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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/06/2025

Those two bright points of light at lower left are Earth and the Moon. Photographed from the orbit of Mercury.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/06/2025

YouTube has encouraged its moderators to leave up videos that may break the platform’s rules, including those with derogatory slurs or misinformation, as long as they're considered to be in the public interest. The shift comes as the GOP pressures YouTube to stop moderating content.

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YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The 2 metre diameter mirror for the Xuntian space telescope, due to launch and co-orbit with the Tiangong space station in late 2026. m.weibo.cn/detail/51716...

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Elvira Rosert @elvirarosert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Na gut, ich markiere dann nur kurz jedes schiefe Argument aus diesem Text. Aufgrund der Dichte ist das zeitraubend genug. 🧵

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A Martian Treasure Trove: the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University has just released a new batch of 50 sols of processed images, in two flavors: enhanced and natural colors. Here are a few of them ⤵️ Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS 🧪🔭

Martian rocks captured on Sol 1433, enhanced color version.

Martian rocks captured on Sol 1433, natural color version.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

As a kind of climax to my attempts to fill in the post Lunar Orbiter/Pre LRO 'Luna Incognita' I used all available references to see what could be done. The mapped Moon of the time is at left, my airbrush portrayal is in the middle, a shaded relief from the LRO data is at right.

For decades a few regions of the Moon were poorly known due to limitations in the Lunar orbiter data. A little of this could be 'filled in' a bit using radar data which 'illuminated' a bit of the region independently of the Sun.
Left: Lunar Orbiter based airbrush map of the Moon showing the blank 'Luna Incognita' region of the time. Center: My 1988 airbrush portrayal based on various sources, including Lunar Orbiter and earth based radar coverage. Right: The LRO height data rendered with lighting similar to the others.

#SciArt

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 04/02/2025

Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

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Lokoshan @lokoshan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🖤 Mit großer Trauer nimmt die Perry Rhodan Fanzentrale Abschied von Thomas Rabenstein, einem Urgestein der PROC. 🖤 😢 www.proc.org/thomas-rabenstein-ist-…

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Thomas Rabenstein ist tot | Perry Rhodan Online Community

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Bunkerhunter @bunkerhunter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Ein RJ45-Adapter von Aliexpress. Über 10'000 mal verkauft. Versehen mit SPI-Flash-Memory, darauf eine .exe. Diese injiziert Code in Prozesse, umgeht virtuelle Maschinen, verändert Proxy-Einstellungen, zeichnet Tastenanschläge auf. Aber nun das Beste. /2

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Science Fiction Club Deutschland e.V. @sfcd.eu · 16/01/2025

Am 15. Januar 2005 starb unser Vereinsgründer Walter Ernsting in seiner Heimat in Salzburg. Der Autor war 84 Jahre alt, lebte schon einige Zeit davor sehr zurückgezogen. Zum 20. Todestag gibt nun eine spezielle Aktion der Redaktion. Link: perry-rhodan.net/aktuelles/ne...

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

I wake up in the morning.
I sit at my computer.
The internet screams at me that the world is on fire.
I am overwhelmed by the deluge of bad news and faceplant in front of the computer.

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Dr Laura Driessen @astrolaura.com · 14/01/2025

The amazing @esa.int Gaia telescope is taking its last measurements today Gaia has had a tremendous impact on astronomy. Without the easy to access (and use) data releases, a lot of the work I do would be impossible Thank you, Gaia and team! Can't wait for the future data releases! 🔭🧪

Artist's impression of the Gaia space telescope in front of the Milky Way. Gaia looks kind of like a sunhat. I've added a little halo above it. The Milky Way has a glowy centre and you can see the dusk tracks in the disk. You can also see the bright blobs of the Magellanic Clouds below the Milky Way

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 12/01/2025

The Battlestar Galactica 2003 miniseries was really quite effective. In three hours, so much information and lore, the stakes are perfectly set, end-of-the-world vibe, Adama, Roslin, Baltar are already fascinating, even the space battle is great despite a glaring lack of budget. So Say We All.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 09/01/2025

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/12/2024

Rogue One was released 8 years ago today. You know what that means... Let's watch the Hammerhead ramming again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2vy...

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Rogue One 2016 (hammerhead corvette edit)

YouTube video by trollkarlarna

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 16/12/2024

🔭 A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko Image Credit & Licence (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO): ESA, Rosetta spacecraft, NAVCAM; Additional Processing: Stuart Atkinson apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24121...

