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Dr. Cindy

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Science & astronomy & good storytelling Recovering cosmologist she/her

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Stars in Avalon. Photo taken at silly o'clock (😂) this morning on Glastonbury Tor. Lightened a bit for the screen.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 19/09/2026
It's International Observe the Moon Night! First-quarter moon this evening, so if you have clear skies, go appreciate our celestial companion. Can use your eyes and phone cameras. But if you have a pair of binocs or a telescope, quarter moon is always awesome to look at cause the shadows!
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International Observe the Moon Night - NASA Science
You're invited! Each International Observe the Moon Night, people around the world celebrate lunar observation, science, exploration, arts, and culture.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wondering how Roman actually travels out to L2? Here is a cool animation which also includes JWST's orbit, from the NASA scientific visualization studio svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5673#media_g...
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Roman Telescope Launch and Orbit at L2
A collection of visualizations showing the path the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will take to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2).
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 16/08/2026
But did you know there is a Neutron Star Zoo?! That is, there are many categories into which astronomers classify neutron stars. Flick through this thread to learn a little bit about a few of them. Tune in tomorrow morning for a little bit about the history of Neutron Stars. #NeutronStarWeek
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Mount Wilson Observatory @mtwilsonobs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Discover Mount Wilson Observatory with one of our expert volunteer docents! Weekend walking tours at 11:30 AM & 1 PM take you inside our historic telescopes and the discoveries that changed astronomy. Tickets available day-of at the Cosmic Café. Learn more: mtwilson.edu/weekend-docent-tours
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 02/07/2026
Flip between Hubble and #NASAWebb’s views of star system FS Tau. Hubble’s visible-light image reveals baby stars surrounded by dust, while in infrared-light, Webb sees past the dust to reveal the cosmic celebration taking place: news.stsci.edu/4xW7CI5 🔭
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Marko Rummelsburg @markorummelsburg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Active Sun
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 12/06/2026
🔭 Venus and Jupiter: Conjunction from Avebury Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury ap260612
See Explanation.  Clicking on the picture will download
the highest resolution version available.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
 
Title: 
“A pie chart of what the Mars Rover can see”

Image: 
A pie chart. The lower half is orangy red. The upper half is divided into three, with a small browny red area and a small darker browny red area on each side with a larger cream section in the middle 

Key:
 Orangy red area: Surface of Mars 
 Cream : Sky 
 Browny red: Mountain 
 Dark browny red: Another mountain
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#hotdesking My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A man sits at a desk working on a laptop. He thinks:
"Why do I always end up next to the volcanologists"
at the next desk, two figures in protective silver heat suits take samples from a small volcano which spits outlava, flames, sparks and ash.
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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Jupiter (left) and Venus are putting on a great show in the evening sky. They will be even closer Monday and Tuesday. 🔭
Two bright planets in the twilight sky over some dark trees.
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Neptune’s moon Nereid may be the sole survivor of an ancient moonpocalypse. www.sciencenews.org/article/neptune…
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An ancient moonpocalypse may explain Neptune’s odd moon Nereid
Neptune’s oddball moon Nereid may be the sole remnant of an earlier system, formed near the planet rather than being pulled in from afar.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Psyche images Mars’ Huygens Crater Captured by the multispectral imager instrument, this is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens and the surrounding heavily cratered southern highlands near 15° south latitude. science.nasa.gov/photojournal... #Psyche #Mars 🧪🔭
Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASA’s Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens (upper left; about 290 miles, or 470 kilometers, in diameter) and the surrounding heavily cratered southern highlands near 15 degrees south latitude. The various colors in this dramatic scene are likely due to differences in the compositional properties of dust, sand, and bedrock in this ancient terrain. The image scale is around 2,200 feet (670 meters) per pixel.

The image was acquired with Imager A on May 15, 2026, at about 1:18 p.m. PDT, shortly after closest approach with the planet. The images have been processed into an enhanced-color view (to bring out color details beyond what the human eye can see) using red, green, and blue data from imager filters.

