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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i was today years old when i found out that the iconic pale blue dot image was taken on valentine’s day somehow that adds way more meaning to the picture 🥺

The iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photograph taken by Voyager 1, with Earth appearing as a tiny point of light inside a pale vertical sunbeam against the dark expanse of space.

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Ahwoo @ahwoo-official.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

First look at parachutes in Kitten Space Agency. Chute physics “sleep” once landed, but if you don’t cut them, they’ll wake up and continue simulating when forces are applied again.

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Mack Crawford @mackinspace.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

McDonnell Douglas's reusable Space Transportation System booster deploys a modified Saturn S-II upper stage on a heavy-lift cargo mission. The McD STS could fly with either a reusable orbiter, S-II, or S-IVB augmented with optional solid boosters

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

GO ROMAN, GO!!!! THE NEXT BIG TELESCOPE JUST LAUNCHED!! 🚀🌌

A screenshot from the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope live stream

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beanhowitzer @beanhowitzer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

anyhow have some vintage nasa art from the archives

Shuttle Orbiter in orbit, with presumably a telescope deployed in the payload bay

Early shuttle-era painting of various satellites, stations, and a lunar base in the foreground. Earth, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter hang in the background.

A Stanford Torus type station as painted by Rick Guidice

Another collection of various NASA projects, this one from the late 80s

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Ahwoo @ahwoo-official.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Kittens can now collide with ground clutter 🐱🪨 As part of our next milestone, we're adding interactions between kittens and objects scattered across the terrain. Ground clutter can use simple collision shapes or more detailed convex hulls, like the rocks shown here.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

solar eclipse AND a meteor shower tonight, i love being a space nerd!!!

The Moon is seen covering the Sun during a solar eclipse from San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. A total solar eclipse swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. A Partial eclipse was visible in parts of the U.S., most of Canada, much of Europe, and northwest Africa. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Honestly yeah I listened to Liftoff and Reentry again recently, and it's crazy how the dominoes fell in just the right way to become fertile ground for commercial space. Things were far from guaranteed. We could've been trapped in spaceflight paralysis.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I didn't mention refueling, just orbital flights and catching the ship. Hopefully booster catches will begin again soon too. The propellant demo stuff is going to take a while. Not expecting it to be working robustly until 2028.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

And I just want the feeling of this thing finally being operational. It's been seven long years, and I'm ready for it to be a regularly flying rocket.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Gosh Starship flight 13 was genuinely amazing. I can't wait for it to finally go orbital next flight, and even have a ship catch attempt! I feel like the team there is finally hitting their stride. The rest of the year and early next year we're going to see some awesome, rapid progress.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

this is the surface of a comet. yes, a COMET.

Black-and-white close-up of the rocky surface of Comet 67P, showing steep, shadowed cliffs and a smoother dust-covered slope. A large boulder sits on the slope with a curved trail behind it, suggesting it moved or bounced across the comet’s surface.

Black-and-white close-up of Comet 67P’s rugged surface, showing rough cliffs, deep shadows, smooth dusty terrain, and scattered boulders. The image emphasizes the comet’s uneven, rocky landscape and dramatic contrast between sunlit areas and darkness.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

we need another picture like this, every human in one photo except the one taking it.

A lunar module flies above the gray, cratered surface of the Moon, with the blue-and-white Earth rising in the black space beyond the lunar horizon.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/06/2026

Tethys xkcd.com/3259/

Comic. [Saturn near smaller moon with craters. A long line of flat rockets carrying parcels is on its way to the moon.] [caption] After learning that Tethys is exactly 1/12th the size of Earth, the miniature art model builders launched a fleet of ships to begin their final, greatest project.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

discord.gg/Ga4sK9ft2p Being honest I'm working on my discord cause I want a refuge for space stuff with the SpaceX IPO, so if you also want a hopefully more space fan oriented community than social media is bound to become, come hang out. 🙂

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Join the Frontier Discord Server!

Check out the Frontier community on Discord - hang out with 36 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Redid the icon for my spaceflight discord. Still going to make some improvements but happy with where it's at so far. If you want to check it out the link is below :)

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I feel like this site alternates between a train wreck and a ghost town

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Ahwoo @ahwoo-official.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The first version of vehicle-to-vehicle collision physics has now been committed to Kitten Space Agency. KSA uses its existing lightweight physics methods during flight, then switches to the Bepu Physics library whenever vehicles contact each other or the terrain.

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Ahwoo @ahwoo-official.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Kitten Space Agency just got a little more cosmic. We’ve added the Milky Way into the skybox, bringing more depth, scale, and atmosphere to spaceflight, orbital views, and planetary surfaces. Whether you’re coasting above the atmosphere or looking up from a planet, space should feel vast.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

how can you not be romantic about space

A cluster of stars inside a large nebula. The clouds of gas and dust are predominantly bright red in colour and wispy, akin to flames. They are clumped in the bottom-left corner. Other clouds, deeper in the cluster behind many of the stars, appear pale pink. The stars are concentrated in the top half of the image and are mostly small, bright white and six-pointed. They cast blue light over the nebula. Other stars with very long spikes surrounding them lie in the foreground.

$Colorful nebula in space with a white haze throughout that is more concentrated in the center with a rippling effect. Colorful gas filaments appear to splash outward from the nebula center, colored yellow, magenta, and blue. A faint black border with right angles at the corners of the images show where the telescope\u2019s field of view stopsdotted line with right angles shows the borders of the telescope\u2019s image. Small white stars dot the background.$

A large planetary nebula. The nebula’s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, illuminating the nearby dust. Two large loops extend diagonally away from the centre, formed of thin ridges of molecular gas, here coloured blue. They stretch out to the corners of the view. A huge number of bright, whitish stars cover the background, also easily visible through the thin dust layers.

