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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

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Guillaume Desbrosse @desbrosseg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🛰️ Il y a 69 ans, le 4 octobre 1957, l'URSS lançait Spoutnik 1 : une boule de 58 cm qui faisait « bip-bip ». Ce qu'on sait moins : ce bip est à l'origine de la navigation par satellite, l'ancêtre du GPS de ton téléphone. Une histoire de déjeuner entre physiciens 🧵⬇️ 📷 NASA

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 30/09/2026

Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 🔭 🧪 ☀️

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things." --Lech Wałęsa, Polish pro-democracy leader, president, Nobel Peace Peace Prize laureate, and e-bike rider Happy #BicycleBirthday, Lech! Born September 29, 1943

Photo of an elderly man riding an electric bike along a waterfront promenade.

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Rodolphe Meyer aka Le Réveilleur @lereveilleur.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

"Autrement dit, le vivant joue un rôle fondamental dans la répartition naturelle du carbone dans l’océan, mais ce sont les mécanismes physico-chimiques qui sont le moteur du puits de carbone qui capte l’excédent de carbone anthropique [...]." theconversation.com/baleines-man...

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Baleines, mangroves, phytoplancton… captent-ils vraiment notre CO₂ ?

Les écosystèmes marins – des mangroves aux baleines, en passant par le phytoplancton –contiennent du carbone, mais gare à ne pas en tirer les mauvaises conclusions.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026

Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/

3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Three years ago on this day, September 24, 2023, the sample return capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission touches down in the desert in Utah. The sample inside was collected from the asteroid Bennu three years before. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber flic.kr/p/2qisTV8 🔭🧪

The sample return capsule from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, September 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample inside was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. After dropping off the sample, the spacecraft was renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent on a new mission to explore asteroid Apophis in 2029.
Credit text: NASA on the Commons

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Rodolphe Meyer aka Le Réveilleur @lereveilleur.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Imaginez si c'était les mêmes solutions pour lutter contre le changement climatique, la pollution sonore, la pollution de l'air, le prix (et sa volatilité) des ressources fossiles, pour augmenter notre sécurité énergétique... etc.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An incredible auroral display in Beaver, Alaska, filmed in real-time (NOT sped up) and NOT AI (never will post AI aurora content on my pages). This display occured when I was helping with a NASA sounding rocket mission earlier this year.

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Madame Nin @madamenin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Une petite séance de rattrapage qui explique de manière claire et concise comment le nazisme a été mis en place démocratiquement. Vous verrez que toutes ressemblances etc

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Leigh Fletcher @leighfletcher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As someone involved in EJSM nearly 20yrs ago, sitting in #EPSC2026 talks and learning how #ESAJuice and #EuropaClipper are now doing science during cruise is pretty mind-bending: tracking solar ejections, radar scans of Mars, detecting Earth’s lightning from above, and even an interstellar object.

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Avec l'AfD qui gagne une région en 🇩🇪, une néo-fasciste qui gouverne en 🇮🇹 et une première ministre d'extrême-droite au 🇯🇵, tout ce petit monde va bientôt reconstituer les forces de l'Axe. La 🇫🇷 viendra peut-être remplir son rôle vichyste l'an prochain et les 🇺🇸 ne viendront pas à notre secours. Yeah 🫠

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 06/09/2026

Le saviez-vous ? L'année prochaine, le 02 août 2027, aura lieu une magnifique éclipse de Soleil, visible du côté européen/africain. La carte ci-dessous vous donne la position de la fine "bande de totalité", là où il faut se trouver pour voir l'éclipse vraiment totale. ssp.imcce.fr/forms/solar-...

carte donnant la position de la bande de totalité de l'éclipse du 02 août 2027

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

La banalisation des extrêmes climatiques est peut-être l’un des dangers les plus insidieux du changement climatique. 1/6

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Bits of Jupiter @jupiterbits.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Oliver Rompza)

View from above Jupiter's southern hemisphere, displaying the Great Red Spot, several cloud bands of multiple distinct colours, many oval storms and turbulent clouds.

