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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 07/02/2026

Watching ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games was deeply moving. In a segment devoted to science, exploration, curiosity, and discovery, it felt like a reminder of the very best of humanity. #MilanoCortina2026 📸copyright: @Olympics, via X

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 27/01/2026

The power of persistence and community unity! What a great win for #Astronomy American company (AES Andes) was planning on building an industrial facility in the Atacama desert. This would've produced light pollution affecting the pristine skies where some big telescopes are. Well .... no more! 🔭

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Paranal: Night Sky Secured – A Triumph for the Astronomers’ Protest

The planned industrial facility near ESO Paranal has been halted, ensuring the protection of the unique night sky for astronomical research.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/01/2026

🧵 Announcing the Winners of the 2026 Internet Archive Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎬 🥇 FIRST PLACE: “Rhapsody, Reimagined” by Andrea Hale A dazzling reimagining of King of Jazz (1930) set to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue – an aesthetic triumph. Watch it here ➡️ archive.org/details/rhap... 1️⃣/6️⃣

Frame from Andrea Hale's 1st place film, "Rhapsody, Reimagined," featuring a man with a handlebar mustache. Behind him, and visible through his open mouth, are kaleidoscopic, repeated images from the 1930 film King of Jazz.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/01/2026

Wikipedia turns 25 today! 🎂📚 To celebrate, we’re looking back at its baby pictures—some of the earliest captures of the site, preserved in the #WaybackMachine. Take a nostalgic peek at early Wikipedia ⤵️ web.archive.org/web/20030301... #WikipediaDay #Wikipedia25 @wikipedia.org

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and "WIKIPEDIA.ORG" at the bottom. Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Cartoon Network website from JUN 8, 2003.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

From eclipses to meteors: The celestial events coming in 2026. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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From eclipses to meteors: The celestial events coming in 2026

Stargazers assemble! BBC Weather's Sophia Herod looks ahead to the year.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 15/12/2025

me: there’s a meteor shower! husband: where? me: in the sky husband: 😑😑😑 no like which direction

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/12/2025

I am often asked: What is the best telescope to buy for someone just getting into astronomy? 🪐🔭👀 As a theorist, I am absolutely useless and can tell you nothing. HOWEVER, my friend the wonderful @philplait.bsky.social is NOT useless and has great advice & relevant links here! ⤵️

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BAN #275: Telescope buying advice, Book: It’s Alive, Dial-A-Moon 2021

30 November 2020 Issue #271

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

For exactly 25 years humans have continually occupied space on the International Space Station. 290 people from 26 countries. NASA image. 🔭 🧪

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

If there is one physics formula everyone knows, it's E=mc². Einstein proposed the famous equivalence between energy and mass in his second special relativity manuscript. It was received by Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905, the day after they published his first special relativity paper. 🧪 ⚛️

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Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy-Content?

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the stars

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

John Forbes - ISOs are ejected from their host systems with a range of velocities, spreading out into tidal streams. The Sun is inside million and billions of ISO streams. The streams make enable multiple ISOs for the same star to enter a plenary system (but low probability) #EPSCDPS2025

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

@chrislintott.bsky.social kicks off the “interstellar objects” session with an interesting discussion of how the orbits can link to potential sources of stellar populations, which gives us us context for their potential chemistry #epscdps2025 #epscdps

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Trying to steal a phrase from the exoplanet people: to know the interstellar object population you need to understand the Milky Way: know thy galaxy, know thy ISO.

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Have interstellar objects ever hit Earth? No confirmed instances based on fireball statistics but intriguing hints. Dusan Marčeta explores the possibilities with a simulation and it could happen! #epscdps #epscdps2025

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Luca Nardi @lucanardi.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

At #EPSCDPS2025 I've met @plutokiller.com, who discovered Eris and proposed Planet Nine! I've already interacted with him for my book about missing planets, but it has been a pleasure to meet him by person!

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Dr Rok Nežič 🇸🇮🇬🇧 @roknezic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Love a good "looking for a job!" slide at the end of a presentation 😁 (Slightly edited to remove a QR code; contact Marielle directly if you have a job for her :D) #EPSCDPS2025

Photo of a packed conference room with the speaker at the podium on the left and a slide projected on a screen on the right. The left half of the screen features a meme with a photo of Yoda with bold text overlay that reads: "A NEW JOB I NEED" across two lines in all caps. The image has been slightly edited to remove some personal information.

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Dr. Nick Attree @nickattree.eurosky.social · 11/09/2025

some interesting results from #JWST in the outer solar system in an absolutely packed room. Who put the session on the biggest, best new space telescope in the smallest room? 😅 #EPSCDPS #EPSCDPS2025.

