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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 19h

Wow, so this is actually insane! Check out some of the first data from the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, capturing the full northern lights oval around the north pole in ultraviolet light. All in daytime, whilst invisible to the naked eye!

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

holiday fair must-have

1941 article in Ideal Home & Gardening: Make your own GAS MASK CONTAINER To match dress, costume, or coat. photo shows a pair of simple, uh, handbags? pretty cool actually bc just a wastebasket shape, cut 2, with a curved flap on one if them. stitch a loop on the front, then one on the top; draw the latter through the former to hold the case closed. just like early covid cloth masks, you can have one for every stylish fit you wanna sport

not joking, totally want to go into production on these
doesn't every child need a GAS MASK CONTAINER hanging on their school backpack?
i have neither a sewing machine nor any place to put one, but if handstitching was good enough for the mothers of 1941, it's good enough for me

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astronomie.nl @astronomienl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An international team of astronomers has found the first so-called microblazar. This system is composed of a massive star and a black hole of which the jet is pointed towards Earth. It could produce the fastest particles in the Milky Way 🔭 www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/fi...

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First microblazar found could produce the fastest particles in the Milky Way

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Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy @api.uva.nl · 21/09/2026

Voor wie het gemist heeft, is hier de opname van de lezing van @profannawatts.bsky.social van afgelopen vrijdag: hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

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Six Decades of Neutron Stars - (SP C1.110) - 18-9-2026

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Huub Eggen @huubeggen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rond het middaguur vandaag bewoog de Maan vóór de planeet langs. Venus is helder genoeg om overdag te zien, maar bij ons zat bewolking in de weg, en het gebeurde vlak boven de horizon. Javier Manteca Exposito in Getafe, een voorstad van Madrid, zag met zijn telescoop hoe Venus weer tevoorschijn kwam

The image shows a thin waxing Moon with a very small crescent just over its edge at right. This is planet Venus. The image was taken 14 September 2026 12:22:20 pm local time, so during day time.

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Rae of Sunshine @mmedebeauvoir.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Today's serving of kitten spam.

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 14/09/2026

Oh dit is wel leuk. Hier in Nederland staat hij erg laag en ga je denk ik alleen de uittree zien maar dan heb je wel twee sikkeltjes in 1. Wel een verrekijker nodig denk ik.

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Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bluesky academics! If you're interested in breaking the current predatory and extractive publishing system, join us on Sept 23rd at UVA Amsterdam to talk alternative publishing models, using our new journal Futures Reframed as an example: ias.uva.nl/content/even... #AcademicSky #academia #publish

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Beyond Paywalls: Rethinking How We Publish Research - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

How can we publish differently, and what is already possible today? Diamond Open Access journals (free to read and publish & scholar-led) are an emerging solution across more and more disciplines. Thi...

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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whilst I was awake at 5am shooting the Moon and Jupiter, I took a quck phone pic of Orion and Sirius to the south east. Autumn is truly here now! #astronomy #astrophotography

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Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy @api.uva.nl · 09/09/2026

On Friday September 18, @profannawatts.bsky.social will be giving a free public lecture! The title is Six Decades of Neutron Stars. More info & abstract at api.uva.nl/nl/content/e... Where: Science Park 904, Amsterdam Time: 19:00 Tickets: pretix.eu/API/Lecture9...

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Lecture: Six Decades of Neutron Stars

Fri, Sept. 18, 2026

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Aliëtte Jonkers @aliettejonkers.nl · 09/09/2026

Best schokkend hoe neutraal dit wordt gebracht. Alsof universiteiten en hogescholen hun waarde vanzelfsprekend moeten aantonen via patenten, spin-offs en economische opbrengst. Zijn onderwijs en wetenschap niet óók gewoon van waarde omdat ze kennis, kritisch denken en cultuur voortbrengen?

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tiny Moon and Jupiter at 5am! #astronomy #astrophotography

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The job I would want if I didn’t have my job! Exoplanet faculty position at Amsterdam.

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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I was a graduate student, the administrative assistants had TWO FULL FILING CABINETS crammed with all the alternative theories sent into the #astronomy department. So much time and thought went into them, too.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Cat Righting Reflex was first captured on camera by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey in 1894. We do not know the name of the cat, or what it did to Marey afterwards.

time lapse image of someone dropping a cat, capturing the rotation process as it lands on its feet.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New publication alert! "Aurora forecasting apps as communicators of space weather: an exploratory perspective" which I co first-authored with Tanya Melnik. Read here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/ast...

