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Abigail Fraeman @abbyfrae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A lucky break in the clouds provided views of the lunar eclipse over JPL 🌔 🌘 🌑

View of lunar eclipse over the Flight Project Center at JPL

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This was one of my favorites as a kid.

Far Side cartoon. A fish is upside down, rising tail first to the surface, its feet in white cubes. The caption explains: Embedded in Styrofoam "shoes," Carl is sent to "sleep with the humans."

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 12/08/2026

If you don't have proper eclipse glasses / filters, try a pinhole camera ... When the sun is whole, images will be circles. When partially eclipsed they will be crescents. You can use a colander or even a Ritz Biscuit. Find out more in my book "Up - a scientist's guide to the magic above us"

Ritz biscuit held above a red book. Crescents can be seen in the shadow as the holes work as a pinhole camera.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A lovely little bit of physics that you might have spotted if you ever play with a slinky. We should all play more, because we should all embrace our curiosity. And finding out how the physical world works is fun!

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Spider Man Rides The Tube Not every superhero swings through the city, some catch the tube instead. It took a few attempts to nail the timing, but I finally made the SpiderMan poster look like Spidey is hitching a ride on a passing train. Captured at Oxford Circus station.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 16,1956

P1- NANCY IS ON HER WAY TO SLUGGO’S , SHE IS CARRYING A PAIL
NANCY: SLUGGO WANTS TO BORROW
MY PAIL

P2- NANCY IS WONDERING WHAT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE SUDDENLY WITHOUT WARNING SHE IS LIFTED OFF HER FEET AND IS BEING PULLED FORWARD BY THE PAIL

P3- NANCY STILL IS HOLDING THE PAIL AS IT PULLS HER TO A LARGE CRATE

ON THE CRATE IT SAYS…
12 DOZEN MAGNETS

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Comic Book Physics @comicbookphysics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Deadline uses nuclear physics to try to defeat Starman — Starman #25 (1990) #starman #nuclearphysics #dccomics

Top panel: Deadline sits against some rocks proudly holding his recently-acquired super-gun. He thinks “I wonder if you realize just how good a TARGET you make?” Middle panel: “ZAMPFF” Bottom panel: Starman on the ground, clothes in tatters. “What have you done to me?” Deadline responds “Maybe you noticed that GEL sticking to you. The explosives carried it… has a lot of BORON in it. Ever heard of boron? It absorbs NEUTRONS…”

A few pages later in the same issue, a close up on Deadline’s hand thrusting a knife into Starman’s chest. “This blade is plated with CADMIUM… the stuff used to control nuclear reactions!”

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Comic Book Physics @comicbookphysics.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Thank you for this wonderful series! Can’t wait to see the new British build :)

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Page from 'The Deadly Sea' in issue 4 of Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom. Art by Bob Fujitani. I love a good page design and this one is astonishing. Depth, movement, continuity...it's all there - underpinned by these near-abstract bold shapes. Thanks to @realmarkrez.bsky.social

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Matt Anderson @mattbegins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The micro-computer is smaller than the data disc. Good luck figuring it out.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 01/07/2026

It's done. M58: The First Spiral 82x92cm 32.25x36.25in Oil on canvas 2026 It is available. DM for deets.

WIP Impressionist painting of swirling orange & red nebula with a center that's hazy bluish white and some swirls

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Mike Kaess @mikekaess.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I never understood how the torpedoes could make a 90 degree turn like that. It didn’t make sense to me as a kid. And it doesn’t make sense to me as an adult. And no one ever talks about it.