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

#EPSCDPS2025

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Colin Orion Chandler talks up the NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory 🔭 potential for comets, which is - of course - amazing #epscdps2025 #epscdps @vrubinobs.bsky.social

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Dr. Nick Attree @nickattree.eurosky.social · 11/09/2025

Day 4 of #EPSCDPS #EPSCDPS2025. Kicking off with some cool #JWST talks with some #comets stuff tucked into the afternoon session. We are also displaying a poster on the new 💎 #OpenAccess #PlanetaryScience journal #PlanetaryResearch today. I'll be there in Lampio foyer from 18.00

A white and blue poster with text and the title planetary research.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 11/09/2025

🔭 The Umbra of Earth Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25091...

The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. And on the night of September 7/8 the Full Moon passed near the center of Earth's umbral cone, entertaining eclipse watchers around much of our fair planet, including parts of Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Recorded from Zhangjiakou City, China, this timelapse composite image uses successive pictures from the total lunar eclipse, progressing left to right, to reveal the curved cross-section of the umbral shadow sliding across the Moon. Sunlight scattered by the atmosphere into Earth's umbra causes the lunar surface to appear reddened during totality. But close to the umbra's edge, the limb of the eclipsed Moon shows a distinct blue hue. The blue eclipsed moonlight originates as rays of sunlight pass through layers high in the upper stratosphere, colored by ozone that scatters red light and transmits blue. In the total phase of this leisurely lunar eclipse, the Moon was completely within the Earth's umbra for about 83 minutes.

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Percy the Mars Rover @percyrover.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So I found a neat rock

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Silvia Protopapa talks about first JWST methane gas detection on dwarf planet Makemake. Third large KBO body with volatile release (Pluto and Triton - it's a captured dwarf planet orbiting Neptune are the other two). This is either an expanding coma or a bound atmosphere! Wow! #EPSCDPS2025

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Fundamentally the #Mars announcement NASA is making today boils down to: there could have been some chemical reactions in these ancient rocks that could have been mediated by living organisms. The word "could" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there. 🧪

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Teddy Kareta talking about P/2023 V6 - it looks like activity shut off sometime in late 2024. See a point source in HST. Wasn’t expect V6 to shut off nor be small. This means that we might be able to see progenitors of Jupiter impactors before they happen with the LSST #EPSCDPS2025

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Dr Rok Nežič 🇸🇮🇬🇧 @roknezic.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A fun little bit of Tuesday morning making a Solar System keychain at the @europlanetmedia.bsky.social Regional Hubs stall with Thibaut Roger!! 😁☀️🌍🌕🔴🪐☄️ #EPSCDPS2025 (the larger black one in the middle is the asteroid belt, the white one at the end the comet reservoir :D also spot the Moon!)

Photo of a conference lanyard with a few pins, a large name badge, and a keychain string of beads attached to it

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Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · 08/09/2025

WOOHOO There is a candidate mission to go to the asteroid Apophis! I'm listening to a press conference from EPSC-DPS in Helsinki where ESA is sharing about their RAMSES Mission to Characterize this asteroid that will not hit earth bit will get really damn close.

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Dr Rok Nežič 🇸🇮🇬🇧 @roknezic.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Starting #EPSCDPS2025 in style by enjoying a total lunar eclipse in Helsinki 🔴🌕 It was a bit of a wait for it to clear the haze, and I think I might have been the first one in the group to spot its dim glow when it did 😎

A night-time panorama across a lake or bay in Helsinki, showing buildings and trees on the opposite shore and reflected in the water. In the left third, in the sky, is a fully eclipsed Moon, deep red in colour. The eclipsed Moon is also visibly reflected in the water.

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Diana Hayes 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @dchayes.ca · 07/09/2025

Looks like the clouds parted at #EPSCDPS2025 just in time for the #LunarEclipse!

A nighttime shot of a city skyline. The Moon appears low in the sky and is in full eclipse, all red, brighter at the bottom left and darker towards the upper right.

The same cityscape photo, but zoomed in closer on the Moon. The dark and light regions of the lunar surface are just about visible.

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

3 things ahout Apophis we have to communicate as science community: 1) Apophis will safely pass the Earth 2) Apophis will safely pass the Earth 3) Apophis will safely pass the Earth Dr. Richard Binzel (MIT) at the Keynote talk in room Jupiter #EPSCDPS2025

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Alex Innanen @transmartian.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Engaged in some light lunar eclipse spotting on the first night of #EPSCDPS2025 🔭

A photo of a faint red moon above some bright buildings in Helsinki

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Shelby @shebambulator.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Corporate wants you to spot the difference. #P4A2025

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Sariel Snowings | 🔜 Eurofurence @sarielsnowings.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

First time memeing for the P4A. Love that nobody will understand other than the people that were watching the stream just now. #P4A2025 www.youtube.com/live/Kq8KDKq...

