of hardware, the rovers are actually very similar. Both use a RAD 750 processor and have the same amount of memory. However, Perseverance has an extra processor specifically for visual odometry, which allows it to drive autonomously.”
spectrum.ieee.org
Curiosity’s 13 Years of Software Hacks Keeps It Alive on Mars
It takes some special tricks to maintain a robot 200 million kilometers from home
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Technicians replacing tiles in the 1980s and SpaceX workers doing the same thing today is the emotional center of this piece. The hard problem is still material science, even though guidance and navigation get all the glory with chopsticks, landings on barges.
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The Heat Shield at the Edge of Space
Six decades of spaceflight, one unsolved materials problem.
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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Mars - Clouds over Terra Cimmeria - ESA Mars Express HRSC Full size 5k image: flic.kr/p/2sdpsHP 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-07-24 South is up HR211_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3
A close view of Mars from orbit, showing a dusty reddish surface covered in impact craters, with thin whitish high altitude clouds stretching along the upper limb of the planet against black space.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My first look at a retired United 747-400 being suspended inside the Aero1200 development in Denny Triangle, #Seattle, turning Boeing jet-age hardware into a galleria/workspace above retail and near a Live Nation music venue.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
scientificamerican.com
The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there
Scientists long assumed Venus’s harsh environment would quickly destroy artifacts from probe missions. But a new study makes a compelling case to the contrary
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“…The rocket originally launched in January 2025 and carried other private space companies’ lunar landers… the booster was supposed to burn up following its reentry in Earth’s atmosphere. But that’s not what happened.”
scientificamerican.com
A SpaceX rocket booster is on track to hit the moon at several times the speed of sound
While there is no immediate danger, this crash highlights that space junk is increasingly expanding out of lower-Earth orbit
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is the personal computer circa 1983 used by the teen hacker in War Games. IMSAI 8080 in 1975, one of the first real hobbyist microcomputers, built around the S-100 bus.
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Makes me think back to Percival Lowell. This coloration change might has been interpreted as what? Deforrestation? Desperate geo-engineering by Martians?
esa.int
Ash creeps across Mars
Noticeable change on Mars often takes millions of years – but the European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured a blanket of dark ash creeping across the planet in just decades.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org
Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In the 1983 film WarGames, two very different computers were used for effects. HP 9845C used to render the war-room visuals as precomputed patterns, later projected onto screens like a living backdrop, while an Apple II inside the WOPR prop, driving its countdowns and lights in real
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Behind the Scenes: WarGames (Badham, 1983) with Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy
YouTube video by Serious Feather
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Sunrise over Cascade mountains.
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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There's an idea that the Van Allen radiation belts could be drained of high energy particles using an orbiting electromagnetic tether. Here's that concept applied to the immense belts of Jupiter. #space #art by AJsRealms. www.deviantart.com/ajsrealms/ar...
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