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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Many things are awful in the world right now, but there are many other things at the other end of the scale to help us deal, and this remains one of them.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Once again this morning looking at a paper on arXiv that fails to cite directly and incredibly relevant work led by 2 female postdocs in my group. Paper is accepted, so the referee didn't pull the authors up on this either. This is how women get excluded from science. #everydaysexism #womeninstem

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 09/01/2026

From the Smile mission launch and new data sets from Euclid, to Plato getting ready for launch, a total solar eclipse and BepiColombo's arrival at Mercury, 2026 is set to be a packed year for Science!

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

What do you mean I saw PLATO with my own eyes today?? 🫢🫨 #ESAopenday #exoplanet

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 07/10/2025

Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 11/09/2025

Welcome, Plato! 🤗 On 1 September, the spacecraft arrived in the Netherlands by boat from Germany via the Rhine River. In the coming weeks, engineers will add the sunshield & solar arrays and carry out tests to confirm Plato is ready for launch 🚀 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 #Exoplanets

A large cargo ship named VAARWEL, painted in blue and white, is sailing through a canal. The ship has a flag at its front and is passing under an open drawbridge in the background. The canal is lined with trees on both sides, and the sky above is bright blue with scattered white clouds. A few people are visible on the bridge and near the water’s edge. In the foreground, at the bottom right, a small boat with a single person inside floats near the ship.

In a cleanroom environment, two individuals wearing blue lab coats and hairnets are working around a large spacecraft. The spacecraft is covered in protective plastic sheeting and mounted on a white transport platform labelled with technical instructions.

In a cleanroom environment, a group of engineers wearing protective coats, gloves, and face masks are working on a large spacecraft component. The component is mounted on a white wheeled platform. The top of the spacecraft carries 26 cylindrical cameras. The workspace is surrounded by structural supports and white fabric walls, creating a clean and controlled environment.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 27/03/2025

Farewell, Gaia! 🥹 👏

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/03/2025

This is what Firefly's Blue Ghost lander saw as the Sun set on Sunday. The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon. At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous). And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 20/03/2025

🌍 Happy #Equinox! On 20 March 2025 at 09:01 GMT/10:01 CET, just a few moments ago, the Sun appeared directly above Earth's equator - with our planet neither tilting towards nor away from the Sun! (pic: @eumetsat.int, processed by ESA/S. Proud) See flic.kr/p/2qT1ZUu

At the equinox of 20 March 2025, our planet is neither tilted towards nor away from the Sun, creating nearly equal day/night. This stunning Meteosat-12 image taken earlier this morning showcases the boundary between day and night running straight through the poles.

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Robinson Research Institute - Adelaide University @robsinstitute.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Pure passion for the topic, fuelled by the experience of knowing what living with endometriosis feels like. Meet our endo research team – first up: Rachel Hosking, PhD candidate at IMAGENDO. #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth

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Institute for Regeneration and Repair @edinuni-irr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Continuing on with our #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth campaign, we asked three of our researchers to explain their research in 15 words or less. Find out more about their research on the EXPPECT website: www.exppectedinburgh.co.uk/

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/03/2025

Open this image up fully. Look to the top right. That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. And that bright point of light? Earth.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

False colour JWST NIRCam image of a nearby star forming region in front of a deep back ground of colorful galaxies. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Look at that terminator! We have passed the winter solstice (9:21 UTC) for the northern hemisphere, gang!

An image from the goes east satellite showing most of the americas in darkness and the terminator crossing the Atlantic

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 21/12/2024

🔭 A Year in Sunsets Image Credit & Copyright: Wael Omar apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24122...