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Bertrand Bonfond @berbonf.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Vous avez eu chaud cet été, et vous craignez que la bière et la piscine ne soient pas non plus suffisantes contre les inondations probables cet automne ? Demandons à nos dirigeants d'agir plus énergiquement contre le changement climatique ! klimaatcoalitie-coalitionclimat.be/fr/marche-cl...

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DIMANCHE 11 OCTOBRE 2026 - Coalition Climat

Table des matières Le parcours Cap sur la Marche! Nous vous accueillons le dimanche 11 octobre 2026 à 14h devant la Gare du Nord et vous guiderons sur le Boulevard Roi Albert II. […]

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NatSchirvel @natschirvel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Attendre que les hôpitaux se remplissent pour confiner. Attendre le cancer pour arrêter de fumer. Attendre que la terre brûle pour s'occuper du réchauffement climatique. Attendre, toujours attendre avant d'agir. Nos sociétés détestent les Cassandres et la vraie prévention rend le danger invisible.

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Prof_D_sciences @prof-d-sciences.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

La joie des exponentielles ! C'est ouf de se dire que 7% du total des Homo sapiens, espèce qui a 300 000 ans, sont actuellement vivants

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 04/08/2026

12 August: for over one minute, day turns to night 🌑 thanks to a total solar eclipse. But will it be visible from your place? Check out these maps to find out. If you're close to the path of totality, but not within it, it is totally worth the travel! 1/2 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

Map of Earth shown as a globe, with the focus on its northern hemisphere. A red, C-shaped arc marked 'total eclipse' reaches from northeast Russia, past the North Pole, Greenland, Iceland and the Iberian Peninsula. An orange oval surrounds this arc, marked 'partial eclipse', covering most of Europe, Canada and parts of the USA, the western edge of Africa and the northeastern corner of Russia.

Spain and Canary Islands map showing total solar eclipse path on 12 Aug 2026 with totality band and darkness contours

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Shocking.

NTSB graph showing the relationship between miles biked per person per year and cyclists killed per billion miles biked. There's an obvious negative trend (people bike more in place where it's safer to do so.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This oxygen emission line can only occur in very rarefied gas: if atoms collide enough it deexcites the electron and you don't get the line. It took a long time to figure that out (it's very hard to get such low density oxygen in the lab), and the ubiquity of this line baffled them for many years.

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Nicolas Berrod @nicolasberrod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

📉 Une baisse de mortalité par rapport à la valeur attendue de... 100 % ! Aucune des femmes de 20 à 24 ans en Angleterre n'est décédée d'un cancer du col de l'utérus entre 2020 et 2024, avec une couverture vaccinale contre les infections à HPV proche de 90% à l'adolescence. 1/4

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François Gemenne @gemenne.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Si la Chine est leader de la transition énergétique, c'est aussi parce que les investissements sont très encouragés par les pouvoirs publics. L'Europe se tire une balle dans le pied en refusant de faire de même.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The first glimpse of the Martian surface was long anticipated. Bonestell's art dominated ideas of what Mars was like, basically the desert Southwest with most air absent. The idea of a dark blue sky on Mars persisted in space art until that morning. Here are those first looks at the Martian surface.

Top: the first view of the Martian surface, which appeared in slow steps left to right as the data came in. They wanted first thing to know if the lander was on solid ground and not too buried, sinking etc. The imaging sequence started 25 seconds after landing and continued for 5 minutes as the camera scanned a vertical line at a time moving to the right to scan the next. Having the orbiter relay the data took another 20 minutes. At left a brightening in the image can be seen that intensifies then fades, followed by a darkening that soon goes away. That represents a kind of record of the dust kicked up by the landing that brightened the field of view, then the shadow of the dust cloud briefly darkened the scene. The prominent angular rock near upper center is about 10 cm (4 inches) across. This first peek reassured everyone that the lander was on solid ground. A little dirt kicked up by the lander rockets can be seen pooled in the footpad.

