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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#Voyager 1 is nearly 1 light-day from Earth ... That'll happen at 12:16:07 a.m. CST on November 18, 2026. Onward, Voyager 1! Read more at: buff.ly/3HPVOLq 📸 Caltech/ NASA-JPL.

A spacecraft with antenna dish and a long strut, against star clouds.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The thick waning #moon will sweep past #Jupiter and #Mars early this week. Look east before sunup. Some North American observers will see the moon occult – or pass in front of – Jupiter at 10 UTC on October 6. More here: buff.ly/aXmUhY5

Sky chart showing the moon near Mars, the Beehive Cluster and Jupiter on October 5 and 6, 2026.

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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The #moon is going to blot bright #Jupiter from view at 10 UTC on October 6! Wow! It's gonna be cool. Many in North America and beyond will be in the "occultation path," and will be able to see it. EarthSky's Marcy Curran has details. Watch her video here. buff.ly/z5AS36Y

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

... golden northern bumblebee #Inverts 🌿

Large bee with narrow stripes on abdomen

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/10/2026

Slow motion pelican coasting above the coast bliss. 🪶

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tomorrow morning the thin Waning Crescent Moon appears close to Jupiter. 🔭 🧪

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🌈😃🌈 I saw a spectacular “glory” yesterday above my new house (which I still haven’t moved in to yet, because, reasons) but this was a delightful moment to savor. High wispy white clouds with ice crystals acting like prisms causing a rainbow effect. I did take way too many photos! 🤣 But here are 3.

High wispy white clouds with ice crystals acting like prisms causing a rainbow effect. Red, yellow, green, violet in a stripe of cloud in a deep blue sky.

A chimney and a roof, above are high, wispy white clouds with ice crystals acting like prisms causing a rainbow effect. The curved smile is a rainbow.

High wispy white clouds with ice crystals acting like prisms causing a rainbow effect. The colors are, violet at the top, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Putting up the Halloween lights, when a crow alighted in the tree out front and let out an enormous “caw caw caw.” Pretty good omen, Halloween-wise.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/10/2026

Ate them. They were okay. If you want the actual chickeny flavor (and being barely a whisper at that), twist it and just eat one of the wafers without the filling. Otherwise, the maple-y filling flavor is really the dominant note.

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Mandy Daniels @mandydaniels.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Waning #Gibbous #Moon Date: 2026 10 03 Time: 00:26:40 UTC Altitude: 29° 11' Distance: 366 544 km Phase: 56% Nikon Z8 Skywatcher 200P IR/UV filter Exposure: f/5.9, 1/40s, ISO-64 Focal Length: 1200 mm #astronomy #astrophotography

The waning gibbous lying back in a black sky and looking very close to last quarter. Huge amounts of detail can be seen close to the terminator at this phase, with many prominent craters clearly visible along with other features such as rilles.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tomorrow Saturn will be at opposition, its brightest for the year. 🔭 🧪

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another Blue Sky Moon! This morning it is down to 64% lit and just 220k miles away. #astronomy #astrophotography

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Find someone who cherishes you like you're the last radish in Aiden's garden.

sidewalk chalk drawing of a raccoon gently cradling a large radish

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today I Learned: (TIL as the kids say): There are such a thing as: cement ducts. In a house. 🤔 How do I know these things? Pictures. (Nope, not showing the pictures. Yep, your imagination is doing the heavy lifting.) 🤣 Knowledge.

A big yellow truck with suction thingies in a driveway.

Big yellow hoses going to the big yellow truck. A man doing a great job tackling a big project.

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s the little things in life. This might help me get through my day. And coffee. 🤣 Wordle 1,931 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My Wordle stats showing my 3 today Beat the Bot and the message: “You're in the top 14%”

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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Octcrowber anyone?

Silhouettes of pine trees with a perched flock of American Crows against a sky colored with an orange predawn glow

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Astronomer 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

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A hat trick of Moon shots today! Tonight's rising 69% waning gibbous looks fantastic in the north eastern sky. #astronomy #astrophotography

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 01/10/2026

Not a bad office view🌌 This image of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory shows the Milky Way & the ghostly glow of zodiacal light caused by sunlight reflecting off Solar System dust. Zodiacal light is faint, but Cerro Pachón's dark skies make it possible to see! 🔭🧪

Large boot-shaped observatory building under a clear star-filled night sky on a mountain. The glowing band of the Milky Way stretches low and parallel to the horizon on the left, while the faint, barely-there haze of zodiacal light stretches diagonally up and right.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just finished watching the first part of "70Up." Fascinating. The original series "7Up" was first broadcast the year I was born in 1964.

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EarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi skywatchers! 🔭 Late tonight, the rising waning gibbous #moon will lie near the ruddy star #Aldebaran with the bright golden star #Capella twinkling above it. The #Pleiades star cluster is also nearby. Don't miss them! 🌖🌌 And visit EarthSky’s night sky guide: buff.ly/wO2IARe 📸 EarthSky.

A hemisphere, the moon, is just above a wavy line, the horizon. To its right is a dot, the star Aldebaran, and above it is another dot, the star Capella. To its far upper right are 5 small dots, the Pleiades star cluster.