$A beautiful, nearly face-on spiral galaxy in shades of blue and pink fills the view. Its bright-white core is bisected with rusty-brown clouds that extend into the inner part of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms. Bright reddish-pink star forming regions shine like beacons that dot its spiral arms.$

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

stressed? breathe and look at our beautiful planet for a bit.

A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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The Daily Hopper @dailyhopper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A mission for everyone #artemis2

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Trudi Castle @trudicastle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Welcome back to the Artemis II crew :) Such a huge relief watching them arrive safely!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

The top part of the Moon is illuminated. The gray cratered surface stands out against the blackness of space. The Earth appears in the far distance as an upside-down crescent moon shape. There is some lens flare in the top part and center of the image. Credit: NASA

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

THE ARTEMIS II CREW IS NOW CLOSER TO THE MOON THAN THEY ARE TO EARTH!!

Taken 3 April 2026, the Artemis II crew is en route to the Moon. This photo shows the Orion spacecraft with the Moon in the distance, as captured by a camera on the tip of one of its solar array wings.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 04/04/2026

I painted the new image of Earth from Artemis!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

the images of earth from artemis ii are absolutely gorgeous

Earth as seen from the Orion capsule. It is divided sharply in half, with a line running diagonally from the 11 o'clock to the 4 o'clock. The lower left half is a bright pale blue. Its surface is covered with swirly, puffy white clouds, with texture indicating different thicknesses. The upper right half is dark, with no illumination from the Sun. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman

$One-third of Earth peeking through the window of the Orion capsule. The planet is a dreamy pale blue, swirling with white clouds and reflected sunlight. Although Earth only fills a fraction of the image it is the brightest object in the image by far. The capsule window is surrounded by a thick frame held in place with bolts, reminiscent of a heavy duty airplane window. It is dark in the capsule, but the outlines of straps and various components of the capsule are visible. Brighter white components are visible in the upper right corner. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman$

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Beautiful. This is why I think space exploration is worth it. When you compare it to the cost of everything else, it is relatively small. In the end, we get to marvel at the majesty of our home, and are reminded of the need to protect it. #Artemis2

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

same moon, new era 🚀🌕

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Friend, seriously look inside yourself and consider if this is good to say. I can't stand Trump either. Trump is not NASA. NASA is thousands of people who work hard to advance human understanding of the universe, do cancer research, and develop new technology. They are not your enemy.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

One of the main reasons I barely am on bluesky. Space posts here are mostly full of miserable people who want to depict spaceflight as evil and thus any who participate in it are viewed as reprobates. Space Twitter is bad too but you can find some semblance of reason after whittling away the bad.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

i can’t believe i have to say this, but even if you aren’t excited for artemis ii, DON’T WISH ILL ON THE ASTRONAUTS!!! that’s incredibly disrespectful especially to those who lost their lives in previous years.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Despite problems, SpaceX genuinely has an incredibly successful rocket with the Falcon 9, and an incredibly successful crew capsule with Dragon. All other companies are either lagging behind trying to get to SpaceX's level, or are desperately pretending the industry hasn't changed.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Can only fit so many capsules lol

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Elon was always insane lol He screamed "f*** it burns! At a hotel breakfast twenty years ago cause he couldn't figure out how to cook a pop tart. Part of the reason for SpaceX's success though has been him taking the negative attention for risky but successful decisions, especially rocket reuse.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I recommend you read Eric Berger's books Liftoff and Re-entry. They're an in-depth look at the history of SpaceX. Besides being very interesting they do provide an interest look at who Elon is. I think that he genuinely cared then about this. Not sure now.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Sadly most of the good spaceflight servers are paywalled. The one I'm most active in is Everyday Astronaut's server, but really then only for big launch livestreams and such.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I'm sorry friend, but I just - I'm not sure that you understand the situation. I've been following spaceflight news for about 15 years - the reason why we don't have a lander isn't cause of SpaceX, it's because congress never committed to giving the Space Launch System an actual mission.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Well I will counter that on reddit, you try to share something about SpaceX, even something that is a simple neutral fact (this SpaceX thing is happening soon) and your post will get removed or downvoted to oblivion. It is very hard to have a sensible discussion anywhere but discord it feels like.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I don't understand what you mean by that, but alright.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It is a tough thing. I had a family member who worked at SpaceX (now works at Stoke) and so I have a bit more insight into the actual people there. I want to celebrate them and their efforts, but yeah, Elon just - it doesn't even feel like he cares about the past ideals of SpaceX anymore.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

okay? I'm not really sure what point you're making.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

There is also of course, the matter that having any civil, reasonable discussion about SpaceX here is, well, let's say difficult. Twitter again is pretty bad for tribalism but there are still places I can find with reasonable people. I still barely understand how to navigate this maze of a site.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I tire of how awful twitter has become. I want to be able to talk about spaceflight stuff without all that around. But I checked here again, and it still just feels so empty. So do I want to live in a town with crap everywhere, but tons of people, or live in a clean ghost town? It's rough.

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Rust Ranger @rustranger.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I'm still shocked no one has made a Mir horror game

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/11/2025

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

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Mack Crawford @mackinspace.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

NASA's First Lunar Outpost at lunar morning. The pressurized element is derived from Space Station Freedom's laboratory/habitat modules. In the distance, a set of deployable experiment packages have been set up for astronomical and geological observations

Habitat module on top of a lunar lander, sitting on the surface of the moon. Earth hangs above the horizon in the distance

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