giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Experimented with gamma correction for the first time. Here is asteroid Kamo’oalewa (2016 HO3) from the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, gamma corrected to account for the nearly head-on phase angle. 000
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Vincent van Gogh - The Mulberry Tree (1889) 329271
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialStarship Celtica ☀️ @starshipceltica.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Supernova Remnant Pa 30 science.nasa.gov/image-articl... "Happy New Year!" No, wait, this is not a fireworks display. This image shows Nebula Pa 30, observed with the Gemini North Telescope in Hawai'i. 1130075
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That lines up decently with the dimensions of Earth if modeled as a tri-axial ellipsoid. If this study were conducted on a global scale on another celestial body such as Enceladus, could neutrino emissions be used to attemptively characterize the geometry and anisotropies of its core? 000
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialCorey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We can't touch the deep interior of our planet, but we can now see it in the "light" of neutrinos emitted by radioactive elements. Early results suggest our Earth is intriguingly lopsided. 🧪 www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-fr... 56616
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialMelina Thévenot🏳️⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 02/10/2026gif animation showing the changes in the remnant between 2022 and 2025, using the filter F200W. 2022 epoch is from this program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... I used a fading technique, but it is just two images. 3152
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky 20479811346
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialEuropean 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 24213
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 30/09/2026Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 🔭 🧪 ☀️ 15870245
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialChara @astrochara.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Altair is a nearby A-type star. It is also one of the hottest nearby stars with X-ray emission, probably arising from corona around its equatorial regions, where convective envelope which sustain them persist on this highly oblate star. #art #astronomy #space #spaceart #star #Altair 3266
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialMineralExpert.org @mexporg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Classic bright green #Pyromorphite specimen from Daoping Mine, Guilin Prefecture, China. #MinCup26 #MinCup #mineral #crystal #mineralogy 29213
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialUPBeachBum @upbeachbum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Check out the tight spirals on the Nor'easter going on off the NE Atlantic coast. earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...earth.nullschool.netearth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditionsSee current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours. 311035
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The "Cameraphone" was a revolutionary portable wooden gramophone manufactured in the 1920s, mostly coming out of Germany and Great Britain. Designed to look precisely like a folding box camera of the era, it was the 1920s equivalent of a portable music player. IG: @popmania.es 781870391
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialChina Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026China’s Tiangong Space Station crosses in front of Jupiter in this remarkable astrophotography shot. Just hundreds of kilometres above Earth, Tiangong appears in front of Jupiter, a world hundreds of millions of kilometres away. Captured by 沈老思347 5442119
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026All this is spelled out in the paper itself:cell.comPhylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South AmericaLescroart, Nogales-Ascarrunz, et al. demonstrate that the contentious tiger cat species complex consists of five cryptic species. Based on analyses of 38 whole genomes from the Neotropical cat genus L... 119838
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialHourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026ESP_016430_2095 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/DwvCVp 0456
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialMelina Thévenot🏳️⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Proper Motion of stars in the galactic center with #JWST NIRCam F182M. programs: 1306, 4515 www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... 412343
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialLong_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Premonition 10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel Available on my website. 151545255
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/09/2026Asteroid Mission xkcd.com/3294/ 242292306
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialSouthwest Research Institute @swri.org · 01/09/2026SwRI-led modeling identifies new scenarios for Moon formation ow.ly/vsjv50ZHN9P 0123
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialLee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Now on @sciam.bsky.social: After 40 years of searching, physicists have glimpsed a telltale flash of light in a mile-deep cavern. It might be the best-yet evidence for dark matter, the mysterious invisible stuff that outweighs matter 5-to-1. Or it might be a mirage...scientificamerican.comHave we finally found dark matter?The world’s biggest dark matter search saw a particle it cannot explain 0102
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialMars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It feels like the JWST has *JUST* begun pounding dingers over the wall and NGRST is on her way and I know everything else is terrible BUT OUR NEW SPACE TELESCOPES ARE (AND ARE GOING TO) KICK SO MUCH ASS!phys.orgJWST reveals likely Type II supernova from when universe was only 2 billion years oldAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified one of the most distant exploding stars ever confirmed. The supernova, SN 2023aeaf, was found at a redshift of 3.195—so far away that i... 0112
