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Emi @kayamalie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

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Luke Regan @highlandgames.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Northern lights off the far north coast of the Scottish Highlands just now:)

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Panel Per Day @panelperday.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Great gladiators make theatre of a killing, delivering death with a flourish and a bow

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Astro Gabe @astrogabe.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My photo of the 97% partial #lunar #eclipse on Nov 18, 2021, from the central Texas Hill Country with a 10" #Meade #lx200 #SCT #telescope and #NikonD810. I'm excited to repeat this with my 14" Meade lx200 SCT and #NikonD850 for the total #lunareclipse on Thu Mar 14, 2025! Stay tuned! 🧪🔭

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My photo of the 97% partial lunar eclipse on Nov 18, 2021, from my property in the central Texas Hill Country with a 10" Meade lx200 SCT telescope and NikonD810. I'm excited to repeat this with my 14" Meade lx200 SCT and NikonD850 for the total lunareclipse on Thu Mar 14, 2025! Stay tuned!

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The Lagoon Nebula (M8) is a star-forming cloud of gas 4,000 light-years away in Sagittarius. Spanning 55 light-years, it was discovered in 1654 by Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna. Hubble captured this stunning view in 2018. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI

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Todd C @toddc57.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Last night's waxing moon. 74% full. 📷 Fuji X-H2, XF 150-600 45 image stack, processed in Affinity Photo #photography #astrophotography

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Hubble captures the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, 46 million light-years away in Ursa Major. Its bright core, dust lanes, and blue stars stand out, but fewer emission nebulae suggest lower star formation. Fiery young stars likely cleared the remaining gas. Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, WFC3 Team

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Baby solar system Lynds 483 (NIRCam image). Processed by @yuvharpaz.bsky.social nerdculture.de/@yuvharpaz/1...

A NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) image of the dark cloud Lynds 483, highlighting a powerful bipolar jet. The jet is brightly illuminated with a mix of red, green, and blue hues, indicating different ionized gases and dust. It extends vertically from a bright, star-forming region at the bottom, against a backdrop of numerous faint stars. The image showcases the detailed structure and complex emissions within the cloud.

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The speed of light visualized on a world map. Credit: @interplanetary.bsky.social

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/03/2025

Quality trolling, @jococruise.bsky.social

An elevator carpet that says "Nintendo" but has the Atari symbol.

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

#PPOD: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spotted these finger-like rocks with its Mastcam on May 15, 2022. These rocks likely formed as groundwater trickled through rock in the ancient past, depositing mineral cements over time. 🧪 🔭

Close-up image of two long, thin rocks sticking up from the Martian dirt next to a larger, flatter piece of rock.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Full Moon is 0654UT 14 March 2025. Here's my capture of a Full Moonish from last March. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #MoonHour

The nearly full Moon on a dark background.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/03/2025

this is *INCREDIBLE* It's what landing on the Moon looks like, 2025 edition

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

NGC 1514 (MIRI image). M. Hakan Özsaraç Science NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI www.flickr.com/photos/mhozs...

This mid-infrared image from MIRI showcases the planetary nebula NGC 1514, often called Crystal Ball Nebula. It appears as a roughly spherical, glowing cloud with a complex structure. The nebula exhibits a range of colors, from a bright white outer shell to a mottled interior of red, pink, and blue hues, suggesting varying temperatures and compositions of the ejected stellar material. A bright central star is visible at the nebula's core, surrounded by a faint, star-like halo. The dark background is sprinkled with a few distant stars, while the bottom right corner of the image includes text stating "Processing M. Hakan Özsaraç Science NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI".

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The same side of the Moon always faces Earth, but not in exactly the same way. Due to its tilted axis and elliptical orbit we see about 59% of its surface over time. This simulation compresses a year into 60 seconds, making the Moon's apparent wobble, called libration, clearly visible. Credit: NASA

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. Credit: NASA Goddard

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down in Mare Crisium on March 2 at 3:34 a.m. EST. Post-landing, it captured stunning images, including a lunar sunrise, marking a significant milestone in private lunar exploration. Credit : Firefly Aerospace

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Deep View of the Tarantula Region with Light Echoes from SN1987a - Narrowband Bicolour - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2mm7Jym

This image shows what I believe is the first amateur detection of light echoes from SN1987a - 33 years after the event.
The light echoes are produced when the initial flash from SN1987a is subsequently reflected off interstellar dust as light travels outward from the event. Direct light from the supernova was observed on Earth in 1987, and we then see light reflected from dust in the interstellar space arriving later because it has travelled further to reach us.

