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SM8691 @sm8691.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@siriusxmnhl.bsky.social For the morning skate… I think Gord missed a few party bus stops…. Looks like Pastrnak and Rantanen both had 4 point nights.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 21/04/2026

Mesothermic fishes require nearly four times more energy than other fish, and as oceans warm, their tendency to generate heat faster than they can lose it may push these already vulnerable species closer to the brink of extinction, according to a new Science study. scim.ag/3QedKKw

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Mesothermic fishes face high fuel demands and overheating risk in warming oceans

Body size and temperature set metabolic rates and the pace of life, yet our understanding of the energetics of large fishes is uncertain, especially of warm-bodied mesotherms, which can heavily influe...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/03/2026

There's a giant hexagonal storm at the north pole of Saturn. It's 29,000 km across. So here's Earth for scale.

The hexagonal storm is in the centre of the image; a superposed image of Earth, approximately to scale, is at the upper right. Earth's notional shadow (to scale) is at upper left.

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The Christmas Tree Nebula (NGC 2264) Fresh capture from last night. A real #holiday tree in space, decorations included. Massive newborn stars handle the lighting, 2,500 light-years away. #blueskyartshow @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social what do you see?

Astrophotography image of the Christmas Tree Nebula (NGC 2264), a star-forming region with bright blue stars and red emission nebulosity shaped like a cone. Total exposure 6 hours using 15 s subframes, Newtonian telescope 130/900 mm, Sony A7S camera.

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Jupiter on Saturday morning in good seeing using the C11 with x2 Barlow. I'd just recollimated the scope and cleaned the corrector plate, which I think helps, but the dew was awful! This is probably my best Jupiter image to date. More data still to go through 🔭

Jupiter with cloud belts. The Great Red Spot is nearing the edge of the disk to the right

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SM8691 @sm8691.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

@cringer.bsky.social I saw this T-Shirt, and it looks like something you need.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 19/11/2025

Webb has revealed for the first time that there are four shells of dust around this pair of Wolf-Rayet stars, which are known as Apep. Read more 👉 esawebb.org/images/wolf-rayet-apep 🔭

Four dust shells in Wolf-Rayet Apep expand away from three central stars that appear as a single pinpoint of light. The shells are curved, and the interior shell looks like a backward lowercase e shape.

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The Eastern Veil Nebula - with and without stars! 150 minutes of 30 second exposures captured overnight as part of a clear night double header (next post to come) #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

NGC 6992, also known as the Eastern Veil Nebula, is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust located in the constellation Cygnus. It is part of the larger Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, a vast structure formed from the explosion of a massive star approximately 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. The Eastern Veil itself is a section of this remnant, and it is often photographed alongside NGC 6995 (the Bat Nebula) and Pickering's Triangle.

In this image I removed the stars to show the complex elements of the nebula.

This image of the Nebula was captured via the DWARF 3 smart scope. 300 x 30 second exposures at gain 60. Processing via Snapseed.

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The Bubble Nebula! With and without stars! The second part of last session. You can see why it got its name! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635, is a sphere of active star formation glowing faintly in the constellation Cassiopeia. The hydrogen gas cloud from which the stars form emits red light, the characteristic colour of hydrogen, by absorbing energy from them.

This image was captured via 240 x 30 second exposures.

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AstroBin @astrobin.com · 26/07/2025

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "NGC 2035 — Emission Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud" by Alpha Zhang and Weitang Liang www.astrobin.com/zlyl55/ #astrophotography

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 25/07/2025

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (152.04817, 42.41869). 37 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 37 volunteers.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 23/07/2025

I keep forgetting to tag these things for #Astrophotography!

