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A glimpse of Europe's future in low Earth orbit. We've selected two European industrial teams to study the feasibility of a future European-led orbital outpost, exploring how Europe could strengthen its role in low Earth orbit in the post-ISS

Artist's impression of a potential European-led orbital station

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 7h

Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 🔭 🧪 ☀️

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 20h

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, commander, waves from a T-38 jet during crew arrival for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-...

A blue toned photograph featuring astronaut Jessica Watkins smiling, waving her gloved hand.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another beautiful name offered by the A Hua He Inoa program: Nāpōwawā‘enakaulua, meaning: “Two celestial bodies of fathomless powerful darkness (black holes) in the brilliance of heat reincarnating energy into the Universe” in the indigenous Hawaiian language. 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2609.31835

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$\textit{Nāpōwawā`enakaulua}$: a close quasar pair at cosmic dawn in the Aether survey

We present the discovery and first characterization of $\textit{Nāpōwawā`enakaulua}$: the most compact known quasar pair candidate in the Epoch of Reionization, with a projected separation of only $0....

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 29/09/2026

A galactic house of mirrors 🌌🪞 Webb has captured this spectacular view of the galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Its gravity is warping & multiplying the images of background galaxies, which appear like they have stepped into a house of mirrors! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Furtak, S. Fujimoto

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 28/09/2026

A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter Earlier today, Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras. 1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam 3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left.

Part of the island of Madagascar in black and white.

A crescent Moon, with about a quarter of the Moon showing. Many craters are visible.

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Cynthia Phillips, PhD @planetcynthia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interviewed about the upcoming Earth flyby by the @esa.int European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft, which will fly past Earth tomorrow on its way out to the Jupiter system! NASA's Europa Clipper Mission will follow with an Earth flyby coming up on December 3. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

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Why a spacecraft exploring moons where life may thrive is zipping by Earth

Sent to determine what conditions hypothetical life would face deep in the solar system, “Juice” must first make two more passes of everyone’s favorite inhabited world.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coming up tomorrow, ESA's Juice spacecraft will fly past Earth for another gravity assist! I had the fantastic opportunity to help planning the JMC shots this time around. We're trying a bunch of new things with this camera, so I'm really excited to see how they'll turn out. 🔭🧪 #planetsci

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 26/09/2026

2ème prix du concours Capture the Dark 2026 parmi plus de 2 200 concurrents voici la somptueuse image de Yifei Pei, prise à Mangya, dans la préfecture de Haixi, en Chine. Elle s'intitule "Terre sculptée par le vent, nuit écrite par les étoiles". darksky.org/what-we-do/e...

Panorama désertique, en Chine, sous un ciel en rotation. Le grand angle du panorama montre, au centre, la direction du Nord, encadré per l'Est et l'Ouest. A l'extrême droite et gauche, on voit le mouvement des étoile dans la direction du Sud.
Au centre, un humain avec une lampe éclaire une toute petite partie des rochers érodés par des millénaires de vent.

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I get a Saturday of science in the beautiful Vermont mountains with the 37th annual Keck Northeast Astronomy consortium undergraduate research symposium (1/?) 🔭🧪

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Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't have my carving tools, just a blunt paring knife, but making pomelo lanterns keeps me from eating more mooncakes at this family mid-autumn dinner. 🌕🥮🍈

Yellowish pomelo carved open, rejoined with raffia, and 秋(autumn) carved in the skin.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Captured my 100th #invader this morning, walking the Chapelle area in the north of the city

The gallery of the flashInvaders app displaying a dozen of freshly flashed space invaders.

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a bird, it's a star, it's the Superman galaxy! About 105 million light years away. Image credit: my tiny telescope, about 8 hrs of 10s images #astronomy #science 🔭👩‍🔬

A galaxy whose arms look like the letter S.

The core of this galaxy shows a remarkable shift in the radio regime, an indication that the galaxy is still struggling to settle after a merger.