The detection of light echoes was created by subtracting two Luminance images taken almost 8 years apart, on 24th Oct 2012 and 21st Sep 2020 respectively, in order to create a difference image which was then superimposed on a regular colour image of the area. The expanding light echoes appear as roughly circular concentric arcs, centered on SN1987a's location.

The image is a mosaic of two deep fields centered near the bright Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The field is filled with numerous bright colourful nebulae and star clusters (an annotated version is available here). At the LMCs distance of approximately 160,000 light years, the field of view seen here spans a massive 2850 x 1950 light years!
At this large scale the nebulosity seem to feature many bubble shaped voids of different sizes. These are formed by the radiation pressure from young star forming regions and shockwaves from ancient supernovae. The small but comparatively recent supernova remnant of SN1987a is also vis...

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20030...

Glowing blue cosmic cloud looking sort of like a dolphin.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 02/03/2025

I put out a photon trap on my driveway and here's the catch! The Pleiades, one of the nearest star clusters to Earth. You can see brown interstellar medium dust around it—which turns blue where it is close to and lit up by the bright blue stars of the cluster. 🧪🔭 #astrophotography

A long exposure photo of a open star cluster, a collection of bright blue stars and blue lit up dust, with brown-ish dust and other stars surrounding it.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Here are some nice mushrooms

A pair of fuzzy orange mock oyster mushrooms grow on the side of a burnt log, its charred wood provides lots of little crevices to emerge from. All photos by me

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

buff.ly/4bucDwM How detectable is Earth to others with technology similar to our own? In a recent SETI Live, Dr. Sofia Sheikh and Dr. Simon Steel from the SETI Institute explored Dr. Sheikh’s study examining how detectable Earth is to extraterrestrial civilizations. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #seti

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Detecting Earth: How Far Away Can We Detect Earth's Technosignatures?

SETI research often involves hunting for technosignatures—evidence of technology from distant civilizations. But how detectable is Earth to others with technology similar to our own? In a recent SETI…

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

a series of threaded replies:

- my post: who up waning they gibbous
- Papa Nurgle's favorite daughter's post: It's a waxing cresent tonight, JERRY
- my post: who up waxing they crescent

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Earth at night viewed from space.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Carina Nebula Jets (NIRCam Narrowband Filters). NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI)

The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a orange-burgundy cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively blue upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Here are some nice mushrooms

A cluster of five vibrant Orange Mock Oyster mushrooms grow from the side of a bare log, their orange gills radiating outward under fuzzy tops. All photos by me

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

#PPOD: In the center of this wide-field image from JWST is Uranus, one of the ringed planets of our solar system. That's an amazing capture, and it would be extraordinary on its own... 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

$A wide-field image of Uranus (near the center), taken in the infrared by JWST, shows the glow of the perpendicular rings around the planet. Several stars can be seen and recognized by their tell-tale diffraction spikes. 14 small dots are the moons of Uranus. And everything else in the image is a distant galaxy, ranging from on-edge spirals to faint blobs.$

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Moew and more OMC data by JWST keeps getting released. This one was processed by @yuvharpaz.bsky.social nerdculture.de/@yuvharpaz/1...

$This is a mosaic image of the OMC2-NW region taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam instrument. The image is rectangular and shows a complex tapestry of interstellar gas and dust clouds. The clouds display a variety of colors, including deep greens, warm golds, rich purples, and earthy browns, creating a swirling, textured effect. Numerous bright stars are scattered throughout the image, some exhibiting the characteristic eight-pointed diffraction spikes of Webb's optics. The background is a deep, dark space.$

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Ring nebula (NIRCam image). Processed by George Hatfield. www.astrobin.com/datbhc

This is a NIRCam image of the Ring Nebula, a planetary nebula. The image shows a central, slightly elongated oval glowing with a soft blue hue. This oval is encircled by a distinct ring of light, transitioning from a bright orange at the edges to a whiter tone closer to the center. The background is a dark expanse peppered with numerous stars of varying brightness.

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 18/02/2025

Anyone who tells you to follow your passion is already rich.

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