Reposted by SashaPhil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Why is this planet orbiting its star backwards? badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-swiftly-... 🧪 🔭badastronomy.beehiiv.comA swiftly tilted planetHow did this exoplanet wind up orbiting its star backwards? 1397 39
Reposted by Sashamegadirt.bsky.social @megadirt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026@robinince.bsky.social Hey Robin im sorry to be a bother, but could you share this as the best bookshop in Belfast is at risk www.gofundme.com/f/save-our-b...gofundme.comDonate to Save our bookshop, Keats & Chapman Belfast, organized by William BurlinghamHi folks, I'm Bill and I'm the man who created this iconic second han… William Burlingham needs your support for Save our bookshop, Keats & Chapman Belfast 02012 20
Reposted by SashaRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Belfast’s wonderful bookshop needs help 14021 40
Reposted by SashaMichael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Today’s 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ShoreBirds, so here are a heron and a pelican at the beach. 1151 15
Reposted by SashaChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026What kynde of nation doth lyvestreame a killinge? Whethir done yn the name of some law or not? What newe and obscene bloode rite ys thys? 616028 160
Reposted by SashaChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026FUCK NO TO LIVESTREAMING A KILLING 329247 292
Reposted by SashaChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Seriouslye, how fucked uppe ys that shytte? 217823 178
Reposted by Sashatwinmade.bsky.social @twinmade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sunday 11th October - Introduction to Embroidery + Cross Stitch 11am - 1pm £25 www.twinmade.com/purchase/emb... #TwinMade #Cardiff #SouthWales #Embroidery #CrossStitch #CraftClasstwinmade.comTwin Made embroidery Workshops - craft classes - embroidery - cross stitch - Cardiff — Twin MadeGet ready to learn this addict craft! During this two hour session you will learn how to create bargello stitches, design your own and create a bookmark or wall hanging! All materials provided. 022 2
Reposted by SashaDavid Bez Artist @davidbezartist.bsky.social · 08/10/20263420 City Deconstruction (231) acrylic and oil on paper 19x16 inches. You can see more of my work here www.instagram.com/davidbezarti... #Cityscape #Art #Painting #Architecture 0194 19
Reposted by SashaSimeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪 14729272 729
Reposted by SashaRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 06/10/2026From NASA 📍Gale Crater, Aug. 11, 2026, 8:30 a.m. local Mars time. The Curiosity rover captures the Sun rising on crags known as yardangs, a scene that scientists have long been waiting to see up close. 5249101 249
Reposted by SashaRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My ambition is to have at least 3000 followers (free to sign up) and 300 people signed up to a tier at patreon.com/robinince by the end of the year - there will be at least one major podcast a week - currently Liberation Conversations - and lots of smaller ones like Science Gossip #podcast #sciencepatreon.com 24217 42
Reposted by SashaRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A little more science gossip about tricycles and alligator birds www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... #science #transport #fossilspatreon.comScience Gossip (and siftings from tricycles to alligator birds) | Robin InceScience Gossip (and siftings from tricycles to alligator birds) by Robin Ince on Patreon. Join Robin Ince's community for exclusive content and updates. 073 7
Reposted by SashaCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 02/10/2026This is an excellent video that was *made in 1958* that covers these early days of the emergence of #RadioAstronomy in Australia. Highly recommend this -- it's like a time capsule of what they knew of the radio sky back then (juxtaposed against what we know today). it's very good!youtube.comRadio astronomy in Australia (1958)YouTube video by CSIRO 4479 47
Reposted by SashaCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 02/10/2026Pawsey, along with Ruby Payne-Scott and Lindsay McCready took the observations and compared them with solar observations made at Mount Stromlo Observatory (Canberra), finding radio emissions correlated with Sunspots. Findings were published in Nature www.nature.com/articles/157... 📸 CSIRO 1154 15
Reposted by SashaCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 02/10/2026Today is the 81st anniversary of the birth of #RadioAstronomy in Australia! 📡 It grew out of radar tech built here in Sydney during WWII. As the war ended, military activity shifted to research, investigating the strange 'noise' and 'interference' coming from the Sun. 📸 J. Messer/NSW G.R. 19524 95
Reposted by SashaAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🥳 New Observatory alert! (Yes, she cuts ribbons!) Huge congratulations to Dr Charles Wang and all the wonderful #Aberdeen University team who have built the brand new Anne Cruickshank Observatory! 🔭🏴 ℹ️: www.abdn.ac.uk/news/26204/ 🎥: Dave Galloway NorthSound1 710020 100
Reposted by SashaCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 30/09/2026Moral of this story .... Talk about your science. Blog about it. Write about it. Write a thread on your papers. Make a short video. Anything! Put it out there in the world in language that is accessible to many, and you never know who might be reading, or what good effect that might have on them. 0161 16
Reposted by SashaPhil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh wow, what an odd galaxy! Super flat edge-on spiral with an actively feeding black hole in its center. It's only 120 million light-years away; from the image I would've guessed it was farther. Click thru for more info. 413716 137
Reposted by SashaVincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here it comes... the large coronal hole is almost directly facing Earth now, which means fast solar wind is 3-4 days away. In fact, NOAA SWPC has just issued a G1/minor storm watch for Oct 2. This means there are chances for mid-latitude auroral displays Thu and Fri nights. #heliophysics 12450159 450
Reposted by SashaJustin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Shane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...sdross0.github.ioWhat would orbital data centers look like from your sky?500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser. 39266 92
Reposted by SashaCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 30/09/2026Yeah, um, I think the words I am looking for here are "JFC" This is what Sydney's skies would look like tonight under these conditions. 44016 40
Reposted by SashaHourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Life in the Milky Way Galaxy - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2roeDrA 122246 222
