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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 17h

Have you seen today's Google Doodle? 🎆 Learn more about the colorful clouds of NGC 7129: go.nasa.gov/4rNzF9M

A cosmic-themed Google Doodle featuring a nebula with vibrant colors including yellows, pinks, and blues. Stars are scattered throughout the image, and the word "Google" is centered in white text.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Forum boards are the best form of internet, full stop, and the internet began to suck more and more as we strayed from that light

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 20h

NEW: The contrasting colors in NGC 7129 show differences in temperatures detected by #NASAWebb. The gold cavity at the left is hottest due to the central star and other embedded stars. The clumpy, red matter is colder and represents jets from less mature protostars: news.stsci.edu/3U8T7Bz 🔭

$A young star cluster filled with many stars that display the Webb Telescope’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star, which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. There are several background galaxies strewn throughout the image/$

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#CASSINI ORBITER #SATURN MISSION Target: #Prometheus Time: 2009-05-25 Observed Distance to Ring Intercept (km): 653360 Narrow Angle Cam Red Grn Bl1 Filter opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/view=... NASA/JPL/j. Roger

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Weremorgan ⚢🔥🐺 @comeuppance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

why the fuck is it called that

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jade “the rock” johnson 🗿 @jade.is.vgay.fyi · 03/10/2026

russian sleeper agent but they programmed me wrong so when you say my activation phrase i get really sleepy and change into my pjs

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a rare Newsom W, today he signs AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, which would establish some of the best tax incentives/rebates for newsrooms in the country. It would send $40M/year back into California newsrooms to keep journalists employed. Check out the presser happening live right now:

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Governor Newsom Signs Legislation & Speaks with Media

YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 02/10/2026

Update on this: Alan Stern, New Horizons's PI, just told me that the instruments will stay on until Oct 12, when the first opportunity comes to send instructions to turn them off in this new fiscal year. So there's still some time.

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

took an embarrassing amount of time for me to realize "I feel like Im always putting too much pressure on one foot, I wonder if one of my legs is ever so slightly shorter than the other" and "I wonder why half the time I have to correct my photos by 1-3 degrees" may be related problems

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Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have been researching a very specific EPCOT Center attraction and am resorting to shouting into the ether for help. So please ignore this if you don't know or care about EPCOT Center. But if you do...

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Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Electronic Forum had three elements in 1990. The Future Choice Theater (the EPCOT Poll with the buttons in the arm rests), the World News Center (TV banks showing news) and the Person of the Century terminals.

Future Choice Theater with EPCOT Poll, buttons in arm rests

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Star cluster KMK88 87 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Bright star on the right is [MG 73] 46. #JWST NIRCam (F115W, F150W, F200W). Parallel observation. program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

Blue stars in an elongated star cluster. A bright yellow star on the right.

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ESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 02/10/2026

Typhoon Surigae over the Philippine Sea 🌀 On 28 September, Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this false-colour, polarised radar image of the sea beneath the storm. Calmer seas at its eye appear dark blue, while orange and yellow show rough conditions and strong winds. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Satellite radar image of a large hurricane seen from above, with a dark, circular eye at its center and swirling bands of gold and blue spiraling outward across the ocean surface.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are over 1,800 conflicts with PG&E and other utilities which has slowed down the project on the 119 mile spine. These conflicts add years in delay and billions in cost -- both hard costs and from delays. And that will continue until the governor and state legislature do something about it

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think this qualifies you to be time's person of the year

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Emily B @deltadizzy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My allergy shot place offers them I found out so I went ahead and got it last week, was very nice to just be able to get without having to make an appointment or go out of my way

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From NASA: How do you get a probe ready for the heat of Venus? Put it in a furnace.🔥 From Aug. 28 to Sept. 10, a model of our DAVINCI probe went through six cycles to 869°F (465°C), each matched to its planned hour-long descent. It came out unscathed: go.nasa.gov/3VYwVKR

Close-up of the DAVINCI probe engineering model, a rounded metallic vessel about the size of a yoga ball, before heat testing.
Credit: NASA/Mike Guinto

