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European Space Agency @esa.int · 16/01/2026

📸 This week's #EarthFromSpace is a #Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of iceberg A23A, captured in December 2025 over the South Atlantic Ocean. 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Earth_from_Space_The_fate_of_a_giant @esaearth.esa.int

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Suzanne Aigrain @airbornegrain.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

That image just blows my mind

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Hannah Wakeford @stellarplanet.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This weekend we headed to London for the world premiere of @robertlaidlow.bsky.social’s #Exoplanet suite. The London Philharmonic Orchestra were on fine form bring the amazing worlds we study to life. So grateful to have been a tiny part of the journey. Check out Rob describing the piece 👇 #sciart

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My popular-science video debunking internet myths about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on the Chinese video platform Bilibili now has 50k+ views! ⬇️ 【关于3I/ATLAS的所有真实科学。【天文PhD解读】】 www.bilibili.com/video/BV1JY1...

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Happy to share my insights on the potential of Doppler imaging with the ELT at #ExoELT last week! Also my first time at #ESO Garching!

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Jayne Birkby @jaynebirkby.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

It’s #ExoELT week! A week dedicated to discussing all things exoplanets and the ELT, @eso.org’s 39-m telescope coming online in 2029 😱 The size of this machine is just extraordinary. You can fit a whole VLT telescope on its Nasmyth platform 🤯

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year. It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭 Full res: flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

A picture of Mars taken during astronomical twilight (the sun was 13° below the horizon). It shows a dimly lit reddish landscape with some hills at the horizon. Deimos, Mars' smaller moon shines with a small halo in the pale sky above.

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

this could be my new unlock screen

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Beautiful illustration of Enceladus ocean!

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

very cool animation of a forming rogue planet!

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Perseverance Image Bot 📡 @persevereimgbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Sol 1629: Right Navcam, imaged at 15:45:43.410 (local mean solar time)

An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

beautiful artist illustration

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28/08/2025

🔭 Galaxies, Stars, and Dust Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25082...

$This well-composed telescopic field of view covers over a Full Moon on the sky toward the high-flying constellation Pegasus. Of course the brighter stars show diffraction spikes, the commonly seen effect of internal supports in reflecting telescopes, and lie well within our own Milky Way galaxy. The faint but pervasive clouds of interstellar dust ride above the galactic plane and dimly reflect the Milky Way's starlight. Known as galactic cirrus or integrated flux nebulae they are associated with the Milky Way's molecular clouds. In fact, the diffuse cloud cataloged as MBM 54, less than a thousand light-years distant, fills the scene. The galaxy seemingly tangled in the dusty cloud is the striking spiral galaxy NGC 7497. It's some 60 million light-years away, though. Seen almost edge-on near the center of the field, NGC 7497's own spiral arms and dust lanes echo the colors of stars and dust in our own Milky Way.$

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Threw my WISE1049B Doppler maps in Blender and it came out like a stormy gas giant world! How I did it ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0aG... #astroart #spaceart

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Doppler imaging X procedural gas giant planet rendering

YouTube video by ExoRender

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

An acrylic painting done in 1982 for an Earth history related 'Cosmic Calendar' that was supposed to be published by a Carl Sagan affiliated business, but the project fell apart leaving a dozen unused paintings. I have mine, including one that is yet unfinished. Here we see a Paleozoic tide pool.

An acrylic hair brush and airbrush painting from a failed calendar project. 'January' started the series sowing Earth from its formation to 2.2 billion years ago, half the history of Earth. Each successive month represented half the remaining history with some 'editorial shuffling'. I did the first 6 months, Adolf Schaller did the last more recent ones and we collaborated equally on the final month. Unfortunately his work for the project is probably lost except for the 'December' work which I have and still has my contributions unfinished.

#SciArt

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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The standard cartoon was pretty on point.

Artist conception of a giant planet forming in a stellar disk, clearing a gap.

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Super excited that my first PhD paper "Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features on the nearest brown dwarfs" is accepted and now out on arXiv! Check out the first multi-band weather maps of not just one, but two extrasolar worlds! Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2408.09606

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Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features...

Brown dwarfs and planetary-mass companions display rotationally modulated photometric variability, especially those near the L/T transition. This variability is commonly attributed to...

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Xueqing Chen @xqchen.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Today I gave a talk at UKEXOM 2024 about Doppler imaging of WISE 1049AB! ✨

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