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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026
Trump is speaking to complete silence at the NASA center. Not a single person is applauding or reacting to anything he says during his brazenly partisan speech.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 26/08/2026
Let's rename Carina Nebula to the Dolly Parton Nebula because it's: 1. big, fabulous, flamboyant, full of ridiculously luminous stars 2. stars look like rhinestones 3. got a big mystical magic mountain for joy and F**k You nebula to the haters 📸 H. Boren/NASA/ESA/J. Apellániz/M. Livio/N. Smith
The large, luminous red clouds of the Carina NebulaAn open star cluster of bright white stars inside the Carina NebulaPillars of nebulous gas that are pointed in the top direction, resembling a large mountainA dark nebula that looks uncanny like a fist making a rude finger
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The daily global average sea surface temperature has reached its highest level on record. On 22 August 2026, data from the #CopernicusClimate showed 21.1°C, exceeding the previous record set in March 2024. 🔗Read the press release: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-d... @ecmwf.int ⬇️
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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ESO @eso.org · 20/08/2026
Over the past days, unusually severe weather has affected northern Chile, where our observatories are located. This brought snow to Paranal and to the ELT construction site. It left stunning images, while causing severe flooding and damage to several cities within the Antofagasta Region. 🔭 1/2
Snow-covered view of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope construction site at Cerro Armazones. The telescope dome and cranes rising through low clouds as the Sun shines brightly near the horizon.Aerial view of a vast snow-covered mountainous landscape in Chile’s Atacama Desert, with ESO facilities and access roads visible in the foreground beneath a clear blue sky.Wide view of ESO’s Paranal Observatory after snowfall, with the Very Large Telescope’s four Unit Telescopes visible atop the snow-covered Cerro Paranal under a blue-grey sky.Snow-covered landscape at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, with the Residencia building stretching along the right and the Very Large Telescope’s Unit Telescopes visible atop Cerro Paranal in the distance under a clear blue sky.
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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The #MMX launch poster was designed by my friend, Nasu Yusuke, and it is inspired by the ensō circle in Zen. It's an almost deceptively simple design to carry the weight of an incredibly challenging five year mission to bring home a bite from Phobos.
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A five year journey encompassed in one orange circle: The vision behind the MMX launch poster
MMX is schedule to leave Earth on a five year journey to the Martian sphere. But how could the scale of such an adventure be conveyed in a single
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a pleasing factoid: the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is the same size and weight as a T-Rex! Countdown: 15 days to launch! 🚀 AUG 30, 2026 11:26 UTC ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/mission/roma...
A sketch of a T-Rex dinosaur (big feet, tiny hands) next to a sketch of the Roman telescope.
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Progress complex in Samara is burning heavily this morning after an FP-5 Flamingo missile strike. Severe damage appears likely, but satellite imagery is still needed to confirm the impact. The regional governor confirmed a missile hit on an enterprise, for once not debris.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 13/08/2026
The wealthiest man in human history—who clearly performed several Nazi salutes on Inauguration Day 2025—is directly responsible for the deaths of up to 14 million people, including 4.5 million children, by 2030. He's not "quirky" or "weird" or "awkward". He's a fucking monster.
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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 07/08/2026
My updated class THE SCIENCE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM is now LIVE and COMPLETELY FREE at www.coursera.com/learn/solar-system 27 hours of lectures, full quizzes, full exam. And free. You can’t even pay if you want to. Or you can just find the lectures on YouTube any time.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 30/07/2026
Vera Rubin Observatory xkcd.com/3278/
Comic. Vera Rubin Observatory Discoveries: Bingo Card. [5 x 5 bingo card: black hole tidally disrupting a star; Planet Nine; remnants of a former Milky Way companion galaxy, 10,000 new trans-Neptunian objects, object on interstellar trajectory, star being eclipsed by weird object, secret military satellite, Kuiper Belt object that’s a surprising color; Mars-sized TNO, local group supernova, spurious signal from observatory kitchen, glitch in alert system spams all astronomers, space (free), Earth-sized TNO, defunct spacecraft, surprising number of small galaxies, neutron star merger, new supernova constraints on dark energy, new dwarf plane bigger than Pluto/Eris, lost historical comet, 5 million asteroids and comets, 50,000 near-Earth asteroids, object likely to impact Earth, Vera Rubin herself (faked death, stole spaceship), many very small dots.