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Gibbé 🌖 Startracker @startracker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Le Soleil 🌞 La Pleine Lune 🌝 et moi entre les deux dans le port d'Hambourg 😉

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 25/09/2026

Le télescope spatial Hubble a bouclé sa 200 000ème orbite autour de la Terre le 19 septembre 2026 ! 🥳 Au cours de ses 36 années d'existence, Hubble a parcouru plus de 8 MILLIARDS de km autour de la Terre et a réalisé au total plus d'1,7 million d'observations. 👇

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Curiosity at work yesterday Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech #Mars 🔭🧪

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow!

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Société Astronomique de France @safastrofrance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Le Nº 208 Octobre 2026 de L’ASTRONOMIE est paru ! 🔭🧪 Parmi les sujets : 🔴 La mission ExoMars TGO : dix années d’observation en orbite martienne 🔴 Les canaux martiens : une anecdote de l’histoire de Mars ? ☀️⚫️ Portraits célestes spécial éclipse de Soleil 👉 🗞️ S’abonner : tinyurl.com/5n8spstd

L’Astronomie, une publication de la Société Astronomique de France.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19, 2026. Hubble has traveled more than 5 billion miles around Earth over its 36-year lifetime, exceeding 1.7 million total observations. science.nasa.gov/missions/hub... #Hubble 🔭🧪

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NASA's Hubble Seeks Lensed Supernova, Marks 200,000 Orbits - NASA Science

Hubble has traveled more than 5 billion miles around Earth over its 36-year lifetime, exceeding 1.7 million total observations. An observation completed on

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perseverance Mastcam-Z 360° Panorama #55: Groloy (and Viking Lander Commemoration), Sol 1932 (July 27, 2026) ☑️ all panoramas mastcamz.asu.edu/mastcam-zs-3... ☑️ 360° VR view maps.planet.fu-berlin.de/jezero/360/55 #Mars 🔭🧪

An enhanced color 360° panorama capturing a Martian landscape with the Perseverance rover in the foreground.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stereo3D view captured yesterday by Curiosity To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye. #Mars Sept. 22, 2026 - Sol 5022 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

A dual left/right stereoscopic pair of black and white photographies capturing the Mars rover Curiosity instrumented turret stretched over a sand ripple. This dual image is intended to be used to obtain a Stereo3D rendition of the scene through parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed viewing.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My Etsy shop is open again! I make gemstone and wire jewelry and art inspired by space. Every piece is one-of-a-kind and handmade by me. I'm busily restocking the shop; and I'm happy to make custom pieces. Check it out at elakdawalla.etsy.com

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elakdawalla - Etsy

Shop Emily's Space Craft by elakdawalla located in Los Angeles, California.

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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As OREX formally closes shop at the end of this month, the science in that precious container goes on. Meanwhile the successor mission APEX heads on to Apophis.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Three years ago on this day, September 24, 2023, the sample return capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission touches down in the desert in Utah. The sample inside was collected from the asteroid Bennu three years before. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber flic.kr/p/2qisTV8 🔭🧪

The sample return capsule from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, September 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample inside was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. After dropping off the sample, the spacecraft was renamed OSIRIS-APEX and sent on a new mission to explore asteroid Apophis in 2029.
Credit text: NASA on the Commons

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NOIRLab image of the week Rubin and the Seven Sisters Credit: NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/H. Stockebrand noirlab.edu/public/image... 🔭🧪

The Pleiades glow in the southern sky above NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory from a viewpoint on Cerro Pachón in Chile. Rubin Observatory is jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) began earlier this year on 29 June 2026.

This NOIRLab Image of the Week captures the seven bright stars of the sisterly asterism. The Pleiades are part of an open star cluster of more than 1000 confirmed members, known as Messier 45. This cluster is dominated by hot, blue luminous stars, of which up to seven can be seen with the naked eye under normal dark skies. There are reports of 11 members seen in the darkest skies with perfect naked-eye vision.

The Milky Way contains thousands of star clusters like the Pleiades, and Rubin Observatory will precisely measure them across six spectral bands. With unprecedented depth and homogeneous sky coverage, Rubin will make some of the first detailed observations of many star clusters in the southern hemisphere. Its observations will also uncover new star clusters and inform our understanding of the evolution of star clusters and of stars generally. During LSST, Rubin will measure approximately 17 billion stars.

