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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Whoa! Simultaneous papers announcing the discovery of a new directly imaged planet - beta Pictoris d!!! arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23801 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23789 It's just so BIG. I can't believe it's just so ROUND, it's like OUT THERE. 🪐 (Courtesy of my kids who have just discovered Sir Mix-A-Lot)

VLT image of a star with a debris disk and a glowing orange dot in the disk with a white arrow. GUYS WE FOUND ANOTHER ARROW IN SPACE.

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Ethan Vishniac 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @ethan-vishniac.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

youtu.be/qmbQtQ61CGY 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Sophie Deam and Michele Bannister on 2026PSJ.....7...88D Sophie Deam (Curtin University, University of Canterbury) and Michele Bannister (University of Canterbury) chat about their article on interstellar comet 2I/Borisov,

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AAS Journal Author Series: Sophie Deam and Michele Bannister on 2026PSJ.....7...88D

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The bit I love about astronomical observations is the potential to find the unexpected. This is a result that's not on my bingo card for occultation studies. A research group in Japan has found a Kuiper belt object with a tenuous atmosphere that shouldn't be there, but it is.

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A tiny world beyond Neptune has an atmosphere that shouldn't exist

A team of professional and amateur Japanese astronomers have found evidence for a thin atmosphere around a small body in the outer solar system. The object is so small that it should not have a sustai...

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Denis Vida @meteordoc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Back in 2024, the regional Global Meteor Network-enabled network, Fireball Aotearoa, tracked a brilliant fireball over New Zealand and we quickly reconstructed its trajectory and computed the meteorite strewn field.

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This Meteorite Discovery Should Have Been Impossible

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Hadrien Devillepoix @star-navigator.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I think there is no better first bsky post than sharing the awesome outback adventure our PhD students went on. They found a space rock using a drone! 1/X gfo.rocks/blog/2025/12...

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