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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery is currently receiving drone sanctions. And unlike other sanctions, drone sanctions are not subject to waivers. There will be a lot more of our drone sanctions now. It's clear that this is the only reliable way to cut off Putin's war funding.🔥📉

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Workdays" of Ukrainian pilots. Beautiful view.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/10/2026

An aperiodic reminder that since 2022 I've been leading a mission concept with JPL to fly a balloon through the skies of Venus. I'll write more about it later. For now, here's a photo of a prototype balloon flying over Nevada (left), and my workup of what it might look like at Venus (right).

A drone-captured shot of the one-third Venus aerobot prototype flying over Black Rock Desert in July 2022. Image credit: JPL-Caltech/Aerostar

A variable-altitude aerobot floats through the middle atmosphere of Venus; clouds are above and below the balloon, and everything has a yellow tint. Image credit: me.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ukrainian long-range drones struck the linear production and dispatch station (LPDS) "Volodarskaya" in Konstantinovo, Moscow region, in Russia. At least two silos are on fire. Coordinates: 55°29'29.92"N 37°59'48.61"E

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Zelensky says Ukrainian forces struck Russian Iskander crew positions in Russia’s Bryansk region. He also says Ukraine’s long-range strikes hit Russian military infrastructure sites in the Samara region.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

😳 A drone was shot down right overhead during concert in Kyiv

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

EU Member States have agreed on the terms for releasing €6.6 billion European Peace Facility funds for Ukraine. That’s good news for Ukraine and bad news for Russia. €900 million are for the EU’s Military Assistance Mission for Ukraine. €1 billion will fund new joint procurement of equipment (1/2)

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/09/2026

This isn't the diseased skin of some alien—this is Mars! Taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, this colour scene shows a portion of the planet's high southern latitudes where frost, dust, and sunlight combine to produce these pink and purple tones.

From the source: "A purple–pink–coloured patch of Mars, which is lighter on the left and darker on the right. A dark line runs from the top centre towards the bottom right, dividing the light and dark areas. At the centre of the image is a sharp light-coloured crater. Less sharp craters are scattered over the rest of the image. At the bottom left is a bright white-blue triangular patch; it looks icy."

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The moment the Kuibyshev Refinery in Samara, Russia, has been hit. Locals reports of several more explosions.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Kuibyshev Refinery in Samara, Russia, has been struck. One of the primary refining units is burning.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The moment one of the Ukrainian FP-1 strike drones came down on a Moscow street, likely after being disrupted by Russian electronic warfare. The attached post shows a big crater and damage left by the impact.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Several Ukrainian Liutyi long-range kamikaze drones fly over Moscow as powerful explosions echo across the city during today’s attack. As usual with such footages from Moscow, it’s very rare to come across a video with a Russian-speaking person in the background.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🦅💥 A drone attack on Thermal Power Plant No. 22 in Dzerzhinsky overnight

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 17/09/2026

HOLY SHIT NEW IMPACT CRATER ON THE MOON This crater is 222 m (728 ft) across, and formed in spring 2024. Statistical modelling tells us this is a 1-in-132 year event. So the last time a crater this big formed on the Moon was 1894.

A large crater with bright rays is situated in the centre of this image. The dark, pockmarked lunar surface makes up the background.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 12/09/2026

I have a new paper out! Over the weekend I'll do a thread on what the Solar System can tell us about rocky exoplanets— but for now, enjoy this to-scale set of cross sections I made of the rocky worlds in *this* system! (They're all different, but still all variations on a theme...)

Interior structure models of Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, the Moon, and Io, all shown to scale and key elements labelled.

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🤍💚❤️Случаят Джем🤍💙💛 @dzem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Това набира скорост.

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Daniel Machacek @danielmachacek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mars from the Hope probe (EMM/Emirates Mars Mission) ~one year ago (September 2025). The first image shows giant volcanoes with a dust storm near Noctis Labyrinthus, and the second shows foggy Hellas Planitia with seasonal CO2/water frost. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)/EXI/D. Machacek.

Martian crescent from the EXI camera on board the EMM probe.
Color composite of three images taken through RGB filters on September 9, 2025 at ~21:17 UTC.
The image shows giant Martian volcanoes with a prominent dust storm near the valleys and canyons of Noctis Labyrinthus.

Mars from the EXI camera on board the EMM probe.
Color composite of three images taken through RGB filters on September 25, 2025 at ~14:43 UTC.
The image shows most of the Martian disk with Hellas Planitia, partially covered by seasonal frost, at the bottom, darker Terra Sabaea in the middle with prominent Huygens crater near the center of the image, brighter Arabia Terra region above, and similarly bright Isidis Planitia on the right.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: 2800km from the frontline, deepest Ukrainian drone attack during the war is currently underway. Russians report that Ukrainian drones are attacking Novy Urengoy in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug for the first time since the start of the war, around 2,800 from the Ukrainian border

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/09/2026

I was invited to write up a short blogpost for the Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month based on our recent JGR Planets paper! We make the case that some of the highlands on Venus have borders that form in the same way mountain belts on Earth do: planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com

An oblique view from Google Earth looking approximately east, from around the location of Bourg-en-Bresse towards Geneva, which is situated at the eastern end of the crescent Lac Leman at center left. The Jura foothills in the foreground correspond to folds in volcanic plains that run parallel to larger folds in tesserae, which in this analogy are the Alps proper.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/09/2026

