Tuesday Telescope: After spacewalking, an astronaut strikes lightning

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. Most astronauts these days are fairly anonymous, and chances are you have never heard of Nichole Ayers. And that's OK. But sometimes it's worth pausing for a moment to reflect on just how accomplished these people are. Ayers, 36, flew the supersonic F-22 stealth aircraft in the international war against the Islamic State and rose to become a major in the US Air Force before being selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021. Oh, yeah, she also completed a master's degree in computational and applied mathematics at Rice University. For her first spaceflight, Ayers launched on the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station in March ... Read full article.