Reposted by SashaJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20647501187 4.8K
Reposted by SashaNate 'The Belated' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.” - Dolly Parton 18314 83
Reposted by SashaLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Then left again, next left, then take another left, and one more, then left again, then hang left, and again… 1447694 476
Reposted by SashaKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026Apropos of the campus-setting novel I’m currently reading, I’d just like to put out there that I am available to authors to consult on what grad students and researchers and professors actually do and act like and my rates are reasonable. 39103585 1K
Reposted by SashaMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026No. What he would do was this. He would put on the record of bagpipe music. He would listen to it, every last banshee wail of it. 083 8
Reposted by SashaRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Day two of promoting this! They’ve jumped from 41% to 54% of their fundraising goal since yesterday. 1189 18
Reposted by SashaNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 18/09/2026Meet LEDA 1205871 and LEDA 29228, two galaxies in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of COSMOS. 🔭🧪 They're “shell” galaxies, created when a larger galaxy absorbs a smaller one. These cosmic ripples preserve clues to past mergers, and Rubin’s sensitivity will help uncover many more 🌌 04310 43
Reposted by SashaCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 18/09/2026I'm finally so excited to share this! My second PhD paper, and what I've spent the last year working on ... We've discovered not one, BUT TWO, profile change events on the closest and brightest millisecond pulsar (MSP) to Earth! www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/disc... Let's jump ito a 🧵👇 🔭📡 823558 235
Reposted by SashaJen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Beautifully put together and fun. It's a birdsong recognition game, but the clever bit is the historical element: each round is set in a time and place, and invites you to imagine what the soundscape might have been" @levparikian.bsky.social bird-times.lovable.app #Birdsong #IndieDev #GameDev 23913 39
Reposted by SashaRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A delightful book of railway architecture found in Eastbourne Library shop. Enjoy your browse. #trains #railways #architecture #books www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...patreon.comRailway Architecture of the South East | Robin InceI usually do well when I book stalk in Eastbourne. Today I bought lots of pulp books from Camilla's , Photography Yearbook 1959 from Oxfam, 1394 39
Reposted by SashaYorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Morning Tracks. 14°C and a fine day ahead. Sparrows. 411820 118
Reposted by SashaDr. Amber Straughn (she/her) @astraughnomer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is one of my all-time favorite astronomy graphics. The coffee you drank this morning came from the Big Bang ☕💥 Yesterday's #apod Read more: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26091... 15515 55
Reposted by SashaAstronomy Picture of the Day (unofficial bot) @fanapod.baldanders.info · 14/09/2026#apod 2026-09-14 Where Your Elements Came From Web page: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260914.html 11415 15
Reposted by SashaChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'm at @greshamcollege.bsky.social tonight (in London and online) at 7pm talking about @vrubinobs.bsky.social and @lsstuk.bsky.social - tickets still available here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sky.... 🔭gresham.ac.ukThe Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing SkyNb. This lecture was moved from its previous date in April due to delays receiving data from the Vera Rubin Observatory, which is a key element of the talk. Those who reserved tickets for the original... 44313 43
Reposted by SashaChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Then in our month of astronomy you've got me on inflation on the 23rd September (www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/cos...) and then on the 25th a Festival of Astronomical Ideas (www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/fes...), with @helenczerski.bsky.social and other friends. All free. Come along if you can!gresham.ac.ukCosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our UniverseOur expanding Universe only makes sense if, early on, it expanded rapidly in a period of cosmic inflation. In this lecture, we consider the evidence for this apparently arbitrary idea, and asks whethe... 1144 14
Reposted by SashaDavid Bez Artist @davidbezartist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026L1637 Ornamental Gardens acrylic and oil on paper 8x9 inches. You can see more of my work here www.instagram.com/davidbezarti... #Art #Painting #Garden #Flowers 0306 30
Reposted by SashaChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The newe seasoun of Ted Lasso ys so goode 0553 55
Reposted by SashaRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Light show. McDonald Observatory, Texas 216237 162
Reposted by SashaChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We are all straungeres. We are all lost. But we nevir are alone. Helpe somebodye. Give somebodye a kynde worde. Take comfort yn goode wordes and music and art from the past or present. And be kynde to thyselfe too. Thou art doinge thy best. 326673 266
Reposted by SashaMini Motley Sanctuary @minisanctuary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Please can you SHARE our fundraiser as far as it can go? We’re a not-for-profit animal sanctuary and we need help reaching our target of £10,000 for vet bills & big hay deliveries £8970 to go - can we reach our target this weekend? Thank you! 👉 gofund.me/b49d86bfd #rescueanimals #animalsanctuary 49766 97
Reposted by Sashatwinmade.bsky.social @twinmade.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Lampshade Making. Looking forward to see what these look like up and in their new homes. #TwinMade #Cardiff #Lampshades 011 1
Reposted by SashaRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is shocking to hear! Einstein kept a picture of Maxwell on his office wall and admired him more than any other scientist. Every fall I teach a whole course about his work. This is like hearing that Westminster Abbey might be purchased so a new car rental place can built on Newton’s grave. 10226132 226
Reposted by SashaTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My wife has just overheard a small child outlining the grounds for why she didn't like someone as "If I told him I'd seen a rabbit he'd just say okay and that would be the end of it." Seems like solid reasoning to me. 930222 302