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A wide high-resolution view of Phobos from the Mars Express. This image was taken about 50km from the moon’s center with a resolution of 3.6 meters per pixel. 020
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialcasi-bev-art.bsky.social @casi-bev-art.bsky.social · 30/08/2026After some experimentation in blender, I think I've managed to create a rough 3D model of asteroid Kamo'oalewa based on released photos from China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft (courtesy of @chinaspace.bsky.social). My solution isn't perfect yet, but it accounts for all the angles we've seen so far! 1224
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialAndrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Tianwen-2 arrived at Kamo'oalewa nearly two months ago, and no updates since. Thankfully, space exploration historian Phil Stooke uncovered a few more pics from CNSA from the first encounter in early July. Hopefully an update soon. 1227
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialStuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A Florida horse conch extends its large orange foot to creep along the seashore on Sanibel Island. The large sea snail, whose range extends from North Carolina to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is a carnivore that feeds on smaller mollusks. Devon Matthews Smithsonian Magazine 835963
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialArt & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 28/08/2026#Poetry #Painting #Sundown O, tell us, how enormous is the world? What lies beyond the smallest stars? - Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711 - 1765) 🎨 Grant Kurtis 101139166
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The lunar eclipse last night 000
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialRyan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think this also speaks to the density of the debris flow being able to buoy a rock that size. 919945
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think I’ve seen that first one before. 240
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 20/08/2026JAXA has announced Oct. 20 as the launch date for the Martian Moons eXploration mission (MMX). Such a cool expedition: it will study the moons Phobos and Deimos, then return a sample of Phobos to Earth. NASA built one of the spacecraft's instruments. global.jaxa.jp/press/2026/0... 0276
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialKevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Nice greenstone of indeterminate type, found in Carlsbad, California, and polished. 1411
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Curiosity using its ChemCam as a spyglass yesterday to look at a distant butte. science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-... 03711
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialCorey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025This movie shows the bubbling surface of a distant star, as captured with unprecedented clarity by the ALMA observatory. R Doradus is a huge star. Each of these bubbles is 50-75 times the diameter of our entire Sun! 🧪🔭 www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-rel... 22843141
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialESO @eso.org · 24/08/2026A bubbling Betelgeuse ⭐️ 🫧 This ALMA image is one of the most detailed views yet of the surface of the iconic star Betelgeuse. The surface is uneven & lumpy, with peaks and troughs originating from giant bubbles of hot gas rising from deep within the star to its surface. 🔭 🧪 1/2 318855
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Imaged classical nova V8055 Sgr (TCP J18251276-2225293) through my telescope last night 010
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Material on Ceres sliding down to the floor of Occator. One of the more subtle notions of this famous region’s decently active history. 020
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The channel clearly whittled the rim facing away from it too 😮 000
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The vicinity of Earth‘s surface would be a barren hellscape that starts flowing into the newly created hole as it vainly attempts to fill the growing void in the planet. 000
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026These rocks do seem to tell stories about different processes and periods in Mars’s history. 010
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Has its size been constrained yet? 110
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Put together a mosaic of Europa’s surface from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Several tectonic features and splotches of cryolava are visible here. 070
Reposted by @giggitygiggitee.bsky.socialESO @eso.org · 19/08/2026One for the record books 🏅 ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy. Named S301, it orbits Sagittarius A* — the supermassive #BlackHole at the centre of the #MilkyWay — reaching speeds of 25 000 kilometres per second. 🔭 🧪 1/3 311946
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I hope exploring Quaoar offers us a rough description of KBOs larger than it. As it has rings, its system may still be evolving in more ways than one. An honorable mention I didn’t include is Orcus for a similar reason. Its resemblance to Charon, plus Vanth, may hint at smaller worlds’ activities. 010
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social @giggitygiggitee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Update: Just finished that series. My main takeaway is TNOs should be studied and explored more. They’d effectively build on many concepts explored in those lectures, including accretion, evolutionary nuances, and geological processes. The main 3 I hope are explored are Quaoar, Makemake, and Sedna. 110
![4-panel comic. (1) [Announcer with medium-length hair in front of screen showing rocket.] ANNOUNCER: The asteroid is headed for Earth, but a mission has been launched to intercept it. (2) [Two people with space helmets and carrying equipment rush out of spacecraft landed on asteroid.] (3) [People connecting laptop to asteroid.] (4) [Laptop message reads >NOCLIP *ON*]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreielhvop2pgkkm4bxtms2gx2amqso6j3iaiq4zayf7ynzovwolslau)