Weird rock on Mars. Photographed yesterday.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/09/2026

That small black circle is the planet Mercury, seen crossing the face of the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 9 May 2016.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

LAUNCH at 2012 UTC Sep 5 of ISAR Spectrum flight 2 from Andoya. Successful stage 1 flight and sep and stage 2 ignition, ascent continuing as of this writing

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Hubble telescope has spotted an enormous, 10-sized geometric cloud pattern encircling Saturn's south pole. And this Saturn decagon seems to be new, taking shape as we watch. Weird winds are wiggling on the ringed planet! 🔭🧪 science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

Recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope images show the gas giant Saturn and its southern pole, where astronomers have discovered a 10-sided atmospheric wave. Observations show the decagon extends through multiple layers of Saturn’s atmosphere. Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, Agustin Sánchez-Lavega (UPV), Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael Wong (UC Berkeley); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What struck a xenon atom and triggered a flash of light inside the LZ detector. A particle of dark matter? Too soon to tell. Everyone is looking *very* closely for a second event. 🧪🔭 Full paper available at link: lz.lbl.gov

When a WIMP collides with a xenon atom, the xenon atom emits a flash of light and electrons. The light is detected at the top and bottom of the liquid xenon chamber. An electric field drifts the electrons to the top of the chamber, where they generate a second flash of light. Credit: Greg Stewart, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Something weird showed up in the data from the LZ dark-matter detector in South Dakota. It's a single event. It could be an error. But it's an intriguing, anomalous signal with no obvious physical observation...and "weird" can be the gateway to big discoveries. 🧪🔭 news.ucsb.edu/2026/022780/...

The LUX-ZEPLIN main detector in a surface lab before installation underground at the SURF facility in Lead, South Dakota.

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Dimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Beautiful sight. A destroyed russian Pantsir-S1 in Ukrainian Crimea. They are used to protect precious sites in Crimea. But they are illegal aliens, therefore they get at least 70kg explosive drone railing them. :)

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Have physicists detected their first dark-matter particle after years of searching? It's way too early to make that claim, but an anomalous event recorded at an underground lab in South Dakota has definitely captured the attention of dark-matter detectives. cosmiclog.com/2026/09/01/s...

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Scientists make an intriguing find in dark-matter hunt

Dark matter is the invisible stuff that accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the universe, and for decades, physicists have been trying to figure out what it’s made of. Now an experimental…

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/09/2026

Jezero Crater, Mars. Photographed Saturday, 29 August 2026.

Rocks and sand litter the foreground. More coherent rock makes up the middle ground. The larger mountain at far right is likely part of the crater rim. Everything has a sort of meh pinky colour.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Video shows the severely damaged container ship RMS TEAM entering the port of Samsun after the August 21 drone attack in the Black Sea while it was heading to the Russian port of Novorossiysk.

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Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Please donate!

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

All that remains of the Wildberries logistics center in Russia’s Samara region after the August 2 drone attack. The massive 180,000 m² facility was almost completely destroyed, with 160,000 m² burned out and all goods inside lost. Only the administrative building survived.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 23/08/2026

Kyiv tonight. #Ukraine

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Russia struck a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih while it was crowded with people. A fire broke out. One person was killed and at least 12 more were injured.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Russia struck Kryvyi Rih's largest shopping complex, local officials say. As of now, the regional administration reports 2 killed and 50 wounded, including 6 children.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 19/08/2026

This is a piece of the Moon. It's a polymict breccia, part of the lunar highlands, and was collected by the crew of Apollo 16. It's 3.9 billion years old, or about 28% the age of the observable universe.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 19/08/2026

Solar eclipse (let's be honest, it's more of a transit) last Thursday, 13 August 2026, photographed from the surface of Mars.

The Sun's disk, with a Phobos-shaped hole in it.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/08/2026

THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU SLAM A ROCKET INTO THE MOON New images just dropped from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the crater formed by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage when it hit the Moon on 5 August 2026. The new crater is 18 m across and 3 m deep.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A tiny helicopter tries to battle the gigantic fire at the Wildberries hub in Koledino, almost disappearing against the scale of the smoke clouds.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Exilenova+ says video likely shows air defense positions burning in Feodosia, occupied Crimea. NASA FIRMS detects fires in the area of radar sites and S-300/S-400 positions.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🚀🦩 Samara, another angle of strike on "Progress"

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 14/08/2026

This is Wednesday's solar eclipse. Photographed from lunar orbit.

Earth. In the top right foreground, the rugged lunar surface. Just above the lunar horizon is a dark splotch on Earth, situated around Greenland. That's the Moon's shadow—or a solar eclipse, when viewed from the centre of that shadow on Earth.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Wildberries in Voronezh 🤩🎉🔥🔝

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A view of the fire at the Wildberries logistics hub in Voronezh.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 10/08/2026

Original (unadorned) image: esawebb.org/images/weic2... Original image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/A. Pagan

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🔥 Near Novorossiysk, the Defense Forces hit a Russian tanker.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Crew member's camera captured the moment a Ukrainian drone hit the ship, per Exilnova+.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The crew of a cargo ship in the Black Sea filmed how Russians have begun using Ka-52 helicopters to intercept Ukrainian FP-1/FP-2 strike drones targeting vessels bound for Russian Black Sea ports.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A burned-out Wildberries warehouse in Volgograd after a night attack. Little remains of the logistics hub.

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