Bottom: 6 minutes after landing the second photo was obtained, a lower resolution 300 degree wide panorama of the surroundings taking in the scene in 9 minutes. At once the character of the scenery showed its distinctive nature, rocky and lightly even ground with small drifts and patches of lighter fine dust. The presence of dust in the atmosphere brought a brightness to it that was not anticipated, as an artist that was the major revelation I felt when looking over the scene. The atmospheric density was known to be like Earth's at 40 kilometers or 130,000 feet, so any noticeable blue sky brightness should only be evident near the horizon. In reality, the eternal presence of wind blown dust makes the sky a luminous version of the color of the ubiquitous surface dust, especially in the quarter of the sky near the Sun.

Suddenly rendered dated were all those paintings by Bonestell, Pesek and others which were done between the times of the Mariner missions and the Viking landings, showing interpretations of known features but …

I had my Polaroid SX-70 camera with me when just after the landing I was suddenly escorted from the press area into into the imaging team room, hastily badged and plopped in front of some of the many monitors in the area which steadily unveiled the first two looks at the Martian surface. No journalists were there dur to JPL PR department policy, but I got a few photos and a sound recording of the excited chatter of the geologists seeing Mars revealed. "Look at the exposure on that S_O_B" I remember hearing when the prominent rock appeared. Then the President called in his congratulations which went over the PA system. A highlight of my life, onr of several instances where I was in the Coolest Place in the world at that moment.

My carefully obtained Polaroid from a monitor in the Imaging team area, at the conclusion of the introductory scanning of the first photo obtained of the surface of Mars.

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Greg De Temmerman @gregdt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Europe is too slow on electrification and it is a big problem. Despite 2 major energy crises, the narrative remains vague. The countries (like China) who are pulling ahead will maintain an advantage for quite some time. Nice wake up call from Fatih Birol in @financialtimes.com

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

No models. No satellites. Just 50 years of Burgundy harvest dates: ~4.1 days earlier every decade. Climate change, written on a cellar wall. 🍷 🇫🇷 🧫

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 10/07/2026

Sur plusieurs kilomètres, il ne reste que des roches et des cailloux : près de la frontière franco-suisse, la rivière Doubs a disparu, manifestation la plus saisissante de la sécheresse qui touche actuellement le département du même nom, placé en "alerte renforcée". Reportage ➡️ u.afp.com/SKD7

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Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie @mpi-astro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Did you know major parts of the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) for @eso.org's Extremely Large Telescope - the imager and SCAO, the Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics - are currently built at MPIA? Have a closer look! 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDLp...

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METIS SCAO goes to town

YouTube video by Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie

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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Are Neptune and Uranus really 'ice giants'? @hannah-richter.bsky.social speaks to researchers who have proposed alternative interior compositions. Current data cannot distinguish between them - a spacecraft mission to Uranus is required. ☄️🔭 #planetsci #exoplanets www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Uranus and Neptune may not be ‘ice giants’ after all

A growing number of theories propose Uranus and Neptune are rocky worlds

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Suave Morbida @maitre-poulard.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Je veux pas foutre la honte à Trump avec ses plans pour influencer la coupe du monde, mais Neron, lui, il s'est pas contenté de tirer les ficelles: lors des JO de 67. Il a carrément participé et il a ramené la médaille à la domus (les rageux parleront de triche, mais osef)

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67 CE Ancient
Olympics

Discipline (Sport) /Event
Ancient Combative Sports (Ancient Sports)
Ancient Equestrianism (Ancient Sports)
Unknown Event, Men (Ancient Olympics)
Chariot Race, Men (Ancient Olympics)
Chariot Race for 10 Horses, Men (Ancient Olyrnpics)
Chariot Race for Foals, Men (Ancient Olympics)
Ancient Art Competitions (Ancient Sports)
Competition for Heralds, Men (Ancient O'ympics)
Competition for Tragedy, Men (Ancent Olympics)
Competition for Lyre-Playing, Men (Ancient Olympics)

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Alain Gerlache @agerlache.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Le plus drôle, c'est l'embarras des trumpistes en Belgique qui il y a une semaine pavoisaient au Cinquantenaire lors de la fête de Bill White. Il paraît même qu'on se serait cru au congrès d'un parti.

