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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 13h

Feeling the burn tonight at the @towsonu.bsky.social Planetarium.

Artist’s impression of a protoplanetary disk.

Audience view of a looming sun emitting a large flare.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting a facefull of stellar death at the Towson University Planetarium tonight.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It be Saturn in all its ringed glory tonight at the Towson University Planetarium!

A view of Saturn’s rings from inside, revealing the rings as tiny particles.

People in the planetarium viewing Saturn backlit by the Sun.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We had a pretty big night in our little #planetarium at @towsonu.bsky.social, with our student presenters taking 165 visitors from our Science Complex on a tour of the universe!

A student operating a planetarium control system with the planetarium dome in the background and audience sitting underneath, looking at a view of Towson University's campus.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New, from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation:

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Or rather, vertical sided objects look like bad photoshop. Everything else gets a shadow directly underneath, which is also very weird looking.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Not fake at all. Every location between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn gets a shadowless noon twice each year. It only lasts for a moment, but for a short while the world looks like bad photoshop.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

No it’s real. All locations in the tropics get an overhead sun at noon twice a year!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15/07/2026

this is how I learned apparently Alabama is the only entire state that would have 0 post 8am sunrises and I'm fairly fascinated by this because it feels like it reinforces everyone's confusion that Alabama is in central time. lol

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thanks for the link, I’ll take a look!

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If you don’t mind sharing your model, it would be great to include it into OpenSpace :)

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

WaPo, you are a parody of yourself.

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In some cities internationally, local governments are trying to find a solution to lighting the night can better serve critical wildlife ecosystems and humans alike. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Cities turn streetlights red to protect nocturnal ecosystems

International Dark Sky Week is hailed as a global celebration of the night and a call for less light pollution. In some cities internationally, local governments are trying to find a solution to light...

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Learning about big telescopes that do Big Astronomy at the Towson Univeristy #Planetarium tonight!

Audience looking up at a fulldome image of the Gemini South Telescope in Chile.

Silhouette of two people looking at the solar system with the outer Kupier Belt highlighted on the planetarium dome.

Audience watching thousands of Kuiper belt objects flying by on the planetarium dome.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Folks, this is the *night side* of Earth as seen from #ArtemisII last night as they departed Earth orbit and headed out for the Moon. The Sun is behind our home planet in this photo, backlighting us, and moonlight is lighting the night side!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Elderly man with a thin mustache holding a cardboard sign

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There be supermassive black holes in the Planetarium at Towson University tonight.

Audience under a planetarium dome watch an animation of the environment around a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar.

people in a planetarium watching a supercomputer simulation of a supermassive black hole.

Christian Ready operates the planetarium system with the planetarium dome in the background. On the dome is a green blob which is a depiction of the heliosphere surrounding the solar system. The heliosphere rendering is based on data from NASA’s IBEX satellite.

Audience in a planetarium watching a dense cluster of stars filling the dome.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Writers! Applications are now open for the Launchpad Workshop!! I went last year and I learned so much - my current project JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING could never have been born without it. Happy to chat it out in more depth if anyone has questions! www.launchpadworkshop.org

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Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop - Improving Science Literacy through Words and Media

Improving Science Literacy through Words and Media

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David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · 17/03/2026

The one-week Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop helps writers and other creators learn about space science. It's fabulous and it's FREE! Applications are open now for the workshop in July. www.launchpadworkshop.org

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Umm…no kids, the president doesn’t get to reclassify Pluto as a planet any more than he gets to reclassify air as a carcinogen.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Another very full house at the Towson University Planetarium. Always glad to share the universe with folks.

People looking up at a very bright star projected on a planetarium dome.

An image of a comet with twin tails on the planetarium dome, seen from behind some audience members.

The rising Earth on a planetarium dome, seen from behind that audience.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There's some useful information here: bsky.app/profile/koja...

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

That could help with lighting. But the other thing would be coming up with visuals for the different rooms/scenes. Maybe the computer gaming club will want to create those.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Just gotta figure out a way to generate fulldome imagrey of the dungeon, etc.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Playing DnD in the dome. I gotta do this!

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"My strange heroes lead me on, But when I get there, they'll be gone." - Bob Weir "Two Djinn"

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The Empire State Building honors Bob Weir.

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Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

One More Saturday Night—but our first without #BobWeir. I was grateful for his music.

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Thought he'd be the last to go. Will try to approach this the same way he did. Fare The Well, Bobby.

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A-A-Ron Prime🐿 @a-a-ron-prime.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

There's one hell of a band forming somewhere...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Who agrees? ✋

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The spiral light of Earth rising first and shining best

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Stop. Read the post below. Do what it says. Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars. You are a terranaut on that fragile planet. This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.

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Scary Smith-Ready @jsmithready.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Thank you, Cleveland. "Love," Baltimore

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Christian Ready @christianready.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I of course was rooting for my home team, but I agree that Willis was absolutely brilliant tonight.

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Ukraine appears to have won the Battle of Kupyansk. Russian Z-bloggers are now acknowledging a retreat — after months of lies from the Kremlin. The truth caught up. A meaningful Christmas moment for Ukraine. Slava Ukraini.

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