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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 19/05/2026
We need you to help classify shapes and features of galaxies detected by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🔭🧪 Join Rubin scientists and the @galaxyzoo.org team on @zooniverse.bsky.social in the new citizen science project, Galaxy Zoo: Rubin 🌌 www.zooniverse.org/projects/zoo...
Promotional graphic for Galaxy Zoo: Rubin edition
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Martian clouds glimpsed by NASA's Psyche spacecraft on May 15. Much more to come. go.nasa.gov/4tsCLPQ
Black-and-whte crescent view of Mars against the darkness of space. Clouds can be seen within the illuminated crescent, in clumps and layers above the planet's curving horizon.
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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 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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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The turmoil within. Glastonbury Tor this morning at sunrise. Not sure I have seen a sky like that before, it was ever so strange.
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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Here’s a multi-wavelength view of tonight’s X2.5-class #SolarFlare. This is the strongest flare we’ve seen for 78 days.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 22/04/2026
Download and print your own mini poster featuring Saturn—captured by #NASAWebb! 🪐 The poster is available single- or double-sided. The double-sided version includes the image on the front and a description in both English and Spanish on the back: go.nasa.gov/3ODnc9z
A rectangular poster with an image of Saturn (with Dione, seen as a bright dot to Saturn’s bottom left) against a black background. Saturn’s body is mostly composed of different layers of brown. Both of Saturn’s poles have a dark brown color, which gradually transitions to a lighter brown toward Saturn’s center. Saturn is surrounded by several bright, sky-blue rings. These rings are mostly broad, with a few singular narrow gaps between the broader rings. Along the bottom is a series of thin vertical bars ranging from purple at left to blue, green, yellow, orange, and red at right. Bars are separated slightly, with black in between. Bar colors are brightest at the bottom, fading up to black. Brightness varies from bar to bar, giving the array an undulating feel. At upper right is text that reads, “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” and NASA’s blue, white, and red meatball insignia. Title text appears at lower left that reads, “James Webb Space Telescope: Saturn.
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Claire Lamman @clairelamman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
DESI finished its originally planned survey last night!! ..and will keep going :) I made a cake to celebrate. 🌌🔭 @desisurvey.bsky.social
A black, single-layer cake. The top is decorated with a pastel-rainbow telescope and galaxy map behind it.A different view of the cake, showing the galaxy map spilling over the side.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Science is good. We should fund it.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 04/04/2026
2. Milky Way radio light reflected off the Moon captured by the MWA telescope (B. McKinley, Curtin University/ICRAR/ASTRO 3D)
An optical image of the Moon showing some of its familiar features, overlaid with a purple tinge. Intersecting the Moon is a bright yellow streak that represents the Galactic disc.
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Dr. Cindy @newtomato.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Zoom in on those aurorae! 😍 Thank you, NASA and Artemis II www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Hello, World - NASA
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The #ArtemisII crew has launched on their way to the Moon. Read what they'll do next and what is up with NASA's Moon base plans: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪🔭
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Lift off! Artemis II mission sends humans to the Moon — opening a new era of exploration
The astronauts will fly by the far side of the Moon in the coming days, taking in views never seen by the human eye.
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National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO @thenrao.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
#AprilFools Still the best prank our summer students have ever pulled. 😅 This photo is not edited - the students physically placed an "L" and "G" on the NRAO building! #Astronomy #Astrology #NRAO #RadioAstro
Photo of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory brick building. An L and G have been pasted over the N and M, making the sign say Astrology instead of Astronomy.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 25/03/2026
This new #JWST image of Saturn is AWESOME
The planet Saturn is clearly banded in this infrared view, and its rings are glowing. The small bright point at lower left of the planet is the icy satellite Dione. The background is pitch black.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 20/03/2026
Happy March equinox! ☀️ At NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory in Chile, this day marks the beginning of autumn. From here on out, daylight hours in the southern hemisphere will shrink until the June solstice, meaning longer nights and more time to #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪
The boot-shaped Rubin Observatory atop its shadowed rocky mountain summit at sunset. The sky is a darkening blue, with a strip of yellow and orange at the horizon.
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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Fun fact: people googling ‘Solar Flare’ is a great measure of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle!
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Ava Polzin @avapolzin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day! Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general). arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465 🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬
Cover of "Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics", which features an illustration of a 19-year-old Vera Rubin looking through a telescope over a backdrop of a first light image of spiral galaxies from the Rubin Observatory.
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Dr. Cindy @newtomato.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Ahhhh, this video is so great! ☀️ particles going through the Earth! (And I’m excited to see @thephysicsgirl.bsky.social talking about this!) youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc?...
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My first science video in 3 years!
YouTube video by Physics Girl
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Tasting History with Max Miller @tastinghistory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
How to Eat like Nikola Tesla
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