A year in sunsets, from April 2023 to March 2024, track along the western horizon in these stacked panoramic views. The well-planed sequence is constructed of images recorded near the 21st day of the indicated month from the same location overlooking Cairo, Egypt. But for any location on planet Earth the yearly extreme northern (picture right) and southern limits of the setting Sun mark the solstice days. The word solstice is from Latin for "Sun" and "stand still". On the solstice date the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily path through the sky appears to pause and reverse direction in its annual celestial journey. Of course the Sun reaches a stand still on today's date. The 21 December 2024 solstice at 09:21 UTC is the moment of the Sun's southernmost declination, the start of astronomical winter in the north and summer in the south.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

WTF is it with so many movies and TV shows showing people smoking? They could just *not* do that.

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Nienke van der Marel @nienkemarel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

For a talk I just made this transition plot of exoplanets with age, to show how little we know about planets in the early times. Starting with all exoplanets in the database... (1/5)

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Laura Kreidberg @lkreidberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Applications are open for MPIA summer internships! this is a fully funded opportunity, open to bachelor's and master's students anywhere in the world: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Cannot even do plane rides without being in pain. Looks like I’ll have to carry my own meals next trip 🥲 #endometriosis

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I got to write in Scientific American about one of my all-time favorite cosmic objects: Barnard 68! It's like a hole in space, except… it isn't. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🧪🔭

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What’s Inside Our Galaxy’s Darkest Place?

Barnard 68 is often mistaken for a hole in space, but it’s actually a dense, opaque cloud of dust—for now

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Ben Sutlieff @bensutlieff.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Very excited to be at the opening of the Dirleton Solar Walk today - a scale model of our Solar System in the East Lothian countryside, placed over 1.2km of the John Muir Way walking route! 🪐🔭 This was a really fun project to support and I highly recommend it for those local, esp. for kids/families!

A sign showing a map of the Dirleton Solar Walk, with information describing its scale (1:3.6 billon) and instructions on how to access its augmented reality features for each planet.

Myself next to the marker for the planet Jupiter, which consists of a fence post with a sign on top showing an artistic representation of Jupiter and a metallic ball representing its relative size according to the scale. There is also a QR code linking to information about the planet and an AR representation.

The marker for the planet Saturn, with a view of the countryside around Dirleton.

Myself and my colleague Gergely Friss attempting to demonstrate the augmented reality visualisation of the planet Neptune. I am trying to hold the planet but my hands are in totally the wrong place.

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Joe Renaud @spacetides.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I love when it's cold and I have to wear a full load of laundry to leave the house

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Making my slides for the "25 Years of Science with Chandra" conference, and here's the supernova remnants imaged with Chandra in the first two years of the mission in the order they were observed! 🔭🧪 #SaveChandra

X-ray images of 29 supernova remnants observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory in the first two years of the mission, 1999-2001. Images are mostly adapted from https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/ and https://hea-www.harvard.edu/ChandraSNR/gallery_gal.html

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Time-lapse of altocumulus undulatus clouds at 30x speed. I happened to catch the formation's edge as it passed by.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The “Tiger Stripes” of southern Enceladus are deep ravines and connect to the subsurface ocean below. These contain the cryovolcanoes producing the water ice plumes.

Enceladus with the Tiger Stripes at bottom.

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Tiger Stripes of Enceladus.

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High-detail image of a Tiger Stripe.

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Bruce Macintosh @bmacastro.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Prompted by this and a need for distraction I Did Some Math. Turns out most extrasolar planets are quite cauliflower-compatible. A thread, with citations. And laboratory astrophysics. And footnotes.

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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · 01/12/2024

A successful encounter! #ESA #BepiColombo passed Mercury today, gathering valuable science data. 🛰️🌖 Here's an image taken at 10:46 UTC (11:46 CET) 1 December, from ~51000km from the surface. x.com/BepiColombo/... Congratulations to our amazing teams for this next milestone towards Mercury orbit.

