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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 02/10/2026

🔭 The Complete Sharpless Catalog: 313 Nebulas Credit: Bing Xin ap261002

313 separate images of nebulae that resemble a variety of shapes and brightnesses. Some are dim and whispy, others are bright and create structure. Each image traces the complex behavior of interstellar gas.

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thinking about what sorts of questions we can explore from a data crunching perspective using the *huge* @apod.shinyakato.dev archive 🤔🔭🧪

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 23/09/2026

🔭 A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260923

Two images. The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new cat new cat new cat !!!!! 🧪 science is so cool

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 16/09/2026

🔭 Webb's View of M64 Image Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, F. Belfiore (ESO), J. Lee (STScI), A. Leroy (OSU), and D. Thilker (JHU); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA/Catholic University) Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260916

Hubble and JWST image of M64. A massive spiral galaxy glows with a yellow core, surrounded by arms full of orange-brown dust and pink and blue patches of star formation. Framed by a haze of dark dust, the galaxy shines against black space dotted with a few stars.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 15/09/2026

🔭 A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Arnaud Mariat ap260915

A blue sky has a light cloud crossing the middle of
the image. Two crescent objects are visible through the
cloud, a large faint crescent in the center and a brighter
crescent above it.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 10/09/2026

An asteroid killed the dinosaurs because they didn’t have a space agency – so ESA’s Hera asteroid mission has a dino mascot (also aboard the spacecraft in real life!). But our dino needs a name – that’s where you come in! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 09/09/2026

🔭 Witness XZ Andromedae Wink Video Credit: Ogetay Kayali (MTU, Starfront Observatories) Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260909

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lovely! I look forward to seeing your submissions 😊

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not for forever! The Moon is slowly moving away and so unfortunately this will no longer be the case (in about 600 million years 🦕

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It is extremely cool to look at these eclipse depictions 🤩

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This was a fun APOD to write! Forget everything you know about eclipses. What would you think watching the Sun become swallowed in the sky? 🔭

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Back to Bluesky to share that I am a new editor for Astronomy Picture of the Day and we are moving to science.nasa.gov/apod! Very excited to share cool astro images with everyone 🌌🔭

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APOD - NASA Science

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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

They’ve indiscriminately fired 10% of NASA employees. I don’t need to remind you that NASA’s budget is less than 1% of the entire federal budget but I will. Here’s what that looks like, it’s pennies. www.popsci.com/real-cost-na...

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The Real Cost Of NASA Missions

What is the price of awe and amazement?

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Not Alie @ologies.bsky.social referring to veins as "blood tunnels" 💀💀💀💀💀

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I gave a talk for PLUNCH and the UC Santa Cruz folks were so nice and welcoming! Highly recommend 😊 plus you're basically giving a talk on Endor 🌲🌲🌲

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

getting caught up in coding interactive plots ✌️

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Nova would like to help boost your content

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's amazing how easy it is! I didn't realize how easy it was to call. Idk who listens, but it's something!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/11/2024

There is a global climate catastrophe underway, multiple genocides happening, a housing and unhoused people crisis, a child poverty crisis, people are struggling to afford food and what are moderate Democrats and GOP concerned about? "Where people pee." These fascists don't want us to survive.

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

You forgot the timeless astronomer post: here's a pretty picture!

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

yes I'm going to take all my anger at the world out on this motion-sensor sink that won't work unless I do the hokey pokey

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sorry for the jump scare, these are dark times

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ken-tastic talk on BARBIE (Bayesian Analysis...exo-Earths) from @nertushka.bsky.social 🩷🩷🔭🪐

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 11/03/2024

A new interpretation of JWST spectra suggests that exoplanet K2-18b is a gas-rich world without a habitable surface rather than a life-supporting ocean world. aasnova.org/2024/03/11/k... 🪐🧪

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K2-18b May Not Be Habitable After All - AAS Nova

A new interpretation of JWST spectra suggests that exoplanet K2-18b is a gas-rich world rather than an ocean planet.

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

I recently did a stand up comedy set about the random and terrible theories engineers email to astronomers worldwide. I suspect we'll all be hearing a bunch of wacky nonsense from Muskerton on a regular basis imminently.

A tweet from his lord high muskiness proclaiming that something is "fundamentally wrong... with the dark matter theories" and that dark energy is "slightly less dubious". Idiot.

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PRISM Exeter @prismexeter.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

🎉 Drumroll, please! We're thrilled to announce the launch 🚀 of our Queer Science Competition! Express your creativity and celebrate LGBTQ+ trailblazers in STEMM with a short essay or video. Dive into the details at prismexeter.com/qsc 📷#QSC2024

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PRISM Exeter - QSC

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

I want to help my department implement an astro-related python coding workshop for undergrad and grads to take. Is there anything like that out there already that y'all recommend?? 🔭

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

That means so much, thank you for saying that!!!

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Same happened for me with Extreme Solar Systems 😞 going to New Zealand is a tough sell for a poster

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

First wave of rejections leaving me waiting for a job... 🔭🧪

Photo of Sirius Black from the third Harry Potter movie saying "I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! In Azkaban!"

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

The fact that no betting platform has done a commercial with Troy Bolton's famed "Bet On It" is a travesty

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

First rejection email of the season 👏 it's a part of the field, it's a part of life, and I'm going to be okay

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Ron DeSantis should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.

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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

They're all in the same state as me now 😭 leave us alone!!!!

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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

CRABS. 🦀 Visit the @NHMLA's crab bunker w/ #Carcinologist @AdamWall626 for: which crabs are NOT crabs, romantic crabs, Old Bay, Amelia Earhart, Sea Monkeys, invasive crabs, giant land crabs that can crack skulls, delicacies, Hollywood crabs + more: www.alieward.com/ologies/carc...

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