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Haus der Astronomie @hausderastronomie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Schon gewusst? Im Herbst steht der zunehmende Mond in unseren Breiten sehr tief über dem Horizont- so tief, dass man ihn selbst bei klarem Himmel manchmal tagelang nicht zu Gesicht bekommt, weil Hügel, Nachbarhäuser, Bäume oder Sträucher im Weg sind 🔭

Die zunehmende Mondsichel über zwei Stromleitungen am orangegrau verfärbten Dämmerungshimmel

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Mel Aura @melaura.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

AfDler sind solche lächerlichen Jammerlappen.😆

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ESO @eso.org · 14/10/2026

What’s hiding in Orion’s clouds? 🔍 Visit the Orion A molecular cloud, the nearest known massive star factory, lying about 1350 light-years from Earth. This region hosts many curious structures buried deep inside the dusty clouds. Discover them: www.eso.org/public/news/eso1701 🔭

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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial) @dscovr-epic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

8:02:36 AM on Monday, October 12, 2026, over the Indian Ocean.

Earth from space, centered on the Indian Ocean, captured on Monday, October 12, 2026 at 8:02:36 AM by NASA's DSCOVR EPIC camera.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Walter Valez’s 1984 cover art for "The Moon’s Fire-Eating Daughter," by John Myers Myers

A guy in a green suit rides a chariot with red wings being pulled by four birds, while a goddess stands on a thin mountaintop watching him.

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Concept art for The Fifth Element by Patrice Garcia (1995)

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 12/10/2026

In sozialen Netzwerken und Medien kursiert das Gerücht, dass die ukrainischen Angriffe auf russische Rechenzentren die Aktivität rechter Social Bots minimiert hätte. Dafür gibt es bislang keine Belege. netzpolitik.org/2026/angriff...

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Aus brennenden Rechenzentren in Russland wird kein Bot-Ausfall bei der AfD

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ESO @eso.org · 14/10/2026

New milestone reached 🥳 Nearly 500 segments of the main mirror of our ELT have now arrived from Europe at the ELT Technical Facility at our Paranal Observatory in Chile. That is around half of all the segments being made for what will become a 39-metre eye on the sky. 🔭 🧪

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EUMETSAT Users @eumetsat-users.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Following the release of MTG-S1 IRS L1 pre-operational data in July 2026, the data has been declared operational today at 10:00 UTC, see full details: bit.ly/4rE7QAO

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Astronomy Picture of the Day (unofficial bot) @fanapod.baldanders.info · 12/10/2026

#apod 2026-10-12 Jupiter and the Moons Image Credit: Chirag Upreti Web page: science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod…

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A rough vintage guide on how to use an analog watch as a compass. Source: buff.ly/3kn6Q03

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Starship Celtica ☀️ @starshipceltica.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Space Weather Alerts 🌌 Coronal Holes & Geomagnetic Storm www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ale... spaceweather.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/10/2026

Make space enough between you.

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Pascal blanché @pascalblanche.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"TRIBUTE" never posted #digitalart from 2025.ㅤㅤㅤ

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In this week’s newsletter, we go behind the scenes with Michael for the making of his cover for Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451. theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/pleasure-t...

ABLAZE (2020), Acrylic, 9" x 18", Preliminary concept for Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 featuring a view through a burning bookcase. A fireman in traditional jacket and mask stand on the other side of the gap in the fiery stacks.

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ESO @eso.org · 12/10/2026

Massive antenna, silent mirror 📡 The 15-metre diameter surface of the SEST telescope reflects the dark night sky over our La Silla Observatory. While no longer in operation, SEST was one of a kind at the time of its first light in 1987. Discover why: www.eso.org/public/images/potw2641a 🔭

The image shows the reflective dish of the SEST telescope, occupying a large portion of the frame. A person is standing close to the telescope, with their back to the camera, and wearing darker clothes. The sky in the background is filled with stars and orange to green undertones, and a white telescope, as well as a white container building, can be seen. Image by J. Rodrigues/ESO.