A comic panel by srgrafo used as a meme template. It features a huge knight protecting a tiny guy from a rain of arrows. There’s a speech bubble saying “should John get a tissue?”
The arrows are labelled “yes”, “please” and “please yes” and other variations.
The little guy is labelled as “John raising money for the P4A”.
The knight is labelled as “Yologurt” and is handing the little guy the word “no”.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

For those who don’t know, Jonathan is *the* person who keeps track of stuff in space, a key part of the information ecosystem for anyone who studies or writes about satellites. He now needs some help to keep doing this. (1/2)

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Mayo Dark Skies @mayodarkskies.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Busy week in Mayo Dark Sky Park! Thanks @roknezic.bsky.social of Armagh Observatory & Planetarium 🪐 for a great few days of learning in our Pale Blue Dot Planetarium.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 21/05/2024

This is a really nice article. Wonderful long-form writing and an important point we must keep front of mind: "Space is our shared heritage and ancestor, connecting us through science, storytelling, art, origin stories and cultural traditions" Venkatesan (from article) 🔭

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/05/2024

I didn’t know the sky could do that. Just astonishing.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

What a night! The 1st time I've seen the #Aurora with unaided eyes: the most awe-inspiring beauty I've ever seen. That swathe of magical flowing colours 🤩 If you missed it, don't despair, tonight might still be special: UK-folk: aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk World: www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aur... 🧪🔭

Two blurry figures in the foreground (me and my 17yo). A spectacular display, curtains of pink, purple and green light "raining" down behind them with a star-studded sky. 23:00 10th May 2024 Portobello beach, Edinburgh

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Dr Rok Nežič 🇸🇮🇬🇧 @roknezic.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Aurora OVERHEAD and to the SOUTH in Northern Ireland tonight, with bright, vivid colours, the strong stuff lasting for over an hour.... unreal 🤯🤯 I took so many photos that I haven't had time to make a selection yet, so here are some semi-random ones (in reverse chronological order) 🔭🧪

Night photo of the aurora borealis (northern lights). A purple patch (somehwta curtain-shaped) is visible around the middle, with green curtains below. In the foreground some clouds are visible as darker shadows, in the bottom right is a bright light of the Moon, and at the bottom, in darkness (but punctuated by some lights) is the nearby rural landscape

Night photo of the aurora borealis (northern lights). A purple patch of light is visible in top left, with the rest of the view filled by red and green interchanging curtains and streamers. At the bottom are black silhouettes of large trees

Night photo of the aurora borealis (northern lights). A purple beam of light crosses from bottom left to top right, surrounded by green shapes. At the bottom are two black silhouettes of large trees

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Some images straight off the camera. Incredible evening.

A montage of four photos of the northern lights in pink, green and purple around a chimney

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

My 17yo daughter has woken up: these from her phone of our #Aurora spectacular trip out! I'm still buzzing from the shear awesomeness of it all. 🔭🧪 Short exposures on a smartphone in Portobello Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. For a brief peak in the solar storm, it even looked like this to the unaided eye 🤯

Purple Aurora lights "raining" down over the bay.

Aurora Pinks and greens over the flats and houses of Portobello promenade

A multi-coloured sky dappled with stars and small puffy clouds

A "waterfall" of pink into green in the night sky

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11/05/2024

Fun Aurora fact. The reason folks are seeing red/purple Aurora is that the current storm is strong enough that it's pushing deep (<90km) into the atmosphere & interacting with nitrogen. The "regular" green Aurora is due to interaction with higher level oxygen

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 11/05/2024

Incredible. Left Seattle and drove up into the mountains. First picture was taken out of the moon roof of our Subaru while stuck in traffic on the highway.

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Vicky Paints Space @vickypaintsspace.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

I don't even have words. That was absolutely unreal, I cried. No edits on this at all, it was naked eye visible.😭💜 Completely overwhelmed and so bloody thankful I got to see this. #Astrophotography #Aurora

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Adam McMaster @adammc.space · 05/05/2024

Absolutely love how much the Vera Rubin Observatory’s camera just looks like the lens of a giant DSLR 🔭🧪 (Photo from rubinobservatory.org/explore/tech...)

The camera of the Rubin observatory. It looks like a normal camera lens, but huge. There’s a person standing next to it and it’s bigger than them.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 02/05/2024

M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy - ©Drew Evans - Photo - HD Photo - About Astronomy Picture Of the Day #astrophotos Maintained by @shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of over 100 billion stars has well-defined spiral arms, similar to our own Milky Way. One of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100, also known as NGC 4321 is 56 million light-years distant toward the well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. In this telescopic image, the face-on grand design spiral shares a nearly 1 degree wide field-of-view with slightly less conspicuous edge-on spiral NGC 4312 (at upper right). The 21 hour long equivalent exposure from a dark sky site near Flagstaff, Arizona, planet Earth, reveals M100's bright blue star clusters and intricate winding dust lanes which are hallmarks of this class of galaxies. Measurements of variable stars in M100 have played an important role in determining the size and age of the Universe.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

On this day in 1891, Sherlock Holmes fell to his apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls, as depicted in the pages of ‘The Final Problem’.

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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

It’s Wilbur’s birthday today so everyone say happy birthday Wilbur 🙂

Wilbur is a border terrier who is two years old today, he is pictured sat at a table behind a cupcake with a candle on it wearing a jaunty hat

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