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Numbers @pigpenandpaper.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

#artfight2026 Round 10: Revenge piece for Dibs. Kept hitting my head against a wall and eventually a drawing came out.

Fanart of Dibs' character, Commander María Rodríguez

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Steve Dearden @stevedearden.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Fantastic to watch the live stream of ⁦‪Malika Booker‬⁩ dancing to receive her Doctorate ⁦‪at the Uni of Newcastle‬⁩ - we are so lucky to have her as a member of the Writing Squad’s Core Team!

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Dibs @lroxby.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

unnnnbelievably hyped for project hail mary, I devoured that book faster than any other in my life and the trailer looks like everything I'd want from it. we got puppets. we got Ryland grace being a bit pathetic. we got cool unexplainable world ending problems. 9 months????? unbearable

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/06/2025

[Upcoming movie] Project Hail Mary (March 20, 2026): 🚨FIRST TRAILER 🚨 11.9 Light-years from home. 6th grade science teacher. 1 chance to save us all. I've been waiting so long for this film. 🤗

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Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Rubin with M41 during First Look Observations Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava) noirlab.edu/public/image... @vrubinobs.bsky.social @noirlabastro.bsky.social #RubinFirstLook 🧪🔭

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is seen with its dome open during First Look observation activities in April 2025. Messier 41, the Little Beehive Cluster, can be seen over the telescope in this telelens photo.

Image released June 23, 2025.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are deep space nine and pronounced ahstuhkee oodlahnuhduh sawnaylah

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Dibs @lroxby.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My favourite part of having multiple devices with screens is that none of them display colour accurately so I can never tell if the thing that looks fine on my drawing tablet is being misrepresented by my phone, my laptop, or, in fact, the drawing tablet. And colour calibration hasn't even helped!

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/06/2025

In addition to these never-before-seen cosmic neighbors, Rubin detected another ~1800 previously-known asteroids, bringing the total detections to just under 4000 in just 10.5 hours!🔭🧪 In other words, over half of Rubin's first detections are new discoveries☄️

An illustration of the asteroid belt as a dense donut-shaped ring of yellow points with the Sun at the center. The background is black with hints of dark blue in the corners and small white pinprick stars sprinkled throughout. A small illustrated Earth sits to the left of the Sun, and a semi-opaque, cone-like teal triangle extends from Earth toward the right. The cone opens up to a mosaic of a couple dozen small, square-like shapes representing Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera’s detector area. The mosaic is overlaid onto a portion of the asteroid belt, and each tile represents a camera image that detects a group of asteroids.

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Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 23/06/2025

Commonwealth National Rail conductor starting her shift

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/06/2025

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions.

All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We're celebrating today with the release of the first images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social. (Image credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory). This one, of part of the Virgo cluster, is my favourite.

A dark starfield is covered in galaxies. Many of them are surrounded by a faint halo of light - two blue spirals in the bottom right stand out.

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Dibs @lroxby.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

finally finished my spreadsheet of all the thought bubble business cards we collected. call me the prompt spreadsheet maker 😎

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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Morning on a moon 🌘

Comic page depicting a person waking up inside a house carved into an asteroid, they get dressed as they are surrounded by stars. They leave their home followed by stars.

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Chloë Green @okaychloegreen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Really happy to be able to bring our micro-buraries back for 2025. Please share as much as possible, send to everyone you know and tell them to pass it on too!! Thank you!

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Silver Sprocket @silversprocket.net · 18/06/2025

Pre-order MODEL FIVE MURDER by Singaporean cartoonist @juangeedraws.bsky.social ahead of the 6/25/25 release date and get a free 5”x7” limited edition Risograph print.

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Daniel Williams @daniel-williams.co.uk · 11/06/2025

In the time it took for me to write this we achieved what I believe to be the first ever quintuple detector lock.

A screenshot of the detector status for the gravitational wave detector network. 5 detectors (GEO600, LIGO Livingston, LIGO Hanford, Virgo, and KAGRA) are marked as observing.

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Comic Boom Podcast @comicboom.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Comic Boom - The Comics in Education Podcast is back for a new season and I'm so pleased for the podcast to have a home on Bluesky. If you are into #comics #education #libraries #graphicnovels #podcasts Please listen, follow and share to get us kick started on this new platform💥www.comicboom.co.uk

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Kat Tsai @chuwenjie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

i want to share a memory with you. a place from a long time ago.