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Art by Chris Moore for Clifford D. Simak’s Time Is the Simplest Thing (1977 Methuen edition)

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Ralph Ruthe @ruthe.de · 12/10/2026

Dass ein Berliner AfD-Politiker Strafanzeige wegen Volksverhetzung gegen Hape Kerkeling erstattet hat ist eigentlich alles, was man über die realitätsverdrehenden Anhänger dieses Fascho-Kults wissen muss.

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Elektrizitätswerke Schönau @ewsschoenau.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Laut Klageschrift gehen rund zwei Prozent der historischen weltweiten Treibhausgasemissionen auf #Shell zurück. Für die Klimaschäden sollen bisher vor allem andere zahlen. #Brasilien will das ändern – und schickt die Rechnung. #Klimakrise

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Tödliche Überflutungen: Brasilien verklagt Shell

Ölriese soll fast 100 Millionen Euro Schadenersatz wegen der tödlichen Fluten 2024 zahlen. Staatsanwaltschaft sieht Mitverantwortung für Erderwärmung.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🇪🇺⛔️ EU approves largest expansion of sanctions against Russia since the start of the war: almost 1,600 items The foreign ministers of the European Union have approved the 22nd package of sanctions against Russia, said the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Conquest of Space (1969). Cool vintage poster from back in the day when it was still easy to list all space missions and satellites. Source: buff.ly/2uDkLXX

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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial) @dscovr-epic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

12:41:06 AM on Saturday, October 10, 2026, over the North Pacific Ocean.

Earth from space, centered on the North Pacific Ocean, captured on Saturday, October 10, 2026 at 12:41:06 AM by NASA's DSCOVR EPIC camera.

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Whomever wins, we lose.

The cover of Boardwatch Magazine for July 1996. The headline story is "Netscape vs. Microsoft: Web Browser Features War Swamps the Net." It pictures a fairly poorly photoshopped 'BillGatus' of Microsoft as a Star Trek Borg and Jim Clark of Netscape dressed up as Oz's Tin Man. Other headlines: "Javascript Bozo Filter For Easy Web Access Control", "Creating Animated GIFs: A Moving Experience", and "Anonymous Remailers: For Fun & Mayhem"

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Science Fiction Club Deutschland e.V. @sfcd.eu · 11/10/2026

Schon wenige Wochen nach der Erstveröffentlichung am 28. Oktober 1726 konstatierte der Schriftsteller John Gay, dass der spätere Weltbestseller "Gullivers Reisen" über alle Standes- und Altersgrenzen hinweg "vom Kabinett bis zur Kinderstube" gelesen werde. #sfcd #gulliversreisen #JonathanSwift

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[07.10.2026] Zeitloses Werk mit satirischer Schärfe

Vor 300 Jahren, am 28. Oktober 1726, erschien mit "Gullivers Reisen" ein Stück Weltliteratur. Dr. Kirsten Juhas, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am "Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies" an der Uni Mün...

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Next issue of my art blog newsletter is on art swipes. Here's an example - A 1976 illustration by Angus McKie on the left, followed the uncredited 1984 movie poster for Def-Con 4. Sign up today to get the whole issue tomorrow: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io#/portal/signup

Two side by side images depict very similar shipwrecked astronaut suits with a skeleton inside, half buried in a desert landscape with a big cylidrical spaceship behind them. The big differences are that the left one is more colorful and the spaceships look fairly different.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Asterix map of Roman Britain.

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Markus Erdt @markus-erdt-art.de · 11/10/2026

The animated process for a cover that I made for Ravensburger's Tip Toi Trollwald (Troll forest)

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A simple cloud infographic. Source: buff.ly/2ZgIZan

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ARKADY (1985) Acrylic on Canvas - 32” x 20” Having passed through terrible destruction, the former hub of the Galaxy in Isaac Asimov's classic opus is now a pastoral world. #bookssky #art 🪐📚

With a leather bag over her shoulder, a young woman with red hair stands on a metal platform set against a pastoral backdrop and blue skies. She wears an olive green jacket and striped shorts with yellow tights. Caught mid-step, she turns her head toward the audience. The angle of her legs are a mirror of the twisted metal of decaying towers that collapse into each other.