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Star Wars - Proton Torpedo Gif

ALT: Star Wars - Proton Torpedo Gif

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 14,1947

P1- NANCY IS IN HER WAGON, AND SHE WANTS SLUGGO TO GIVE HER A PUSH
NANCY:SLUGGO- WILL YOU GIVE ME A PUSH?
SLUGGO: NAW ---
I’M TOO LAZY TODAY
P2-
NANCY: OH, PLEASE
SLUGGO: NOPE

P3- DISAPPOINTED, NANCY BEGINS TO CRY, BAW-W WAH-H BAW-W

SLUGGO:OH,AWRIGHT

P4-SLUGGO STEPS OUT OF THE PANEL AND LIFTS UP THE LEFT LOWER CORNER , MAKING NANCY STILL SITTING IN HER WAGON BEGIN TO ROLL FORWARD

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/06/2026

Side Effect xkcd.com/3261/

5-panel comic. (1) Two people standing, one with a ponytail and the second with white beret] PERSON 2: This new topical medication makes me extra sensitive to sun exposure and gravitational waves. (2) PERSON 1: Oh yeah, that’s a common... wait, what was that last part? PERSON 2: Here comes one now! (3) [Person 2 stretched taller] (4) [Person 2 squished shorter] (5) [Person 2 stretched taller again] PERSON 2: *Wheee!*

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Finally finished @philipcball.bsky.social's wonderful "How Life Works"! When I hit the part on the 2nd Law felt compelled to share my comic on Entropy from a few years back, bits of which I'm expanding on in the new work (& one reason I read this brilliant book!) spinweaveandcut.com/sketching-en...

a single page comic about entropy - how everything tends towards disorder, and those brief moments when things go against that downward flow - specifically life. Opens with linear rod of small rectangular panels on how things get more disordered.

The rest of the page has a much less regimented structure. In the background is a river in black that flows from upper left to lower right end of page. Over it is a spiraling panel structure that has the primary narrative. This begins with a trio of narrow rectangular small vertical panels arranged in descending order. Within them a sequence where a ball falls down stairs. A white arrow stems from the panels and points into the Y of the word yet In large black letters. This moves reading flow across the page to the right side where there are three mirroring vertical panels to the left side except these are arranged in ascending order left to right. Inside them are images of swirls - perhaps a cyclone viewed from space. And then, on the right edge, the panels align with the arm of a spiral of panels. And now we see a sequence depicting swirl of gases to birth of a star, a diagram of new elements forged in its core to star and planet (earth) orbiting. Then swirls of clouds on earth, lightning, rain, water, volcanoes and spiraling to the center: circular panel with caption “swirls keep forming”. Now spiral path reverses from the center to show organic molecules, then dna. Outside the panel path a maple “helicopter” spirals into the panels, to sprout and grow into a tree

This second spiral arm comes out of the center and returns to standard reading order. A river has flowed behind the whole page and in the last panel, a person is seen putting a finger in creating swirls in the water - as life and stars are swirls drawing from entropy's downward stream...

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Marc Michaud @marcmichaud.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Out of context; I'm drawing a rocket flying into a star and have a version with just inks and a single tone on the rocket and one version with a white line tone applied to what would be the surface of the star, in an attempt to make it feel bright. Any preferences?

a rocket flies toward a star, a speech bubble reads "so beautiful" and a text box read's "musical crescendo"

a rocket flies toward a star, a speech bubble reads "so beautiful" and a text box read's "musical crescendo", plus a white line tone has been applied to the surface of the star

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Comic Book Physics @comicbookphysics.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I don’t know which is best, but the detail of surface of the star is beautiful!

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 25/05/2026

Inside a nuclear power plant

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Here is a cute comic pointing out typcal chain breaking physics and the the absurdity of Superman often “exploding” chains (which is also similar to how many artists render chains breaking) The comic is by Kerry Callen

SUPER ANTICS #17

6 panel comics featuring Superman and Shazam in classic style.

Panel 1
Superman and Shazam are wrapped in chains

Shazam says

READY...
SET...
GO!

Shazam’s Cain breaks at one link with the brown link warping ion.

Superman’s chains however explode all over the place many links broken, shards of metal flying.

Panel 2
Shazam shows his chain with a single warped link and askes:

HOW DO YOU DO THAT?!
CHAINS BREAK AT THE WEAKEST LINK. THEY DON'T SHATTER!

Panel 3
Superman offers a sheet of paper aaying.

I UNDERSTAND
YOUR FRUSTRATION.
HERE. I'VE WRITTEN DOWN THE SECRET.

Panel 4
Shazam reads the sheet. It says:

Be
Superman

Panel 5

Shazam says
A WISE GUY, EH?

