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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 21h

🎵 The thpiwit of Mathachuthetth ith the thpiwit of Amewica 🎵

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grateful to live in a city where this ranks a hot-button issue in the race for mayor. #Ottawa 🇨🇦

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Astrogeo 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻 @astrogeo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night I was fortunate to have clear skies. The first full moon after the Autumnal Equinox is called the Harvest Moon. Here are my moonrise images as seen from Titusville, Florida on September 26.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night’s moon rising at sunset. Taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 🌕📱#moon

Photo of the rising, nearly-full moon over trees against a dark blue evenjng sky.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thought this said “CARNEY ON THE RUN” which is my new favourite Paul McCartney album.

Photo of television news anchor with a graphic saying “Carney at the UN” behind him.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Barenaked Ladies! Nice acapella performance of O Canada at the Buffalo Bills game. 🇨🇦 🏈 🦬

Photo of Barenaked Ladies band singing the Canadian national anthem.

Huge Canadian flag on the field at the Buffalo Bills game.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The seasonal equivalent of second breakfast.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Early pre-dawn view of the city lights of Los Angeles, the rest of Southern California, and Northwest Mexico on September 8th, taken by Astronaut Jessica Meir aboard the International Space Station. flic.kr/p/2sB1uXM

An early morning view of the city lights of and around Southern California. Pre-dawn sunlight is filtering through the atmosphere. The Moon and Jupiter are at the top right. In the foreground, a solar panel of the ISS crosses the picture. Green aurora is faintly visible at the left.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Jessica Meir/Kevin M. Gill

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

New phrase to overuse just dropped

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If I had to describe 1985 using a photo it would be this.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Eating meals cooked by “electric heat”was a novelty and people had to warm up to the idea. My city was actually the site of the first documented meal cooked entirely by electricity in 1892. www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/publications...

Image from the City of Ottawa that states “Did you know? The world’s first dinner cooked entirely by electricity happened right here in Ottawa?”

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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 05/09/2026

If sound could travel through space it would take about 14 years for the sound of the Sun to reach the Earth, and it would be about as loud as a jackhammer

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some shots of the Moon over the Earth's horizon from the International Space Station between August 30th and 31st. flic.kr/p/2syx4Rh flic.kr/p/2syz3FS flic.kr/p/2syHpCX flic.kr/p/2syDcv7

The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill

$The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Moon is warping due to atmospheric refraction. NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill$ $The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Moon is strongly warped due to atmospheric refraction. NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill$

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maximum lunar eclipse from Ottawa, Canada tonight as seen through my 8” telescope. 🌕 🔭 📱 #eclipse

Photo of the orangish moon during tonight’s lunar eclipse. 5-second exposure taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max on night mode attached to an 8” telescope.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Eclipse well underway over Ottawa, Canada. Unedited iPhone shots through my 8” telescope. 🌕 🔭📱 #eclipse

iPhone photo of lunar eclipse taken with an 8” telescope.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“All actors are named America, not just Ferrara.”

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They don’t make (or name) things like they used to.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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A silly cartoon of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman waving a tiny Canadian flag. The red of the flag’s maple leaf matches the red of the mountie’s uniform. The officer looks friendly, but Samantha knows not to get too close. She puts her sunglasses on and pulls her hoodie up before walking past. Samantha—or as she is known in Montreal, Séraphine—is well aware of Canada’s extradition treaties with the United States.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A rainbow appeared while I was taking a photo of the moon this evening! Taken from my yard with an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 📱🌈🌖

iPhone photo of a rainbow againat a blue sky framed by fluffy clouds and a rising waxing gibbous moon at right.

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Slam. As expected. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to image the aftermath of the August 5th impact of the SpaceX upper stage on the Moon. This before-and-after sequence shows the resulting 20-meter wide crater: science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

During the recent Total Solar Eclipse the South Korean Danuri spacecraft obtained a nice view of Earth from Lunar orbit with the Moons shadow just visible on Earth. Here is their image, with attribution added, my colorized version and the nearly simultaneous EPIC-DSCOVR image used for the color.