A black and white image shows, from the side, the wall of a high jagged cliff. At the bottom of the cliff is a smooth landing dotted with rocks. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

1. An experimental result doesn’t make sense 2. A physicist proposes a radical solution. 3. The solution seems too weird to be real. Everyone assumes it must be a convenient trick. 4. Eventually, everyone realizes it wasn't a trick, and reality is in fact weirder than they expected. (9/n)

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

we are small.

Saturn’s rings cover the top half of the image and the bottom shows the planet with a glowing atmosphere. In the black space between the rings and planet is a tiny white dot, which is Earth.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The infamous pale blue dot image taken by Voyager 1. Against the darkness and emptiness of space, there is a very small dot, which is Earth, suspended in a beam of sunlight.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Earth from the surface of Mars. The dark Martian landscape is visible and in the gray sky is a tiny white dot with an arrow pointing to it reading “Earth”.

Image credit: NASA JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M University

View of the Moon on the left and the Earth on the right, half lit. The two objects appear very tiny as they were photographed by Juice's scientific camera from over 5 million km away.

Image credit: ESA/Juice/JANUS

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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Der von rechts erzeugte Druck auf den ÖRR zeigt offenbar die gewünschten Ergebnisse: Die Programmdirektorin untersagt die Ausstrahlung einer fertig produzierten Böhmermann-Sendung - nicht wegen etwaiger inhaltlicher Fehler, sondern "aus Sorgen vor erneuten Beschwerden".

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ZDF stoppt offenbar Sendung von Jan Böhmermann vor Ausstrahlung - WELT

Das ZDF hat eine geplante Folge von Jan Böhmermanns „ZDF Magazin Royale“ gestoppt. Laut dem „Spiegel“ fürchtete der Sender nach früheren Beschwerden erneute Kritik. Der Moderator selbst äußerte sich b...

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Michael @mvcomix.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Flashback: Eine der früheren Begenungen mt Perry Rhodan und mein zweiter Comic mit Olaf Brill als Autor war "Unterwegs mit der Sternenstaub" – ein kurzer Comic zum 50. Geburtstag der Raketenheftserie, wo wir das Abenteuer 50 Jahre VOR den Starttermin verlegen: Die Story spielt also 1911!

Perry Rhodan: Unterwegs mit der Sternenstaub in Retro-Font als Titel, darunter eine Illustration in bleichen Farben auf vergilbtem Papier, die eine Rakete vor der Silhouette des Mondes zeigt.

Ausschnitt aus einer Retrocomicseite, splitpanel: Ein Raumschiff taucht ins Meer, wo allerlei merkwürdige Seekraturen herumschwirren, schließlich wird das Schiff von einem Kraken in die Fänge genommen.

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Narkosedoc @narkosedoc.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Ein Jahresprotokoll einer 17-jährigen, die laufend auf ihr Äußeres degradiert und ständig übergriffig von Primaten in Menschengestalt angemacht wird. Das könnte Deine Tochter sein. Nicht so geil, oder? Leute, educate your sons!! *googlet Karatekurs+Mädchen*

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Yay! Incoming first Mastcam-Z mosaic of the western side of the rim of Jezero Crater, captured by Perseverance 8 hours ago. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Sol 1356 🧪 #planetaryscience

a mosaic of ochre-toned images featuring a Martian landscape

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 13/12/2024

Böhmermann macht eine Sendung über eine verbreitete Verschwörungstheorie, sie wird aus Angst vor Widerspruch nicht ausgesendet. Das ist natürlich notwendige Rücksichtnahme auf Publikumsgefühle. Aber wehe, jemand wird für diskriminierende Aussagen kritisiert, dann ist das böse, böse Cancel Culture.

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Böhmermann: ZDF stoppt Sendung vor Ausstrahlung

Im „ZDF Magazin Royale“ sollte um Verschwörungsmythen und gefährliche Therapien gehen. Die ZDF-Programmdirektorin verhinderte das.

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Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The ISS photographed by a Crew-8 astronaut as SpaceX's Dragon departed in October:

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn. This paper finds that the rings are no older than 400M years. Sharks date back to at least the Late Ordovician Period, 450M years ago.