Superman says:
SORRY. I'LL RIP IT UP.

Panel 6
Superman rips the page links anyone might but instead of tearing the paper explodes into shreds of confetti flaying into the air

The comic is sighed Callen.
Theee is a website but my text scraper is not reporting on what it says.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#ArtemisII My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Title: Artemis 2

Panel 1:
Moon "Hi guys!"
Artemis 2"Hello Moon!"

Panel 2:
Moon "You're not landing"

Panel 3:
Artemis 2 "Just orbiting this time."
Moon "Oh."

Panel 4:
Artemis 2, leaving "But we'll be back soon."

Panel 5:
Moon thinking...

Panel 6:
Moon, sadly "That's what they said in 1972."

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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Hand-lettered footnote from FLASH #124, 1961. It reads: "EDITOR'S NOTE: FLASH'S action in stopping the bullet is similar to that of a baseball fielder who stops a hot grounder by letting his glove travel momentarily in the same direction as the ball!" Julius Schwartz, editor. I wish I could tell you who lettered it.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The Vera Rubin observatory has already discovered 11,000 *previously unknown* asteroids... and the proper observing sessions haven't even begun yet! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-bags... 🧪 🔭

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Rubin bags 11,000 new asteroids!

This is just the beginning, too. There are more millions more out there waiting to be seen.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

On this day, 20th April 1902 Marie Skłodowska Curie and husband Pierre successfully isolated one tenth of a gram of Radium, the first sample of a radioactive element, from 8 tons of pitchblende. Artist: Frank Hampson ‘Madam Curie’ (1970)

Murray and Pierre return to the lab after an evening out to find a blue glow emanating from the aparatus

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Comic Book Physics @comicbookphysics.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Superman uses a fork to explain higher dimensions — Action Comics #14 (2013) #superman #dccomics

The cover of the New 52 Action Comics #14. Superman hovers in the air as a swarm of beings that look a lot like Angels from Doctor Who descend on him.

In four panels, Superman uses a fork to explain what is happening. “In THREE DIMENSIONS this fork is ONE single object, right? But when it interacts with a TWO-DIMENSIONAL surface — like the cover of your JOURNAL, Noah — it leaves FOUR distinct points.” Superman pokes the book with the fork, leaving four points imprinted in the cover. He continues, “The MULTITUDE isn’t a MULTITUDE at all. It’s not a RACE of beings — the multitude is all ONE thing — a single WEAPON with COUNTLESS POINTS aimed at us from a HIGHER, 5th DIMENSION. We have to hit ALL of them at the same time.”

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 16,1949

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1-NANCY IS USING THE GARDEN HOSE WATER THE LAWN, WHEN IT STARTS TO RAIN

FRITZI CALLS OUT TO NANCY FROM THE WINDOW…

FRITZI: NANCY -- IT'S STARTING TO RAIN

P2-
NANCY: DON'T WORRY--- I WON'T GET

P3- FRITZI LOOKS OUT THE WINDOW

P4- ITS POURING RAIN, BUT NANCY HAS POINTED THE GARDEN HOSE STRAIGHT UP, AND THE WATER GOING UP FROM THE GARDEN HOSE IS STOPPING THE RAIN FROM FALLING ON NANCY.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 10/04/2026

good bye, Moon

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Royal Institution @rigb.org · 08/04/2026

We put Newton's third law to the test by simulating the science behind how rockets lift off 🚀

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Comic Book Physics @comicbookphysics.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Space weather is just not the same — Superman The Man of Steel #31 (1994) #superman #dccomics

Superman flies through a snowstorm, thinking “BEAUTIFUL snowstorm! Man, it’s great to be BACK! One of the things I MISS in space is the weather…” (A voice from below is less appreciative, saying “Doesn’t matter where I park, blasted SNOW PLOWS always bury my car!”)

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Katie Mummah @nuclearkatie.com · 25/03/2026

A vintage ad of a space age-looking flying car next to the text "ATOM CARS- Next Year or Never!

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter The experiment successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons across CERN’s main site, a remarkable first step towards delivering antimatter to other European laboratories. Find out more: home.cern/news/press-r...