Hernán Stockebrand, the photographer, is a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/H. Stockebrand
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"So we've got to make it look like she's in a simulation" "OK, got it. We'll make her shirt bright orange" "Fab! Float everyday objects in the background?" "I've got a chair, tennis ball and bat?" "What about an upside-down dog!" "Genius....and we're done" 😉🗞️: www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

Catherine smiling in black and white, with an artificially imposed alarmingly bright and pixelated orange shirt on. In the background floats a random selection of objects, a chair, tennis ball and bat, and upside-down dog that is very strangely proportioned - looks kind of cool but also kind of not.

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Alejandro S. Borlaff @asborlaff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Four years after the end of the incredible NASA/DLR SOFIA Airborne Observatory, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) got selected as NASA's next space FIR observatory. Go PRIMA! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class - NASA

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to

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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

arXiv has received a 17.2 million investment from three leading philanthropic organizations. Thank you to Simons Foundation International, Siegel Family Endowment, and XTX Markets for your support of arXiv! Read more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now is a good time to check out this webcam at Kilauea: www.youtube.com/live/HggWKlZ...

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[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

YouTube video by USGS

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#PPOD: 180 years ago today, Johann Gottfried Galle used this telescope to discover Neptune — almost exactly where mathematics predicted it would be. Urbain Le Verrier calculated the location of an unseen planet from its gravitational effects on Uranus. On Sept. 23, 1846, Galle searched for it. 🧪 🔭

$Long classical refracting telescope mounted on a tall wooden tripod displayed behind a low railing in a softly lit museum gallery, with a lit display case and framed historical illustration on the wall.$

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cosmography archives Schematic decomposition of the dipole anisotropy into its principal components. by Marc Aaronson and co-authors (1986) ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ.... #Cosmology 🧪

Schematic decomposition of the dipole anisotropy into its principal components: Local Group motion within the Supercluster, dominated by gravitational infall toward Virgo ; and bulk motion of the entire Supercluster, the direction of which lies close to the nearby Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster.

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Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences @canjearthsci.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#CallForPapers: Contribute to our upcoming collection on preserving geologically significant sites. ▶️ ow.ly/tACk50ZjMBG #EarthScience

Close-up of layered rock formations highlighting Earth's geological heritage for a call for papers by the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paris, captured by Sophie Adenot from the International Space Station flic.kr/p/2sBqtXq

Paris and the greater Paris area captured from the ISS, August 18, 2026. Credit: ESA/NASA – S. Adenot

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pikachu in the Cupola Credit: ESA/NASA – S. Adenot flic.kr/p/2sCdqCr 🔭🧪

A special Astronaut Pikachu plush travelled to the International Space Station to join ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot as part of a collaboration between ESA and The Pokémon Company International.
In this image, Astronaut Pikachu floats inside the Cupola, the European-built observation module that offers spectacular views of Earth and is a favourite spot for astronauts living and working on the Station to watch our home planet pass by below.
The International Space Station orbits Earth around 400 km above it, circling the planet every 90 minutes and treating its crew to around 16 sunrises and sunsets each day – a beautiful sight that has now been shared with Pikachu. Since 2000, astronauts have lived and worked continuously aboard the Station, carrying out science research using the unique microgravity conditions in orbit.
Sophie has spent more than 200 days in space as part of her εpsilon mission, conducting scientific research and completing three spacewalks over the summer to help maintain the orbiting laboratory.
ESA and Pokémon are teaming up to inspire the next generation of explorers. Whether through science or imagination, discovery begins with curiosity.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#TopOfThePops (well - top 10 - momentarily - in the Amazon 🔭Astronomy audio book best seller chart!). Beaten by the several books authored by your main man Brian, G.O.A.T Sagan, and deGrasse Tyson. I'll take that. 🥳 📻: amzn.eu/d/06m17g9B

The front cover of Catherine's Book (moody dark with stars, but peachy-pink and golden at the same time). Ranked #10 in the Audible Audiobook rankings.