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Alt text for quoted image: A large satellite dish, pointed directly up, is completely engulfed in smoke as flames are visible on the ground. Climate change is coming for all our current and future hopes, dreams, and aspirations. We must stop using fossil fuels. www.wired.com/story/spanis...
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One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.
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Loren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Updated with some more details from NASA: The plan is to use most of the Curiosity rover's test bed Maggie, while using elements of Perseverance's test bed Optimism. Part of NASA statement screenshotted
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This was the only result at #Exoplanets6 that I saw get a spontaneous round of applause from the audience: THE FIRST ROCKY PLANET IN A HABITABLE ZONE* WITH EVIDENCE** OF AN ATMOSPHERE!!! *Of an M dwarf, which are the only such planets currently accessible **If it's real, its' a weird one!
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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Scientists just found the first-ever name of a Maya astronomer. His name was Sak Tahn Waax, meaning “White-chested Fox.” Maya astronomers have long lived in obscurity, uncredited for their work. Now we finally have a name. #Archaeology #AncientMaya @antiquity.ac.uk 🧪🏺 New at #NationalGeographic
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Archaeologists decipher the name of a Maya astronomer for the first time
His moniker translates to "White-chested Fox."
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 13/07/2026
Live view of a stellar core collapse
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“(Researchers) found surface temperatures increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data center started operations…Strikingly, the impacts weren’t limited to a data center’s immediate surroundings; temperature increases affected areas up to 6.2 miles away.”
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Cosmic Penguin @cosmicpenguinov103.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Another booster catch video, from the LCC monitoring screen:
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.
Cara Gee as Camina Drummer in THE EXPANSE
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Fabio Santana @fabiosantana79.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels
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Summer ✨ @sumrtime.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
ASP Library Sale ends THIS FRIDAY. Everything is $10, $5, or free (+shipping via media mail) Please save these books from being thrown in a bin!! (some will be donated, but likely not all will be accepted...) #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭
Library with multiple wooden bookshelves filled with books.
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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If you'd like to follow the Hayabusa2# flyby of asteroid Torifune today in real time 🛰️🔭, Otsuka Minoru has put together a real-time version of his flyby web app! He notes that nothing will appear on the screen until a few minutes before the flyby just before 18:30 JST but it's super cool. Link 👇
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Unity Web Player | Haya2Flyby Real-time Player
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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 01/07/2026
omfg 🔭☄️
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White House picks Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories to lead new UFO council
A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security risks posed by UFOs...
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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The rover was ~120 m shy of a marathon at this location. If you follow the dark streak heading southwest, you’ll see two ‘fresh’ craters of equal size. The ‘finishing line’ was just above them.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I do hope @royalsociety.org are paying attention. In fact, I’m sure they are, but they don’t care.
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Fun fact: This is how we produce the overhead navcam ortho images. No nerd shit with math and algorithms. Only rad jumps for this rover!
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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Our Prime dollars hard at work: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne... - Via @skyandtelescope.bsky.social
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Amazon's Satellites Are Impacting Astronomy
The satellites being launched by Amazon are brighter than recommended limits — which means they'll interfere with astronomy.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 12/06/2026
Have you ever wanted to have your name 'Roman' a million miles away? Now you can! Send your name along the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch Aug. 30, 2026! Sign up here: go.nasa.gov/4ejkRcR Submissions close July 12. #NASARoman
An illustration of the Roman Space Telescope on a purple background.
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Galaxy Map @galaxymap.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Coryn Bailer-Jones is one of the main Gaia Mission astronomers. His huge table of Bayesian distance estimates are what most researchers use to convert Gaia parallaxes into distance. And now he has written a textbook on interstellar travel.
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Denis Erkal @derkal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Arrakihs mission has been adopted as ESA's next F-class mission, with an expected launch in 2030! It will look at the low surface brightness outskirts of 80 Milky Way-like galaxies. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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ESA adopts galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Science Programme Committee has adopted the Arrakihs mission. Planned for launch by the end of 2030, Arrakihs will capture the faint light from nearby galaxy haloes. ...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2026
This is a pogrom, incited and instigated by Elon Musk. This is now the second set of pogroms incited by Elon in the UK in 2 years.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) quoting a post by a user named Tommy Robins... (@TRobinsonN...).
Elon Musk's post reads:
> "Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!"
