A MOON BIGGER THAN EARTH & MORE IG UPDATES
Got a few space updates for y’all today. Scientists think they found a moon bigger than Earth in another galaxy, over 5,000 light years away. This is part of an ongoing project meant to find moons outside of our solar system. While the finding still needs to be confirmed, David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University, says the new moon is “pretty alien compared to any moon in the solar system.”
Coming back down to our moon, there’s apparently going to be a lot of activity going on up there this year. The US, Russia, and South Korea all have plans to send uncrewed missions to the moon in 2022. Additionally, multiple companies are sending missions to the moon privately, including two (Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines) that are working with NASA.
Instagram miiiiiight be letting users switch around posts in their profile grids soon, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, a mobile developer who works on reverse engineering. This would be a big adjustment, since we’ve been used to the grid being one of the few (mostly) unalterable spaces in the app, since its inception. But, I personally think it would be the best-received update IG’s done yet, since it would give users true control over their content and feeds.
In non-IG news, I came across the coolest TikTok account this week that I knew I had to share with you all here. An art historian, Tatyana Serraino, delves into one famous piece of art in each of her videos. She takes viewers through each aspect of the piece, highlighting specifics that an untrained eye would have missed, contextualizing the art, and offering an interpretation of what we’re seeing. I particularly enjoyed this video looking at Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World, and this video looking at Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. Tatyana’s videos open up the world of each painting, and make art feel accessible and fun.
And I also have two extra-wholesome videos to share this week. I thoroughly enjoyed this video about maybe the most relatable Olympian ever, and this video about a heartwarming, long-time-coming reunion with a pup.
—Darlene Kenney, Digital Strategist
