Aditya Madanapalle

@astro_Pettit @Space_Station

Spudnik-1, an orbiting potato on @Space_Station! I flew potatoes on Expedition 72 for my space garden, an activity I did in my off-duty time. This is an early purple potato, complete with spot of hook Velcro to anchor it in my improvised grow light terrarium. Potatoes are one of the most efficient plants based on edible nutrition to total plant mass (including roots). Recognized by Andy Weir in his book/movie "The Martian," potatoes will have a place in future exploration of space. So I thought it good to get started now!

Paper Day! You may have heard about these "Little Red Dots" in JWST data. Here we use new high quality spectra to show that the their spectral appearance is primarily set by the properties of surrounding gas: LRDs are hot engines covered by dense gas arxiv.org/abs/2603.17667

@sharmasaidwhat Swacch Bharat Ka Irada

Subah subah kya gaane sunte ho tumlog

Few important reminders ⚠️ 1. The rapidly emerging field of Exoplanetary Sciences is driven by the overarching motivation of finding habitable worlds - answering the question is there alien life (or the possibility of it) in the Cosmos? 2. The only planet with confirmed evidence of life is our own - Planet Earth 🌍 3. The only star known to host a habitable planet with life - the Sun ☀️ It would be such a waste of knowledge, therefore, if we do not take our understanding of star planet interactions and habitability in the solar system to guide the understanding of extrasolar systems and Exoplanets + vice-versa considering the large parameter space other star-planet systems provide for constraining physical processes in a more general sense. On a more personal note, I do not put boundaries around my science; pursuits based on extension of my expertise to interdisciplinary domains that I am capable of addressing keeps me academically alive.

@ydnad0 @ictstifr Solar scientist in exoplanet conference? So actually a lot of what we know of exoplanets is determined based on behaviour and characteristics of host star? What is the deal here? Also Happy Ugadi!

Happy Ugadi from namma Bengaluru Arrived at the #Exoplanets workshop being conducted at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics @ictstifr Looking forward to deliberations on worlds beyond our own, and yes magnetism and star planet interactions! icts.res.in/program/strang…

@googlemaps And your approach on X is to invalidate the feedback of the user, taking them off the public stream, make it look like problem is restricted to one location that you will instantly fix when the fixing facility is available in app and does not work. This is gaslighting!

@googlemaps Have made many changes within the maps app, some not updated for over two years now!

An essential use case that @googlemaps utterly fails at in Delhi is finding doctors. Like you can see in the images that the clinics are not where they are indicated, and it can easily send you off on a wild goose chase when you are sick and hurting. Its the same for ATMs also!

@MasalaGames Andaz Apna Apna is among my all-time favourite movies but still I missed both of these!

ok last one, we promise

@RishiAlwani So low energy this is like vlog edited on canva by high school students

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cringestation at this rate

I asked Gemini to make the watermark clearer, and this is what it did :D @GeminiApp

@The_Guy_Space its Modhiwadia, i made same typo somehow 🥲

@exploreplanets You are the people actually studying planets! Why should the @IAU_org that mostly does not care about anything closer than Proxima Centauri get to decide how we define a planet? A straightforward, quantitative and common-sense criteria has been proposed! arxiv.org/abs/2407.07590

The definition of "planet" has changed more times than you'd think — and Pluto wasn't the first to get cut. Read the full story in our March issue of The Planetary Report. ⬇️ planetary.org/articles/how-d…

@Kurz_Gesagt @_Toukana I am really liking this game! The difficulty curve is a bit steep on level 3, just the complexity of the production chains, and that the worlds are procedurally generated are a bit stress-inducing. Would really like a Sandbox / Creative mode!

We are sure there is an asteroid hiding somewhere in there behind all of the buildings… 🤔 Explore this and many more asteroids in Star Birds, which we developed together with our friends at @_Toukana! Get it now in Early Access on Steam: kgs.link/starbirds

@gifsagar Yeah authorities want to build walkways and camping sites and open air gyms in the core areas also...

@electricfoo That's a terrible idea. That's a legit forest.

We need a Cubbon Park in Mumbai

@siddharth_iitm @gifsagar I just want to kick the bikers off the footpaths.

@gifsagar Walkability in Indian cities is horrible. However, cities like Bangalore have parks or lakes in every neighborhood where one can go for a walk. Found small parks in Nagpur as well. Need more of these.