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just chiming in briefly with another great Rick Beato interview, this time it is Cheryl Crow: (it’s wonderful) 😎👍 youtu.be/-7ik1NeS4lc

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The Sheryl Crow Interview

YouTube video by Rick Beato

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026

OK for real now tho.

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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Tuesday. The moon looks extra beautiful now that the weather has (temporarily) cooled off and the mornings feel fresh.

Gibbous moon framed by trees in a cloudless blue sky.

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Mandy Daniels @mandydaniels.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Waning #Gibbous #Moon Date: 2026 09 28 Time: 23:00:38 UTC Altitude: 42° 22' Distance: 368 057 km Phase: 93.36% Nikon Z8 Skywatcher 200P Exposure: f/5.9, 1/250s, ISO-100 Focal Length: 1200 mm #astronomy #astrophotography

Waning gibbous, just past full in a black sky with very sharp detail in the craters and features along the terminator.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 28/09/2026

Bringing this kind of energy into the week. 🪶 🐣

a duckling shaking water off its head, the background is blue and the duckling is a contrasted yellow

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Diabolical 🔭 🧪

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy #MothMonday from this awesome Sweet Bay Silk Moth ,Callosamia securifera, who visited a few Summers back! #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #Moths #Nature #Awe and #Wonder #AltText #ECK

A photo of an adorable chonky orange and yellow Sweet Bay Silk Moth from the front as it rests on a brown pine needle. The moth's legs, and body is covered in fluffy fur-like rust orange scales. Its thick forelegs are mostly clustered around the front. One dark eye is visible, the other lost in shadow, the yellow feathery antennae peeking out from above. Its large wings are held partly open behind it and a small yellowish leafhopper is hitching a ride on the leading edge of the moth's left wing .

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I may have taken a few screen grabs. 😎👍

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

John Mellencamp still got it 😎👍

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I may have taken “a few” pictures of the setting #Moon this morning. 🤣 🤗

Setting Moon at sunrise with light rays from the west, pink and yellow, purple and blue pastel colors in the “belt of Venus” (Venus is not there, that’s just a name for this patch of sky) Trees and homes are visible at the bottom of the frame.

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you like some Merch, here is the Merch Page ⬇️ FYI: it took me a long time for me to get my merch last year, but I did get it! 😎👍 shop.farmaid.org/collections/...

shop.farmaid.org

Farm Aid 2026

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Neil Young on stage now for Farm Aid, on You Tube.

Wearing a hat with a big bill, Neil Young takes the stage with Chrome Hearts for Farm Aid.

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

John Mellencamp still got it 😎👍

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🚨 Alert: Headliners for Farm Aid upcoming:

7:44 PM - Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
8:36 PM - John Mellencamp
9:28 PM - Neil Young
10:20 PM - Willie Nelson &
Family

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s a full moon tonight! I won’t get a look because the nor’easter is doing its thing. But if you’ve got clear skies maybe you can see it #moon

A blurry full moon with silhouetted pine needs framing it from the right side.

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🚨 Alert: Headliners for Farm Aid upcoming:

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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trip report. Headed out Friday afternoon from Irvine to visit @palomarskies.bsky.social and see a show at the Palomar College Planetarium. Palomar College is in the town of San Marcos, which I had never been to. And which was entirely different from how I imagined it! I thought it was a little

Palomar College Planetarium with a boxy roof on which the tiles facing the sunset are orange and those facing another direction are blue.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two years ago today 🌿 Monarch Pass aspen

Golden aspen leaves glow in the morning sun

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The days are getting much shorter and it’s now a race to get home before the sun sets. But this little female Downy Woodpecker arrived just in time to forage just before sunset! #Birds 🪶

A female downy woodpecker perches on the side of a spruce tree trunk.
It is just before sunset and the sky is orange behind her. She is black and white while the tree trunk is quite dark. There are also some green blurry spruce branches showing in the background.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Tennis champion Serena Williams was born #OTD in 1981. + Ranked #1 in women's singles for 319 weeks, third-most of all time + 23 Grand Slam singles titles, most by any player in the Open Era + 4 Olympic gold medals, 1 in singles (2012) & 3 in doubles w/Venus Williams (2000, 2008, 2012)

A dynamic, close-up photograph of American tennis legend Serena Williams (born September 26, 1981) during a serve at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Her left arm is fully extended upward into the frame, her hand open as she tosses a bright yellow-green tennis ball into the air. Facing slightly right, her intense, unwavering gaze tracks the ball with fierce focus. Williams wears a navy blue Nike tennis dress featuring red shoulder straps, a white collar border, and an American flag patch on the chest. Her curly dark hair is tied up into a voluminous high ponytail, kept out of her face by a wide, vibrant red headband. She wears a matching red wristband on her extended arm and two delicate layered necklaces with heart pendants. The background is softly blurred. The lighting highlights the determination etched on her face and the powerful muscle definition in her shoulder. This image captures a pivotal historical moment: Williams went on to win gold in both women's singles and doubles at this event, cementing her legacy as one of the greatest athletes of all time.

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lichen! So much lichen ...

Tree trunk covered with a variety of lichens

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

alright I'm driving home now. here are dozens of crows NOT flying in front of the Moon as if I took it on a very black and white noisy film Camera 🪶

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

bonus absolute banger crow sky. best crow background I've gotten since the rainbow, tbh. it was hard to decide to shoot the moon or the sunset sky. 🪶

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