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Luna Rose B. @whirligig-girl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1) Comparison of both drawings with mine, north = up 2) Trouvelot's view. 3) Barnard's view.
Trouvelot, Barnard, and my (Luna) drawings of Jupiter.Simulated View of Jupiter
1880-November-1 at 9:30 PM EST
15" (380mm) Harvard Great Refractor
Cambridge, Massachusetts
750x Magnification. Yellow filter.
Assumes perfect seeing.Simulated View of Jupiter
1880-November-1 at 8:30 PM CST
5" (130mm) Refractor Telescope in Nashville, TN
173x magnification. Reversed left-right.
Assumes perfect seeing.
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Stargazing…or rather, Earthgazing…on Mars! 🌏🔭 Perseverance watched as Earth vanished behind the moon Phobos in the evening sky. This is the first time humanity has made an observation from the surface of another planet showing Earth disappearing behind a celestial body www.nasa.gov/solar-system...
A series of images taken over the course of a few minutes that show the lumpy moon Phobos passing in front of a blue star that is Earth in the sky of Mars.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 30/06/2026
The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...
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💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀 @afeinstein20.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We're back with Part II - A detailed analysis of the starspots on the young solar analog V1298 Tau as viewed with JWST @jwstobserver.bsky.social and LCO led by MSU postdoc Matthew Murphy 🌟 #stellarastro check out the manuscript here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2606.16782 👈 and the big takeaways below!
screenshot of the title and authors of a manuscript. 
Title: "KRONOS II: Solar-like Umbra and Penumbra Properties on the Young Sun V1298 Tau"
First Author: Matthew M. Murphy
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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @andysaunders-1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is incredible. The new NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs. I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us: Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms and dancing aurora!
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It’s a bad look.
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astrafoxen @astrafoxen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Hiya! Over the past few months I've been silently working on several astronomy projects. Here's what I've been up to lately! 🔭☄️🧪 1. I discovered a Kuiper belt object! (2013 CG269) 2. I'm coauthor of a brand new paper by @renerpho.bsky.social et al. on the rotation of asteroid Bradyharan! (1/11)
This is a picture of the Kuiper belt object 2013 CG269, as seen by the Subaru Telescope on 24 February 2017. It shows a zoomed-in patch of sky, peppered with fuzzy white dots and smudges against a gray, grainy background. The white dot at the lower right is circled and labeled "2013 CG269" in yellow.

Coincidentally, there is an unknown faint moon of Jupiter right next to 2013 CG269. This unknown moon of Jupiter is the fainter white dot located left of center, circled and labeled "Jovian moon" in cyan.A screenshot of a scientific paper titled "LIGHTCURVE AND ROTATION PERIOD OF 46925 BRADYHARAN" in bold. Below the bolded title are the authors, whose names from top to bottom are:
Daniel P. Bamberger
Sam Deen
K. Ly (me!)
Elvis Oliveira Mendes
Arndt Schnabel
Guy Wells

To the right of the title and authors list are two rectangular plots with squiggly curves across them. The top right plot shows the brightness of asteroid 46925 Bradyharan over time, while the lower right plot shows the root-mean-square error (RMS error) of different rotation periods.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.
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Björn Jónsson @bjornjonsson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A map-projected mosaic of JunoCam images PJ70_26, PJ70_28 and PJ70_29 obtained on March 2, 2025. Approximately true color/contrast and enhanced versions. The North Temperate Belt outbreak is prominent near latitude 30 degrees north. This area has changed completely since early January.
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months and will be presenting at the conference. This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵
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Björn Jónsson @bjornjonsson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Work in progress: Test renders using an improved Voyager 2 global Jupiter map. Approx true color/contrast (usually not very trivial when processing Voyager images) and a heavily processed enhanced version where the effects of the varying illumination also have been removed. The map is not yet global
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 12/01/2025
The @esa.int Gaia satellite will take its final scientific measurements on Wednesday. 🔭 This will conclude a 12 year series of continuous observations. Larger Gaia data releases are still in progress, but Gaia has already had a HUGE impact on our understanding of the #milkyway. (Image: ESA)
An artist's impression of the Gaia spacecraft.
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
After several months of climbing up the steep slopes of the Jezero crater rim, Perseverance has reached the top! The afternoon sun provides a spectacular view on landscape which the rover will explore soon! 🔭 Full panorama: www.360cities.net/image/marsro... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
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Björn Jónsson @bjornjonsson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Vesta from Dawn on Aug 20, 2011. Approx true color image and a false color one. The true color image is from red, green and blue images with the overall color corrected using Vesta's spectrum. The false color is from 918, 749 and 438 nm displayed as RGB. Each image is a mosaic of 17 color frames.
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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Allow me to fix this @gizmodo.com headline: "Rare asteroid sample contaminated by microorganisms after exposure TO THE AIR". This team from London received an asteroid Ryugu grain from JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission 🛰️. There were no Earthy evils when they received it from JAXA then... they exposed it. 🧪😑
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Rare Asteroid Sample Contaminated by Microorganisms Despite Scientists' Best Efforts
A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#OPAG - Things in Magenta are the new orbits grey are the prime mission blue and red are the ones we're in now Between the red and the magenta we're going into the high radiation side 2nd placard shows where all the moons will be
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#OPAG - Have a second extended mission proposal due in December 33 new orbits planned, will go into the rings and the intense radiation belts, inner moons, get a lot more occultations will get over the poles (true north & south) Get the night side perijove so we get a lighting campagin.
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Andrew Steele @statto.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet. Photos: 1. Infrared 2. Visible (obviously) 3. Ultraviolet, and 4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end. 🧪 #photography
An infrared photo of a rainbow: a strange, ghostly-looking rainbow in a mostly black and white photo, with a faintly red outer edge and a cyan inner edge, and what look like a few even fainter ‘echo’ bows insideA regular visible-light pic of a rainbowAn ultraviolet picture of a rainbow: a dark, foreboding landscape with a deep purple stripe emanating from it, and a grey stripe insideA composite of the three preceding photos, showing that the infrared bow is ‘outside’ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow ‘inside’
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Kathleen Mandt, PhD @mommascientist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🚨🚨New paper alert!! 🚨🚨🧪🔭 Today we published exciting new results from the Rosetta mission! These results have big implications for where the comet formed and for whether comets could have supplied water to Earth. #PlanetaryScience #Rosetta 🧵1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A nearly terrestrial D/H for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Analysis of Rosetta measurements suggests that Jupiter family comets could have delivered much of Earth’s water.
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