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A. Suárez Mascareño @asuarezmascareno.com · 20/05/2025

For now on I propose that instead of categorizing #exoplanets by their properties, we do it by how cool they are. I propose 5 categories. From best to worst: 1) Proxima b. 2) Cool planet. 3) Random space rock. 4) Probably doesn't exist. 5) K2 18 b. Simpler and 100% more judgemental. Win-win.

Categories of exoplanets, split by how cool they are. From best to worst: 1) Proxima b. 2) Cool planet. 3) Random space rock. 4) Probably doesn't exist. 5) K2 18 b.

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Carson @neohazard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.

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Dibs @lroxby.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

finally watched mickey17 (like 2 weeks after accidentally reading the whole book in a 12 hour period) and yeah yknow what definitely a banger of all time. keep putting mickey in situations im here for it (i sit visibly restraining myself from reading antimatter blues until my coursework is done)

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 12/03/2025

Oh wow, this is *such* a cool concept - a 'game' procedurally generated from Wikipedia, in which you can literally traverse all of human knowledge and walk down rabbit holes

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Fun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 22/01/2025

Every astronomer the first time they do reduce radio observations 🥴 #radioastronomy #astronomy

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Jodi @jodiexists.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Scouser's guide to space (1/3)

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Jodi @jodiexists.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Heroes is good and you should watch it (1/2)

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Jodi @jodiexists.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Ant on a Circuitboard (1/3) Linework and panelling by @lroxby.bsky.social Colour by me :3

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AJ Grimm @ajgrimmphoto.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hey everyone, I'm a photographer based out of #Chicago Here's a photo I took from my rooftop using a split diopter the other day. Looking forward to connecting with you all! #photography #oc #art

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Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com · 30/01/2025

🤍💙💚🟦⬜️🟩💚💙🤍

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devsec @neuroticmoths.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

all done! 100 years later i give you: mutuals OCs sketch page. design credits incoming below

A grid of rectangles filled with drawings of different characters. The top left is someone with very long white hair, sitting on the edge of the box. The top center is a person with locs wearing western clothes and a cowboy hat, sitting a saddle. The top right is a green person holding someone’s hand offscreen, walking toward a clock tower. In the center is someone with short dark hair and a red puffer vest taking a selfie. At the bottom center is a person with their hair in twists, relaxed with their arms behind their head. In the bottom left, a masculine person with a blond braid aims a flintlock pistol down at the viewer. In the bottom right is a horse-skulled humanoid creature with a fur mane, touching their jaw with a finger in thought.

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

As you can see from the middle panel of this figure. The Netherlands is a disk that rotates at 200km/s #extragalactic 🧪🔭

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Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · 09/12/2024

3/4 Changing seasons on Saturn (2018-2024) Image taken by Niall MacNeill from 2018-2024 showing Saturn on its way to equinox. The most recent image is from June 27, 2024. Credit: Niall MacNeill, www.astrobin.com/y2mjqr/B

Saturn is shown seven times, once for each year from 2018 to 2024. Because of the obliquity of Saturn every year the rings are visible a little bit less. In 2024 the rings are almost edge on.

Credit: Niall MacNeill, https://www.astrobin.com/y2mjqr/B/
More images by Niall MacNeill: https://www.astrobin.com/users/macnenia/

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DonThePhysicist @donthephysicist.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

An incredible shot by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy. McCarthy says the photo is one of the “most meticulously planned” shots of his career, which has seen no shortage of carefully-planned images that have captured the world’s imagination. #astrophotography #astronomy

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Mearn (postseason) @mearn.me · 06/12/2024

I like that all of Orlando's traffic projects are now managed by someone's nephew who has a lot of hours in Cities Skylines

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Naluxk commissions open! @naluxk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In case ya missed it. My comic “Sick Guts” ch 2 is out! It’s free to read. feel free to like, favorite, and comment! (It really helps a lot) thank you! medibang.com/mpc/episodes...

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Quick post to say hello (and thanks!) to new followers! I'm a comic writer (and general comic lover) from Falkirk, Scotland. You can check out my comics here: cabalcomics.bigcartel.com No pressure, but imagine the sense of power you'd have making me trudge to the Post Office with a packet for you!

Cover of Alex Automatic Vol.1 Trade Paperback, collecting issues 1-5. Written by Fraser Campbell, art by James Corcoran, colour art by David B. cooper, lettering by Colin Bell, Aditya Bidikar, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Rob Jones.

Cover of The Edge Off one shot by Frank Quitely. Written by Fraser Campbell, art by Iain Laurie, colour art by David B. Cooper, lettering by Colin Bell.