This is a reduced version of the photo released today by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Earth is seen from Lunar orbit during the recent Total Solar eclipse. The Moon is barely showing shadows behind the sunlit surfaces, and the shadow of the Moon itself is just at the horizon, or perhaps 'Limb' better suits an orbital view. One very wide shadow shows a fuzzy edge on a distant rise. I added the attribution.

This is my version of the Danuri Lunar orbiter photo, with color added. I combined their Earth photo with a color EPIC-DSCOVR image made at about the same time, rotated a little in 3D to better match the Danuri viewing angle for compositing. The sharpness of the B&W original is preserved with the DSCOVR full Earth photo mostly used for the color values. I also prefer this orientation with the foreground Moon at the bottom.

This is the EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) image from the DSCOVR satellite made at close to the same time as the Danuri image, shown in reduced form but otherwise as released.
The exposure is naturally for the sunlit Earth and clouds. The Moon shadow's wide peripheral zone of gradual darkening, the 'penumbra' is where the illumination decreases as more of the Sun is eclipsed. At this time the outermost shadow area was near the Great Lakes, from this perspective a circular zone of that radius thus surrounds the progressively underexposed zone around the Moon shadow. If the exposure were adjusted to define the actual umbra, or zone of totality, the resulting small black dot in the image , about 30 percent the size of the underexposed portion seen here, would be surrounded by the greatly overexposed fully sunlit rest of the world.

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Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 12/08/2026

Eclipse from Ibiza. The most incredible thing to experience.

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Scottish type eclipse in Glasgow 🤣

University of Glasgow’s Gothic looking tower beneath dark, dramatic clouds, with a partially eclipsed Sun glowing through the clouds in the background.

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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 12/08/2026

Here we go!

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Christian Fröschlin @chrfrde.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Halfway there

Raw image of distinctly crescent-shaped Sun with about half of it missing

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bite of the sun being seen between clouds in Saint John New Brunswick. #eclipse

Screenshot of eclipse coverage from TimeAndDate.com.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Clouded out in Ottawa for the very partial eclipse from here so I’m watching the TimeAndDate livestream: #eclipse www.youtube.com/live/DtjbfQt...

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LIVE: Total Solar Eclipse - August 12, 2026

YouTube video by timeanddate

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s almost show time for today’s total solar eclipse. In an hour’s time, the outer penumbral shadow of the Moon will touch down in the Bering Sea off of the Alaskan coast, marking the start of partial phases worldwide for today’s solar eclipse.

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Magician and cinematographer Nevil Maskelyne caught the first moving video sequence of totality during an eclipse on May 28, 1900 as seen from North Carolina. This eclipse was a member of saros series 126, the same family as the August 12th eclipse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4jf...

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Solar Eclipse (1900) - the first moving image of an astronomical phenomenon | BFI

YouTube video by BFI

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Several science campaigns plan to greet the racing shadow of the Moon on August 12th. Here’s our latest post for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social - skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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Science Campaigns Planned for the August 12th Total Solar Eclipse

Several science campaigns funded by NASA and ESA plan to greet the racing shadow of the Moon on August 12th.

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 07/08/2026

My updated class THE SCIENCE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM is now LIVE and COMPLETELY FREE at www.coursera.com/learn/solar-system 27 hours of lectures, full quizzes, full exam. And free. You can’t even pay if you want to. Or you can just find the lectures on YouTube any time.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Taken yesterday! Schmitt is 91 and the only crew member from Apollo 17 (the last human moon landing) still with us.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We’ve never seen Earth disappear behind something other than our moon - until now!

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My favorite Marv Levy moment that I remember from all the video clips that I've seen was where a reporter asked him before a Superbowl, "Is this a must-win situation?" He answered, "World War II was a must-win situation. This is a football game."

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

An NFL and CFL coaching legend! 🏈

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nancy 7/28/26

Sluggo tells Nancy “there’s something about a hot summer night…. Makes me think about what’s really important.” She agrees…. Then it shows him thinking of her, and her thinking of herself with ice cream.

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