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 23/07/2025

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.039 (lookback time 549.7 million years) with coordinates (151.25081, 13.15323). 56 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.🔭

A smooth galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 56 volunteers.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 23/07/2025

🗓️Upcoming launch! Join us live on 26 July from 02:40 BST/03:40 CEST to watch our Vega-C rocket take flight once again. #VV27 will carry Airbus's four CO3D satellites and CNES MicroCarb mission. 🚀 Launch is scheduled for 03:03 BST/04:03 CEST.

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Watch live: Vega-C to launch CO3D and MicroCarb

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David Stuah @stuah.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

M8 The Lagoon Nebula What an absolute beauty it is; easily in my top 3 fav targets this summer 🔭 #astrophotography #M8

M8 The Lagoon Nebula
Unistellar Odyssey 📷
26 minutes integration time

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 14/07/2025

🔴 LIVE NOW: Watch as our project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski and the #Ax4 crew depart the International Space Station on a Dragon spacecraft. ▶️ www.youtube.com/live/AWHM-ps...

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Timberborn | 1.1 out now! 🔥 @timberborn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A small new update is now live on the experimental branch! 💥 Localized the updated post-crash screen. 🌋 Fixed rare crashes occurring while autosaving. Hopefully for good.

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The Western Veil Nebula. These colorful glowing filaments are part of the lacy last remnants of a massive star that exploded over 10,000 years ago. Image credit: my tiny smart telescope. #astronomy #science 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

A branch of colorful red and blue tendrils sweeps across a starry sky.

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Astro Fyfe @astrofyfe.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Another night of imaging let me push the dark nebula a bit farther to the forefront. Seasoned APers, any advice on pulling out more detail? What’s your process? Thanks! Total Time: 11.5hrs Scope: Apertura Carbonstar 150p Mount: Sky Watcher Eq6-R Pro Camera: ZWO ASI533mc Pro #astrophotography

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Finally joined the Smart Scope Users Club! Andromeda (M31) is the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way about 2.5 million light-years away from Earth. I've never seen let alone imaged it before. My Dwarf 3 experience report in ALT. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

First time user's report!

My very first test attempt using the Dwarf 3 that arrived on Thursday. I'm sure it's a familiar and common target for fellow users so I barely need to tell you it is M31 (the Andromeda galaxy). One hour of 60x15sec exposures in South London Bortle 8 from 1am to 2am whilst I slept. I've never seen (through binoculars or naked eye) let alone imaged this 'object'.

Quick tidying up using Snapseed and the app facilities.

What a ridiculously simple process. I've previously regarded smart scopes akin to cooking a preprepared supermarket meal by microwave and this experience does confirm my feel. The technology is incredible and of course I will now be looking through the menu for other targets.

I do worry that the simplicity will spoil the fun and achievement of seeking out and capturing night sky wonders that need some effort.

What I cannot deny is that the Dwarf 3 is a fantastic piece of kit for the price and I'm very pleased to have joined the club.

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A cold halo brown dwarf moving between #Hubble and #JWST observations. This object is called WISE 1534–1043 (aka "The Accident") and is moving with a speed of around 200 km/s. 🔭 #stars My animation on wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mo...

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 07/07/2025

#astrophotography community here: do your thing! Did anyone take photos of Saturn on July 5th? Would've been after ~4am Eastern time.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Rework of the North America nebula using the SHO Hubble palette. My first true Hubble palette image! Esprit 100mm refractor with ASI2600MM camera 🔭

NGC 7000 in Cygnus, a wonderful and popular imaging target.
Processed using the SHO "Hubble" palette

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@Swede1952 @swede1952.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Tidewalker I spotted this ruddy turnstone bustling along the shoreline of a Louisiana beach, where the Gulf of Mexico whispered against the sand. ... 1/2 #photo #photography #photographer #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #shorebirds #sandpiper #RuddyTurnstone

"The ruddy turnstone in this image feels like a little explorer caught mid-step on a solitary shoreline stroll. Its bright orange legs contrast boldly against the muted tan of the sand, and the bird’s compact frame leans slightly forward, as if propelled by curiosity. Splashes of black and white adorn its face and chest, arranged in an almost heraldic pattern, while rich chestnut and umber tones streak across its wings and back like brushstrokes on a well-loved canvas. The ocean looms softly behind in a wash of pale blues and greys, blurred to a painterly haze that gives the whole scene a gentle, meditative quality—like a memory more than a moment. The bird seems both at home and apart: a solitary figure mapping the edge between land and sea." - Copilot

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Cringer @cringer.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Pretzel: So if you want to take a nap I'm just gonna watch ok?