Cover of IND-XED by Lucy Sullivan. Written by Fraser Campbell, art by Lucy Sullivan, lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

Cover of Starcrossed, by Alfie Gallagher. Written by Fraser Campbell, art by Alfie Gallagher, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Buddy Beaudoin.

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Owen D. Pomery @odpomery.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Both of my @averyhill.bsky.social books are 25% off in their flash sale! Code: CHRISTMAS2024 averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com

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Bruno Lailler @kenaroh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Horsehead Nebula is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt. #Astrophotography 🔭 ED127 Apo f/7.5 📷 ASI533MC Pro ⏲️ 5h exposure 🖥️ Siril + Gimp

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Please see here for PhD projects at Lancaster University Astrophysics, starting October 2025. There is one with me on the subject of galaxy evolution with environment 😀🌌 🔭🧪 #extragalactic #cosmology www.lancaster.ac.uk/physics/rese...

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Observational Astrophysics - Lancaster University

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Stobie 🏳️‍⚧️ @stobacus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ooh I want in on this trend. #WeReadComics If you love Rom coms and road trips you gotta get in on this. I freaking love A Thing Called Truth by @yozanfardino.bsky.social & @afterlaughs.bsky.social

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Dibs @lroxby.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I asked three physicists and a creative writing student to test my comics workshop and it received such reviews as "fun", "unintimidating" and "it's nice to focus on something other than physics". If you're in the @thewritingsquad.bsky.social sign up for my workshop this Saturday to join the fun!

A group of four people around a cafe table drawing new characters.

The same people focusing on thumbnailing their comics with great determination.

Two people holding up their comics proudly with smiles and a thumbs up!

My poorly exposed flatmate pogging at their comic and a tiger they're very proud of drawing as my other flatmate holds their comic from out of frame, presumably also pogging.

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Natasha Van Bemmel @natasha-vb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My first first-author paper just dropped on arXiv ✨👩‍🔬🧪🔭 Introducing the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP), a search specifically designed to find a kilonova. Check it out here to see the methods developed to scour the data for kilonova candidates, and what we found: arxiv.org/abs/2411.16136

Abstract of the KNTraP paper.

Text: Compact binary mergers detectable in gravitational waves can be accompanied by a kilonova, an electromagnetic transient powered by radioactive decay of newly synthesised r-process elements. A few kilonova candidates have been observed during short gamma-ray burst follow-up, and one found associated with a gravitational wave detection, GW170817. However, robust kilonova candidates are yet to be found in un-triggered, wide-field optical surveys, that is, a search not requiring an initial gravitational wave or gamma-ray burst trigger. Here we present the first observing run for the Kilonova and Transients Program (KNTraP) using the Dark Energy Camera. The first KNTraP run ran for 11 nights, covering 31 fields at a nightly cadence in two filters. The program can detect transients beyond the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA horizon, be agnostic to the merger orientation, avoid the Sun and/or Galactic plane, and produces high cadence multi-wavelength light curves. The data were processed nightly in real-time for rapid identification of transient candidates, allowing for follow-up of interesting candidates before they faded away. Three fast-rising candidates were identified in real-time, however none had the characteristics of the kilonova AT2017gfo associated with GW170817 or with the expected evolution for kilonovae from our fade-rate models. After the run, the data were reprocessed, then subjected to stringent filtering and model fitting to search for kilonovae offline. Multiple KNTraP runs (3+) are expected to detect kilonovae via this optical-only search method. No kilonovae were detected in this first KNTraP run using our selection criteria, constraining the KN rate to R<1.8×10^5 Gpc−3 yr−1.

Plot showing the volume per night covered by a survey. Volume increases towards the top right corner of the plot. DES survey is shown leftmost, then further right is KNTraP with multiple volumes demonstrating the balance between of number of fields/area on sky observed per night versus the depth achieved, both in dark and bright sky time. Rightmost shown are projected KWFI nightly volumes.

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Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Zoom into JWST's latest image of the star cluster NGC 602. Located near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the cluster provides us with a good view of an area of relatively isolated star formation. esawebb.org/news/weic2425/

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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

So this is pretty neat: the entirety of my webcomic is that huge stack of paper, next to the comics printed books! I am proud of the amount of work it took to finish GJS!

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asieybarbie @asieybarbie.com · 26/11/2024

Gradient maps. Can be used within Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, etc. #art #tutorial

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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Have you seen my main comic series Killtopia before? It’s a cyberpunk tale set in Neo Tokyo, about salvage hunters teaming up with the world’s first sentient mecha to cure a deadly nano machine plague that’s killing humanity All five books are available at: www.killtopia.co Shares appreciated ❤️

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