How have we failed to find aliens so far, and what have we learned from our mistakes? Words by my @carnegiescience.bsky.social intern Em Dobberfuhl for @sequencermag.bsky.social!
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Are we alone in the universe? Five times we thought we found extraterrestrial life
Though scientists failed to confirm the presence of extraterrestrial life in these instances, these misconceptions provide valuable lessons for future searches.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Chemist and physicist Ida Tacke Noddack was born #OTD in 1896. She was co-discoverer of the element Rhenium in 1925, and in 1934 she suggested that the results of an experiment by Fermi might be explained by nuclear fission. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: KU Leuven University Archives
Ida Tacke Noddack, seen in profile, wearing a white lab coat with her hair up. She is focused on and apparatus that she is handling. It consists of a white tube, about a foot long, with metal caps and a rubber line connected to one end.
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Dr. Cindy @newtomato.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
That headline! 👩‍🍳😘 🔭 www.extremetech.com/science/jame...
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James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus
The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Orion looking pretty tonight sitting majestically over Glastonbury Tor. A reminder that there is so much beauty and power in the world around us. Moon sitting top right so it's not me on a ladder with a spotlight. 😂
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/02/2026
New pic of Uranus just dropped
Uranus seen in infrared with JWST's NIRSpec instrument. The blobs around the polar cap are aurorae. The planet's ring system is clearly visible, almost directly face on.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Astro Attorney ⚖️🪐⭐️🔭 @astroattorney.com · 14/02/2026
Had some clear skies this past week so got about 2 hours on M81 with the Quattro 250p, Starizona Nexus reducer/corrector and QHY Minicam8 585m.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/02/2026
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The giant 70-meter antenna at NASA's Deep Space Communication Complex at Goldstone, California. Single-exposure photograph, September 2025 Ink and watercolor, April 2018 www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/
A large radio antenna dish at night, illuminated by spotlights and pointed up at a starry sky. Photo: Bill DunfordInk drawing of a large radio antenna dish pointed upward at a blue sky rendered in watercolor, along with hand-written notes about the antenna and its function, and a poem about the Goldstone station of NASA's Deep Space Network. Art and text: Bill Dunford
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/02/2026
Binary Star xkcd.com/3203/
Comic. [Over dark background, a five-pointed pentagram-style star orbits around a white circle with a smaller orbit.] [caption] Space news: Astronomers have found the first known system with a main-sequence star orbited by a five-pointed one.
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Adel Faure ⏚🍉 @adelfaure.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Full Moon #textmode #1bit #pixelart
Text mode base Full Moon drawn with black and white semigraphic characters. Moon is on the center of the picture surrounded by a starry sky. A shooting start is passing by on the left.
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Astronomer Paris Pişmiş was born 115 years ago today. Born in Turkey, she spent most of her career in Mexico where she was a central figure in building up the Mexican astronomy program, serving for a half century at UNAM and establishing the Tonantzintla Observatory. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky 🧪🔭
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Dr. Amber Straughn (she/her) @astraughnomer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The planetary nebula Abell 7 via APOD ✨ It's ~1800 light-years away & ~8 light-years wide. A planetary nebula is a brief final phase in a "normal" star's life - our own Sun will go through this in ~5 billion years as it sheds its outer layers. 📸: Martin Pugh apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012...
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Dr. Cindy @newtomato.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Keep zooming in on these images 🤯 🔭 www.space.com/astronomy/ga...
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'Eye of God' nebula looks like a cosmic lava lamp in new James Webb Space Telescope image
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Wow, we are nearing S4 / SEVERE radiation storm levels before predicted impact of the CME. This is getting intense! It has been over 22 years since we have reached these levels of proton flux enhancement. Quite impressive.
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Physics Today @physicstoday.aip.org · 15/01/2026
For Patricia Vader, staying in astronomy research for the remaining decades of her career was unappealing. So, after a successful and satisfying run in science, she became a sculptor. #physics #art
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Q&A: Patricia Vader pivoted from astronomy to sculpture
She uses the same approach to problem-solving in her art as she did in her science.
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András Gáspár @andrasgaspar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Sky & Telescope has a great in-depth article on the new Fomalhaut collisional object, with some quotes from yours truly. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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Did Asteroids Collide Near Fomalhaut – Again?
The young, nearby star Fomalhaut may be experiencing an episode of repeated, violent collisions within its forming planetary system.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Another unknown birthday: Amongst the earliest recorded woman in #mathematics, Hypatia lived during the 3rd century AD in Alexandria, Egypt, which was part of the Roman Empire. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮 🔭 #histsci She was born at some time between about 350 & 370 & died in 415 C.E. She taught philosophy, #astronomy & 🧵
My linocut portrait of Hypatia in purple holding an astrolabe up to her eye with her left arm while her right rests on geometric diagrams on sheets of paper on her table. Astrolabe and table plus diagrams are bronze in colour. I’ve shown her with curly hair piled up on her head, in a loose tunic with sash. Behind her are two Doric columns and arch.
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Dr. Cindy @newtomato.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Yikes! www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/l...
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Historic Lick Observatory damaged by 114 mph winds
The Lick Observatory is shut down after a severe holiday windstorm significantly damaged the historic building on Mount Hamilton.
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