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Total War Official @totalwar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

One hand bites, the other kills - a friendly guy 🐍🐍

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Kumar S @starryknightone.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Haven’t posted anything in a while but here’s something that always amazes me: the Markarian Chain in Virgo is a gravitationally interacting set of 7 galaxies (or 8 depending on who you ask) but there’s many more lurking in the background… in fact 35 more!!👀🤩 Taken from my deck in SF Bay Area👇🏽

This is an approximately 2 deg field of view of the Markarian Chain of galaxies in Virgo. Besides the 8 galaxies in the chain itself, there are about 3 dozen more galaxies in the background, for a total of 43 galaxies.

Annotated image of the Markarian chain of galaxies in Virgo

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Flower girl 🌹

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 06/06/2025

We’re celebrating a year of being a part of Museums for All, a national initiative that gives everyone the chance to connect with culture, science, and nature.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

concerned about the state of the world because of two powerful men fighting? doomscrolling again? stop. breathe. enjoy the universe for a brief moment

Centaurus A. A glowing orange region shines at the upper left corner, with dark brown and black dust cascading diagonally down to the lower right. Distant stars dot the hazy background of space. Bright pink regions of star formation are interspersed throughout the dust.

Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.

A massive spiral galaxy fills the image, with its bright yellow core seen near the upper left. Spiral arms whirl outward, laced through with dark brown dust and bright blue patches of star formation.

$The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$

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MechaGM @mechagm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Okay folks, stream is going live for the afternoon. We'll be playing BattleTech Advanced today, and will probably have to wrap up a bit early today. twitch.tv/mechagm/

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 22/05/2025

This photo came down from Mars a few hours ago.

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Finally processing some DSO data from Feb. The Rosette. Could only manage 10 subs so don't look too close 😬. HOO palette taken with a 294MC and L-eNhance filter on my Esprit 100 🔭

The Rosette nebula, a beautiful region of hydrogen alpha emission, excited by the star cluster in the centre of the gas cloud

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 13/05/2025

Finally got some clear skies, but it was a full moon so I focused on Ha data. I'll grab some SII and OII data once the moon fades at least a little, but this is 2h35m of Ha data on Tulip nebula. Looking awfully nice so far! #astrophotography #monochrome #nebula #touptek #flower #space

A monochrome image containing the Hydrogen alpha emissions from the Tulip nebula and the surrounding nebulosity.

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River Man @mnriverman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

M 13 and it's environment. 100 frames on a Monday night with a full moon to boot! I will definitely be coming back for more on this beauty! #astrophotography #dwarf3

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Dummy Mage @twoint.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The Hercules globular cluster, or Messier 13. It is made up of around 300,000 to 500,000 stars. The clouds parted for an hour, so I took advantage of the time to capture the cluster. 🔭 WO Fluorostar 132 📷ASI 2600MC Duo #astrophotograpahy #astronomy #space #photography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

The hercules globular cluster is in the center of the frame, a snowball of blue, white and orange stars gathering around a bright core. A small background galaxy is visible in the upper right.

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Timberborn | 1.1 out now! 🔥 @timberborn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The dust is settling after last week's release of Update 7, so it’s time for the first tweaks - now live on the experimental branch! 🛠️🦫 Check out the patch notes! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ store.steampowered.com/news/app/106…

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 08/05/2025

A NEW POPE HAS BEEN CHOSEN

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