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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Northern pygmy owl [📸 Bucci Photography] Original post

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Vox 🇺🇲 @voxrox.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#WonderfulBirdWednesday Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑 04/2026 #Birds #Nature #FlawlessTiming 🌟 #FMSPAD #SomethingThatFlies #Birdsky #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Macrophotography

A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown.
📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Western bluebird #birds picture saturation/colors not modified, it was really that blue

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

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Nature @nature.com · 07/04/2026

Breathtaking photos are coming down to Earth from NASA’s historic Artemis II mission, after its four astronauts flew around the far side of the Moon yesterday. Prepare to be dazzled. go.nature.com/3O4xRdm

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First photos from Artemis II: see stunning 'Earthset' and more

Images snapped during a flyby capture a solar eclipse and unprecedented details of the far side of the Moon.

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I was shooting directly into the sun, unfortunately so my aim got worse as the #bird flew away #LargeBirdsInFlight #birdsky posted for today’s theme

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Here's a pair of Lesser Black Backed Gulls, which cover the Alt Theme from Today's #BirdOfTheDay which is 'Gulls. I'm off to sort through some more of last weeks photos, i will be be back later to go through more of today's contributions. #birds #ECK #CanonR5mkii #photography @rspb.bsky.social

Now then here's Liam & Lora Lesser Black Backed Gulls having a bit of a dispute, what happened was Liam stayed at the pub for an extra pint but Lora took offence to that and threw his tea in the bin. She also gave him plenty of earache in the process, and to his credit Liam just stood there and let it all go straight over his head.

Captured at The Moors section of the Christopher Cadbury Wetlands Reserve at Upton Warren.

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🧪 Andy Howell (my advisor!) was the primary science consultant for #ProjectHailMary by Andy Weir. Here's his video explaining the #science behind the #sciencefiction! Featuring interviews with real #astronauts and #AndyWeir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kyC...

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PROJECT HAIL MARY Science Review with Author Andy Weir plus Astronaut and Astrophysicist Consultants

YouTube video by Science vs Cinema

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The Snow Fairy: Japan's Cutest Bird Weighs Only 8 Grams 🐦❄️

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I was so focused on Venus, I almost missed the #moon #crescent

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Symmetry and chaos, with #Venus at the exact center of it all

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🧪Our paper is on the cover of @nature.com today! We discovered a brand new kind of signal in space--a supernova that chirped! We tied the signal back to the birth of a magnetar deep below the supernova, powering it from within. Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lense–Thirring precessing magnetar engine drives a superluminous supernova - Nature

Observations of a nearby type I superluminous supernova showing oscillating light-curve bumps provide evidence of a centrally located magnetar in the wake of the explosion, surrounded by an infalling ...

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Supernovae are bright. This one is EXTRA bright. Why?! It's hard to study what's behind these super-bright cosmic explosions, but a wobble in the signal from this one gave it away🧪🔭 Here's the story from me with funky 90s graphics from the fab @danjfox.bsky.social With🙏to @drjrfarah.bsky.social

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/01/2026

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant…

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🧪Keep an eye on the sky in 2026! David and I are two astrophysicists and have put together a big list of astro events to watch in 2026, including eclipses, elongations, and meteor showers. Mark your calendars! (or check out our PDF space calendar in the description!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZdn...

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This Year’s CAN’T MISS Events! AstroForecast 2026

YouTube video by Astraveo

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

@alan678.bsky.social #birdoftheday theme is #branchingout, here is a Merlin and red tailed hawk in Goleta from the last few days! #birds #birdsky

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Good morning. The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #branchingout birds on branches, the alternative is #waders wading birds . Good luck. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A sassy Santa Barbara Merlin gives me a haughty look from 500 ft away. #Birds #BirdSky #nature #wildlife #photography

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 19/12/2025

Find out more about the work of Dr Kazunori Akiyama, who will join @heriotwattuni.bsky.social to create the first ever 3D films of black holes using AI: www.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

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Edinburgh and beyond: First-ever 3D movies of black holes to be created in capital using AI

Artificial intelligence to create the first-ever 3D movies of black holes.

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

⭐️✨🔭Please help us get the message out about the 7th annual international ASPIRE program at @api.uva.nl. This summer 2026 school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. Applications are due 17 Dec! ⭐️✨🔭

aspire.science.uva.nl

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

A duck in the little pond behind my house at 300mm #birds

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🧪Due to the Gifford Fires, there was a lot of smoke in the air and the moon looked as red as a lunar eclipse! I got this shot using my EOST6 hooked up to my 6SE. This isn’t over saturated; the moon was really that red! What do you this kind of moon should be called? I was thinking of "Ember Moon".

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

1.5yrs of progress imaging the moon. What have I learned? -Don't be afraid of multiple exposures to achieve HDR. -Clouds can be your friends, not just a nuisance. -Capture what you saw, not what you wish you saw. -Limit glow to taste. #moon #lunar #astrophotography #photography #progress

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🧪 David and I are astrophysicists, and we put together a review of the paper reporting the detection of DMS/DMDS on K2-18b. We walk through the paper figures and methods and cover how these kinds of measurements are made and what it implies for the search for life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK9B...

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Astraveo’s Alien Watch: New exoplanet detection of extraterrestrial life on K2-18b? [Full Episode]

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🧪We published a paper exploring the ability of a black hole's photon ring to measure how fast the BH is spinning, using the kinds of images we hope to make with BHEX. One cool result was tools (e.g., below) to measure the geometry of the PR. Read our study here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🧪 Have you seen Ashton Hall's viral and bizarre morning routine, which includes a pool dive where he appears to start a dive at 7:36am and touch the water 4 min later? We asked: how high would he need to jump to actually take 4 min to land in the water? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdvn...

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Ashton Hall 4 minute dive EXPLAINED with Physics!

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🧪 I captured last night's total lunar eclipse! I used a Celestron 6SE and a EOS T6 Rebel DSLR to capture the moon at different phases during the eclipse. For the partial eclipse, I exposed the moon 3 times for the red, lit, and middle part, and then composited it in procreate to show all the light!

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🧪I caught the full Mars occultation by the Moon last night! I used the same techniques I describe in previous posts to make these composites showing the full scale of the Moon in comparison to Mars. I also made a timelapse of the entire event, see it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUO... #Mars #Moon

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Dr. Joseph R Farah @drjrfarah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

🧪sunspots on the sun during a solar storm! I took this image with my S50 50mm APO, with some light post processing. The sunspots visible here are the source of the huge CME/solar storm a few weeks ago that caused aurorae at unusually low latitudes. #space #sun #solar #storm #aurora

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