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Elektrizitätswerke Schönau @ewsschoenau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mit Bürgerwerken, @greenplanetenergy.bsky.social und @naturstrom.de haben wir einen Appell an die Bundesregierung initiiert. Unsere Forderung: ➡️ Verlässlicher und ambitionierter CO₂-Preis. ➡️ Zweckgebundene Mittel für den KTF. ➡️ Verbindlicher Fahrplan für #Erneuerbare. ➡️ #Klimaschutz ins Grundgesetz.

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Klimaschutz ist Standortpolitik

28 Unternehmen fordern die Bundesregierung auf, Klimaschutz endlich als Wirtschaftspolitik zu begreifen – initiiert von den EWS Schönau.

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Dan Burns @the-physics-well.net · 07/10/2026

Looks like it is an unsecure site so Bluesky doesn't let the link work. Here it is in brackets: "mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.…" There are some good ones on this site: www.planetary.org/articles/eve...

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Every picture from Venus' surface, ever

In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only images of Venus’ surface.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 07/10/2026

It's #Spacetober day 7, Venus. #SciArt #spaceart Artwork of the Venera 9 spacecraft on the surface of Venus. The Venera probes were a series of ten successful missions sent to Venus by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Venera 9 was launched on 8 June 1975. 1/2

A, hazy, yellow and rocky landscape, barren of life. The surface of Venus. Left of centre, sitting on an outcrop of rock, is the Venera 9 lander. There is lightning in the sky, although whether Venus has lightning is disputed.

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Ralf "Der Tankwart" Raths @ralfraths.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wie unangenehm. 😁Um es im Duktus der jungen Leute zu sagen: "Komm Training, @ulfposhist.bsky.social" 😘

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EUMETSAT Users @eumetsat-users.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Planned maintenance on Data Store and Data Tailor on 12 Oct, service degraded, see full details: user.eumetsat.int/news-events/...

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Artist Richard Hescox sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hescox... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his cover art, 1988/1989.

Richard Hescox's artwork for the cover of 'The Crystal Palace' by Phyllis Eisenstein

Richard Hescox's artwork for the cover of 'Taflak Lysandra' by L Neil Smith

Richard Hescox's artwork for the cover of 'Delan the Mislaid' by Laurie J Marks

Richard Hescox's artwork for the cover of 'Jason Cosmo' by Dan McGirt

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The many covers of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. And this is only a drop in the ocean. Art: Chris Foss (1973), Tim White (1983), Michael Whelan (1986), Hubert de Lartigue (1992), David Kyle (1951), Richard Powers (1962), Ed Valigursky (1962), Roger Zimmerman (1963), Don Punchatz (1966), Fred Gambino

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just a reminder that we're offering 30% off prints of Michael's covers for Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury. The sale runs until Sunday (10/11) at midnight. These are all printed in studio and hand signed by the man himself. Gorgeous prints of unforgettable SF art. 🤩 ~ME

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ESO @eso.org · 08/10/2026

A new collaboration between the International Astronomical Union's Centre for the Protection of Dark and Quiet Skies, of which ESO is a member, and @esa.int was launched. They'll work on technologies to reduce the impact of spacecraft on astronomy 🔭🛰️

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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial) @dscovr-epic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

5:55:52 AM on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, over the Indian Ocean.

Earth from space, centered on the Indian Ocean, captured on Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at 5:55:52 AM by NASA's DSCOVR EPIC camera.

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Concept art by Peter Lloyd for TRON (Walt Disney, 1982)

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Mel Aura @melaura.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Das!👇

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ESO @eso.org · 08/10/2026

Ribbons and pearls 🎀 Ribbons of gas & dust wrap around the pearly centre of the galaxy NGC 1398. NGC 1398’s spiral arms do not begin at its very middle, but stem from a straight bar instead. How many spiral galaxies share this feature? Find out: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1801a 🔭

A face-on spiral galaxy with a glowing central bulge surrounded by spiral arms. Image by ESO.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jim Burns’ 1999 hardback cover art for "Bios," by Robert Charles Wilson. From a past paid issue of my art blog newsletter, where I’m documenting my research for my new book on science fiction art: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/book-notes-p...

Two blue dragonfly-like aliens zip past a lush jungle with alien trees and flowers and some lumpy grass fields.

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