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A view of Antarctica made from images captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft 34 years ago during a close pass of Earth on December 8-9, 1990. This angle shows the Ross Ice Shelf, mostly sea ice-free in late southern spring. The South Pole is just about left of center. (Original image # PIA00117)

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/12/2024

A lightning bolt. Seen from orbit. On Jupiter.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Panoramic view of a distant ridge taken on Sol 1349 by the Mars Perseverance Rover. Part of a wider mosaic.

Wide view of a martian ridge.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 24/09/2024

[Thread of threads] I'd forgotten I'd made threads as soon as I got here. It wasn't very practical, but I couldn't help myself. 😅 Until I have a system for grouping them on my profile, like on the other network, I'll gather them here. 🖖 1/ George Lucas and the three-second rule:

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Andrew Fraknoi @fraknoi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For years, I have been keeping an annotated guide to science fiction based on reasonable astronomy. It's organized by topic: black holes, Jupiter, etc. It makes no claim to be complete, but may lead you to stories you didn't know: bit.ly/astronomyscifi #astronomy #sciencefiction #astroedu #scifi

A guide to science fiction with good astronomy by Andrew Fraknoi

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

THREAD: How to verify online images Social media is awash with false or misleading images, some of which get millions of engagements. So here's a simple guide on ways you can quickly check the veracity of images you see on your social media feeds with major elections coming up this year.

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

'Sentinels' 1,387 images captured by Don Pettit on ISS are processed, graded & retimed to create this video footage of satellites gathering in the light of dawn with music by Stellardrone. Cropped and edited from 4 minute 4k original. Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

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Daniel Machacek @danielmachacek.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Collage of all cometary nuclei imaged by spacecrafts and planetary radars, all resampled to a resolution 25 meters per pixel. It contains all imaged comets up to now. If comet has been imaged more than once, name of the source is underlined in the caption. Credits are in the collage.

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Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈 @r-p-one.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

So today’s the day of the 2024 UCL Submarine Design and Acquisition Course VIP presentations. Seven designs this year, developed to requirements produced by the staff:

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Star gazers in ancient Mesopotamia focused on recurring stuff like planetary motion, but sometimes they wrote about meteors. Watching from Babylon, one wrote: “Night of the 7th, last part of the night, a meteor which was very bright in the middle of the sky” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//adsd/adart1...

Two broken tablets pieced together to make up a joined-up fragment that is photographed from the front, back, and sides. One fragment is lighter beige than the other which is more of a light brown. The tablets are covered in partly damaged cuneiform script. At the bottom, a multicoloured ruler with the British Museum watermark shows it to be 5cm wide. Below the screenshot photo is the credit: “Photography by Ivor Kerslake (LMU Munich), copyright The Trustees of the British Museum”

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Space Shuttle Almanac @shuttlealmanac.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

LIVE launch of @isro's PSLV-59 carrying the @ESA's PROBA-3

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I will never, ever get over this.

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Andrew Parsonson @andrewparsonson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Vega C return-to-flight mission has been delayed by 24 hours. There was a mechanical issue preventing the withdrawal of the mobile gantry and the launch chronology was stopped. Liftoff is now scheduled no earlier than 5 December at 22:20 CET.

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Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Trump nominates Jared Isaacman, billionaire astronaut who's led two private SpaceX spaceflights, for NASA Administrator:

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Tory Bruno @torybruno.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Here’s a video from our half scale LOFTID demo for reference. youtu.be/11DR_420lRI?...

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#LOFTID inflatable re-entry aeroshell demonstrator - flight test mission highlights

YouTube video by MechDesignTV

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 03/12/2024

MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array team has announced evidence for the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB)! @cosmicrami.com had a chat with lead author @astromattmiles.bsky.social from @ozgrav.bsky.social www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mpta... 📸 C. Knox/Swinburne/OzGrav/SARAO #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 1/3

Graphic that shows a single dish from the MeerKAT telescope, and it is silhouetted across a background of illustrated supermassive black holes and space-time, represented by a warped grid.

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Space Shuttle Almanac @shuttlealmanac.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

2/2 Upcoming Crews (an FYI). Fram2 Rogge Philips Wang Mikkelsen; AX-4 Kapu Shukla Whitson Uznański; USCV-11 Kutryk Fincke Tingle Yui; Artemis-II Koch Glover Wiseman Hansen.

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