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The quoted post by Tommy Robinson reads:
> "The whole of the United Kingdom is hitting the streets tonight at 7pm following yet another invader attack on our people.
> It's time 🇬🇧"
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Attached to the quoted post is a graphic split into two columns detailing protest locations for "7:00 PM TONIGHT":
 * **The left side** features a long, numbered list of cities and specific meeting points across the UK, such as "LONDON - PARLIAMENT SQUARE" and "MANCHESTER - ST. PETER'S SQUARE".
 * **The right side** is titled "MASS PROTEST TONIGHT" and lists specific roads and roundabouts, mostly in Northern Ireland, marked as "CLOSED 7PM" (e.g., "CLOUGHFERN ROUNDABOUT CLOSED 7PM").
 * At the bottom right, there is a prominent yellow box with a storefront icon that reads, "ALL BUNNESSES TO CLOSE AT 5.30 PM TONIGHT NO EXCUSES", with the word "businesses" misspelled as "bunnesses".
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scottmanley.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For Artemis III SpaceX won't deliver the planned Lunar Starship, instead they'll use a regular V3 starship with an extra docking adapter.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.
A trench amphipod, Hirondellea gigas, from the deepest place on Earth: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (10,890m).
Alan Jamieson, Newcastle University
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 04/06/2026
Your child’s drawing on a real rocket? 🤩 Kids up to 12 can create a space-inspired drawing for a chance to see it printed on the fairing of Ariane 6, for the launch of Plato next year. ✨ Submit by 1 July 2026! More info 👇 www.esa.int/kids/en/thin...
Ariane 5 rocket launch in April 2023 featuring a special piece of artwork on the nose: This drawing was the winning entry to the ‘JUICE Up Your Rocket!’ competition, which invited children from all over the world to create a work of art related to Juice.
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Dorian Quelle @dorianquelle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If you use Bluesky for politics or news, I’d love your help with a short University of Zürich study on politics and social media. It takes under 5 minutes. uzh-mediastudy.org/join #promoted
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ESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 27/05/2026
Are you feeling the heat too?🥵 A heatwave is driving temperatures far above average across much of Western Europe and the UK, with record May temperatures reported in several countries. This map shows land surface temperatures across Europe, using Copernicus Sentinel-3 data from 26 May 2026.
Map of Europe showing land surface temperatures on 26 May 2026, with a colour scale ranging from blue (cooler, below 10 °C) to dark red (very hot, above 50 °C). Large areas of Western and Southern Europe appear in orange and red, indicating high surface temperatures during a heatwave, particularly over Spain, France, Italy and the UK. Northern and northeastern regions, including Scandinavia and parts of Eastern Europe, are shown in lighter colours and blue, indicating cooler conditions. Major cities including London, Paris, Madrid, Rome and Budapest are marked.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fun to watch Tesla and Musk fan accounts call my reporting wrong, only for them to ask Grok and have the AI tell them that I'm right.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 26/05/2026
Would like to highlight that NASA plans to re-open the contract management bid for JPL in 2028 when the current prime contract with Caltech expires. This means they are looking at *taking JPL’s management out of Caltech’s hands*, a disastrous decision likely so a billionaire can profit from it.
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#NASA #LunarBase - Participants for todays event include: • NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman • Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, ESDMD • Carlos García-Galán, program executive, Moon Base
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Incredible
Headline elsewhere on that cover “Are Economists Amoral?”
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scottmanley.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Anyone that tells you SpaceX is wasting money building Starship has no idea about how much money is being spent on AI development.
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
SpaceX was making money from launching rockets. Then Elon Musk decided to waste it by littering the sky with Starlinks and blowing up Starships; when he was not off causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people by interfering with USAID. www.wsj.com/business/spa...
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The Secrets Revealed in SpaceX’s IPO Filing
Documents related to SpaceX’s initial public offering show the company is unprofitable and CEO Elon Musk controls 85% of the vote.
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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · 20/05/2026
What a launch! Great start to our mission. Now sone days raising the orbit before science commissioning can begin!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 14/05/2026
Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
😱 We still have some ESA Bulletins going back to the 1980s! Surprise the space geek(s) in your life with an issue from their birth month/year. Just drop the month/year you’re interested in in the comments and, if we have it, we’ll mail it to you free of charge 😎👍
Colourful selection of ESA Bulletin covers, showing spacecraft, astronauts, satellites, data, artist impressions.
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