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Matt Bothwell @mattbothwell.com · 01/12/2024

In Summer 2021, I put a pinhole solar camera on the tower of St John's college in Cambridge, UK to image the Sun's path. This was the result! Each separate arc is a day, and over time you slowly reveal the pattern that the Sun follows over the course of a year 🌞🔭🧪

A monochrome image of the Cambridge skyline. In the sky are hundreds of curved bands of light, tracing out the Sun's journey over the year

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It’s been a very special few days because my first observational program as a PI had its first observation which was successful! We got the transit from space 🪐 !!! It’s been the most fulfilling feeling seeing the transit light curve after months of planning and rechecking the calculations 🥰

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Dr James O'Donoghue 🪐 @interplanetary.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What's a Sidereal day? Earth completes one full rotation relative to distant stars in 23 hours 56 minutes—this is a Sidereal Day. But, because of Earth's orbital motion, the Sun appears to shift position each day. To align with the Sun again, Earth needs an extra 4 mins, making a Solar Day 24 hours:

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Dr James O'Donoghue 🪐 @interplanetary.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The reasons why any illustration of the Solar System can only be partially accurate: this highlights the compromises an illustrator has to make to fit everything into view

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 19/11/2024

What's happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of that is true. In terms of clouds, the formation is a chance superposition of impressively periodic undulating air currents in Earth's lower atmosphere. Undulatus, a type of Asperitas cloud, form at the peaks where the air is cool enough to cause the condensation of opaque water droplets. The wide-angle nature of the panorama creates the illusion that the clouds converge over the hill. In terms of land, there really is a world-famous observatory at the top of that peak: the Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The two telescope domes visible are the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescopes. The featured coincidental vista was a surprise but was captured by the phone of a quick-thinking photographer in late September. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)

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Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD² @sharpmelk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

❗❗❗Reminder ❗❗❗ #Endometriosis is characterized by growth outside the uterus of tissue resembling the endometrium. It involves interacting endocrine, immunological, & proinflammatory processes. It is more than a 'gynecological condition' It is a full body disease.

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Christina Belanger, Ph.D @belaforams.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I love it when colleagues leave treasures in my mailbox. Left: "Star sand" (mostly #foraminifera) from Hull Atoll. Right: A sample from "Off Honolulu" at 22fm with other tropical forams. Both labeled as collected by Resig in October 1982. #fossilfriday

Photomicrograph with star-shaped benthic foraminifera (Baculogypsina), small gastropods, and lenticular foraminifera (Amphistegina).

Photomicrograph of gray to tan sediments with microfossils interspersed. Focus of the image is a specimen of Peneroplis in side view, other particles are lenticular foraminifera like Amphistegina, broken molluscs, and worn bits of bryozoan.

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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 inside

A regular visible-light pic of a rainbow

An ultraviolet picture of a rainbow: a dark, foreboding landscape with a deep purple stripe emanating from it, and a grey stripe inside

A 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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💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀 @afeinstein20.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

the new youngest transiting exoplanet has entered the villa 🧪🪐🌟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Can I just say that attending just one conference this year gave me the opportunity to connect with these amazing people I get to call friends and that just warms my heart ❤️ academia is tough as is, so having a few people who understand you (especially as a woman in the field) has been fulfilling 💕

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Check out the latest episode of Science Sisters! 🔭

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I’m so mad, annoyed and irritated. Ugh why is housing such a pain (and expensive 🥲)

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Peak festive season behaviour: eating sweets as a midnight snack

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

I sometimes wonder why we're so eager to look in space for aliens

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Reading about women’s health and the number of times I’ve come across “we have no idea why this happens” and “we have no idea how what the cure is” and “here you go, here’s a list of things that we can do to manage xxxx” 🫠

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Side effects of the upcoming JWST deadline: typing “plants” as “planets” in a conversation that has nothing to do with planets 😵‍💫

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Hinna @hinsterrr.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

How time flies. A memory popped up that four years ago I was so happy to be giving the first set of astrophysics exam (after years of figuring out how to get into this field) and today I’m helping with JWST proposals. I’m so glad my past self didn’t give up.

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