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

I don't believe that every trans person in America should immediately be made aware of every single evil bill introduced by some podunk state rep in a random red state they don't live in I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i am 100% serious, i think cities should start building infrastructure to accommodate year-round use of e-scooters and bikes

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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And we see this in the changes to the NSF, how space science is being approached, etc. There’s a lack of inherent curiosity that I think you need to understand the pursuit of science as a good in and of itself.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My three-year-old was watching the Jack Smith hearings yesterday when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the Senator think the nice bearded man was in Atlanta?" And when I told her "Because our Senate is filled with fucking idiots," she started crying.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 30/09/2026

Our Smile mission is ready for science. Its ultraviolet camera has already captured this substorm rippling through the northern lights around Earth’s North Pole. @science.esa.int 🧪🔭

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 30/09/2026

Dear (all universities); If you require EVERY syllabus to include the same 5+ pages of university material (on top of the actual course info), then you have made the syllabus even more likely to be ignored by students. The syllabus should be for course specifics. The catalog is for the rest

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Things in Deep Time you can't even imagine....

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#OnThisDay 🔟 years ago, 30 September 2016, ESA's Rosetta mission ended with a landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 12 years after its journey started 🧪🔭 @esa.int @science.esa.int @cnes.fr @dlr-de.bsky.social @operations.esa.int #Space #History #SpaceHistory

The picture shows an artist's impression of the Rosetta lander on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026

Scientists Locate Impact Crater From Asteroid That Destroyed Roman Empire theonion.com/scientists-locate-impa…

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did you feel that M4.3 Washington? Be sure to fill out a Did You Feel It? Report! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Map showing the greater Seattle area. The star marks the location of the earthquake, which is to the southwest of Seattle and north east of Tacoma.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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Emily B @deltadizzy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a Midwesterner whose only socal transit exposure has been your videos (first time in the area was an LA trip in 2022 where I saw an E line station from a distance) it is mind boggling how seemingly intentionally incompetent octa is, how do they justify saying that out loud???

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just imagine if we had a spacecraft heading there 👀

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also, many potential colonial subjects hated colonialism...

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 29/09/2026

On 27 September 2026 a landslide occured near Lete in the Mustang District, Nepal. The debris went into the Kali Gandaki River. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Rh3oqfy75E7i...

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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 29/09/2026

What is the status of the "PROMISE" rover project? What is its concept of operations? What is its estimated total budget? What is its purpose?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 29/09/2026

This isn't subtext or hyperbole. Bruce Wayne will literally look at the reader & say it.

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 29/09/2026

🛰️ A glimpse of Europe's future in low Earth orbit. Two new industrial studies are exploring a potential European-led orbital outpost, building on decades of expertise in human spaceflight 🧑‍🚀🚀 Learn more: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @esa.int

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ESA investigates potential future European-led orbital outpost

As part of the preparation for the end of utilisation of the International Space Station (ISS), the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a contract to two European industrial consortia to conduct preli...

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 29/09/2026

Demuskify Space.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026

Working on my Mars slides for class, which means it's time to bring back my favorite slide I've ever made:

The "we're so back/it's so over meme" that has been edited so the x-axis is time from 1960 through 2040. The plot oscillates semi-sinusoidally between positive (we're so back) and negative (it's so over). It's labeled Mars Exploration Timeline.

The start of the timeline is small oscillations close to zero. These are labeled: first Soviet attempts (note: none of the Soviet attempts worked but they sure tried). The steep positive peak next to it, we're back, is labeled Viking landers. Then a massive negative, it's so over, is labeled: everyone crashes in the 90s. Look up Mars exploration to learn more about this. Then an even larger positive spike, we're so back, is for Curiosity and the other Mars rovers. Then a positive/negative combined spike is labeled Mars 2020 (for various reasons). Then a last negative, it's over (real) is labeled Mars Sample Return. This is accurate.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

science.org

NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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cloth gown gridlock @rosyrhapsody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Japan they don't call it a train of thought, it's the Thinkansen

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Emily B @deltadizzy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm wondering where to find some good introductory readings on that topic, both for my own learning and for some communities im in which could really use a healthy dose of ethical thinking regarding exploration...

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it's important to consider toast's little mittens

toast (the cat) loafed in bed with his little mitten paws sticking out

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