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 20/09/2026

Issue No. 2, 1958 of the magazine *Science and Life* Sputnik 1 on the cover.

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Joe Levy @colddirt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know I’m supposed to mostly muse about drones & permafrost, but like everyone, I have been thinking a lot about AI lately. What strikes me most, & this is not an observation uniquely made by me, is the perversity with which we have invested our resources—what machines we’ve chosen to build and why

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ahmakiq Undae, named after the Mayan deity who locks up the crop-destroying winds, is the name of the large dune field where Dragonfly will land on Titan Credit: NASA/Jason Barnes flic.kr/p/2sBxDDy #Dragonfly 🔭🧪

Highlighted in purple, located in the equatorial dune fields of Saturn’s moon Titan, Ahmakiq Undae has a diameter of approximately 500 miles (810 kilometers) and borders the roughly 50-mile (80-kilometer) diameter Selk impact crater, to the upper right. Deposits formed during the impact that created Selk Crater are primary exploration targets for NASA’s Dragonfly mission. The yellow box on the global image of Titan denotes the approximate area.
Credit text: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

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Société Astronomique de France @safastrofrance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Journées européennes du patrimoine, découvrez l'Observatoire Camille Flammarion à Juvisy-sur-Orge ! 🔭🌌 📅 19 & 20 sept. 2026 Visites guidées, démonstration de la grande lunette, animations & stands #SAF dans le parc. Entrée libre sans réservation. 👉🏻 saf-astronomie.fr/journees-eur... #JEP2026

L'Observatoire Camille Flammarion - crédit Gilles Dawidowicz

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Foteini Oikonomou @astro-foteini.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had a fantastic time in Lund which hosted this year’s Particle days. In addition to a very inspiring meeting, they showed us around the impressive European Spallation Source facilities

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Shishangeni Crater Natural color image processing by the Mastcam-Z team at ASU. #Mars 🔭🧪

A mosaic of five red-toned images, on top of a zoom on its central region, capturing a 25-meter wide crater on Mars, somewhere in the expanses west of the rim of Jezero Crater. Images acquired by Perseverance on sol 1946 (August 10, 2026).

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Perseverance Mastcam-Z “Image of the Month” Shishangeni Crater Submitted by Sydney Larriva and the Mastcam-Z Payload Downlink Leads. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/sh... #Mars 🔭🧪

September 9, 2026: Pit stop! In the middle of a 3-sol (Martian day) drive to a new location called Idubi, the Perseverance rover made a stop to capture this stunning Mastcam-Z mosaic of Shishangeni Crater. Because Perseverance is equipped with auto-navigation capabilities, the Mars 2020 operations team can tell the rover where to stop during its drive to take mosaics like this and can trust the rover to take the images once it determines it’s where it needs to be. In the picture, we can see ejecta from the 25-meter wide crater impact off to the right side. This mosaic is made up of 26 individual frames and has been created with an enhanced-color stretch to show greater visual contrast. Credit image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. Credit text: Mastcam-Z Team.

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Jan Vacek @jv-honza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dnes 18.9.2026 / 5018 krátce po půlnoci v 01:33 UTC / 12:33 LMST vyrazila Curiosity na další cestu. Tentokrát vyrazila přibližně jihovýchodním směrem a po 57 minutách jízdy urazila vzdálenost 44 m. Také vjela do dalšího mapového kvadrantu s číslem 189, tak uvidíme, jaké tento mapový bude mít jméno.

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Alexandra Delbot @alexandradelbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tous les 3 à 7 ans environ, un phénomène parfaitement naturel se produit dans l’Océan Pacifique connu sous le nom d’El Niño. C'est habituel, mais cette année, tout pourrait être plus intense… Un épisode d’extrême El Niño serait en train de s’installer. Quelle sera son ampleur ? 💨

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Extrême El Niño, l’enfant terrible du Pacifique

Le Pacifique équatorial se réchauffe, les alizés faiblissent, la thermocline se déforme : sécheresses, cyclones, pêche perturbée sur un quart du globe, c'est El Niño. Prévisible 6 à 9 mois à l'avance,...

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