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 02/09/2026

Ik geloof dat ik teveel Brandon Sanderson gelezen heb (en ja dat heb ik) want ik hoorde Stormlight in plaats van starlight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8yP...

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ENSLAVED - Solar Will (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

YouTube video by Nuclear Blast Records

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Any astrophotographers out there? I'm looking for images of people looking at the sky without telescopes. If you can share shots of meteor watching in deckchairs, or anything of you hanging out under the stars that would be fab. 🔭

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

😃Have my particle physics cousins spotted an actual #DarkMatter particle? I'm v excited! The chances of this 16 June 2023 blip just being noise, are about the same as the chance that today is my birthday (which it is not, but it is for some of you). We need more data to know for sure!!!! 🤞🧪⚛️🔭

A slide from a talk entitled "A single event - LZ230616). It shows some plots. I honestly don't know what the axes are, because particle physicists never label their axes in human readable form - one of my pet peeves. But anyway, far away from the main body of data is a tiny dot, something unusual. Is it dark matter? Who knows. But it's definitely something special!

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

oh my god I left my computer alone for a couple minutes and it FELL ASLEEP i think it might be alive

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Martin Bracken - FRAS -CitySpaceAstro @cityspaceastro.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Solar eclipse photos from the North Essex Astronomical Society event. #astronomy #astrophotography

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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The moon at about 97% eclipsed last night. I'll probably have more images, but I'm still going through them. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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Christian Fröschlin @chrfrde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I stayed up for the #lunareclipse despite cloud cover and the sky did in fact clear up during the partial phase! 25 x 2 sec RGB in 300 mm lens at f/4. #astrophotography

Full lunar disk against black background. Most of the Moon appears red and evenly illuminated showing albedo features like mare and rays. To the right a small bright section of the Moon is overexposed and fully white. The separating line is the edge of Earth's shadow and thus part of a larger circle. This shape is different from a crescent phase (as always with lunar eclipses the Moon is actually in a full moon phase).

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 28/08/2026

Het klaarde toch op! Maansverduistering in Purmerend. Uit het handje want ik heb momenteel geen fotostatief 🤦‍♀️

Gedeeltelijke maansverduistering waarbij de maan een heel dun rood sikkeltje lijkt, boven een bomenrij.

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Leonoor Gaatmaardoor @leonoor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Breekt het hier toch ineens helemaal open! Echt jammer dat ik geen goede camera heb... maar na de prachtige zonsverduistering heb ik nu ook de maansverduistering kunnen zien 😃

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A quick edit of tonight's beautiful lunar #eclipse.

A close-up photo of the full Moon during a 96% lunar eclipse. The top of the Moon is bright white, but most of the rest is orange to red in color.

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 26/08/2026

Het lijkt er niet op dat de weergoden ons gunstig gestemd zijn voor de maansverduistering vrijdagochtend maar ik ga het toch proberen. Met 93% is hij namelijk echt al gedeeltelijk rood. Op deze foto (door Rodney Oey) van het event van vorig jaar was hij 88% verduisterd.

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Gerard @gerard.fossilhunter.nl · 24/08/2026

Nooit zo bij stilgestaan dat sprinkhanen/krekels niet de hele nacht herrie maken. Ze gaan blijkbaar om kwart over 1 naar bed. Na deze opname hoor ik alleen nog maar vleermuizen!

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ESO @eso.org · 24/08/2026

A bubbling Betelgeuse ⭐️ 🫧 This ALMA image is one of the most detailed views yet of the surface of the iconic star Betelgeuse. The surface is uneven & lumpy, with peaks and troughs originating from giant bubbles of hot gas rising from deep within the star to its surface. 🔭 🧪 1/2

A star’s almost circular shape in various shades of orange, centred against a black background. The edge of the shape has smoothed bumps and extensions, and is a darker orange compared to most of the shape’s interior which is orange to light orange.

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 24/08/2026

Terug van vakantie en aan het teruglezen over de eclips. Het @api.uva.nl team heeft een waanzinnig evenement neergezet samen met de OBA. Bijna jammer dat ik er niet bij was (maar ik heb totaliteit gezien dus ik mag niet klagen).

