Shan (Shanmuga Subramanian)

@NASA has credited me for finding Vikram Lander on Moon's surface #VikramLander #Chandrayaan2 @timesofindia @TimesNow @NDTV

LeoLabs detected a fragment creation event involving SpaceX Starlink 34343 on 29 March 2026. Learn more. ⤵️

@MuraliK62 @labstamil Be it SriLanka or Orissa, Ramayana is real and Shri Ram was the greatest king ever to be born on the Earth

@labstamil But Srilanka of Ramayana is actually a place in Orissa, says Devdutt Patnaik 🤔

Kodiyakkarai was the first spot surveyed by Sri Rama to build a bridge as it was just 48km from Sri Lankan coast. The hillock he surveyed is called Shri Ramar Paatham & is an ASI protected monument. On a clear day, you can literally see the Lankan coast from here. It was perhaps discarded due to ocean being too deep here compared to Setu Karai, which had oceanic ridges causing a shallow ocean floor. Happy Sri Rama Navami! "We are from Tamilnadu and we obviously know who Sri Ram is, we worship Him"!

Webb captured this new image of galaxy Messier 58, in both the near and mid-infrared, as part of a treasury of 55 massive, star-forming galaxies. The data on the properties of these galaxies will add insight to our picture of how galaxies grow and evolve over cosmic time.

Jupiter is much larger than Earth & its lighting storms are much more powerful, too. Data from NASA's Juno probe indicate that Jovian bolts can pack 1 terajoule of energy--equivalent to an atomic bomb. Also: Grapefruit-size water-ammonia hailstones. news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/23/lig…

Our unique view of the ISS above the horizon. This non-Earth image, taken by another satellite on March 18, captures the space station over Argentina during an active spacewalk.

This is interesting

Daylight meteor seen over the US

@katlinegrey @isro Both might be wrong also :)

Today @isro #Chandrayaan2 will possibly take photos of the lunar surface in the area where #Luna9 landed. This is how we will learn who's calculation was right.

Invisible Fire | She nailed the Demo youtube.com/shorts/Ei8oGJ-…

How much do rivers rise and fall during a year? New data from the joint NASA and CNES SWOT mission suggests that Earth's rivers don't change as much over the course of a year as previously thought. Read more: go.nasa.gov/3Noo4hL

ESA has lost contact with one of two PROBA-3 spacecraft after an anomaly forced it into survival mode. europeanspaceflight.com/esa-has-lost-c…

March 6, 1969 - Apollo 9 Without doubt some of the finest photography of the Apollo program and one of my favourite chapters in the book. The mission was conducted entirely in Earth orbit. Dave Scott is seen poking his head out of the hatch. 2 years later, he walked on the Moon.

The effects of a winter storm in… Florida? In early February 2026, cold air from the Arctic drove temperatures below freezing in parts of Florida and stirred up ocean waters, turning the sea bright blue and forming interesting swirls and patterns. go.nasa.gov/4ssAQuG

@JPMajor Has anybody done research on aging comparing the people at equator and poles? My guess is people at equator would definitely age slower when compared with people near poles?

Fact: Earth rotates at a rate of about 1,037 mph (1,670 km/h) at the equator. This number decreases the closer you get to the poles; at 40º latitude the rate is 795 mph (1,279 km/h). This reduces the effect of gravity by about 0.4% at the equator versus at the poles.

Four years ago today, I completed a first, unadvertised expedition: Closest person to the center of the Earth: Molloy Deep in the Arctic, and farthest from it: summit of Mt Chimborazo, Ecuador (the Earth is ovoid, not a sphere). I called it my "Heaven and Hell Expedition."

2 birds in one frame! One(ATR) was ascending and another(A320) was descending into Madurai., it was close but they had some 500+m vertical separation between them..

Diamonds! Happy to see good progress from SkyRoot aerospace!

@peachastro Here is another one similar to Ina on #Moon x.com/Ramanean/statu…

The Lunar Blue Lake Here is an image of the unusual lunar feature known as Ina, a D-shaped volcanic depression nestled in Lacus Felicitatis. Measuring about 3x2 km in size and 0.6km deep, Ina stands out with its irregular mounds and smooth, mound-like hills that give it a distinctive, youthful appearance compared to the surrounding ancient terrain. What truly captivates is Ina's color: its lowlands shimmer in a bright bluish-grey hue, contrasting sharply with the darker, brownish tones of the nearby hills and typical lunar surface. This striking coloration arises from the feature's composition—rich in titanium-laden basalt—and its relatively fresh exposure. Unlike the heavily space-weathered regolith elsewhere, which darkens and reddens over billions of years due to solar wind and micrometeorite impacts, Ina's materials have experienced less maturation. In enhanced multispectral images, the high titanium content reflects more blue light, enhancing this ethereal glow. Though once thought to be just 100 million years old, recent studies date Ina to around 3.5 billion years, its "youthful" look preserved by unique volcanic processes. A cosmic puzzle that hints at the Moon's fiery past! This is the first time i've imaged this unusual feature and was surprised on boosting the saturation how much it popped out. Though small its shape and colour is very apparent.

Testing in Software industry has gone down the drain nowdays! My own experience: I was testing a big retailer application to be used in US/Canada and found I was not able to enter Alpha numeric characters in the zip code.When I raised this with Business Analyst, they were quite surprised and this was raised at the fag end of the release cycle! (They didn't even know Canada has alpha numeric zip code) It seems people take testing for granted always and rush the timelines..

According to a NASA report Lunar Trailblazer failed because the software pointed the solar panels *away* from the Sun. The NASA panel says Lockheed did not properly test the solar panel pointing software before launch. npr.org/2026/02/26/nx-…

@svembu AI will never pose any serious challenge to Humans and simply put they are dumber than a dumbest human in certain scenarios, We are living in a bubble similar to blockchain/crypto bubble few years ago..

If our notion of self-worth comes from the economic value we add, or if it comes our intellectual pretense (*cough*), AI may pose a serious challenge to our self-worth. On the other hand no one takes up activities like taking care of children, teaching children, taking care of the elderly, coming back to farming leaving a well paying job, going into the forest as rangers because they love the forest, local temple priests who do the daily rituals even when no one shows up at the temple, classical musicians who practise daily and perform for even very small crowds - none of them do it because those activities pay well. They will be unaffected by AI. Humanity may organize itself more towards such activity.