Jon Sanchez

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[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

@ExoPlanetascom I think you mean one light day!! Not one light year which would take several thousand years.

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

@SendDaVideo As Grant Hill said, all Duke had to do was hold the ball. The Duke Coach said it just as well, it wasn't just one play, it was a lot of plays put together that put us in that situation. Great game! One for the ages.

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

#SouthwestAirlines rolling out assigned seating has folks re-learning bag strategy. For years they’d head to the back to stash luggage — now the move is to keep your carry-on nearby so you can grab it on the way out. ✈️

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

Would love to make it out for one of these!

[Il Mondo dei Terremoti @mondoterremoti]

Il gran finale dell'eruzione del #Kilauea: un ultimo spettacolare getto incandescente alto più di 400 m seguito dopo pochi secondi dalla calma e dal silenzio, come se nulla fosse successo. Il 41° episodio eruttivo è durato più di 8 ore ed è stato incredibile!
Video di Alyssa Lee

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

#NYCSnowStorm - hanging in the city. People working hard to keep the streets clear! #Snowstorm2026 #NewYork

[Open Minded Approach @OMApproach]

The Last Two Times This Happened, Civilization Collapsed

In 536 AD and 1300 AD, sudden Little Ice Age shocks erased 90% of literacy and killed over half the population in affected regions. The world didn’t “adapt”, it crumbled and forgot. Only temple libraries and sealed archives preserved humanity’s knowledge.

Now, another abrupt disruption is forming, stronger than before, unfolding alongside a weakening magnetic field and an active geomagnetic excursion.

The Vatican and the Tibetan archives hold many hidden answers.

[Hawaii Volcanoes NPS @Volcanoes_NPS]

Kīlauea summit in HVNP is temporarily closed due unsafe volcanic conditions. Volcanic rock (tephra) from the eruption is falling over the summit overlooks, buildings, trails and roads. Highway 11 is currently closed between mile marker 24 and 32.

[USGS Volcanoes🌋 @USGSVolcanoes]

Weak winds during episode 41 lava fountaining at the summit of Kīlauea, which began just before noon today (January 24), have caused hazardous conditions in the areas of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and neighboring communities.

Just after 12 pm, lava fountains from both the north and south vents were more than 500 m (1640 feet) tall. Near-surface winds are weakly from the south and may carry gas and solid material to the north. Upper-level winds are stronger and may carry lofted plume material to the east.

Tephrafall from the lava fountains has been reported at overlooks around the caldera, on Highway 11 near the National Park entrance, in Volcano Village and as far as Fern Acres. Tephra as large as one foot in diameter was reported on Highway 11 near the park entrance, and shatters upon impact. Please follow guidance provided by Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency. civil Defense announced the closure of Highway 11 between mile markers 24.5 and 32 due to tephra falling.

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

@MarioNawfal Is it repairable?

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

Truth.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Kurt Warner shares the lesson that changed his entire career and it applies to everything.

He sat on the bench for 4 years in college. When a friend asked the coaches why he wasn't playing, the answer wasn't what he expected:

"The reason I wasn't playing was because I was not very good in practice."

His first reaction? Allen Iverson mode.

"Practice? What're you talking about, practice?"

But then he did the math.

"In college we play 12 games in 365 days. In the NFL we play 16 games in 365 days."

That's less than 5% of your year.

"95% of our lives are lived in practice. And the biggest impression we make on people, the way people can understand and really realize who we are, is what we do every day in practice."

This is the 95% Rule. And it applies to everything - sports, business, relationships, life.
1: Show Up With Your Best Effort - Compete and give your best every single day. People can't question how you show up - your effort, attitude, and actions. Consistency removes doubt.
2: Trust Is Built In Practice, Not Games - Trust is earned in the thousands of moments before it's given. Before you can be trusted, people want to know you're dependable. Every day. Not just when it matters.
3: Master Daily Consistency - Success isn't about intensity - it's about consistency. Your habits compound. What you do daily defines who you become.
4: Big Moments Are Earned In Small Moments - The little details make the biggest difference. Greatness starts with preparation - it's earned in the boredom of doing the work when no one's watching.

Excellence isn't an event - It's a habit.

Practice is where trust is built.

How you show up daily is who you really are.
(🎥 Passing the Torch Podcast)
(🎥 @kurt13warner)

[Erika  @ExploreCosmos_]

For years, Betelgeuse has been one of the most closely watched stars in the sky, not only because it’s a nearby red supergiant nearing the end of its life, but because it behaves in ways that didn’t fully add up. Astronomers have long known it pulsates with a regular brightness cycle of roughly 400 days, driven by the star’s own internal motions. But layered on top of that was a second, much slower rhythm: a mysterious variability repeating about every 2,100 days (around 5.7 years), with no clear physical cause.