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's approaching that time of year again...

Supermarket shelves carrying a range of bottles of alcoholic drinks under a sign saying "Back to School"

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 22/08/2026

Every so often I doubt my sewing skills and then I pick up fabric and say to myself “this linen (that I identified by touch) doesn’t feel like I’ve washed it (also identified by touch)” and I remind myself I am doing this xkcd to myself. xkcd.com/2501/

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Average Familiarity

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

A small paper nautilus octopus female riding on the top of a pink jellyfish.

A dark orange octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on the top of a four tentacled jellyfish.

A small octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on an octopus that is only about as large as he is.

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 20/08/2026

Zo. Spuit 11 is ook terug van vakantie. Deze gaat denk ik wel aan de muur <3

Foto van het diamanten ring effect van de totale zonsverduistering van 2026 met wolken heel dichtbij de zon.

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Mieke Roth 🟥 @miekeroth.com · 13/08/2026

De foto’s van gisterenavond. Hoop dat ze nu wel doorkomen. Schaduw op katoenen klamboe op het hoogtepunt

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 06/08/2026

Aurora op Jupiter.l 😍

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 31/07/2026

I think I'm getting the hang of it #sorrynotsorry

A small quantity of hand spun wool on a Turkish spindle

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Andy Casely @deep-twilight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Saturn, Rhea and spokes 6th July RGB image from a nice session a few weeks ago, some strong ring spokes are on the near-right side on the B-ring. There's a nice storm in the southern mid-latitudes, south is up. Rhea is to the left. Celestron C14, ZWO ASI585MM, 22mins, taken from the Blue Mountains.

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 30/07/2026

Cherenkov telescopen <3<3<3

Vier cherenkov telescopen onder een wolkenloze hemel in de schemering

De ondergaande zon schijnt op een cherenkov telescoop

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The kitty won 🐾

A fluffy black cat with large round eyes lies comfortably on a purple carpet, facing the viewer with a calm, slightly mischievous expression. An open wooden door reveals a softly lit room beyond, but the cat makes no attempt to go through it. The walls are painted in deep purple tones, contrasting with the warm beige light spilling through the doorway. Above the illustration, handwritten text humorously reads: “Great news! After screaming until the human got up to open the door for me, I’ve decided I don’t actually want to go in or out. I just wanted it open.” The scene playfully captures the wonderfully illogical behavior that so many cat owners know well.

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Tamar de Waal @tamardewaal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Er is dus een geringde duif die bij De Cocksdorp op Texel woont en elke dag naar de Dappermarkt in Amsterdam vliegt om friet te stelen. Dat leerde ik tijdens een vogelexcursie op het eiland.

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Join Xerces and make art that supports conservation! 🐝✍🏽 Job Title: Science Illustration Intern 🌎Location: Remote 💲Compensation: $24/hr, 20hrs/week 📅Duration: Sep-Dec 2026 ❗Apply by: July 31, 2026 Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs

“We’re hiring! Science Illustration Intern. Apply by July 31, 2026”

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 20/07/2026

Fijne internationale maan-dag iedereen. Hier is een close-up van de maan door mijn telescoop. Het begint wel weer een beetje te kriebelen om straks weer planeten te fotograferen.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@spacecom/spacex-6lea… I used to be excited about rocket launches. Fuck you, SpaceX, for taking that away from me by destroying the sky, the atmosphere, and dropping shit on me because of your terrible safety and […]

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Esther Hanko @oetie.nl · 15/07/2026

#til dat er blijkbaar een hype was eerder dit jaar dat tijdens de eclips op 12 augustus de zwaartekracht 7 minuten zou wegvallen 😂 www.astroblogs.nl/2026/03/04/nee-tijdens-de-totale-zonsverduistering-in-augustus-worden-we-niet-even-gewichtloos/

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Nee, tijdens de totale zonsverduistering in augustus worden we niet even gewichtloos

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Huub Eggen @huubeggen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Noctilucent clouds this morning. Image taken 15 July 2026 03:52 CEST (UT+2). Later the clouds got visible from NNW to E and reached an elevation of about 40 degrees. More images later. @leonoor.bsky.social @nachtwolken.bsky.social @sjbastro.bsky.social

The image shows an early morning twilight sky over trees and houses. An orange coloured dust band at bottom. Whispy white and blueish clouds in the sky.

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