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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Aujourd'hui, la Terre est au plus loin du Soleil. C'est l'aphélie. On est à ~152 millions de km du Soleil alors que le 3 janvier, on était à 147 millions de km. Et cela n'apporte clairement aucune fraîcheur en France !

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ESO @eso.org · 06/07/2026

This is why we call it the Extremely Large Telescope! This photo shows the massive, 39-metre-diameter structure that will hold the main mirror of our ELT. 798 mirror segments will sit here, working together as a single mirror, in what will be the biggest optical telescope on Earth. 🔭 🧪 1/3

The interior of the Extremely Large Telescope. The metallic grey main structure can be seen in the entire picture, with three people standing in front of it, in hard hats and green safety vests. The people are much smaller than the telescope’s structure.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A single graph says it all! 📈 Daily temperature in France (1961–1990 baseline) 🌡️ Red: above long-term normal. Dark red: >95th percentile. Extremes aren't outliers anymore — they're now part of the story 🔥 And there are still some who say there have been “cold” periods! 🤡 Via @drxeo.eu 🙏

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Cyrille Vanlerberghe @cyrillevan.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

La Maison blanche nomme Avi Loeb, un cinglé qui voit des aliens partout, à la tête d'une commission sur les ovnis. Je ne vois pas ce qui pourrait mal se passer...

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Université de Liège @universitedeliege.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

ERC Proof of Concept projects 👏 Lionel Clermont - nGHOST2Market - will track down stray light in space telescopes Christophe Collette - GrAVITe -will build an optical gyroscope to shield precision instruments from vibration. @erc.europa.eu www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_206853...

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Lionel Clermont and Christophe Collette have secured European ERC Proof of Concept funding

nGHOST2Market to track stray light from space telescopes and GrAVITe, an optical gyroscope to stabilise high-precision instruments.

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ESO @eso.org · 26/06/2026

The largest levitating mirror in the world? 🪞 The fourth mirror in the ELT’s light path is one of the most challenging optical components of the telescope. When finished, it will surpass any adaptive mirror ever made for a telescope & be the largest of its kind. 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation

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Rêves d'espace @revesdespace.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

🛰️☀️ La mission sino-européenne #Smile a atteint son orbite scientifique le 20 juin. Depuis son lancement le 19 mai, son moteur principal a été allumé 12 fois pour atteindre l'orbite finale très elliptique à 120 920 km au-dessus du pôle Nord pour l'étude de la magnétosphère terrestre. 1/2

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adamplatform.bsky.social @adamplatform.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Incredibile and dramatic #heatwave in #Europe as seen from space. The #Copernicus #Sentinel3 Land (not air!) Surface Temperatures map of June 24 shows peaks of 55°C in #Spain and over 50°C (in purple) in #France. #climateemergency

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Herbert Gunell @herbertgunell.se · 24/06/2026

Do magnetosheath jets cause surface waves on the magnetopause? Are the jets themselves waves? A new paper by Eva Krämer of @umeauniversitet.bsky.social throws some light on these questions: doi.org/10.1093/mnra... Rhinos talk about it

Rhinos talk about magnetosheath jets and their relationship to waves

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Aurélien Genin @astroaure.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

🔭 Tous les 3 mois, le télescope spatial JWST prend un "selfie" de son miroir primaire de 6,5m. Et on y voit plein de petits points qui apparaissent avec le temps 🤔 Ce sont des impacts de micrométéoroïdes 🤯 J'en compte 175 sur la plus récente image, soit environ 4 impacts par mois. 1/3

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 22/06/2026

Un juge américain a bloqué les tentatives de l'administration Trump de privatiser des éléments clés du Centre National de Recherche Atmosphérique (NCAR), un laboratoire de recherche de renommée mondiale sur le climat et la météorologie, situé au Colorado. 1/3

Photo du panneau d'entrée du NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

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