Now that long-standing puzzle finally has a coherent explanation: Betelgeuse is not alone.

After nearly eight years of sustained monitoring, a team has confirmed that Betelgeuse hosts a close, hidden companion star. The key isn’t that the companion is easy to see directly, on the contrary, it’s buried inside the outer atmosphere of the supergiant, but that it leaves a detectable signature in the gas around it.

The companion, named Siwarha, orbits extremely close to Betelgeuse at roughly 2.3 stellar radii, deep within the star’s extended chromosphere. This is not a normal “binary star” setup where two stars cleanly orbit in empty space.

Betelgeuse has such a swollen, structured outer atmosphere that Siwarha is effectively moving through a tenuous but enormous envelope of gas. As it travels along its orbit, it generates a dense wake, a disturbed trail of material that expands and spreads, comparable to how a boat leaves a persistent pattern behind it on water.

What made this companion finally “visible” was spectroscopy rather than imaging. Using @NASAHubble, together with ground-based observations including facilities in Arizona and Spain Roque de los Muchachos Observatory @GTCtelescope, the researchers tracked subtle but repeating changes in Betelgeuse’s ultraviolet and optical spectra. The most diagnostic tracer was ultraviolet emission from ionized iron (Fe II).

Here’s the crucial pattern: when Siwarha passes in front of Betelgeuse from our point of view, the Fe II signal shows a strong blue-shifted component, indicating gas moving toward us. After the transit, the companion’s trailing wake, denser than the surrounding atmosphere, starts absorbing parts of that UV signal, producing a repeatable absorption signature. That cycle lines up beautifully with the long-period ~2,100-day variability that had resisted explanation for so long. In other words, the “mystery dimming” wasn’t just Betelgeuse being erratic; it was Betelgeuse being disturbed, periodically, by a close companion sculpting its outer atmosphere.

This matters for more than solving a curiosity. Betelgeuse is a benchmark object for understanding how massive stars shed mass in their final evolutionary stages. A companion moving through the atmosphere can change the local density, enhance outflows, and imprint structure into the circumstellar environment. And that environment is exactly what will shape the observable signals of the eventual supernova: how the shock interacts, how the early light curve behaves, and what kinds of circumstellar features appear in spectra.

The discovery of Siwarha turns Betelgeuse into something even more valuable than before: a nearby laboratory where we can watch mass-loss physics and atmospheric dynamics unfold in real time.

At the moment, Siwarha is hidden behind Betelgeuse’s disk from our line of sight, but the team expects it to become favorably observable again around August 2027, when targeted monitoring can test and refine the wake model even further.

👉 https://t.co/jHMUx9Fzhv

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

Priceless.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.

Pluto’s icy Mountains.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.

Pluto’s icy Mountains.

[FOX Weather @foxweather]

MORNING EXPLOSION 💥 : The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory webcam captured a minor explosion at Black Diamond Pool, Biscuit Basin at Yellowstone National Park on December 20.

[Stefan Burns @StefanBurnsGeo]

Evolution of the rare triple fountain LARGEST eruptive episode (ep.38) yet at Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii since Dec. 2024. The main fountain reached heights of 1000+ ft its lateral distance was nearly 1/2 a mile as seen near the end! WOW 💥

[USGS Volcanoes🌋 @USGSVolcanoes]

In case you ever wondered what it would be liked to be engulfed in a lava fountain...

This video was recorded by the V3 camera, located on the south rim of Halema‘uma‘u crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the Island of Hawai‘i. The camera, located in a hazardous closed area of Hawai‘I Volcanoes National Park, was buried by tephra from an inclined lava fountain between 9:55 and 9:57 am HST on December 6, during episode 38 that began this morning at 8:45 am. RIP V3 🪦

V1 (https://t.co/I2XM0NWxXr) and V2 (https://t.co/iUgnybz4KR) continue to operate.

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

#shibuyacrossing #lights

[. @jdpoc]

Your Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ..

Wild Mountain Goats are next level.

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

Master Kunio Kobayashi #Bonsai

[Jon Sanchez @JonPSanchez]

Can’t wait.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

NASA's groundbreaking Europa mission might find life. That’s the hope. Here is the intended mission simulation.

NASA's Europa mission (the Europa Clipper) journey to Jupiter's mysterious icy moon, Europa, some scientists believe a vast, salty ocean lies hidden beneath its frozen crust - a prime candidate for extraterrestrial life.